Forum - View topicRidiculous or stupid anime descriptions
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Gatherum
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Let's have a look at the description for A Place Further than the Universe, as written on the ANN preview guide:
A'ight. Okay. I can get behind that. Let me go and add it to my VRV watch list. Goes to VRV and does so, only to notice the description written there:
What the ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff...! What does this shit even mean?! Like, I understand trying to sound mysterious, or cryptic, or...I dunno, ethereal or whatever?! But like...this legit doesn't make any damned sense, and if this were my only reference point going in, I would probably have thought, "Yup! This is this season's token fluffy abstract anime that's trying to be deep and woke, but really, really isn't." Fortunately, the good editors at ANN (assuming they wrote their own description) have their shit together. Maybe one of you can enlighten me. Alternatively, you can post some of your own findings, here. Could be good for a laugh. |
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Blood-
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Yeesh. That sounds like something that was originally written in Ancient Sumerian and was then put through Google Translator...
...on the other hand, I kinda want some of whatever the writer was ingesting before writing that. |
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CatSword
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Bandai's description of Love Hina:
A reasonable description of a TV-14/13+ series, right? Now, Funimation's sexed-up description...
Someone at Funimation needs to get fired for getting ridiculously horny at work and feeling the need to rewrite a perfectly fine description into softcore porn. I get wanting to sell DVDs, but you've gotta draw the line somewhere. Anyone who buys Love Hina looking for "girls frolicking in the hot springs all day and lounging in their naughtiest nighties at night" is going to be disappointed by the minimal amount of fanservice (especially by today's standards). |
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Spastic Minnow
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Exempt from Grammar Rules Posts: 4630 Location: Gainesville, FL |
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Sounds like a Makoto Shinkai plot.
I doubt either wrote them themselves, just picked up from promo material. For the preview guide I bet ANN used a first episode description. CR / VRV took the description from other promo material.Did a basic translation and didn't edit it. And if you look at ANN's Anime Spotlight for the show you'll see a version of the same text, but edited better and beacuse it's part of a larger guide it doesn't matter that only a bit of it is flowery and vague. animenewsnetwork.com/anime-spotlight/2017/winter/a-place-further-than-the-universe/.125474 Story Our first step always began from simple curiousity. Scenery we've never seen. Sounds we've never heard. Scents we've never smelled. Textures we've never felt. Food we've never tasted. And, a heartbeat we've never experienced. This is a journey we've embarked on in order to pick up the pieces we forgot somewhere along the way, the touching moments we left behind. I wonder what we'll think when we get there. The Roaring Forties, Furious Fifties and Shrieking Sixties. A primordial land located across a raging sea, at the south of the planet, separated from civilization. This is the story of four girls on a journey to the South Pole—A Place Further Than the Universe. These are sparkling memories we will make, seeing everything through these girls' eyes. |
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Alan45
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I believe that comes under the heading of "lost in translation".
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nobahn
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Which in my mind is forever associated with Bill Murray and Sofia Coppola. |
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Gatherum
Posts: 773 Location: Aurora CO |
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Trouble is, that's only slightly better. Like, I'll grant that it makes grammatical sense now, but it's so cryptic that I'm still like, "Yup. Fluffy and [expletive] woke!" The only thing one can definitively discern from this description is that it's about four girls who go to Antarctica--which, on its own is...cool, I guess? Also, lol @ "Roaring Forties". Roaring in economic pain, amirite? |
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Nom De Plume De Fanboy
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Let me try my two bits worth- bad weather there made sailors call the oceans south of 40 degrees south latitude the roaring forties. The other two are more of the same, I think. Used here to hype how extreme things are going to be for the girls, make it seem more exotic, etc. |
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Gatherum
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Oh, hey. Learned something new today. I stand corrected. |
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Qualms
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I feel like an outsider here, because I very rarely read series descriptions, whether on a DVD/Blu-Ray case or preceding a review. Maybe they can get weird (read: creative) because they only matter to people who read description blurbs?
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Violynne
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Back in the days anime used to be sold in singles, this was very common. Holding up two singles in the same series would often yield different results, leaving the reader questioning if they were from the same series.
My favorites where similar to what CatSword described: a completely different description trying to push sex (anime of old was often mistaken for "cartoon porn" given many OVAs contained nudity) to sell the series. I even laughed at the examples when the video codes would change, turning a "G" or "PG" based rating into an "R" rating for uses such as "Mild Nudity" (which showed nothing) and "Strong Language" (because "damn" and "hell" were "strong" languages). Can't say I miss those days. |
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Spastic Minnow
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^^^
Yes, and sometimes companies couldn't decide what to emphasize. I once blind bought used copies of the Maze OAV and Jewel BEM Hunter Lime OAV on the same purchase. The first was billed as fantasy adventure (whose adult content was oddly minimized) and the second was described as a raunchy sex comedy with anime boobs everywhere! Maze turned out to be the gratuitous ecchi comedy adventure title, with frequent cartoon nudity and "comedic" sexual assault and implied rape. And JBHL was a very light ecchi title that I don't even remember having any actual nudity. Both are horrid incomplete messes that start in the middle of a story and end without any resolution. But that's a different complaint. |
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horseradish
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A show from the late '90s called Coji-Coji advertised their Youtube channel on ANN a few months back, as part of a 20th anniversary celebration. I find the ANN description amusing and charming in a way that matches the graphic used to represent the show:
I thought the show would be available after the advertising, but unfortunately the channel has uploaded only the first episode and some clips. |
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