Forum - View topicNEWS: Maiden Japan Licenses Joshiraku Comedy Anime
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samuelp
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Good luck to the localization team on this one.
I watched the show when it was on Japanese TV (without subtitles of course) and it was pretty hilarious, but I'm actually relatively familiar with rakugo and 30% of the jokes still took rewatches for me to parse. A subtitle track with copious notes could maybe _explain_ most of the jokes, but then the experience would be awful... I feel like this is either a show best served where you know Japanese, or with a dub that literally rewrites 80% of the dialog and just does its own hilarious thing in the spirit of the original. A straight dub would be a parade of references no one understands and Japanese language wordplay that would become incomprehensible in translation... It's a good show though! I especially liked the segments outside, which highlight a number of good tourist spots in Tokyo. As a (former) Tokyo-ite it was nice to see them going around like "my neighborhood". |
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dm
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Oh boy. Koji Kumeta's side-eyed take on Cute Girls doing Cute Things. I learned to appreciate this series a good deal more after seeing Showa genroku rakugo shinju, even though the two series are completely different. Glad to see it licensed for home video release.
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DRWii
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Pleasant surprise. Between this and Zetsubou Sensei getting (re-)licensed, now I'm curious if someone's going to pick up Katte ni Kaizo.
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Kami-koto
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What a nightmare this must be to localize. Good luck.
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ninjamitsuki
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Finally, I gave up hope! Good luck, they're gonna need it.
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Covnam
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Interesting pickup. I just skimmed a little bit of the first episode and it seemed amusing, so I'll have to watch a bit and see if it's worth picking up. Looks good so far though =)
Maybe they can do a pop up notes option like Excel Saga had |
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killjoy_the
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Honestly though the anime is absolutely better than the manga in that it adds a lot of segments. Sure, those segments are specifically about Japanese locations and customs and might be completely uninteresting to a lot of people, but the rest of the content is just fairly light Kumeta being Kumeta. |
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Ali07
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Well, I didn't see this one coming at all. Like others, I wish whoever works on this release good luck. I'll look at importing this one for my collection.
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Shay Guy
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I have to wonder how much the experience of making this show shaped the development of Shirobako.
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shosakukan
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A person who has not listened to even Shinchō live and in person is just a niwaka. |
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