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Hey, Answerman! [2005-10-14]

Almost to a person, pro translators are longtime fans. Many, like Dave Fleming and Anna Exter, were once fansubbers themselves. They are not motivated purely by greed, nor do they disregard the nuances of the shows they work on. They are simply people who are good enough at their craft to make a career of it. The big lie of "Commercial translators do not care about the work they do" is one that offends me greatly, because I know a lot of these people and have observed firsthand the care they put into their work.

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Let me get this right. You pay organised crime for your dose of porn. but you won't pay the anime creator for his anime? Don't you look at yourself in the mirror then? ( Goes off to get a bag of stones.)

If you read all the listings..I do pay for anime just not all of it. Organized crime? LMAO Why don't you look at yourself in the mirror and be honest with you, you are not perfect nor am I so get off your high horse.

Japanese Seiyuus should never be compared to American voice actors and actresses. Japanese Seiyuus are professionals ...they had to go to Voice Acting school, work tremendously hard and take their career very seriously...

These days, lots of of Japanese seiyuu go to special schools for voice acting. Most of these schools are not accredited in any way, and in fact, they're kind of the equivalent of those "Can you draw Pepe the dog? FREE ART SCHOLARSHIP FOR YOU!" charnel house art schools. The rest are gormless, talentless idiots with pretty faces who won talent shows or magazine contests. By way of example, let's go with, say, Haruko Momoi. Now I like "Halko," she's funny and subversive. But she got her start in performing by making songs for pornographic video games and appearing on TV shows about mobile phones. She has practically no range-- her entire schtick is about cartoonishly imitating the speech and pitch of a young girl. Yet, she's quite popular.

Compare an established star like her with Crispin Freeman. Freeman didn't go to Seiyuu University. Nope. Instead, he has a Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia University, and cut his teeth performing on Broadway and at the American Repertory Theatre. He's a hard-working screen and stage actor who's appeared all over North America, and has worked as a voice actor in both New York and Los Angeles. Yet, for all of his work, he's still a youngster, a pup, compared to established voice acting giants like Billy West, Maurice Lemarche, and Tress MacNeille.

Compared to an actor like him, the experience and techniques that seiyuu get from their little schools in this day and age are laughable. Laughable. And Freeman is by no means an anomaly, either-- most North American voice actors, regardless of location, have some considerable training and/or education in theatre, a background to draw upon for their recorded performances. Not so in Japan, at least not today.

The quality of performance in Japanese voice acting has, in my opinion, degraded considerably in the last twenty years. Once upon a time, it WAS a demanding career run through with talented, versatile actors-- people like Mika Doi, Akira Kamiya, and Kaneto Shiozawa. These days, who do we have? Ayako Kawasumi, maybe? George Nakata? Anyone else? Anyone?

I'll agree with this. I'll also say that I love how people can find faults in the way English VAs pronounce Japanese names and words, but no "fan" cringes when they're watching fansubs and a Japanese VA absolutely murders an English word. Happens a lot, but no one says anything. Amazing...

MissLeedz wrote:

Quote: Let me get this right. You pay organised crime for your dose of porn. but you won't pay the anime creator for his anime? Don't you look at yourself in the mirror then? ( Goes off to get a bag of stones.) If you read all the listings..I do pay for anime just not all of it. Organized crime? LMAO Why don't you look at yourself in the mirror and be honest with you, you are not perfect nor am I so get off your high horse.

I never said I was a saint. But I was raised on Christian principles. I have no interest in porn so I don't buy it. Mostly all of it these days is run by organised crime so I wouldn't anyway on principle. And I don't download anything I haven't purchased first from the legitamate owner. I can look at myself straight in the eyes and say "Yep! My conscience is clear." and "What have you done today to make you feel proud?".
BTW I get a nice view on my shire. I can look over the hedges.

(One more thing? Its "asinine". And if you spelled it wrong on purpose--that joke is not now, nor was it ever funny.)

When the hell did we care about HOW everything was "Gramatically written"...

Answerman generally misreads the question and bashes fansubs whenever the word "fansub" comes up--even when it DOESN'T come up... and still doesn't answer the question... I have read them, too.

It's one thing if he voices his opinion...it's another when he blanantly does it and doesn't answer or avoids the direct question. He tries to act innocent while bashing other people's ideals while he is in direct violation of my ideals.

and most of all he has a responsiblity to actually ANSWER the question...not go off on another rant about how fansubs are evil. Just because he doesn't like them doesn't give him reason to generally give off the aura that he believes eveyone who downloads fansubs are lying, cheating theives.

Lady Multi wrote:

When the hell did we care about HOW everything was "Gramatically written"... Answerman generally misreads the question and bashes fansubs whenever the word "fansub" comes up--even when it DOESN'T come up... and still doesn't answer the question... I have read them, too. It's one thing if he voices his opinion...it's another when he blanantly does it and doesn't answer or avoids the direct question. He tries to act innocent while bashing other people's ideals while he is in direct violation of my ideals. and most of all he has a responsiblity to actually ANSWER the question...not go off on another rant about how fansubs are evil. Just because he doesn't like them doesn't give him reason to generally give off the aura that he believes eveyone who downloads fansubs are lying, cheating theives.

Oh shut up please. If you were more active on this forum, you would know why Zac reply the way he did. To me, the question was answer because I see a lot of these people who always put blames on dub studio and they tend to like sub, so I know where he's coming from.

Even though I seen fansub from time to time, I wasn't offended by his comment. I think the people that are really offended are the people that misread the post or just the people who actually don't pay shit for anime and really really love their free fansub.

And take a dose of your own medicine and stop critizing people like ZAC if you can't critism yourself.