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REVIEW: Needless - Collection 2

While the series can be commended for meticulously explaining all of the scheming and how all of the powers work, it does this to a fault and in an awkward manner, as battles either suddenly halt or go into an off-screen pause while one character or another (usually Disc but sometimes Cruz or certain bad guys) explains something.

. Seriously Japanese animators, cut it out with the underaged panty shots.

While the series can be commended for meticulously explaining all of the scheming and how all of the powers work, it does this to a fault and in an awkward manner, as battles either suddenly halt or go into an off-screen pause while one character or another (usually Disc but sometimes Cruz or certain bad guys) explains something.

Making Adam Blade a true pedophile would have made the series funnier, instead he was just some dude with a pathetic panty fetish who pretended to be a lolicon, as he never "capitalized" on it.)

I need to check out the dub of this, as rewatching it with the Andrew Love as Adam Blade will make the show far, far funnier than the ubiquitous "Japanese Male Voice #2" ever could.

Echo_City wrote:

I need to check out the dub of this, as rewatching it with the Andrew Love as Adam Blade will make the show far, far funnier than the ubiquitous "Japanese Male Voice #2" ever could.

Except "Japanese Male Voice #2" is Koyasu Takehito, a veteran and true proffesional, with a wide voice range and dozens of shows under his belt. Way to show your ignorance and dissrespect the talened people who worked on this show. Typical of dub-lovers.

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While the series can be commended for meticulously explaining all of the scheming and how all of the powers work, it does this to a fault and in an awkward manner, as battles either suddenly halt or go into an off-screen pause while one character or another (usually Disc but sometimes Cruz or certain bad guys) explains something.

So pretty much every shonen show then?

DmonHiro wrote:

Echo_City wrote: I need to check out the dub of this, as rewatching it with the Andrew Love as Adam Blade will make the show far, far funnier than the ubiquitous "Japanese Male Voice #2" ever could. Except "Japanese Male Voice #2" is Koyasu Takehito, a veteran and true proffesional, with a wide voice range and dozens of shows under his belt. Way to show your ignorance and dissrespect the talened people who worked on this show. Typical of dub-lovers.

Get used to it. There won't be a lot of attention paid to the original track on the reviews here - notice that newer reviews tend to keep the dub/sub grade equal even if the dub is full of listless nubs that take episodes to find their pace in a role and the Japanese track is full of vets that own their roles from the start.

Except "Japanese Male Voice #2" is Koyasu Takehito, a veteran and true proffesional, with a wide voice range and dozens of shows under his belt.

I fear that you are misrepresenting ANN; the site does not love dubs. Indeed, ANN is a bastion of "sub purists", especially if you go by the opinions voiced by prolific posters in the forums. ANN does try to remain objective in its assessments, so perhaps from their objectivity stem their rankings which have you rankled. A Japanese dub has the advantages of exotic appeal and listener ignorance when it comes to being judged by the average fan. How many fans are fluent enough in Japanese to be able to truly judge their dubbing? I'd wager not many. Instead, we judge it by the intonation given, and its fluidity. Rather than being taken as speech per se, it is taken like a song, where the subtitles (which do not reflect the merit of the seiyuu) are the lyrics.

Get used to it. There won't be a lot of attention paid to the original track on the reviews here - notice that newer reviews tend to keep the dub/sub grade equal even if the dub is full of listless nubs that take episodes to find their pace in a role and the Japanese track is full of vets that own their roles from the start.