アニメ神社
Archive for March, 2011
Why Local Dub Sucks?
Mar 19th
Unamused Sakuya is unamused
Most people don’t like Japanese anime to be dubbed into different language. To be fair, some of the Japanese don’t like games or animations from other countries to be dubbed in Japanese like that Modern Warfare 2 being localized in Japan. In Malaysia, we are blessed with many animations like 2D cartoons or even 3D to be dubbed in Malay language. This does not applied only to kid shows. Dramas from Japan, Korea, Philippines, Venezuela and other Latin America countries were dubbed into local language. While we still retain some of the shows to be in its original language, it can’t be help when majority of Japanese anime, that being considered as cartoons for kids, to be localized. More >
The Hypocrisy of Fanboyism
Mar 1st
Anime fans have been long associated with extreme obsessiveness towards their passion. It's something that we take for granted really. Even the word “Anime Otaku” in Japan is honestly describes their obsessiveness. So much that it can be considered a derogatory word in Japan, no matter how much Tokyopop's “America's Greatest Otaku” tries to hype it. But that's for another story. The story we are discussing now instead is how much hypocrite an obsessive fan can be. More >