Zetsubou Sensei has a lot of poignant cultural criticism, same with Joshiraku. Both are great to watch, but a lot of stuff will probably go over your head since it's very Japan centric.
And the wordplay is impenetrable for almost every word in this series. It's why it took so long for this to get an official release here--the translation notes would take up the entire screen, like a bad fansub! Think that infamous Code Geass "checkmate" one.
It also had an entire episode where two simultaneous stories were being told, between the audio and the Japanese subtitles.
Which meant on airing you had to be reading two sets of subs for the entire duration of the episode, which were telling two completely different stories.
In the movie "Children of a Lesser God," Marlee Matlin--who is deaf and portrays a deaf character--is often shown in the movie speaking sign language with her co-star, William Hurt.
The sign language has nothing to do with the movie. It's about Matlin and Hurt's private life.
At the time the movie was made, they were having an affair.
Rammstein pointed out the GAE 20 years ago. American cultural imperialism is far from new, it's just that until relatively recently it was mostly benign. Everyone loved our movies, our fashion, our music. And whether they liked it or not the learned to love our form of government.
We didn't know how bad that last one was until about 12 years ago when we learned how easy it is to subvert a democratic culture.
I wouldn’t call it prescient; that would be under Obama. It was probably a contemporary criticism that happens to still be relevant. (And I’m sure Obama’s admin didn’t start the trend. If we’re being honest, Japan’s laws have been meddled with by the West since we first made contact, to one degree or another).
Zetsubou Sensei has a lot of poignant cultural criticism, same with Joshiraku. Both are great to watch, but a lot of stuff will probably go over your head since it's very Japan centric.
And the wordplay is impenetrable for almost every word in this series. It's why it took so long for this to get an official release here--the translation notes would take up the entire screen, like a bad fansub! Think that infamous Code Geass "checkmate" one.
Yes but at least the fansub would give us those notes instead of just jettisoning the script and inserting some political screed.
It also had an entire episode where two simultaneous stories were being told, between the audio and the Japanese subtitles.
Which meant on airing you had to be reading two sets of subs for the entire duration of the episode, which were telling two completely different stories.
I saw this happen in a live-action movie once.
In the movie "Children of a Lesser God," Marlee Matlin--who is deaf and portrays a deaf character--is often shown in the movie speaking sign language with her co-star, William Hurt.
The sign language has nothing to do with the movie. It's about Matlin and Hurt's private life.
At the time the movie was made, they were having an affair.
Just according to keikaku.
Not again...
Alright, dodged a bullet. Although our resident retard is here in the comments. And getting even more increasingly off topic and boring.
And then you have Angel Cop...
Edit: I like how two comments got insta-deleted/shadow banned but the seamonkey is allowed to roam free
It was my comments and i didn't get shadow banned don't worry i was just indecisive about what to write sorry.
You know I like to criticize our mod, but that's not him. No mod activity (shocker, I know.)
It was probably someone deleting their own comments instantly, we have a few weirdos who do stuff like that, for whatever reason.
yeah it was me, sorry just my indecisiveness on what to write
Just use the edit button.
Rammstein pointed out the GAE 20 years ago. American cultural imperialism is far from new, it's just that until relatively recently it was mostly benign. Everyone loved our movies, our fashion, our music. And whether they liked it or not the learned to love our form of government.
We didn't know how bad that last one was until about 12 years ago when we learned how easy it is to subvert a democratic culture.
''Think of how stupid the average person is. Half of them are stupider than that!''
I wouldn’t call it prescient; that would be under Obama. It was probably a contemporary criticism that happens to still be relevant. (And I’m sure Obama’s admin didn’t start the trend. If we’re being honest, Japan’s laws have been meddled with by the West since we first made contact, to one degree or another).
But there's still one title out there that still remembers what anime is really supposed to be about...
Dengeki Oshioki Musume Gautaman