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Audio: English: Why I Disliked The Fullmetal Alchemist Dub (Article)


With the Audio:English series, PenguinTruth takes a critical look at the English
dubs which grace some of anime’s most defining series in North America.

"What do you mean?! I sound good in any language!"

I love Fullmetal Alchemist. It’s one of those rare shonen manga that has a decent complexity to it and maturity most other shonen titles lack, making it both exciting and thoughtful. I was a big fan of the first animated television series, my first exposure to that world. And of course, while I loved the original cast, I also had high expectations for the English version, even when I heard Funimation, a company with a somewhat mixed reputation for dubs was going to dub it. I was pretty excited that Cartoon Network was going to air it on the Adult Swim lineup, and tuned in with my hopes high. I was let down.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a complete wash. I immediately took to Aaron Dismuke’s Alphonse Elric, for instance. Though I also immediately noticed some strange directional and script oddities. At first I attributed the difference between this and the version I was used to as being the difference between fansub translations and professional translation into an English dub. Over time, however, these sort of things became more pronounced. What bothered me the most is characters speaking in one style in one scene and having almost entirely different voices in the next. There even seemed to be a bit of the old Funimation "add dialogue where there originally wasn’t any", which irritated me. read more

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Audio: English: Rocking The Dragon (Dragon Ball Z Dubs) (It’s An Article, Fucking Read It!)


With the Audio:English series, PenguinTruth takes a critical look at the English
dubs which grace some of anime’s most defining series in North America.

Dragon Ball Z. I’d like to think that most of us anime fans have seen at least some of it. It certainly is fantastically popular, all over the world. Even in my budding anime fandom, DBZ may not have been my favorite per se, but it was probably the mark by which all other animated programs at the time were measured. "Is this better or worse than DBZ?" I would ask myself. And even today I consider its influence on my fandom and life in general as being somewhat significant, for better or worse. read more

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“HERP DERP OBAMA ISN’T A CITIZEN!” Says Sore Losers

What’s with all these “Obama birthers”?

Is it that Republicans, so shocked by having a well-read, educated, somewhat liberal President in the White House, are so desperately grasping at straws to deny his validty as a leader they have to go this far even now? Is it just political sour grapes, or are conservative types really this delusional? I suppose when all your guidance in life comes from a book of hijacked Pagan myths and private conversations with an invisible sky father, your logic and reason is a little out of whack.

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8 Reasons why the new Sirius XM iPhone app is rip

Some of you may have noticed that today Sirius XM, with some exuberance, released a streaming radio application for the iPhone. Apparently it’s such a huge event that both Sirius’ and XM’s web sites are plastered with the news. While I don’t have an iPhone I don’t need one to know how awful this application is.

1. You already have all of the music, and more

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David Letterman Is A Pussy

First, may I say, Sarah Palin is a terrible, terrible person, and I hate to give her any attention. I wish we’d all stop talking about her, because we’re only making her seem important, like somebody of significance. She’s trying to ride on this new wave of press so she can stay in the public eye for later power-grabbing for the nutso Sky Father puppets.

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Fullmetal Alchemist Primer

Fullmetal Alchemist Primer

In order to prepare yourself for the new Fullmetal Alchemist series, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, I’ve taken a number of characters, key plot elements and such to provide you with a neat little guide to understand the basics of the FMA world, in case you aren’t already, or it’s been a while since you’ve experienced it. Here we go!

TERMS:

Alchemy

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Chuck Norris, Traitor

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/12/chuck-norris-for-president-%E2%80%A6-of-texas/

Apparently, famous internet meme and Conan O’Brien time filler Chuck Norris is hoping Texas secedes from the United States, and says he would be the president of it should it come to that.

According to him, because of the way things are (aka, black liberal in the White House, which doesn’t suit Texans), there may be a need for a new Civil War.

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