It's All About Anime

Yeah, that's just odd. I don't get it either.

 

Main/Nosebleed - Television Tropes & Idioms

 

I couldn't find a good explanation with a good source as to why.

 

I'm about halfway through Love Stage!! Crunchyroll - Love Stage!! Full episodes streaming online for free which I largely picked up due to a recommendation from Kotaku (Love Stage!! is an Anime Full of Comedy, Romance, and Gender Confusion).

It's funny, and the Kotaku review gives a good overview, though I have my doubts that the author of the review watches or reads much BL/yaoi at all, given his reservations about the "pretty rapey" aspects of the show, which is a common trope in BL/yaoi--either due to there being a tsundere involved or there being reticence due to the fact they're both men/not gay, or both.

 

Yes, it is exceptionally well done.
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I've never been much of a binge-watcher of television, but I watched the remaining 5 episodes I had of Love Stage!! right in a row earlier after linking up my computer with our new Chromecast. It had a seriously cute conclusion. I'm really hoping it'll get a second season, but since it just ran in the autumn, I'm sure it'll be a while before another one comes out.

 

Funimation has a new PS3 app, and actually streams in Canada. This pleases me.

The nice thing about Funimation is that it has a decent catalogue of some of the older stuff, so all the shows I hear good things about like Akira or Cowboy Bebop or FLCL I can go back to.

I watched the first episode of FLCL and I don't know quite what to make of it yet. It was odd. Not bad. Just odd.

 

What does it say about me that any time I hear the jingle for Funimation or Aniplex or Viz, I must go investigate what my husband is watching on the television? Total Pavlovian response.

 

It's very distinctive. I'm not quite at that point yet.

I watched the second episode of FLCL. It's not making more sense yet. We'll see how that goes.

 

I have now finished FLCL. It's only six episodes so that didn't take long.

I'm still confused, but less so. I think I liked it. It's still kind of percolating.

I may need to watch it a second time.

 

I find myself doing that a lot. Part of it is wanting to catch everything since I'm reading captions, taking in the story, and enjoying the animation; sometimes it's a lot to take in all at once.

 

I think it might be admitting some kind of nerd inferiority, but I watch dubbed anime a fair amount of the time. If it's an option and the English voice actors aren't terrible then that's probably going to be my preference.

 

Yes, yes you are.

Dubs suck.

 

Okay. Why?

I mean, I'll be honest here, I don't really give a shit. I've got nothing to prove. But my limited experience with the anime fandom has led me to believe that it's biggest problem is the fucking arrogant pseudo-hipster bullshit. Like you can't *really* be a fan of anime unless you've watched some bizarre incest romance that was produced in 1987 with the original Japanese soundtrack while cuddling your Haruhi Suzumiya bodypillow. I made the mistake of subscribing to /r/anime and after about two weeks of reading about how anything even slightly popular is utter shit I'd had enough. And then there's threads about how everyone hates anime fans. And, I mean, really guys? You can't figure out how acting like assholes might make people not like you? I feel like anime could be a lot more popular if the communities surrounding it could manage to be even a little bit friendlier than they are.

So yeah, I watch dubbed. I've yet to hear an objective argument for why I shouldn't. The VAs are usually as good as the Japanese cast. Sometimes they're better, as far as my opinion goes. I don't see what there is to gain from listening to a language I can't understand in the first place, and distracting myself by trying to read while I watch.

You can enjoy anime however you want to. But this whole "fucking dub watching casual" attitude really rubs me the wrong way.

I mostly just have a thing about elitism. It pisses me off, regardless of the context.

 

This is pretty much it. The quality of voice acting is usually much lower. There are few dubs I can tolerate because the original in Japanese is just so much better.

 

I just started watching Free! It has two seasons on Crunchyroll. Essentially, it's about these boys who reunite in high school after they swam together as elementary school students. It's pretty fluffy, lots of half-nakedness going on, which, as I understand, is why most people watch it. I usually avoid that thing for obvious reasons, but after seeing so many pictures of the characters' cartoon abs show up on different websites...well. Let's just say they're not built like any boys I know, so it's fiiine (and they're fictional cartoons).