I realize it was created natively in English, but it is an anime that takes place in Japan with Japanese characters. So for me, it has a much more realistic feel watching it in Japanese (and the translation–at least what I’ve seen so far–feels completely natural).
Conversely, Last Samurai or Tokyo Vice type productions, where it takes place in Japan but everyone unnaturally speaks English–I just cant.
No way with that voice acting cast I’m gonna switch it so I can read instead. Maybe on 2nd viewing
Feels like the majority of dialogue in Toyko Vice was in Japanese? Was definitely not a show you could watch and do other stuff at the same time for me
Interesting interview with the creators. Some spoilery talk.
It does touch on how this isnt really an anime but a mixture of eastern and western animation styles.
Not from my perspective. Jake, who should be (and actually was) a perfectly fluent speaker, speaks English in all sorts of situations where 100% of the time Japanese would be spoken (to his Japanese bosses, colleagues, cops, yakuza, etc. etc.), which largely ruined the experience for me.
I’m in for it
https://twitter.com/agentbizzle/status/1722019329607451049
Ok, what am I doing wrong, why arent these embedding?
It feels like there’s some sort of irresistible force vs. immovable object shit going on here, because on one hand a person made a post with one of those goddamn siren emojis, but then on the other hand they promised an important Nathan Fielder story.
I clicked, of course. But I took a beat and sighed at the siren first.
I’d watch it.
Scavangers Reign
8/10
Annihilation ass planet.
CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT
I just click to Weekend Update man. I don’t know what anything in your post means.
Ok that delivered so fucking hard. 3 episodes left. Man, animated stuff has been so good recently
This is the only video game series I care about. Hoping this is great.
“It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.”
“Oh. Okay.”
Rewatching Cobra Kai before the new season comes out. The Amanda and Tori stotyline in S4 is really well done.
I’m still shocked at how good that show is. Like, they took the hero and villain from Karate Kid and picked up their stories 40+ years after the movie and it absolutely slaps? How?
Truly crazy. Should have been not only terrible, but should have been embarrassing for all involved to have even attempted.
It’s great. One of the wildest overperformances ever.