[General Discussion] General Questions

Originally Posted by aku

dont quote this, but im pretty sure that the Excel Box, is a box of the individuals...like i said, dont quote that, if you really wana know email ADV thats the best way to find out

They won't respond. I've emailed them before and never gotten anything back. You on the otherhand live down the road from them.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Heh, we actually did have something going for an anime OP and ED contest sometime last year. We had nominations and everything. Skate never got around to it. Dunno if we'll ever have one. We'd have to do it over I think since most of the information was lost. Damn shame.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Because honorifics don't always translate that well into English. It's just easier to leave them as is and understand them as their native terms.

In fact Del Rey, imo the most professional manga company in the US, states on the first couple pages of every volume honorifics and what they mean. They use them consistantly throughout their books and it just works out better. They do a lot of other good things like keep jokes in their native forms if they can if they can't do it all the way they have tons of cultural notes at the end of a volume or chapter.

Probably, you're so used to official anime dvds that for the most part don't use honorifics in subtitles because they have to americanize things for their audience. Sometimes though a gem will pass through where they'll leave in honorifics in the subtitles and even do so in the English dub. Sometimes it works for the dub and sometimes it just sounds weird. Depends on if the VAs can figure out how to pronounce Japanese names in the first place but whatever.

Foshi, honorifics are just something you get used to and once you have it makes it seem more authentic.


Come back when you have something about fansubbers that's more legitimate of a complaint.

Like this...



I mean, I guess, but c'mon! ='D

How ya doing, buddy?

Probably just a semi-elitist thing I guess. Really, it's something you get used to and don't care too much if it's there or not. It's just nice if it is. If they can translate honorifics without it sounding dumb, I'm fine with that too. But yeah, I can't remember what shows but sometimes they do use honorifics in dubs and it's really hit or miss with the miss making it really awful. Don't stop watching dubs because of that though. That'd be silly. Just watch a show in each language and see what you like better. There are good dubs out there; don't become prejudice.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

http://www.baka-updates.com/releases.php

and

http://www.tokyotosho.com/

are good places for that

I was speaking idiomatically.

what a fucking teacher! ='D

That looks so awesome.

Additional Spam:
There's also this one manga he did called Matchless Antelope.

http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.asp...id-1000019443/



Same style so I guess a lot of his manga is undocumented or something.

Additional Spam:
I found a name for what Qwarky found.

Kwong Lo Long

http://us.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.asp...id-1003304963/



It's 7 volumes long.

How ya doing, buddy?

The 7 volumes in length leads me to suspect it's Japanese name is Koujirou which is a really fucking generic name for a manga and doesn't turn up in many search results.

http://www.japan-manga.jp/jsp/details.jsp?HanID=10758

Unfortunately there are no pictures to verify. A pity. But 7 volumes! You never know.

Additional Spam:
Oh excellent, Pyocola! Just as I post you pretty much confirm my suspicion. =DDD

FELIPE NO

Well from the links I gave you, you can buy it all in Chinese or Japanese. Choose your poison. It's unfortunate that it's not in English though since this search and your description have gotten me interested.

I'm glad we could be of some help though. =)

Most amazing jew boots

Gunbuster is amazing and Diebuster is also wonderful. I highly recommend them.

Jam it back in, in the dark.