The Spectacular Professor

[font="Comic Sans MS"]The new Youtube front page is effin' atrocious. Anyone know if you can change it back?[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"][i]Tangled[/i] is still excellent. I didn't see any nipples in it, but that's okay. I prefer it without them.[/font]

[quote name='Anomaly' timestamp='1295684762' post='704121'] [font="Garamond"]The Padded Room Party: Random Thoughts on Nipples[/font] [/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]What else are we supposed to talk about? This newfangled facebookery on the sidebar has taken over the original point of this thread, after all.[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"]I hate it when people on the freeway notice an opening that's barely able to accommodate their fat-ass SUV and decide to swerve right in front of you just when traffic is slowing down at a junction. Two separate occasions today this has happened. Also when you get a little sarcastic on the internet and someone decides to take you down a full peg over an issue that doesn't even exist.[/font]

[quote name='Mistress Duck' timestamp='1295548434' post='704057'] Why do men have nipples? This is a question that will forever nag me... [/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]Hey, we have X Chromosomes too![/font]

[quote name='Shinmaru' timestamp='1295413608' post='704014'] wtf chocolate in Smarties is just unnatural. This is an outrage. I am outraged. [/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]Yeah. Smarties are already gross. I shall call these new inventions "chalklate".[/font]

[quote name='Sangome' timestamp='1295255386' post='703968'] [color="#9932CC"][font="Microsoft Sans Serif"]Neither can hotlinking, apparently. :<[/font][/color] [/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]WHAT HOTLINK I SEE NO HOTLINK[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"]The topic is now Scrooge McDuck. [img]http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/547/scroogemcduck.jpg[/img] Popeye's steroid spinach can't save him now.[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"]Alright, new theory as of the latest chapter. Luffy's blood is going to eventually become the miracle cure-all that Chopper is searching for. He's already survived multiple types of poisoning at once and apparently developed antibodies for each kind. Obviously this is by and large not how medicine works, so either poisons in the Odaverse are universally bacterial or Luffy is just genetically special. Or maybe it's a haki ability, I dunno. Either way, the Pirate King is going to be a big-time blood donor.[/font]

[quote name='rotlung' timestamp='1294753252' post='703799']1. words like Nakama don't have good translation in english. Literally translated it means friend (which is what One Piece uses in Dubbing) The word extends to companion, shipmate, partner etc. The subbing site I watch explained this before one of the episodes and that they weren't going to translate Nakama cause it didn't have a good translation.[/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]This isn't preserving the meaning, this is lazy translating. "Nakama" doesn't have a [i]single[/i] English word that acts as a catch-all term just like it, because it means different things in different contexts. Take for example, the English word "mate". It can refer to a friend, an acquaintance or a lover depending on the context in which it is used. The thing is, in every context that the word "nakama" is used, there is a perfectly suitable English language substitute to fit that context. It's not some special magical term that describes a level of companionship that's exclusive to the Japanese, it's just a general term that fansubbers are too lazy to apply any context to.[/font] [quote name='rotlung' timestamp='1294753252' post='703799']2 vulger and curse words. In dubbing they intend most anime to be for kids. They exclude and rewrite things so they can be marketed to US childern. I remember watching DBZ uncut when I was in High school and my jaw dropped how much they cursed and the gore that when along with that series. Sexual situtions also fall into this catagory. [/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]It's a secret to everyone! [spoiler]In Japan, most anime is intended for children.[/spoiler] Yes, there is hentai. Yes, there are adult-geared anime, but barring those exceptions, most anime is considered family-friendly. Heck, let's go back to [b]One Piece[/b] for this one. It's got blood, fanservice, dark themes, sex jokes, etc. You know who the target demographic is? 10-16 year old boys. same with [b]DBZ[/b], [b]Naruto[/b], [b]Fullmetal Alchemist[/b], the list goes on. This stuff may not be appropriate for kids that age in the US, but that's an issue of cultural differences. Japan basically runs under the assumption that an adult is supervising during TV time, so they're allowed to show more blood and such because they believe there's someone around to tell the kid why the shouldn't go out and stab people. Not that that's always the case or that Americans never do that, but the joke does go that our kids are being babysat by the Teletubbies. As for the swearing, a good, heavy chunk of anything stronger than "damn" that you'll come across in a fan sub was [i]not in the original script[/i]. They were added for "flavor" by, once again, lazy fansubbers. Not to say that there aren't good, hardworking groups out there, but in general I find that a lot of misconceptions people have about language in anime comes from some lazy yuk who thought dropping the F-bomb in place of a simple "No way!" would make him more hardcore. In all honesty, Japanese is a very "polite" language. Rather than individual words, most rudeness comes across in the form of entire sentence structures and dialects. Think back to your teacher and "don't take that tone with me". That's pretty much how it works.[/font] [quote name='rotlung' timestamp='1294753252' post='703799']3. The fan sub work hard on some translations. In one episode of Black Lagoon, there is a part where the bad guy starts speaking spanish (It was another launguge than Japenese, can't remember 100%) He has this whole speech that reminded me of Boondock Saints, and at the end of the video there was a message that thanked several people helping him correctly translate the Spanish part due to how fast it was spoken and it's complicity. [/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]This is a given, and it's the same for dubbing companies. Case in point: FUNimation vs. 4Kids Entertainment. One works hard to keep the spirit intact, the other mines for marketability and strips away the show's soul. The thing is, dubbing companies are getting paid for it. They have more incentive to get it right. Therefore, they're more likely to try.[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"]Look what I made for you guys! [attachment=14999:EFF.mp3] Actually, it's from [i]Perfect Hair Forever[/i], but you should totally use it as your censor sound because that show is awesome. Do it and I'll do two Hans von Hozel stories this week.[/font]

[quote name='Anomaly' timestamp='1294651287' post='703758'] [font="Garamond"]are you implying I have a potty mouth, sir? :o[/font] [/quote] [font="Comic Sans MS"]Who, you? [i]Naaaaaaawwwwwww[/i]. o:)[/font]

[font="Comic Sans MS"]Sorry about slacking off this week, guys. I promise to make an active next week and get another Hans von Hozel Fanfiction Theater recorded. Shin: Being animated is an advantage of the highest order in a cage match. Regular human beings get bruised, cut and burned too easily. Cartoons are practically invincible so long as their survival would make the joke funnier.[/font]