Manic Webb

Well, I'm not an Otaku. I don't just mean my member rank; I don't consider myself an Otaku. Anyway, I got into anime all on my own (well, I got a little help from a local PBS affiliate). A couple of anime were being shown on television and (after figuring out what anime was) I started watching it on a local public TV station that shows subtitled anime every sunday night (Urusei Yatsura!). When I finally got internet access in 1998, that's about when I started to read about a lot of different anime. I used to frequent these other anime-themed Forums (they closed a few months back) last year that had a sub-forum on it where you could plug yours and other people's websites. Someone there plugged Otaku Boards. I checked you guys out and almost signed up, but I didn't. I was already signed up with two other Forum groups and I didn't feel like signing up with Otaku Boards. So I left. I know RicoTranzrig IRL. One day, I saw him logging on to Otaku Boards. I was like "hey, I almost signed up with them!" A couple of months passed, I got bored one day, and decided to sign up with Otaku Boards. And now you know the rest of my back-story. Good day. ;)

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What's worse about my my phase of Spice girls fandom is that as soon as I got over the Spice Girls, their manager started S Club 7. There is no escape from childish Euro-pop. Hm. The Macarena. You know, I almost figured out what they were saying in that song. No, I wasn't translating it. I mean I could almost follow along with the song. My step-brother recently bought Justin Timberlake's CD (he says he respects Justin's high range when he sings). He's a lot better when he flies solo. The songs are catchy and it sounds nothing like N Sync and he actually wrote all of his songs. Yep. I like his album... *ducks into the rafters and sends out his decoy to take all of the abuse*

I used to be a Spice Girls fan (don't laugh! You know the words to "Wannabe." Don't deny it!) Then I used to be an S Club 7 fan (ok, you can laugh now. But let the record show that Rachel Stevens is hot) My favorite songs of theirs being "Two in a Million" and "Natural" and "Cross My Heart." My current claim to shame is "The Ketchup Song" by La Ketchup. The song is so crappy, I can't help but try to sing along with it.

It's a great movie. It was pretty creepy when I was younger and the plot is just engrossing now that I understand everything that's going on. Ann Rice's stories tell so much about vampires and she developes the characters so well that I sometimes think she may be a vampire :demon:

:( Great. Now I really am the only person on Earth who hasn't seen the movie.

Hm... Math is my hardest subject... sorta. I failed math in the 9th grade and had to take the class over again. In 10th grade, I took the class over and got an A without trying, then I got a B+ in my 11th grade math class... but then I failed my 12th grade math class. It's my achilles heel. I either breeze through it or fail trying. All I can suggest about Math is to study a lot more. It'll help. Plus you gotta lay off of the Inuyasha for a while. Exchange the time you take to buy/watch Inuyasha and study your mathematics. Band and Choir are [i]all effort[/i] classes. Like MathGuy2 said, they can't lower your grades for a lack of talent. My cousin couldn't carry a note (okay, she could probably carry one) but she passed her Choir class easily. Show up, do what you're supposed to do, and (depending on your teacher) kissing up actually works in effort/participation classes.

Like a few other people already said, I don't look at you any differently. You're gay. So what? It's not like you're a completely different person than you were last week. Your family might take a while to get over the shock, they might not. Everyone should have the same respect for you they always had. I have secrets, myself. One or two of them might be worth telling someday, but some of them will be taken to the grave with me. In general, telling someone the truth all depends on whether or not the truth is something harmful or confusing or uplifting or will bring something to light. If the truth will make everything better in the end, go for it. If the truth will only make things confusing or strange for an indefinite time, then that's something you'll have to think about. It all depends on where you're from and what you know and who should(n't) know it.

A definite plot hole. And an ugly plot hole to boot. Wait a minute... where did Krillin appear when they wished him back to life, anyway? I can only hope what you're talking about is a screw-up in the translation or something.

I don't [i]hate[/i] the Insane Clown Posse (I mean, it's not like they killed my father or anything), but I don't like them either. Nothing about their music catches me. They're just sorta... well... boring. I just never could get interested in their music.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Spikey [/i] [B]Just a little question. I want to watch some other animes, but I don't know which channels they are on? Anything besides adult swim, also I live in america, so it'll be amireca channels. [/B][/QUOTE] Well, there's the International Channel (check your listings if you got it) where they show uncut anime every Wednesday and Sunday like El Hazard, Slayers, and a few ones they're getting ready to air in the near future. Encore's Action Channel shows a few anime every now and then. (check you listings again) I think Sci-Fi Channel might show anime, but I don't have it, so I don't know. *realizes he missed El Hazard last night*

It's a good thing nobody is bashing another person's respective party... *coughyouallknowwhoyouarecough* This is why I don't like politics. Someone always says something like "well, neither party is perfect, but [i]my[/i] party is still better and [i]your[/i] party did this wrong and [i]my[/i] party did this right." It's sickening. The simple truth is that everyone's prefered political party has done something wrong in the past, and I believe if political roles were reversed in some past situations, things would've turned out similar or possibly the same. When disaster strike, the people don't say "I'm [insert party] so I think we should do this."

I actually hold back a little when I'm on Otakuboards; in several ways. I'm a little more goofy in real life; not much, though. In real life, I tend to tell more bad jokes, I'm a lot more sarcastic, and I'm quite figgetty (if that's even a word). When I say "figgety" I mean I move around a lot. I can't sit still in my seat for more than 2 straight minutes and I use a [b]lot[/b] of hand gestures when I talk (I even have a way to highlight words in my sentences when I talk.) :) Sometimes I speak a lot like the way I type, but then I like to change my tone of voice out of nowhere. One minute I'm speaking English in my normal non-surfer Californian voice, then I switch to a fake accent (British, New Yorker, old southern black man) to emphasize like one or two words in the middle, and then switch back to my normal voice again. You can't really catch that on Otakuboards, but I try to be silly when I talk sometimes. I also hold back on my mood swings when I'm online. Usually, when I get into an arguement or discussion with someone, I tend to go on and on about my point until neither the person I'm talking to or I myself get tired. And sometimes I come up with some reall non-sensical stuff to talk about. If I kept on in discussions on OB like I do in real life, some of you wouldn't like me and I'd probably be banned by now. Other than that, I'm the same person. :cross:

I live in sunny California... just a couple of miles away from foggy San Francisco. :( If the weather isn't cloudy and cold, it's sunny and cold. Right now, it's cloudy. It doesn't even look like rain. It's just plain cloudy outside. The weather is like this every late autumn/winter, with a few rainy days. The closest I've come to snow is when someone leaves the freezer door open at my house and the shelves get frosted.

Unlike Elvis, Tupac mentioned in several songs of his that he was going to die any day and some of his songs can be interpreted to say that he planned to fake his death. Of course, Tupac was a gangsta rapper who worked with Suge Knight, of all people. I'd probably write a few dozen songs about expecting to die if I were in his shoes. Maybe he really is dead. Who knows. I just know I don't plan to move to Las Vegas in 20 years and start dressing like Tupac to headline for Wayne Newton. I'd be really upset if Tupac's fans got as bad as Elvis' fans. I hope for the best and expect the worst. I doubt Tupac faked his death, but it'd be really kool if he did come back. There's no denying that.

I'm a member of the Pharaohist Party. You see, I own this floating island that flies over Egypt where I preside as the island's god-decendant Pharoah. :) Ok, seriously, I'm undeclared. I'm 18 and I didn't register to vote in the US election last month because I wasn't paying attention to the pliticians. I'm not going to vote for someone because of their party. I'd rather vote for someone because of what they stand for, and I just didn't hear any of that last month (mostly because I don't watch the news enough). There are some Democrats I agree with and some Republicans I agree with and I even liked Ralph Nader of the Green Party in the last presidential election. I come from a Democratic family, but I'm not ready to claim a party. I'm just gonna vote for the lesser of however many evils decide to run for whatever office whichever year. :cross:

Wow. Most of you took the words right out of my mouth. There are people who can't read and people who don't read. Given the choice between watching any random show in your own language or reading the subtitles for it, most people would prefer to watch a show in their own language. That's why there are dubs; it's more appealing. The original script is translated and re-written to make more sense to an audience of a completely different culture; then the voices are dubbed over into the new audience's tounge (in this case, English) for the purpose of letting people watch a series without having to pull out their reading glasses or glue their face to the television more than usual. Airing a dub on North American network television and dubbing into English are completely different (despite what some people say). The standards for television in Japan and North America (and some other parts of the world) are completely different. A brief glimpse of an inked-out drawing of an animated female breast might fly on Japanese television, but most North American censors just aren't having that. So when most anime are shown on network television (I say "network" because I know of a local station that used to show unedited anime), changes in the film and dialogue are changed to be more suitable for Audience #@2. What most people don't understand is that this is only done for television. There is no need or purpose in editing a dubbed anime for television if the anime will never be shown on television outside of Japan. But I digress... Subtitled anime is good for those who want to compare original and dubbed-over anime or anyone who doesn't mind reading and staring at a television for extended periods of time, but I prefer dubs simply because (like some of you already said) reading subs can be distracting. Given, watching subtitled anime has improved my reading speed, but it gives me a headache to look at the screen for that long without turning away in fear that I'll miss something important a character said. That's why I buy bi-lingual DVDs. I'd really rather watch an anime in both versions; first dubbed to hear everything, then subbed to know how everything was originally. Dubs are completely necessary for people like me who don't like to read. Plus, I wouldn't have ever heard of anime if some of it wasn't dubbed into English. You think I would show interest in a cartoon that I have to read through? Of course not. Not unless there was some way I could watch it without having to read through it.

A beatbox is making music with... well... your mouth. It's a lot of humming and hissing and tounge clicking to simulate the sound of drums and a bass (as in the instrument, not the fish). In Rahzel's case, he uses his voice to simulate the drum beats of a hip-hop song. If you ever find yourself humming and hissing to simulate the sound of a drum and symbol, that's called a beatbox. Just about everyone does it when they have a song stuck in their head. Hip-hop is just the only group to give it a name (to my knowledge).

I'm a Christian and I believe in Jesus and all that good stuff, but sometimes I think that somebody out there either doesn't know how to translate the Bible or somebody added their own non-biblical predictions to the text. Think about it: Everytime a prediction in the Bible gets the slightest detail wrong, somebody jumps up and says that they weren't reading it right, and that something that looks like it was written plain and simple is actually written to mean something else altogether. Out of all of the predictions I've heard about, the one I trust more is that only God will know when the end will come. I don't like any of these shows about people talking to the dead. I just don't think they're real. All one has to do is pull a random relation out of their pocket and make up something they have to say. Watch... [i]"Somebody... a user on Otaku Boards has lost a relative. It's a woman; a female woman. It's a female woman who you are related to. You were close, but you wish you had been closer. You're not particularly happy about the day she died. You wish you had the power to save her. She is at rest. She wants you to move on. She wants you to know she loves you very much and she forgives you. She says do not fear death, but fear that life that is not lived.... Oh, my powers grow weak. She is slipping from this plane and into the next."[/i]

I found a 2 month old similar topic a few pages back, but I didn't add on to it because I was the last person to post in it and then I'd run the risk of double-posting. :cross: The purpose of this thread is [b]not[/b] to talk about your favorite dub voice actors or compare edits in dubs to the original Japanese footage. I want to talk about the [b]purpose[/b] of dubbing an anime. Why do you think companies dub anime? Are dubs necessary? Have they ever been necessary? Why do (or don't) you watch dubs? (whether they're on network television or not) I'll give my opinion later. I want to see what you all think, first.

I hate that insomniac feeling. Sometimes I stay up so late, I start to ramble and talk to myself (more than usual, anyway). I end up staying awake all night and watching (gasp) late night television. Total Gym infomercials and that one motivational speaker guy's infomercials can put me right to sleep at times. Yeah, exercise is a good way to tire yourself, and eating works just as well. Don't do them back-to-back, though. Trust me, it doesn't work that way. :)

Rahzel has to be the best beatboxer... ever. The way he talks and beatboxes at the same time, you'd swear he had two mouths.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Heaven's Cloud [/i] [B][color=indigo]Y'all- A group of people; [i]how y'all doin?[/i] [/color] [/B][/QUOTE] I think I read somewhere that "y'all" used to be a real word; a contraction of "you" and "all."

Around here, we say [b]hella[/b] a lot. It means "very" or "extremely" or sometimes "a lot of." examples: "I'm hella tired. I'm going to bed." "I know a doctor who's making hella money." [b]"That's Ghetto!"[/b] Whenever something is cheaply done or effortless and ugly, it's ghetto. example: "Girl, that imitation leather suit is so ghetto."

Oh yeah, and I'd really like to see Evangelion at TheOtaku, too. (I forgot to mention that before).