[EVA] Please say it isn't so

[Jessica Hanmeier]

söndagen den 14 juli 2002 kl 21.54 skrev Brian Shea:

>>> You missed my point there... Gundam 0083 for example, started on 
>>> adult swim as unedited but their habbit of making everything for kids 
>>> caused them to dumb it down to Y7

[lots of text on how American television butchers anime]

I can just say, thank god that Swedish television doesn't see a market 
in anime (maybe except for Pokemon). When they decided to air Sailor 
Moon, some of the things they did was *remove* the singing from the 
ending (probably because it was in Japanese and they were too lazy to 
dub it, which doesn't make sense since they dubbed the opening... brr, 
the opening...), renaming Usagi to Annie which makes her easy to confuse 
with Ami, changed the music in one scene where it really mattered, and 
mistranslated, jumbled and skipped episodes (often several in a row) to 
hell. You have to know at least some Japanese, or else you get pretty 
confused over how little sense some of the dialogues make. And yes, one 
of the lead male transvestite villains is a woman here, just like in the 
States. Probably no more than 1/25 of the whole series - not counting 
skipped episodes - ever aired. (The voice acting of course sucks, and I 
shouldn't even mention how they pronounce the names...) I shouldn't be 
knowing this much about Sailor Moon, considering that I think it sucks, 
but I actually feel sorry for Swedish Sailor Moon enthusiasts. Just goes 
to show how a good (fan)sub is the best way to watch anime if your 
fluency in Japanese is limited.

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