The Anime/Manga thread (quote, Bell)

[Psychedub Dude]

Originally Posted by skyline

Last time I checked netflix for anime over here there was only about 10 titles, the only one I liked was "The girl who leapt through time", what ones do you have over there?

They have a decent sized library now, they have some of the classic stuff like Trigun(which if any of you haven't seen I highly recommend!) As well as other popular ones like Samurai Champloo, Full Metal Alchemist etc. among others. They also recently added an exclusive to Netflix anime "Knights of Sidonia" which was really good and is getting another season this fall.

There is also bunch of series on here that I've never seen.I put a few of them on my list: D Grey Man, Fate Zero, Eden of The East and Blue Exorcist

[skyline]

Originally Posted by Psychedub Dude

They have a decent sized library now, they have some of the classic stuff like Trigun(which if any of you haven't seen I highly recommend!) As well as other popular ones like Samurai Champloo, Full Metal Alchemist etc. among others. They also recently added an exclusive to Netflix anime "Knights of Sidonia" which was really good and is getting another season this fall.

There is also bunch of series on here that I've never seen.I put a few of them on my list: D Grey Man, Fate Zero, Eden of The East and Blue Exorcist

I watched Eden of the East a good while ago, can't remember much from it but it was pretty decent. There's countless free anime streaming sites out there so I don't really bother with netflix, if you can find them you might like Kara No Kyokai or Ergo Proxy.

[Psychedub Dude]

Originally Posted by skyline

I watched Eden of the East a good while ago, can't remember much from it but it was pretty decent. There's countless free anime streaming sites out there so I don't really bother with netflix, if you can find them you might like Kara No Kyokai or Ergo Proxy.

What sites do you use? I know of crunchy roll or something

[Black Francis]

Originally Posted by Psychedub Dude

What sites do you use? I know of crunchy roll or something

Try Anime Freak or Anime Ultima

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Psychedub Dude

What sites do you use? I know of crunchy roll or something

Dude, there are so ****ing many. Just type the series and episode you're looking for into Google and you'll get at least three different pages of different sites all with what you're looking for. It can be kind of a pain if you're concerned with sub vs dub (which I am, **** dub), but you'll still find what you're looking for pretty much guaranteed with ten minutes on Google.

[Psychedub Dude]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Dude, there are so ****ing many. Just type the series and episode you're looking for into Google and you'll get at least three different pages of different sites all with what you're looking for. It can be kind of a pain if you're concerned with sub vs dub (which I am, **** dub), but you'll still find what you're looking for pretty much guaranteed with ten minutes on Google.

Yeah I will admit I haven't tried that much haha. Thanks batty and skyline , I'll give it a shot.

As far as subs vs dubs, I prefer English dubs. Subtitles can distract from the action and sometimes get in the way for me. I don't think the English dubs are all that bad. I can see why people like the Japanese with English subs better but I just prefer it in English.

[skyline]

Originally Posted by Psychedub Dude

What sites do you use? I know of crunchy roll or something

At the moment I'm using watchanimestream.com and lovemyanime.net , like you said tablets sometimes have a tough time with streaming sites as some videos require flash, I've had good luck with them in that regard, you can also hold press on the video while it's paying to download and watch it later, saves waiting for it to buffer.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

It can be kind of a pain if you're concerned with sub vs dub (which I am, **** dub)

There was one series I was following where every now and then the sound would cut out halfway through the opening, I had to watch the dubbed version of that episode just to get the audio.

I don't usually go for dubs, certainly not if it's going to be a long airing anime and I've to wait an extra year or two for the dubbed version to come out, but I prefer comedy centered anime (like k-on) dubbed, reading subtitles makes you miss visual cues, you either read it too fast and wonder what's going on until the animation has caught up or you miss it completely, either way spoiling the joke.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by skyline

I don't usually go for dubs, certainly not if it's going to be a long airing anime and I've to wait an extra year or two for the dubbed version to come out, but I prefer comedy centered animes (like k-on) dubbed, reading subtitles makes you miss visual cues, you either read it too fast and wonder what's going on until the animation has caught up or you miss it completely, either way spoiling the joke.

Depends on the kind of comedy and the quality of the dub. I'll take subbed Tenchi any day of the week, since it's so heavy on drama, but I don't mind a more straight up comedy if it's dubbed, so long as the voice acting isn't terrible. I'd still generally take sub though, since translated jokes lose even more than translated drama, and since comedy is based so much on culture and mannerisms, culture and mannerisms that the dubbed actors probably don't understand, it's usually just not worth the time and attention saved reading subtitles.

The only animes that I can think of off the top of my head that I'd rather watch dubbed are Hellsing and Berserk. Hellsing because so many of the characters are British and German that it just seems wrong to listen to them in Japanese. Not to mention that I think the dub actors actually sell the campy aspects of the show even than the sub actors do.

And Berserk just because there's a demon in one episode whose Japanese voice actor just completely ruins the episode he's in and I'd just as soon watch it dubbed all the way through. I don't know why, but the Japanese insist on using deep voiced Japanese guys to play demons, using no kind of effects to alter the voice to make it sound any different than just some Japanese guy who drinks too much whiskey. And they even had him act out the roars the demon made. He just sort of sounded like he was garbling spit. If you're going to have something roar then for god's sake use a sound effect, you dip****s!

There's definitely a fanboy tendency to overrate the quality of Japanese voice acting though. Most Japanese performances might be better than their Western counterparts, but these generally aren't Emmy-worthy performances. You're still getting people who may or may not be any better than generic TV actors.