Anime Survey

[Benny1]

ANIME

Favorite Anime Full Metal Alchemist
Least Favorite Anime DBZ
Last Title I Completed FLCL (probably the only one ever)
Most Original Anime FLCL
Least Original Anime DBZ
Guilty Pleasure Gundam Wing (rofl)
I Can't Believe I Watched the Whole Thing G Gundam (funny story)
Never Going to Finish Everything
Best English Dub Ever Anything that isn't one piece
Worst English Dub Ever One piece
Favorite Anime Based on a Video Game Can't think of any
Funniest FLCL, spome parts of fma
Saddest FMA
Most Surreal Paranoia agent, flcl.
Most Annoying DBZ
Weirdest Name FLCL
Best Opening Song FMA
Best Ending Song FLCL
Best Opening Sequence I like FMA's although it might be the ending
Best Ending Sequence see above
Favorite OAV Endless waltz (when it is the only one you have seen rofl)
Favorite Movie - I don't think I have ever seen an anime movie.
Most Overrated - DBZ
Most Underrated - I dunno, maybe like paranoia agent

CHARACTERS

Favorite Character - Naota (I love the development)
Least Favorite Character - I dunno, like BT
Best Hero - I really don't know
Best Villain - Lil Slugger (shounen bat)
Best Love Interest - dunno
Character Most Likely To Get Along With in Real Life - like, probably like somebody I can't think of
Character Least Likely To Get Along With in Real Life - Tsukasa
Character Who Most Needs a Slap in the Face - Tsukasa
Character Who Most Needs to Relax - BT
Favorite Couple - I dunno, heero and relena rofl (bad joke alert)
Couple You Wanted to See Get Together - Tsukasa and Mimiru
Couple You Wanted to See Break Apart - Heero and Relena (who cares if they weren't a couple)
Favorite Love Triangle - dunno
Favorite Party of Three (Not Necessarily the Same As Above) - dunno
Favorite Party of Four - dunno
Favorite Party of Five - dunno
Coolest - Naota after development
Least Cool - anybody from dbz really
Funniest - hahah Edward from fma
Most Annoying - Domon
Scariest - Haruko sometimes
Most Attractive - Dunno
Sexiest (There's a Difference) - Dunno
Most Likely To Succeed - Naruto
Most Likely To Stab You in the Back - Sephiroth (there was the oav, I'm allowed to put him here technically)
Most Likely To Run You Over In Their Car - Quite a few people, probably
Ms. Congeniality - Dunno

MOMENTS

Favorite Moment - I loved almost all of flcl
Best Fight Scene - The end of flcl
Best Kiss - Rofl
Most Romantic Moment - ditto
Most Inappropriate Moment - Whenever the guy is around nyuu
Coolest Moment - Most of flcl
Scariest Moment - A lot of paranoia agent
Creepiest Moment - A lot of paranopia agent
Moment That Just Floored You - A lot of paranoia agent and flcl
Best Ending - Flcl
Worst Ending - Only show I have ever finished

OTHER

Favorite Male Seiyuu/Voice Actor (English and/or Japanese) - I don't care
Favorite Female Seiyuu/Voice Actor (English and/or Japanese) - Ditto
Favorite Anime Company - Ditto
Least Favorite Anime Company - 4kids (I know they only dub, whatever)

[GuidoHunter]

Why all the hate for DBZ? Sure, its dub sucks teh balls, but it's quite entertaining, especially the movies.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Omeganitros]

DBZ was great from the beginning of the show to the end Frieza. The rest was puke.

[GuidoHunter]

I thought the Frieza saga was the most boring. Waaaay too long. In fact, the last five minutes of the planet's life took, what, eight episodes?

The Saiyan Saga was sweet. I thought the Cell Saga was sweet, too, what with Gohan going SSJ2 (btw, I like Gohan, shut the hell up). I never saw the Buu sagas, but again, the movies were all totally sweet.

Regardless, though, what about it was unoriginal? Annoying? Who overrates it? I figure it's just the cool thing to hate DBZ.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Omeganitros]

No no, the final battle was sorta anticlimatic. I'm talking about stuff like when Goku met the Ginyu Force. It was funny and awesome at the same time.

[lord_carbo]

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Most animes, however, do not fit that ption. They are Japanese shows, and conversions are NOT as simple as changing the voices.

As for subtitles, I don't understand how they're annoying at all. I'm not distracted from the action when I read AND I can get the appropriate (original) voice inflections and whatnot when I listen and read at the same time. Now, I have a friend who reads so slowly that I can understand why he wouldn't like subtitles, but for any normal person they're not a bit of a nuisance.

Also, I would never even pretend that I understood what they were saying. Sure, I've picked up a couple of phrases here and there, but I don't understand what they're saying, nor do I know anyone who would make such a ridiculous claim. Not that it even matters if I don't understand Japanese, because I can perfectly understand the English written at the bottom of the page!

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

I was mainly referring to the shows that are at least halfway decent in their dubs. Why, if you didn't know what they were saying in the first place, or at least don't pretend as if you did changing the voices isn't much of a problem. Plenty of Japanese voices are wierd, anyway, especially those wierd guys who sound like girly-men.

And it isn't like conversations change that drastically. For all you know, the conversations could of been slightly paraphrased after they were subbed. Japanese and English are two totally different languages. Japanese doesn't even take Latin roots. There are probably different ways to rephrase what they say, and seeing as most Anime people like you conform to the subs' way of putting it.... But if they really do change drastically in some cases where the concept of the conversation can differ between the sub and the dub, then that's another totally different story I am unaware of.

[GuidoHunter]

It's not what they say, it's how they say it. No American woman could do a good Excel or Lime. No American man (or woman, even though she was better) could do Goku as he's supposed to be done.

Sure, some Japanese voices are weird, but they're PICKED TO FIT THE ORIGINAL CHARACTER. American voices are NOT.

I have no doubt that what is subtitled is not exactly what is said in Japanese, but I don't have a problem with that. I would bet that it's even more different for dubs, though, too.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[jamuko]

If you're worried about paraphrasing, dubs are worse than subs. Keep in mind that subs only need to go through one translation, while dubs have to go through translation and then be rephrased in such a way that they can fit the lip movements. It's not a huge difference, but there's definitely less flexibility there.

But Guido's already made the most important point. Not everything can sound good dubbed, regardless of how accurate the translation/editing job is. Especially the genki/cute-girl type characters... it sounds cute in Japanese, but it's just obnoxious in English. Americans just don't sound like that naturally. Dubs only sound okay when all the characters speak in a natural English vocal range.

[red-X0]

i thing that i hate dbz for is the voices all ways change in every saga it was hard enough to remeber all of the voices including movies oh and the games

[Chromer]

That's right. The Japanese have a talent for picking good voice talent. Take Naruto. In Japanese his voice fits exactly his personality and age. Pure genius.

[SheSheChan]

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ANIME

Favorite Anime - Slayers/Battle Athletes/SMJ/Evangelion/Lain
Least Favorite Anime - World of Narue
Last Title I Completed - Chrono Cross
Most Original Anime - Kodomo no Omocha and Di Gi Charat
Least Original Anime - Hyper Police
Guilty Pleasure - DBZ
I Can't Believe I Watched the Whole Thing - World of Narue
Never Going to Finish - Comic Party
Best English Dub Ever - Tenchi Muyo
Worst English Dub Ever - Battle Athletes and Slayers
Funniest - Slayers
Saddest - Pretear and Saber Marionette J
Most Surreal - Pita Ten and Lain
Most Annoying - Mini Goddess
Weirdest Name - Daa! Daa! Daa!
Best Opening Song - Slayers Next
Best Ending Song - Slayers - Never Die
Best Opening Sequence - Battle Athletes
Best Ending Sequence - The ending of Popotan makes me giggle.
Favorite Movie - the second Evangelion movie
Most Overrated - Naruto and Furi Kuri
Most Underrated - Serial Experiments Lain

CHARACTERS

Favorite Character - Hanagata - Saber Marionette J/Guu - Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu
Best Villain - Naga - Slayers
Best Love Interest - Valgaav - Slayers/ Shaoran - CCS
Character Who Most Needs to Relax - Excel - Excel Saga
Favorite Couple - NarutoxSasuke/SakuraxShaoran
Favorite Love Triangle - Sana, Akito, Tsuyoshi - Kodomo no Omocha
Favorite Party of Three - Lina, Gourry, Zelgadis - Slayers
Funniest - Ryoga - Ranma 1/2
Most Annoying - Rei - Urusei Yatsura
Scariest - Gourry at the beginning of episode 2 of Slayers Try lawl
Most Likely To Run You Over In Their Car - Yukari - Azumanga Daioh

MOMENTS

Best Fight Scene - Advent Children if it counts.
Most Romantic Moment - The ending of the second CCS movie.
Most Inappropriate Moment - LOL. Maid in Hanaukyo. the entire thing.
Moment That Just Floored You - Ending of Saber Marionette J to X
Best Ending - probably Evangelion
Worst Ending - Saber Marionette J and J to X

OTHER

Favorite Male Seiyuu/Voice Actor (English and/or Japanese) - Koyasu Takehito
Favorite Anime Company - Japanimation
Least Favorite Anime Company - Bandai