I know that in the midst of all these editorials about how (for lack of a better word) "extremist" DBZ otakus are taking things too far by bitching and complaining about every little thing that is wrong in NADBZ, writing an editorial like this might not get me alot of good publicity, but I do
believe that I am entitled to my own opinion. There are several reasons why I am, not so much angry as annoyed with FUNimation. Most of these reasons have already been covered way too much for me to touch on,(cough, voices, cough)but the main reason(or one of them, anyway) that I am annoyed is that I think that if FUNimation tried a little harder, they could do a
magnificent job of dubbing DBZ, but the problem is that to try harder, FUNimation would need to use its assets, and assets require money.They could easily negotiate deals to get the original music, for example. Many people might come back with something along the lines of "that's not as easy as you think." and yet, Pioneer has already done it in several instances, such as with Tenchi Muyo. I also applaude the company that dubbed Gundam W. I was watching a couple of days ago and all of a sudden, a song started up, and in Japanese, none the less! It was a beautiful song, and fit the moment excellently. I wondered to myself, "If that company could get the music, why
can't FUNimation?" Am I to believe that TOEI is holding onto the music SO tightly that it won't let it go for anything? It couldn't be. Why, you ask? Watch Telemundo DBZ and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.Now, some other topics. I just have a quick reponse to Holly Chou's Editorial "Impressionable Youth." When you said that violence desensetizes, I agree, but when you said that it doesn't make people want to immitate it, I have to disagree. When people see certain things which they think are "cool", they try to immitate it. I am talking about Wrestling here. People always immitate that. You cant understand where I am coming from until you yourself have been picked up by a 6'8 tall guy, turned upside down, and piledrived right into the gym floor. Then, that same day someone ran up behind me, twisted my arm and dropped us both down, almost breaking my arm. Another thing about the editorial is that you are right. Parents and adults are always looking for a scapegoat so they don't have to take the blame themselves.Thats all for that editorial. Now for the DBZ cult. I really think you(underfaker) are passing judgement rather quickly before you really understand what the otakus are trying to get at as their ultimate goal. Anime is a truly beautiful thing, and DBZ is one of my favorite animes. After all, It was (and still is) the best selling manga ever, and the anime translation added alot of good stuff, such as the music. All I'm gonna say is that DBZ otakus want DBZ to get better, because we have seen the original side of DBZ, and it's an excellent thing, and all we want is for others who don't know as much as us to get aquainted with DBZ, so they can know of its beauty like we do. I am not trying to force my opinion of anyone. If you don't like it, then that's fine, but some people do. Just so you know, though, most of the otakus who complain as seriously as you said they do are notreally serious fans, just ignorant FUNi haters. A true otaku is just a calm fan of the show who doesn't have to use 4 letter words to get his/her point across. That's really all I have to say, so if anyone want's to send comments of complaints (no email bombs please) my adress is
gotenks_100@hotmail.com