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There’s two reasons that I haven’t posted anything in half a month.  The first is the easy answer: exams.  It’s midterm season here, and engineers are packed with some form of work every second of the day.

But beyond that explanation…. …what to post about?  Am I missing some excellent series this season?  Or it really as bleak as I think?  As everyone said before it aired, Kimi ni Todoke is one of the better shows airing, but even then …

Why do people get so angry about pronunciations of Japanese names in dubs?  The purpose of dubbing is to localize a film for an audience that isn’t familiar with the original language so that they can still enjoy the story on its own merit.  People like me and most other anime fans, who want to hear the original Japanese speech and are somewhat knowledgeable about the culture and language, can watch subtitles.  Nobody is forcing us to watch the localized …

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Let’s look it up: Melodramatic, “….characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and interpersonal conflicts.” – Answers.com. Basically similar to the definition for drama except with the added word “exaggerated” and some other negative adjectives. Of course, where we cross from “natural” to “exaggerated” is going to differ for everyone. My take on it can be gleaned from this:

I was browsing through a list of currently airing anime when the word “Dragonball” popped out at me.  Apparently Dragonball Z is being recut, remastered and replayed under a new name.  Like most kids my age, I was a fairly big, but not obsessive, fan of Dragonball and Dragonball Z when I was young, right up until about my junior high years.  I remember coming home on Thursdays, turning on the television (back when we didn’t know that anime was …