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Does anyone here like this animé?


Well? :)

It's one of my favourite animé and manga.

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Yeah, its my favorite too. The music and the characters are one of the best i,ve seen in an anime.

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It's a great story but I can't watch it. I'm sorry but the "engrish" just drives me nuts. At first I thought it was a joke, but then I realized it wasn't...blegh

I'm still heavily interested in it and will def. get the manga or possibly the dubbed version that is coming out soon (gasp! fansub traitor!), but the horrible english is just too embarassing to watch. Someone once made a post for an anime asking "why don't they just have the original cast do the english dub?"

THIS IS WHY.

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How is your japanese? is it any good? what? you don't speak japanese? what? you just speak english? oh... I see...

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Are you an idiot or something notthisisaknife? Wathcing it dubbed would destroy it entirely. A large part of the story relies on the fact that some characters can't speak english. Besides, they are supposed to have bad english, they are Japanese, its not their native language. It would be ridiculous if they suddenly spoke perfect english. Are the kind of jackass who goes up to immigrants and tells them to "learn to speak english"? I'm sorry if the Japanese accent offends you on some level. Are you capable of watching Jacky Chan films even? Would you prefer he was dubbed over by a native english speaker? Dubs are for the illiterate, the blind, and racists who laugh at the sound of foreign languages. Pick one.

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The dub is really bad in my opinion. It ruins it. I'm actually not too much of a major fan of this anime (it's pretty good but not my favourite) but really the English dub just makes it more embarassing. Really bad choice of voice actors too, and, it kinda makes the whole thing seem more contrived and it comes off as a really bad promo for western music. Even though on many levels, it is a promo for westernization but...I digress. It doesn't have too much to do with this anime being interesting or not.

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Have you seen a dub of Beck? As far as I know, Funimation got the licensing rights to it about this time last year, and they even have a voiceacting cast set up, but I didn't know it was out anywhere. From your post it sounds like they changed a lot and didn't keep the original soundtrack, which I think might kill it.

(the cast list- http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4404)

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yeah and besides they create new lyrics for the songs.

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I saw it twice in eng dubbed version and its still one of my favourites....its one of those animes which are too good.

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:O the best part of the series(IMO Dialogue-wise) is when the one band at greatful sound want koyuki to sing for them once(they are speaking english) and then koyukis like "I......no.....english"

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Yah it's dubbed and they're speaking English but the audience knows Beck takes place in Japan.

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Its rated 8.8 and you ask if anyone here likes it.
Of course!
I love it, though I cant seem to find it from anywhere. Atleast not inside EU.

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This show is amazing but due to budget problem they had to cut the number of episodes. 26 in total but the story continues in the manga. Goddamn it I wish they make the whole thing into an animated series instead of this one little chunk in the beginning of the story.

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I so love this anime. I haven't seen a good one in a long while...at least one with good characters and a plot that actually makes sense. Hope they plan on extending it past what they've dubbed so far.

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All 26 episodes are on in Canada. 2 new ones per week on MuchMusic @ 7-8pm on Tuesdays. Too bad there is only one season.

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I didn't think I'd like it...
but it's awesome.

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I love Beck. i can relate to Tanaka in many ways. Plus it opened my eyes to what real j-rock is, not that pop crap that relies on image like Eiji's band. Hell even The Pillows made a cameo appearance and those guys are great! This is a pretty inspirational show. I watched the dubbed version. i kinda liked it better, johnny bosch was one of the voice actors :p

its a really good show.

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I found this at best buy yesterday, and it got me thinking about a post I made over a year ago about the series, which apparently was fodder for some folks?

They are supposed to have bad english, they are Japanese, its not their native language. It would be ridiculous if they suddenly spoke perfect english. Are the kind of jackass who goes up to immigrants and tells them to "learn to speak english"? I'm sorry if the Japanese accent offends you on some level.

Hey ass(if you're even on IMDB anymore), way to miss the point. The whole thing about some of the characters who speak english in the show is that their mastery of the language is supposedly astonishing to those around them... hell from what I remember the brother and sister were touting their second language due to spending many a year living in America. Before you go on a rant about accents, consider this... if I made a show where my American character spoke "amazing" Spanish, and swooned the Mexican populace with un-accented dialogue like "Me gusta tacos, esta bien", would you buy into it? This isn't some *beep* about nationality like you're trying to put a spin on, it's a matter of lack of believability. I wouldn't be surprised by your english dub comment if you're one of those people that goes on a tangent whenever an english dub VA botches a complex Japanese word, yet I'm a racist apparently when the roles reverse.


YARGHH!

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^Same! I only really watch subs is either when the dubs are horrible (like the given example) or if there are no dubs available. I'm not an elitist when it come's to anime. There's alot of anime that have excellent dub. (ex. BECK, Full Metal Alchemist, Cowboy Bepop, Bleach, FLCL, Kodocha, Trinity Blood, Blood +, Fruits Baskets, Last Exile, etc. I know i'm missing some)

Only thing i'm elitist is on music (not i dont care is they sing it on english or japanese i just like my music J-oriented.

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Nah, you're right. I liked the show but they really could have done a better job with the English accents of the characters who were supposedly great at it.

Granted, a Japanese audience might not tell all the time but this show had a clear intention of exporting itself to the West if it became popular - which is in many ways the goal of the titular band as well. The general rule is that dubs are better than subtitles for anime but there are always exceptions.

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I started watching it a week ago. I am now on episode 15 I like it so far.

"Iron Man thats kind of catchy"

it say it's OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!

jasper the douchebag ghost

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i absolutely loved it.

im really into my music, and it was great to see an anime about someome else really getting into music.

the annoying thing about the series was that it made me want to try to learn gutair again. which i am hopeless at DX

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who ate all the crunchy cream pies?

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Never read the manga but loved the anime. I'm missing one volume to complete my dvd collection :P

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I really liked it, not only did it had great music, but the story for it was both dramatic and excellent. I completely agree with the anime critics, this series was just amazing.

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Agree it makes me want to bust out the guitar again, after years of not doing so.
I like the Engrish and Japanese version it just fits the Westernization theme of the anime better.

Not all dubs are bad:

Cowboy Bebop -legendary dub, possibly the best dub ever
Samurai Champloo- same people as Bebop and all-around solid dub

Baccano - this is of the only anime I would say the dub is better than the sub all the way, the dub puts unique accents on the characters that the sub can't

Trigun - the sub really irritated me, I tried several episodes on sub and eventually went dub cause the sub killed me.

Wolf's Rain - solid dub (many voices from the above shows), I have no idea how the sub sounds though.

Elfen Lied - not too bad, the sub is fine too though, this show is really equal for me dub or sub

Death Note - another that is good either way, but I love Ryuk's english dub voice way more than the japanese sub, but again this is up to preference as the english actors get the emotions down quite well.

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