Anime Piracy, Gatekeeping, and More Burning Questions Answered!

[@Gymweeb]

As long as we have to pay for 5+ streaming services to watch anime or not have every anime legally available piracy will not die.

[@mrman5517]

yarr matey!

[@TBoneTony]

I would say if companies want to combat the Seven Seas. They need to focus on providing BOTH Physical and Streaming availability for ALL series both popular and niche. They also need to respect the fans, focus on improving their own services and stop treating fans like criminals.

[@NathanaelCrapo]

100% agree.

[@TBoneTony]

I try to read the light novels when they are translated into english before the anime adaptation is released. That is how I get the full awareness of the series and what to expect before the anime adaptation is made.

[@lastecho3130]

Andrew talking about some dub VAs sounding like smokers and I immediately remembered the medabots dub made the female bully have an adult chainsmoker voice

[@Course6Beaver]

There needs to be some degree of gatekeeping to protect the IP. I recently heard one of the infamous English dubbers proudly state that she "improved" on her role in 2.5-jigen no Ririsa on social media. I don't watch dubs and a big part of it is to appreciate the work of the Japanese seiyuu - some of whom I am a fan. It’s not to be elitist or gatekeep. I don't even like watching the anime with English subtitles cuz any mistranslation would just irritate me.

[@hungrybadgerr]

With the silent majority debate it’s important to keep in mind that a vast majority of normie viewers are perpetual consumers with little stake or interest in what’s broadcast/streamed at large. They’ll pay their $5/month for the big name shows and leave it at that. The activist types trying to shut out what they find distasteful are few and far between and have little to no say in the community outside of screeching on Twitter. They do, however, have numerous plants in the localization world, which is far more problematic. That’s a different discussion altogether.

[@VCE4]

Being an Arknights enjoyer for years makes you just get used to stuff like two pairs of ears. You just start to see animalistic body parts as a regular physical personal traits, no different from tone of a skin or eyes color. Anime does weird things to a man.

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

I watch all my anime in dub now, I have around 1 hour 20 minutes per day to watch anime, an hour in the morning while I eat my breakfast and around 20-30 minutes in the evening while I eat dinner. I can’t always look at the screen so need to watch dub. But all the dubs I watch now are perfectly fine, Tsugumomo is my favourite dub.

[@TBoneTony]

When it comes to newbies into anime, you need to focus on what shows they enjoy on normal TV or Movies first, see the genre of stuff they are into and find Anime equivalents of those series. Don't show anything "weird" to a newbie unless you are sure you know what they are into, such as those who loved American Pie films are perhaps perfect got getting into the Harem Comedy series. Those who enjoy Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland would be perfect for Isekai series. That sort of thing.

[@brandonsebastian8041]

49:55 make anime themed Hawaiian shirts great again!

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

5:29 Yea I don’t understand this view at all, a lot of the male Japanese VA’s just scream, so saying the English is “overly dramatic” is strange. From experience a lot of this comes down to the fact that you can understand English, so you can actually judge it correctly. When you don’t understand what’s being said you can’t properly judge it.

[@TBoneTony]

Tenchi series was 90s Harem comedy. Perhaps best as the OVAs with a few spinoffs like the Magical Girl Sasami series. But the Harem Comedy genre really took off thanks to Love Hina in the late 90s manga and early 2000s anime adaptation. I know because Kaolla Suu came in with a SEGA Dreamcast on her head in one frame of the early manga chapter.

[@copeul7214]

This is exactly what i needed right now

[@rouge8886]

Karaage is made from Potato starch and the Fish looking sweet red bean paste dish is called Tai-yaki

[@sergiudana8716]

Anime summer festivals be like🎉🎉🎉

[@TBoneTony]

For those who love Serious Cop movies like Lethal Weapon and Rush Hour from the 90s. They would enjoy Mad Bull 34 OVA series.

[@quickair7]

There is an extremely small amount dubs that do outshine the subs imo. Dubs like Code Geass, FMA Brotherhood, DBZ, and to a lesser extent Naruto were good and even surpassed the sub. Although it could be biased since I watched those growing up.

[@Skitzotech]

8:12 Man... That point... bro.... I was watching Jobless Reincarnation while it was airing... week to week... and they started releasing the English dub.... I'd say... 4 episodes behind the Japanese dub, so out of curiosity i would watch each episode dubbed when they released. I was waiting impatiently... for my favorite "not tsundere" to make her boisterous entrance.... and let me tell you... when I heard what they did to Eris... The butchering... the 7 year old, fully grown, chain smoking, grandma... I fell out of my chair and just sat on the floor in stunned silence. I am sorry... but I am not sorry! Its not the voice actors fault... I'm sure she plays an EXELLENT chain smoking grandma character. But who ever cast her as a 7 year old girl needs to lose their job. (ok I'm not one for easily firing people... they need to be demoted.... or their role changed to where they cant appoint actors to character roles. CUZ THEY SUUUUUUCK)

[@TBoneTony]

Anime series that deserves to be a Movie adaptation. I can say Devilman but it needs to be split into 3 parts. Devilman Birth and Demon Bird being the 1st. Some slice of life comedy and Demon Hunting from Devilman in the 2nd. The big reveal and the humanity destroying each other in the 3rd. Because to get the spoiler moment that bigger effect, you need to really develop on a important character during the first 2 movies so she can get full development as a love interest before massive spoiler happens to her in the 3rd.

[@charlieriser8668]

I prefer sub over dub. But two dubs that were really good recently are PLUTO the Netflix original. And the new spice and wolf remake dub. Both are really good. And as for old dubs? Yu Yu Hakusho is fire! Honestly I like most old dubs. But that might be because i grew up with them lol. biased i guess.

[@TBoneTony]

When it comes to the silent majority thing, I would say if you love it and you see the merch in your figure store. Support it if you can afford to get it. 80% of Crunchyroll subscribers are mostly into the popular Shonen/Shojo stuff. 20% of subscribers are into everything else.

[@erikoderso7162]

tbf, I subbed to CR because I wanted to pay and do my due diligence, but I do still go to ************ because their features are simply better, when and if they're not down at the time that is...

[@divaincantare]

I agree about the sub/dub. I’m most cases, the American VA sounds like they’re doing a cartoon where as the Japanese sound like they’re actually acting a character

[@fcgHenden]

Tsukimichi dub 💪🏻💪🏻 Love MT to the bone but Tsukimichi dub is currently my comfort show running in the background while I work. Headphones of course. Everyone keeps asking what music i listen to all the time. 😂 Nope

[@sergiudana8716]

Wow a Rare Answering Podcast episode

[@ezequielfernandez476]

0:50 when i was a kid of course dub was the way to go, here in south america we got lucky, the dub was incredible good but as i got older i started watching animes only sub and it is hard to go back to dub now, mostly because by the time the dub comes up the animes are already finished or the sub is at least 4 or 5 episodes ahead. 22:00 Chris got it, nothing to say. 36:20 i think he talks about the mandela efect 53:05 you still have a lot to read aside from the main novel, Chris can help you with that im sure, surprised he didnt say anything, maybe didnt wanted to spoil you by accident

[@yevaud6]

I think the only time I've seen cat ears and human ears on a cat person in recent memory is RWBY. They actually point it out, but I don't recall them explaining what that would mean biologically.

[@whatthefanart]

Appreciate the **detailed** reply to my question on sub v dub.

[@yevaud6]

shows I know where the dub is better than the sub: -Yu Yu Hakusho -Ghost in the Shell -Cowboy Bebop Every other time it seems like the voice actors are trying, but they can't convey the emotions and expressions the characters are trying to get across properly. I think there is a few others, but I can't recall them. Dragon Ball franchise might be another, but it's been awhile.

[@plasmafonk]

It's almost like people were a lot more professional back then.

[@yevaud6]

@@plasmafonk Even I wouldn't go that far. That's 3-5 shows (FYI I forgot Black Lagoon) and maybe a handful more that did a decent job, but it's debatable which was better. There's alot more anime, even back then than 10 or so shows. Plenty of English VA's didn't care or understand the anime they were working on back then. Then you had 4kids messing up and tweeking the source material for "Western Audiences" before it was even handed to them. ...yeah, I wouldn't claim they cared more back then. I've heard good things about some modern voicework and had to rewatch Delicious in Dungeon in english with a friend. It wasn't better, but it wasn't bad or lazy voicework.

[@hungrybadgerr]

@@yevaud6 The quality is about the same. It's just that the reason for lack thereof has evolved over time. Back in the day, the nicheness of the Western anime industry made for tight budgets and squeezed resources which was reflected in the less developed talent pool. Today, Sony (who owns both Funimation and Crunchyroll and has a monopoly on English language licensing) is awash in cash and has access to a wide talent pool, but a combination of corporate greed and cultural environment prevents them from putting out high quality localizations. You can see this when experienced VAs successfully showcase their emotional range but at the same time constantly spout short-lived zoomer neologisms because of the terribly (and arguably malevolently) translated script they were given. It really is a shame.

[@hungrybadgerr]

@@yevaud6 Interesting. My reply was hidden. It wasn't even controversial.

[@yevaud6]

@@hungrybadgerr Not sure, wish I could see it. KZbin can be odd sometimes.

[@sergiudana8716]

23:10 Chris Point sound like a game premise

[@DrunkWIZZARD]

All I gotta say is I sounded old at 16 and was told I should do radio..was the narrator for the movies made in groups in AV class.. sadly I didn’t.. I mean I got the face for radio.. should’ve went for it lol

[@ashrimpcalledhank]

back in the 70s and 80s dubbed anime in english wasn't really dubs. The anime was highly eddited and rescripted into a all new stories

[@thestarvinggamer5618]

Mahoraba: Heartful Days needs a remake Mahoromatic needs a remake Rozen Maiden needs a remake ...If all those wont get a remake I am willing to settle for Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha getting a remake.

[@TheIrishHotspursHat]

6:54 eira having a bad take is a common occurrence in the discord.

[@ginzupumpkin]

sadly this take is common. a 40 yr old chain smoking wine mom who popped too many xanex sounds cute and sexy to them

[@toast0011]

the shonen bros don't participate the other aspects of otaku culture like figures, manga and LN. That is a huge chunk of money that companies will always cater to.

[@plasmafonk]

They don't buy figures and other merchandise like actual western anime otaku. When the "chuds" stop buying merchandise, what will be the purpose of appealing to a "global audience"?

[@TBoneTony]

Catgirls with human ears, it's passable but you need to make effort to use the fringe to make the illusion of no human ears are successful.

[@sergiudana8716]

41:45 Suzume i feel like it could have been a series

[@bigstevelewis]

For me I like to watch dubs only in certain shows. I rate shows as Good, Okay and Nope. I like to watch my Good shows in both sub then dub and for my okay shows I like to watch in dub because I don't really want to waste my brain power on it. I really hate when I think a show is good and they don't dub anything it.

[@furynotes]

My brother is an only subs dude who prefers anime like overlord to be free on a website that has problems mentioned in this podcast. Over watching on Netflix which we do have. I found about this anime that watch on Netflix. He’s like oh no😢. I’m like why ? We watched my hero on Netflix subbed. But you have a problem with overlord?. But he hates dubs literally covering his ears. My brother is too much of purist in the worst way. But I know the quality is actually better on Netflix with less compressed audio to the point where you can hear the compression artifacts in the overlord op. There has to be a way for me to enjoy anime with my brother somehow.

[@Ricardo_Rick]

Personally i don't think there is a problem with saying the word "cunny" on youtube, by all accounts it sounds like the JP pronunciation of the word crab (Kani), or did that give you some issues in the past?

[@Dunnas81]

CawcawTV is being super careful in his reactions to not be demonetized recently (even censoring too much cleavage), but he is saying Cunny all the time now (since watching Blue Archive), so definitely not a problem.

[@sergiudana8716]

Gacha games be like 😅😂

[@Ricardo_Rick]

@@sergiudana8716 yeah, i think there is no problem, or even saying the classic "loli" as well

[@eldrath]

karaage chicken is totally different from American fried chicken. Same with the Curry / Ramen / strawberries.

[@strawhatguy303]

I heard from my sister's neighbor's imaginary friend that you can get the streaming experience from pirated anime by torrenting and managing a jellyfin server. Whatever that means.

[@faviotorres5381]

I pity anyone who only watch those bland emotionless dubs.

[@DrunkWIZZARD]

Need more Gushing period

[@TBoneTony]

Subs is what I watch when there is no Dub available. I can watch both versions of Anime, but if I am too tired and I just want to watch without reading then I go Dub. VHS tapes you only get one version unless if you are able to get two different copies of the same episodes. DVDs gave you the option of watching Subs in Japanese language so you can enjoy it.

[@mrbloodmuffins]

As far as subs vs dubs, the 3 shows that i for sure prefer the dubs are Dragonball, Cowboy Bebop and Space Dandy. The first, because it has been on TV for so long and the other 2 because the art style fits more smoothly with the english voice acting than other shows do.

[@sergiudana8716]

1:09:20 A third channel should have been Glass Reflection , i bet the answer is you don't know about it, the same as....

[@plasmafonk]

Total. Normie. Detsu.

[@noonespecial1333]

I only watch Dub because in my mind if I’m gonna read I’d rather read the manga instead of not watching the visuals while understand what’s going on. But I think if they were to reanimate the mouths to move in a way that makes sense for English than it would be a lot better. That would also fix the dialogue issue because they could make scripts that don’t sound clunky, because they have to make scripts that match with the mouth movements not what sounds good. But English Dub anime doesn’t make that much profit so it will never happen. Also to the point “did they research the role”. A lot of the time they can’t unless they read the manga, which they can’t get the vocal cues they were talking about. But they don’t get to see the anime until they are in the studio. It’s not like they get sent the entire anime to watch before they take the role. They hear the voice in the booth but they don’t get time to tune and pitch their voice correctly, due to budgeting. They get paid either per word or per hour, either way they don’t have the budget to sit there for hours and do it all perfectly.

[@nakerusa]

Dub vs Sub: for me, it depends on the show, the voice actors, and the acting. For instance, because it goes between characters so quickly, and I enjoy the English voices used, I prefer English Dub vs Sub for The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. On the other hand... and I'll probably get strung up for this... I prefer Sub Kaguya-sama Love is War vs Dub. Sub hits differently and the actors for Kaguya and Shirogane (and Chika) are sublime!

[@Cky-vh5oz]

Sorry guys but English dub suck but for the most part not only for the voice but for adaptation The strange things almost all other languages are much better I'm Italian and our dub is fantastic but nothing win Vs original and I always watch both, the dub mostly for my kids, and I can understand immediately when the Italian dub are direct from Japan or from English version in about 5 minutes because the adaptation suck most of the time Same thing for the light novel and finally mushoku tensei are published in Italian and I read all the fan translation in English and is way better than the Andrew version with waywayway less errors and miss translation or changing. Ps my Monday dinner is always mushoku Monday 😅😅😅😂😂😂😂

[@CB23fgh]

The reason why people watch anime on pirate website it's because Crunchyroll isn't available in their country no accessible due to law and restrictions on other hand Netflix is available but anime they got is limited some are not available they'll have to go for piracy website. If they wanted to watch anime on Japan they need to pay lot of money for passport travel. Speaking about money people are trying to budget and save up money due to bank around the world getting down such a china bank other countries as well. To be frank without this website anime will not get popular outside of Japan. Without piracy anime will be available only in Japan to watch. When you shutdown 1 website 5 more will rise cycle repeat itself like a virus spreading. They can't stop piracy because It's already there in the beginning anime was established for public to watch.

[@DrunkWIZZARD]

Dr.Pepper? Ugh… gag me with a spoon.. can’t do any artificial cherry.. coke.. some root beer.. sprite.. Dr. Pepper is so damn nasty

[@martin_emrich]

As a non-american, I notice that all american dubs have (in addition to the strange overacting and limited emotional spectrum) a very strong southern accent. (wtf. Google AI just autocompleted „southern accent“, am I on to something?) In contrast, „Hollywood“ productions have a neutral English, unless the role calls for an accent or even dialect. Do you native speakers notice that, too? Or does your mind filter that out? And why is that? Is there a dub industrial complex somewhere in southern Texas? A magical girl speaking like she would ride on horseback into the sunset (oooh the cliches) is an instant turn-off for me. The German dubs are weird in their own way, they basically reimagine the dialogue in kind of a german tv soap opera. Also not my taste. To each their own, but I prefer the original soundtrack if possible (also prefer hollywood in English over German dub)

[@hungrybadgerr]

Funimation who used to do most of the dubbing work was based in Texas so that may explain the southern accent although it wasn't that noticeable imo

[@martin_emrich]

@@hungrybadgerr thanks!

[@waluige-do-peixe7423]

I was really in love with this channel, Otaku Spirit is just amazing, but Andrew is a disgusting individual, he likes Dr.Pepper, and this is a no go to me. I believe That I’ll be unfollowing this channel forever!

[@InfamyOrDeath-__-]

I think the DBZ English dub sounds horrendous, every single one of you guys only like it because you grew up watching it. because it’s so bad. And I watch all my anime in dub now, so this is not because I prefer sub, but I couldn’t even listen to it, sounded so bad.

[@spinkey4842]

english dubs act as if only kids are watching the anime. no difference between CARTOONS.... we ain't watching cartoons. it's annoying AF

[@sergiudana8716]

I even forgot about this existing

[@beanqueenie_324]

Man, I need to join this discord. I have questions too 😆

[@whatthefanart]

Why **not** recommend Highschool DxD to newcomers? And oh damn.... I'm BUSTED!! (sowwyyyyyyyyyyyy)