I can't watch that show anymore without thinking, "what the fuck's a SAMOFLANGE!"
Okay, we get, Squirrel, you no likey Japanese.
I'd hope so, as I lay it on mighty thick. But it's not so much that I hate Japanese as it is that I hate how everyone seems to think they're a expert qualified to tell everyone how shitty all dubs are in comparison to the original tracks, which A) isn't always true and B) usually wouldn't make a difference anyway. It's most often about pre-conceived notions that really don't amount to a hill of beans for the casual, non-obsessive viewer such as myself.
But listening to some Japanese audio will make my ears all but bleed. It doesn't help that the language forces people to go all over hell and half of Georgia to say simple things, simultaneously forcing them to speak at breakneck speed to get all of it out there in a reasonable time frame, otherwise it'd be like Ents talking in old Entish.
I seem to remember Shwiggie saying something about "watching" anime while reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, like they're old radio dramas.
I imagine the Japanese audio track would render this impossible, hence his dislike.
Sort of. I don't always just sit down to watch anime. I often would watch AT it while a page loaded on the old dialup or waiting on something to finish cooking.
But when I do sit down to watch it, I'll do the English dub with the subtitles running because of my propensity to not hear things properly when said (what this is, I don't know, but I hate it and like having captions of some kind as "backup"). Otherwise, reading subs distracts me too much from actually watching the show itself.
