Wednesday, September 24, 2003

   Yugioh dub rant
Time: 10.56am Thu 25 Sep
Ok, I have nothing to do right now so I'm going to rant a bit today...

Dubbed Yugioh:
This is really really really unneccessary, stupid and lame. I mean, Yugioh isn't as dubbed as say... DBZ, but that's because it doesn't really have any voilence in it. It's not like DBZ where people actually hit eachother and stuff. So what did they do? First, they dubbed out the guns (ALL of them). Then, they change the duel punishments... It's really stupid.

Guns:
1) In the Duelist Kingdom Arc ep where the Big 5 of Kaiba Corp send goons to capture Kaiba (hey I don't remember all the ep numbers!) The two goons point their guns at Kaiba. Only they dubbed out the guns completely so that they're just pointing their fingers at Kaiba. How is that supposed to be threatening again?
2) At Duelist Kingdom after Joey defeats Bandit Keith, Keith jumps in front of Pegasus and points a gun at his head. But since they dubbed out the gun he's just pointing his finger at Pegasus. Which makes the scene completely lame and stupid. Again, how is a finger supposed to be threatening?
3) After Duelist Kingdom when Kaiba got trapped in the virtual world and Yugi-tachi went to save him. There was one scene when Yugi, Joey & Mokuba were in the pods and Tea & Tristan were blocking the door from a goon squad. The squad were supposed to have guns and were supposed to stand outside the door pointing their guns at the ground to avoid shooting eachother like all good goons do. Only without the guns they look absolutely ridiculous. It's like those little kids who play pretend with finger guns.

Duel Punishments
In the three duels in Battle City where Yugi battled against Marik's slaves (Yugi vs Arcana/Pandora; Yugi & Seto vs Umbra & Lumis; Yugi vs slave Joey). Only the last one (Yugi vs slave Joey) had its original punishment (fall into the ocean & drown). And that's because they needed it for the drama of Joey saving Yugi then Serenity saving Joey. I mean the Lumis and Umbra one was just stupid! If you're standing on thin glass 50 storeys up and the glass breaks, of course you're gonna fall to your death! Not fall into some lame 'Shadow Realm'. And the whole spinning dark energy disk thing with Arcana/Pandora... That was just completely idiotic.

And what about ep 53 where Yugi asked Tea out for his Yami? What's wrong with that??? It's not like they were going to seriously "do" anything...

Seriously, what do those dubbers take us anime fans for? We're not 7 yrs old! How many times do people have to tell them that Anime does not equal Cartoons?? I don't mean to be America-bashing but I think the Japanese were very smart in taking up animation. I mean, it *is* way cheaper. Not like those Hollywood blockbusters where the millions and billions of $$$ equal goodness. Don't those people see how smart the Japanese are? I mean, changing a few things the characters say or stuff like signs because of culture or language differences is ok (ie. When Kaiba went to the museum to meet Ishizu/Isis the sign on the front of the museum says 'Domino Museum' instead of something Japanese. It's not very well done but we understand.) But making things seem less dangerous for Yugi & co. is just completely ridiculous. It ruins the whole story and all the careful effects and heart-gripping dangers that those Japanese creators so carefully put in. And about the guns, just who out there would actually want to become one of those goons anyway?

...I do good rants don't I?...
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