03-22-2002, 04:57 PM
Personally, I prefer Subtitled anime. When it is translated, it is often horribly mutilated on the cutting room floor. Questionable material is taken out to make the item more appealable to little children, and references to japanese culture and lifestyles are taken out to prevent confusion (IE: When a Character sneezes in american english, they play it off as a cold. In japan though, it is a superstition that if you sneeze three times, somebody is speaking Ill of you somewhere).
It used to be that to get subbed anime, you had to go to Fansubs, which were notoriously hard to find (you had to know a guy, who knew a guy, who knew a guy.. etc. And by the time you get it, it was a 15th generation tape and the quality is shit). Now that DivX is finally getting picked up (for those who dont know, DivX is a encoder that takes usually large MPEG files and converts them to much smaller AVI files with little or no decrease in quality), Digital Fansubs are becoming incrasing popular. This is how I see all of my anime, I have about 300 CD-R's of Digitally encoded Anime Fansubs. And with IRC FINALLY becoming more accepted by the mainstream internet community, Digital Fansubs are becoming easier and easier to obtain. Anyone looking for further info can IM me.
It used to be that to get subbed anime, you had to go to Fansubs, which were notoriously hard to find (you had to know a guy, who knew a guy, who knew a guy.. etc. And by the time you get it, it was a 15th generation tape and the quality is shit). Now that DivX is finally getting picked up (for those who dont know, DivX is a encoder that takes usually large MPEG files and converts them to much smaller AVI files with little or no decrease in quality), Digital Fansubs are becoming incrasing popular. This is how I see all of my anime, I have about 300 CD-R's of Digitally encoded Anime Fansubs. And with IRC FINALLY becoming more accepted by the mainstream internet community, Digital Fansubs are becoming easier and easier to obtain. Anyone looking for further info can IM me.