Comments on: Death Note Licensed — A Good Thing?

By: Gabriell

Gabriell — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:01:32 +0000

Xcuse-me, what’s the name ov that communist girl and her anime?

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By: Reynolds

Reynolds — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:33:17 +0000

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The future of anime | I love anime — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:28:31 +0000

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By: Kuro-Hana was the Last Name in the Death Note « WebMurder’s Inc.

Kuro-Hana was the Last Name in the Death Note « WebMurder’s Inc. — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:40:09 +0000

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By: Bishca

Bishca — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:47:29 +0000

Your points about subbing quality are in fact not correct

I have seen many DVDs of Anime where the provided subs were terrible, due to my ridiculous obssession with fansubs and my 1TB 7000 episode collection I can for the most part understand anime without subtitles, this is the case with many fans, except for noobs

They’ve gotten such a grounding in japanese that the subtitles are more just a guide than anything else.

Also your comments about price and guilt and morals?

why should there be any confusion over morals

If you were born in Japan you could watch all of these for free whenever they aired, but simply by the virture of where you live your forced to source them off the internet

I see no moral dilemma

and also the quality of the media, now with HD encoding advancing so much, its easy to get quality thats better than DVD with many fansubs being released at 1280X720 and a few even at 1920X1080

and due to the awesometasticness of the h264 codec, the size difference isnt nearly as big as you’d think

so FANSUBS RULE

LICENCING COMPANIES, ESPECIALLY VIZ!!!! CAN GO EVISCERATE THEMSELVES WITH A PAIR OF RUSTY SCISSORS!!!!!!!

By: Zetsubou

Zetsubou — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:24:47 +0000

Damn subs are way better than Dubs plus Light’s voice is the worst in the Dub version he sound sooooooo gay.
Also Communism will never work due to the selfish gene contained in all humans if read Dawkins book it explains everything. Plus if I had the Death Note i would do what Light did because bad people shouldnt exist in the first place and I bet all people feel the same even if they don’t admit it.

By: Spikeon

Spikeon — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:17:49 +0000

well, here are 2 reasons i am angry at deathnote being licenced and a few of my problems with dvds

1) It was 2 episodes away from completion. that REALLY pisses me off. i mean, how the hell can viz “release them in the us shortly after they have been released in japan” if the epsisodes are allready out?

2) i cannot afford dvds. also, when i can, they immediately get scratched beyond recognition. and the problem with anime is that there are multiple episodes on a dvd, and i only know how to rip an ENTIRE dvd to a .avi file.

if anyone here knows of a program that will rip individual files with subs included to an avi file, lemme know, spikeon@gmail.com

By: desti

desti — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:59:15 +0000

Its usually easy to just find whatever u want to watch off the internet…to find the dvds would be just a waste of time (or me at least, cos my parents dont do any form of online shopping..) Finding what u want in shops is just…tough…

Fansubs arent usually that bad… and yeah..i guess price is an issue too…especially if u arent going to watch the anime more then once…

and…rite….the govt wants sg to have internet connection and blah blah blah and guess what?.. we get crap connection…

By: paypi

paypi — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:44:04 +0000

well, as for me, fansubs are enough as long as they have good quality and a reasonable size.. i don’t have a thing against DVDs or any official releases, but in countries like mine, where DVDs are really expensive (almost twice or thrice than the original price because of shipping fees and etc.) you can’t blame a person like me if i prefer to support fansubs or piracy.. especially if you’re a student who pays more than what you earn.. hehe..

so, why would you still buy something that you can get faster and get for free? when you can just use the money you’re supposed to spend on buying DVDs to buy more important stuffs.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:01:47 +0000

I completely disagree with the whole ‘fansubs are not as good as dvd subs’ thing you’re trying to say.

First off, fansubs are made by fans, thus they will want to make them good. Fansubs don’t spend tons of time subbing an episode to make a lousy job of it.

Second, dvd subs are crap. almost every dvd anime I have bought, i usually listen to english auidio because the subs are simple terrible.

Yes they have the original script, that doens’t mean that they are going to use it! Try Tsubasa chronicles for example. The anime is awsome, and the fansubs are excellent, however I purchased the dvd before watching it fansubbed and found that the subs were of such bad quality, I never watched them all on the dvd, instead I downloaded the Fansubs just so I could understand thew story.

The same goes for Otogizoushi, (The BEST ANIME EVER!!!) THough I don’t understand the story anyway shape or form simply because they use phrases like, ‘raiko, your dingy is better’ when they really mean to say, ‘your stomach is more honest’ (Refering to being hungry)

SO SHUT UP!