From what I could tell Baccano! is a story about immortal gangsters in the prohibition era, focusing on the mob. This did not interest me, which is odd because the setting itself isn’t a turn off. However the show is rather violent and that does turn me off. Looking up the full story didn’t help when I learned the immortals can absorb each other, which is somehow more gross than lopping their heads off like in the Highlander franchise. Apparently it’s only the anime that is stuck in prohibition era America.
Created by Ryohgo Narita, and note that this link goes to a wiki that of this writing seems to be more for fans of the franchise than anything usable for research or for anyone simply curious so I had to use regular and questionable regular Wikipedia to learn a darn thing, the light novel series follows a group of alchemists who asked a demon for immortality. It granted it to them plus an elixir in the care of one man, while another wants to give out like crazy or something. The story has at least reached 2002 while the one season anime never made it out of the early 1930s. Even when I follow this series I don’t follow it. It’s not a show I’d really be interested in. I do however find the debate between subtitles and dubbing when it comes to anime interesting, and I do need to get back on schedule because March 2023 continues to throw distractions aplenty at me.
So I’m going to sit back and let the folks at Cartoon Cypher compare the US dub to the original subtitle. They say in the video that this dub is usually more accepted because 1930s America is the main setting but the debate between Japanese and English continues. Note that the following video contains animated violence and bloodshed as well as swearing by the characters and the guest co-host CDawgVA. With that warning out of the way, curious what people think.
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My reaction isn’t as strong but Geoff Thew does raise some good points. There isn’t enough here for me to build an article off of but I do agree with a lot of Thew’s points. Note that some swearing takes place.
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Admittedly I didn’t think of as many negatives as Geoff did but it does make me understand a bit more the current battle between AI art and people-made art that I am not well versed enough yet to do a full article on. Maybe when the nonsense clears and I can look into this a bit more I’ll be able to make a full-on commentary on it.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on April 3, 2023 in Animation Spotlight, Internet Spotlight and tagged AI rotoscoping, animation, commentary, Corridor Digital, Mother's Basement.
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