#shrug...

[transtallion]

every once in a while a character will appear who you relate to and think is trans coded but everyone will tell you it's actually evil to headcanon them as trans and put words in your mouth. you have to ignore them soldier

[gear-systim]

laura les - haunted 💫

[ 🌃 - 📀 - 🌃 / 🔆 - 💫 - 🔆 / 🌃 - 📀 - 🌃 ] all gifs from the video giffed by me!

[cypressbranch]

Black and White

[hellbabyfromhell]

Whoops, you know what the music means.

[clownplushie]

i made some nendroid edits

[marshmallowgoop]

So, the English Simuldub for DARLING in the FRANXX premiered Thursday 02/01.  (Check out a clip here.)

I gave it a watch because I’m generally a dub fan and this anime in particular seems like a good one to watch dubbed if you don’t understand Japanese well, since there is a lot of detail in the animation that you’ll miss by reading subtitles.

The dub seems pretty... lukewarm thus far, however. The script appears to be a very literal translation of the material, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing per se, but I find scripts that take more liberties with the content to be a lot more appealing (Kill la Kill’s English dub script is a good example). There’s just a lot more effort put into a script like that, and it makes watching the series dubbed after seeing the original so much more fun. 

Some lines in DARLING’s dub also strike me as odd; “My goodness, why must she always be such high maintenance?” is an example. I even had to rewind here to make sure I heard correctly because I found this so jarring.

In terms of acting, there are a lot of nice performances! I really enjoy what Tia Ballard brings to Zero Two (though it did take a moment to get used to), and Hiro’s parasite team seems promising as well. Austin Tindle’s acting for Goro---even though he only gets a few lines in this first episode---is especially promising. I was really impressed with his performance here.

And hey, you can’t go wrong with Chris Sabot as Papa.

The biggest head-scratcher about the dub cast is Matt Shipman’s Hiro. Shipman’s acting is fine, but he seems to play Hiro as a lot older than a teenager, which is a direction I really don’t understand. A lot of Hiro’s story is focused on his youth and naivety, and sure, having an older-sounding voice might serve as a thematic contrast, but I just can’t help but find it incredibly awkward.

Shipman does seem to play Hiro as older in his monologues, which might be a way of localizing how Hiro’s personal pronouns change from ore to boku in Japanese, and I would say that that’s a nice touch. However, even episode-1 Hiro simply sounds very off to me, and it’s disappointing, because from Shipman’s other roles, he seems plenty capable of sounding younger than this.

I’m going to keep watching the dub to see how it goes, but even the dub fan in me has to admit that this one’s off to a bit of a shaky start.

[ottersarts]

Sad boy

[carcharadroid]

I want to be excited for the Nintendo Switch but Nintento’s kiiiiiiiiiiiinda shit when it comes to their consoles. There’s always an unneeded gimmick that takes away from the overall enjoyment of the game. The Wii’s motion control thing was garbage and the Wii U was only alright when they weren’t constantly making you look between the TV screen and the one attached to the big clunky ass controller. I can count the number of games exclusive to those consoles I liked on one hand.

It’s sad because I love Nintendo and their IPs and I really want to be all aboard the hype machine but legit, the Nintendo console I’ve had the most fun with is the frickin 3DS.

But we’ll see where it goes. I hope the Switch is alright and has good exclusive titles that give me a reason to want one.