Category: Editorials
On Retitling Anime, Part 2: Higurashi License and Haruhi Order
A couple of weeks ago, I made a few comments on poor choices of English titles for anime. The official announcement of Higurashi no Naku…
80’s character design VS 90’s and later’s character design
I’ve been holding this in for a long, long time. No, I’m not talking about toilet related humor, but I’ve gotta say this: 80’s rocked!…
Hello, Otaku! (or Anime Stuff that I Wish Were Real)
So I wake in the morning and I feel absolutely direction-less. Being from a hired translator with a steady but crappy salary to me is…
MST3K candidates…what do you think?
(from Anime Galleries dot Net http://www.animegalleries.net/img/20947) A word of explanation for newcomers: we are planning to create downloadable Mystery Science Theater 3000-style commentaries on various…
The delay of MST3K of Kyoshiro…
Hello everyone, For the 2 or less people who have been wondering why we haven’t released our MST3K track officially, let’s just say we’re still…
On Retitling Anime: or, Turning Poetry into Mush
Translation is hard and inexact work, and something always gets lost in the process. I’m conscious of this every time I read Greek and Hebrew…