so i finally saw ponyo in theaters. and for some reason i kept on getting this weird urge to become disgusted by everything...i kept on saying how i believed that disney 'oversimplified' everything. i would cringe at certain voices (*coffcoff*BONUS JONAS*coffcoff*) and phrases and criticize how 'the shading's gone' and 'they oversimplified that guy'. my friends joked that i had something against disney and the english language in general. ha ha. but i think it's because i find how awkwardly people tend to translate dubs, espeically for children's movies/shows. it's probably because some things have cultural meanings that americans don't understand, so they make it really awkward. i remember hearing a little kid ask 'sosuke? what kind of name is that?' and the fact the first two times they mention his names, it made him sound like a naruto character... well, i was proved wrong that there WASN'T shading in some parts....whoops! but i still think that there ARE some parts where there was extreme oversimplification (is that a word...?). i even downloaded the japanese movie to make sure that there WERE points that were oversimplified. DISNEY CONSPIRACY FOR THE WIN!!!
oh! i just finished reading the whole cardcaptor sakura series (did this blog just go anime crazy? i swear i got over that phase before the beginning of 9th grade...). i havent read a lot of it since 6th grade and i'd started reading it when i was around 8 or 9! oh~ childhood memories! but after re-reading it, i found a lot very (let's call it) 'grownup' undertones... pedophilia, homosexuality and a lot vague sexual innuendos... well i'm okay with the homosexuality and i remembered that there were two possibly gay guys but i realized that someone was basically homosexual as well...but im okay with that. but the series is rampant with pedophilia it's not even funny...but still quite enjoyed it. even though some of the beginning chapters were a little awkwardly juvenile...
why do i want her outfit (left)well that's it for now. i swear, this ISN'T gonna be an 'otaku' (aka anime-obsessed...did i revert back to japanligh???) blog...it's just that it sorta buys in too my slight japanophilia... (i SWEAR, ill talk about other things...)
~zeeta
