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British culture in anime -> ask for your help ^^
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Time and Space
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CitizenGeek said:Paul said:Code Geass has an "interesting" view on Britain.
Yeah, it seems more in line with the Britain of one hundred years ago, rather than Britain today!
Seems a little too exaggerated to resemble the British empire of bygone days. Ironically, one of the worst (ethically) imperial nations to have existed was the Japanese. :?
It might say something about Japanese perceptions of the British when they give the posh Ouran High School a Big Ben/clock tower of Westminster?
CitizenGeek
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Time and Space said:Seems a little too exaggerated to resemble the British empire of bygone days. Ironically, one of the worst (ethically) imperial nations to have existed was the Japanese. :?
Well, that may be so ... but the British Empire definitely wasn't an empire of ethics or compassion or anything like that. I live in Ireland; the Brits sure weren't anything less than horrifically cruel over here :/
Amray said:Why are we always judged because of our frightening power?
Britain doesn't currently have "frightening power" - far from it, the UK lost it's 'super power' status after WWII.
Time and Space
Completely Average High School Student
In an attempt to avoid a debate about the actions (or inactions in the case of a particular famine), of the British empire I will simply offer this memory of another interpretation of the British in anime:CitizenGeek said:Well, that may be so ... but the British Empire definitely wasn't an empire of ethics or compassion or anything like that. I live in Ireland; the Brits sure weren't anything less than horrifically cruel over here :/
Comedy is a somewhat mythical/historical/exagerrated allusion to the 'English' during the Irish war of independence. Given red eyes, and en route to slaughter a village, whilst on horseback wearing plate armour(mediaeval style), shows how unreliable it is as even resembling the said war. It's still an excellent 10 minutes of anime though.
Just remembered the ex gang member: great teacher Onizuka of GTO had a sofa with the union flag on it.
Time and Space
Completely Average High School Student
Nyu said:Steamboy, but Ghibli done thier homework on that title so the settings are perfect.
Ghibli? Wasn't Steamboy the work of Katsuhiro Otomo, of Akira fame?
Time and Space said:Nyu said:Steamboy, but Ghibli done thier homework on that title so the settings are perfect.
Ghibli? Wasn't Steamboy the work of Katsuhiro Otomo, of Akira fame?
Indeed it was. Studio Ghibli do some good work but ther're not the only people able to create beautiful settings and animation
Time and Space said:Nyu said:Steamboy, but Ghibli done thier homework on that title so the settings are perfect.
Ghibli? Wasn't Steamboy the work of Katsuhiro Otomo, of Akira fame?
My mistake. I was browsing a Ghibli site at the time.
What irritates me about having our culture in anime is not having British VA's do British characters. For me hearing a yank speak like they are British is like fingernails on a blackboard. I guess I never got over Dick VanDyke in Mary Poppins. Also in some anime they don't even try. British characters with yank accents. Despicable.
Time and Space
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Mohawk52 said:What irritates me about having our culture in anime is not having British VA's do British characters. For me hearing a yank speak like they are British is like fingernails on a blackboard. I guess I never got over Dick VanDyke in Mary Poppins. Also in some anime they don't even try. British characters with yank accents. Despicable.
Agreed. I could eventually get over Seras Victoria's "British" accent, but Anna Paquin's attempt in Steam boy...painful.
Time and Space
Completely Average High School Student
Amray said:Not forgetting Yomiko Readman from the Read or Die OVA series.
I forgot she was half English. There's a wikipedia article on her unbelievably, it gives the additional:
As if an anime character's nationality/race is discernible just by looking at them. :roll:Though in appearance Japanese, she is in fact half-Japanese, half-English.