Times the American Equivalent Was Better than Japan's

[Space Police]

Some of the Macross sequels are good

Only 7 and its OVAs. The rest is idol crap (including you, Plus) with some admittedly good designs. Kairos deserved a much better show.

some of the Robotech novels can get really autistic

Autism is a good thing more often than not, and Robotech has the good kind of autism, especially in the Sentinels novels.

I fuckin' love the Invid.

Yep, the Invid are super cool, and I love how involved the Invid were in Robotech's sequels. I have no idea how anyone could favour slice-of-life idol stuff over something like this.

 

[Tablet County]

Autism is a good thing more often than not, and Robotech has the good kind of autism, especially in the Sentinels novels.

Towards the end it got a little too autistic, especially with End of the Circle.

 

[Calandrino]

 

[skykiii]

If you were trying to say the English Dub's music for this scene is better... hard disagree.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Sonic adventure 2's US release due to a technical issue had moments where characters interrupted or spoke over each other in a way that made conversation flow more naturally. There were some bits where it was weird but that was mainly just during the final battle where sonic cuts himself off mid sentence to say chaos control.
I hate how mods people make to fix the buggy ports also tack on shit like fucking with the mech walking speed and "fixing" that audio mistake turned into a genius enhancement of characters yelling at each other.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

legal system in Japan:

In practice, "guilty until proven innocent" (almost never happens). Concept of "saving face" seems to be to blame, with judges who do not want to rule against prosecution.

legal system in USA:

It's "innocent until proven guilty", which seems to usually be the case unless there's corruption.

 

[Maricón de Mierda]

A rare Canadian example, but the Japanese remake of Cube (1997) was absolutely terrible. Cube isn't exactly high cinema, but it's a fun schlocky movie like Saw or El Hoyo. The Japanese remake, however, was awful in every way. Horribly autistic Japanese acting, miserable looking effects, and a completely played out yet somehow worse plot. It manages to be even worse than Cube Zero, which is practically Sci-fi Original programming tier at times. It had absolutely zero charm.

 

[Tablet County]

Sonic adventure 2's US release due to a technical issue had moments where characters interrupted or spoke over each other in a way that made conversation flow more naturally. There were some bits where it was weird but that was mainly just during the final battle where sonic cuts himself off mid sentence to say chaos control.

From a technical standpoint that does suck but it makes for tons of unintentional hilarity.
Faker? I think you're the fake hedgehog around here. You're comparing yourself to me? Ha! You're not even good enough toI'LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS

 

[The Lawgiver]

From a technical standpoint that does suck but it makes for tons of unintentional hilarity.
Faker? I think you're the fake hedgehog around here. You're comparing yourself to me? Ha! You're not even good enough toI'LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS

it doesn't suck because it ends up being more natural. Sonic isn't the kind of guy to sit around and watch some fucker he thinks is impersonating him gloat about how cool he is.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

legal system in Japan:

In practice, "guilty until proven innocent" (almost never happens). Concept of "saving face" seems to be to blame, with judges who do not want to rule against prosecution.

legal system in USA:

It's "innocent until proven guilty", which seems to usually be the case unless there's corruption.

Both are mainly about plea deals but you have an actual statistical chance to win in the USA through the jury system than any Japanese judge.

And if we go on that route, many social aspects are better in the USA. You'd rather learn and work in the USA.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

American scifi from before Current Year may be better overall than Japanese SF.

Stuff like Forbidden Planet, the 2001 series, pre-JJ Star Trek and Star Wars...

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Virtually all written fiction. I don't know why they do this other than the merciless corporate machine, but it seems a lot of jap fiction, ESPECIALLY anime/manga have terrible writing which all follow the same conventions of copying a pre-existing formula, having generic characters and a paper-thin story that goes on way too fucking long, enforcing the cultural narrative of work hard, friends good, villain bad, etc. without any room for variation beyond the title and setting, and most importantly trying to look "cool" so that losers will cum themselves and sperg about how amazing and deep their corporate slop cartoon is with their groomers on Discord. Even when the story seems solid they will completely derail it with stupid shit that doesn't matter, new characters being suddenly dumped in, or if they even attempt to write an ending at all it will be abrupt, plot threads will be left unresolved, or it will be the most retarded, half-assed, and spiteful ending possible (e.g. MHA, Bleach, AoT)

I do think that's a real lack of Japanese literature classics (compared to Russian, European, and American) but the endings of recent manga feel more to the current trend of fucking over the audience just to "subvert expectations". This started probably 10-15 years ago and is really bad now, but it's not limited to Japan.

But as far as the thread topic goes, one thing is fire safety. In America (and I imagine most of Europe), there are all sorts of fire code rules that prevent buildings from becoming death traps. In every office building, hotel, and tall building in America since the 1950s there's a stairwell just inside the walls separated from the rest of the building with doors. Sometimes this stairwell is accessible to the general public, and sometimes it's for emergency use only, but it's always there. In Japan, there is no such rule.

Case in point, Kyoto Animation's Studio 1. It was built in 2007, but only had a spiral staircase right in the center of the building. It was reported that twenty of the 36 dead were found on the spiral staircase trying to make it to the roof. Had the building been built to even 1960s American standards and assuming that Shinji Aoba did not deliberately barricade the door or otherwise made it inaccessible, the death count would've been at least half of what it was.

 

[The Lawgiver]

American scifi from before Current Year may be better overall than Japanese SF.

Stuff like Forbidden Planet, the 2001 series, pre-JJ Star Trek and Star Wars...

The japanese also clearly loved the american stuff and took HEAVY inspration from it so it's more of an international idea exchange thing. Sad most US scifi n modern era lost that specific spark.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Sad most US scifi n modern era lost that specific spark.

Seems American SF overall got "watered down" over time. Earlier SF seems "smarter" overall than later. Seems by Current Year, such is either just "woke" or special effects.

Japanese don't seem to make much SF in the first place, and when they do it seems such is always mecha or stuff stuck on that one 3rd planet and in modern times or the near future at latest. There are notable exceptions I've seen, like the Aria and Aqua series by the same creator: those series are set on a terraformed fourth planet and centuries from now, but the series feels more like fantasy than a scifi. Seems the Japanese prefer to make fantasy, and it seems all JP-made speculative fiction (SF and fantasy) has "magic"* in it.

* (such as ESP)

 

[Space Police]

Comics! Obviously there are some exceptions, and this opinion may be biased by what's translated, but manga is such a terrible medium compared to Western comics. Manga is generally cursed with generic, samey character art put up against highly realistic backgrounds, no colours, characters that are annoying tropes and can only act in displays of over-the-top emotion, pseudointellectualism, more degeneracy than you'd ever see in anime, and storylines that either remain underdeveloped or devolve into total trainwrecks. Western comics, on the other hand, generally have better art (high detail, full colour, and realism that doesn't make the characters feel generic and samey), good writing (probably because they can switch writers when things go wrong), and characters that are likeable and aren't annoying spastics. People tend to think Western comics are all just superhero stuff while manga has more variety, but really, manga (at least what's translated) is always usually some flavour of either 14-year-old pseudointellectualism, annoying romance/ecchi garbage, or a story about some kid that wants to be the very best in the world, with a few exceptions like Five Star Stories. If you look hard enough, you'll be able to find lots of cool Western sci-fi and historical fiction comics that are just as good (or even better than) what Japan puts out.

 

[The Lawgiver]

generally cursed with generic, samey character art put up against highly realistic backgrounds, no colours, characters that are annoying tropes and can only act in displays of over-the-top emotion, pseudointellectualism, more degeneracy than you'd ever see in anime, and storylines that either remain underdeveloped or devolve into total trainwrecks.

You do realize these issues are what people have been saying about western comics, yeah? There's a reason western comics and their adaptations are now being called "capeshit" by people these last several years.

 

[Doom House V]

It's not my personal opinion but a lot of people would say the dub of Dragon Ball Z outshines the original. They replaced the twangy old music with synth rock and replaced most of the dialogue with "XTREME TUDE'" they even added buttrock like Disturbed and Three Days Grace into the movies. The dub is such a vastly different experience it's practically its own adaptation.

Edit: I know OP said no sub vs dub but I'd say this is a Robotech Vs Macross situation.

 

[Space Police]

You do realize these issues are what people have been saying about western comics, yeah? There's a reason western comics and their adaptations are now being called "capeshit" by people these last several years.

Manga has the same issue, but on steroids.

 

[The Lawgiver]

It's not my personal opinion but a lot of people would say the dub of Dragon Ball Z outshines the original. They replaced the twangy old music with synth rock and replaced most of the dialogue with "XTREME TUDE'" they even added buttrock like Disturbed and Three Days Grace into the movies. The dub is such a vastly different experience it's practically its own adaptation.

I think both soundtracks fit the intensity and capture different aspects of the show. Sometmes the US soundtrack fts scenes more, but other tmes the JP one s perfect.
Like take piccolos' theme for example. There is a 14 minute complation of every variant of it from DB/DBZ. It fits really well with his whole "transition from escaped war criminal seeking to take over the world to reincarnation/self rebirth and eventually redemption.

The fact you're able to do so many variants of this ONE FUCKING SONG is crazy.

The dub theme for piccolo really fits his intensity as well, but it doesn't have the same kind of gradual evolution unless I'm forgetting variants of it. The dub score emphasizes the stakes of everything at hand and vbes charactersgve off, while the JP one knd of seemsto go through a situational variant sort of deal if that makes any sense.

 

[Doom House V]

The dub theme for piccolo really fits his intensity as well, but it doesn't have the same kind of gradual evolution

The original Dragon Ball is a complete nonfactor in America. Funimation largely ignored or made up backstories for the cast until they dubbed OG Dragon Ball near the end of their dub of Z. Piccolo had a much different and faster switch up to 'good guy' in the Funi dub so it makes sense his theme would match. Like I said it's a totally different show more than most realize even. I agree though I love the original music.