Team Four Star - Creators of a bunch of stuff to make people laugh trying to figure out what to do after a decade of comedically retelling Dragon Ball Z.

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This is such a meme in western Otaku circles that I wonder if it's even ever happened at all. Like do Japan really has such shortage of natives with passable English that they will hire westerners that are a SA lawsuit waiting to happen?
It used to be up to the 2010s they would hire anyone with basic hygiene and USA passport, now I've heard they go for Russians instead who are not only cheaper but know English better than Americans.

Chinesians are very, uh, special about it as in they prefer Cletus teaching kids in broken Appalachian than an actual Asian with perfect enunciation... because the former is more "authentic" or something.
 
It used to be up to the 2010s they would hire anyone with basic hygiene and USA passport, now I've heard they go for Russians instead who are not only cheaper but know English better than Americans.

Chinesians are very, uh, special about it as in they prefer Cletus teaching kids in broken Appalachian than an actual Asian with perfect enunciation... because the former is more "authentic" or something.
Don't they need to be able to speak fluent Japanese though?
 
Don't they need to be able to speak fluent Japanese though?
Nope, Mary Cagle, who was Scott Kurtz of PVP fame's protege, was unable to make comics a career so she applied despite not really knowing Japanese. But living in a culture, you pick up the language by osmosis and also because your brain has no choice but to learn. It's why people who move to other countries eventually learn the language. Unless you have family or people from your culture nearby who can reinforce the idea that you don't need to learn the new country you've chosen to live in.
 
the idea that you don't need to learn the new country you've chosen to live in.
Yup, which is why Illegals suck. I've known plenty of illegals that barely knew english because their shitty families would only speak Spanish around them and forbade english in the home, even though they live in an english speaking country.
 
This popped up in my feed today:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KUKVPHYPl0w
TFS put their name on it, so I'm putting it here. I'll be honest, I found this whole thing deeply distasteful. I'm not really opposed to parodies of rudolph? Flashgitz did it well as recently as last week. But there's a bit of a difference in tone. This feels deeply malicious. Like someone twisting something they hate to preach about something else they hate. Is this where TFS has gone since DBZ abridged finished?

Maybe I'm being too puritanical. Please, give me your thoughts.
I saw this video pop up in my recommended and thought it was pretty relevant to this post, plus it's Christmas.


PreserveTube
 
They seemed to have a weird distaste for Vegeta's arrogant surfer bro voice for Yamcha despite that adding to the joke of him being a loser
That reinforces my belief that they were averse to ever taking actual potshots at the English dub. Yamcha had a terrible surfer accent early on in the dub and even when Christopher Robin took over he still kept it for a while.
 
This popped up in my feed today:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KUKVPHYPl0w
TFS put their name on it, so I'm putting it here. I'll be honest, I found this whole thing deeply distasteful. I'm not really opposed to parodies of rudolph? Flashgitz did it well as recently as last week. But there's a bit of a difference in tone. This feels deeply malicious. Like someone twisting something they hate to preach about something else they hate. Is this where TFS has gone since DBZ abridged finished?

Maybe I'm being too puritanical. Please, give me your thoughts.
If it was made by Kaiser, you can bet that he has a bug up his ass over fucking Rudolph.
 
Aaaand it's dead Jim. Jesus fucking Christ that was awful. The first part wasn't great by any means but it had a moment that made me at least chuckle. This...this was just lifeless. It's like they really had no idea what to do for jokes here. It looks to me like they rushed this out as fast as possible with no care. It's like Chatgpt wrote all these jokes.
 
Probably already said it but what is even the point? Unless a boy was a turbo faggot, had a sister or it was between two other shows he wanted to see, he didn't watch Sailor Moon. And not having nostalgia for the show just makes Abridging it into a skit.
It got sandwiched into a lot of favorable time slots between big shows for kids around Kaiser's age. Even if most boys didn't watch it, they were at least aware of it's existence. It got quite a few re-releases and re-runs too so the odds of boys seeing it was pretty darn high. Although that brings up the demographics question of who is this made for?
 
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