maverynthia | Jan. 3rd, 2005

Well, I just polished off the 8th and most up to date Detective Conan Movie
It made me cry...It made me cry to think I'll never get to see a US release, even with crappy dubbing.
I'll be called Case Close: Insert Crappy Title here... and the name..no more Shinichi...it'll be Jimmy or whatever Viz decided to butcher his name as.
I fucking hate Viz now...I hate them with all my being. They take good anime and manga, and butcher it. A bad translation is nothing compared to Title changes, name changes and sound FX changes (artwork changes). I watched some horrible translation on these movies and that wasn't as horrible as such edits.
I wish I could send a letter to Viz and actually get them to listen, get them to change all this around and redo all the bad and make it good. Say they got the fans wrong and are agoing to change all their series' back to their original with the artwork intact.
I know it's stupid to get emotional over such things, but this kind of censorship shouldn't be tolerated. Yeah it's just an anime and that fansubs are good to have, but it's all the other people out there calling it Case Closed and calling the main character Jimmy or whatever. I thought Viz of all people would keep the names in the manga.
That's another frustration, people telling me to "go get the Japanese version if I don't like the US version" it's the frustration of not knowing that much Japanese, and not being able to just go to sleep and wake up knowing it. I stare at my Microman manga and there is that dull hurt inside that I don't really know what's being said. Thus having and accurate traslation is like a light of happiness.
I was hoping that Tokyo Pop would have seen the light and snatched up the rights first, a bad translation with everything else intact is far better than having a good traslation with nothing reconizeable intact.