Name: Anonymous 2007-09-10 3:59 ID:NOumSFsX
Hi everyone,I'm a newcomer and English is not my mother tongue so please pardon me for my clumsy writing.Anyway,I want to talk about something that most anime fans seem always complaining but not many of them know the true reason.Why do foreign TV stations always do so many edit to anime before they willing to broadcast the show?For examples:according to most anime site that the episode order of Cardcaptor Sakura(cardcaptors)was rearranged because most of the viewers of that channel are male and therefore they made Li appear from the beginning.You also notice that they always make their own version of OP&ED or like Macross(Robotech) all the BGM and songs were recomposed and the story was reedited.And they also found bunch of actors to remake the drama parts of Power Rangers(same thing happened to those black and white Godziller movies).Keeping only the fighting scenes.
The conflict between anime fans and TV stations is obvious. Anime fans always prefer the original version and how come those people of the TV stations can't just simply do the dub and leave everything else alone.I saw many angry otakus swearing and ranting on many anime site or even youtube.I know exactly how they feel.When I was a teenager I had the same question on my mind.Why don't those staffs of the TV stations understand that they aren't making the show better but disgracing it.And even if you do ask them,they can still bring out lots of reasons such as the culture between Japan and their country is different,the standard of censorship is different,and so on.
However,as an adult now,I finally figured out the true reason why they are so eager to make their own version of everything. You think the staffs in charge of anime don't know what you want or what they had done was useless and meaningless?Trust me,they know exactly what you want and what they are doing. You think they really care about cultural different or censorship or even ratings?Those so-called reasons are nothing but excuse,or simply bull shit.Maybe some of you had already figured it out.And yes!The true reason is the same almighty force driving almost everything:MONEY!Think about it,you can not earn anything by doing nothing.The staffs employed by TV stations have got their education and all the expensive equipment are there.What are they supposed to do?anything instead of nothing.By doing all those unnecessary editing, script rewriting,recomposing,they just simply created a job for themselves and ask for their paycheck.This is the real world we're talking about and to them anime is nothing but a product that can make money,not huge money but enough to pay for the loan of their house,school fee of their children.And of cause they can claim to their superior that everything they've done is necessary and even get credit if the show do sucess.Or if not,they still earned their salary.After all,how many executives of TV stations are otakus?
If anyone still doesn't understand what I'm saying then let me make it simple.What they've done is just like tearing something in completely fine condition apart and reassemble it,call it a job is done and here is the bill.This phenomenon is nothing rare in our society.Just like you take your car to an auto repair shop to get the cluth fixed but those repairmen can always find dozen of other problems and claim that you should get those fixed too.I'm not asking you to forgive or even appreciate what they've done.I just feel that if you really want to hate something,you should at lease understand the cause of it.And there is always a simple answer for anything seem incomprehensible.
The conflict between anime fans and TV stations is obvious. Anime fans always prefer the original version and how come those people of the TV stations can't just simply do the dub and leave everything else alone.I saw many angry otakus swearing and ranting on many anime site or even youtube.I know exactly how they feel.When I was a teenager I had the same question on my mind.Why don't those staffs of the TV stations understand that they aren't making the show better but disgracing it.And even if you do ask them,they can still bring out lots of reasons such as the culture between Japan and their country is different,the standard of censorship is different,and so on.
However,as an adult now,I finally figured out the true reason why they are so eager to make their own version of everything. You think the staffs in charge of anime don't know what you want or what they had done was useless and meaningless?Trust me,they know exactly what you want and what they are doing. You think they really care about cultural different or censorship or even ratings?Those so-called reasons are nothing but excuse,or simply bull shit.Maybe some of you had already figured it out.And yes!The true reason is the same almighty force driving almost everything:MONEY!Think about it,you can not earn anything by doing nothing.The staffs employed by TV stations have got their education and all the expensive equipment are there.What are they supposed to do?anything instead of nothing.By doing all those unnecessary editing, script rewriting,recomposing,they just simply created a job for themselves and ask for their paycheck.This is the real world we're talking about and to them anime is nothing but a product that can make money,not huge money but enough to pay for the loan of their house,school fee of their children.And of cause they can claim to their superior that everything they've done is necessary and even get credit if the show do sucess.Or if not,they still earned their salary.After all,how many executives of TV stations are otakus?
If anyone still doesn't understand what I'm saying then let me make it simple.What they've done is just like tearing something in completely fine condition apart and reassemble it,call it a job is done and here is the bill.This phenomenon is nothing rare in our society.Just like you take your car to an auto repair shop to get the cluth fixed but those repairmen can always find dozen of other problems and claim that you should get those fixed too.I'm not asking you to forgive or even appreciate what they've done.I just feel that if you really want to hate something,you should at lease understand the cause of it.And there is always a simple answer for anything seem incomprehensible.