K-ON!: Ricchan Loses Focus

Well actually, I don't believe that the fact the the drumkit has two sides that Ritsu...

Ah, u c wut i did thar?

Yeah I guess you're right. But I still love this site thou! ^_^

Are you new? This is Sankaku Complex's raison d'etre. Anything under the sun that is fodder for controversy is fair game.

*sigh* Why must little things like this get blown way out of proportion on this site? This incidence is far from an animation fail on KyoAni’s part. Although K-ON! isn’t quite along the lines of epic as say Code Geass, it is a good example of how current animes can be entertaining as compared to older series which all tended to relied on the same thing to entertain. Although a lot of the older series you listed were in fact great, I find anime in the more recent years to be far better off. Animes like Code Geass, Gurren Lagann, Spice and Wolf, Strike Witches, Macross Frontier, Black Lagoon; those animes actually entertain in a number of ways. And even thou there does seem to be an awful lot of moe anime coming out, I don’t dislike moe because of that, I’m just not really a big fan of it, however; there’s a lot more to K-ON! than just moe moe kyun~! even if you can’t see it. K-ON! is actually a good anime that can be funny and interesting but also happens to have super cut moe girls in it.

Why do you even need to compare K-ON! with those serious anime legends like NGE, Gundam Wing, Spikey Bebop, etc? Those serious story legends should only be put into a competition with the likes of Code Geass, Gundam Seed, Eureka 7, etc.

K-ON! stands more as the Chibi Maruko or Ranma 1/2 of the 21st century, so don't expect Mugi to suddenly pull out a giant robot out of her mansion and shoots beams on aliens or Sawa-chan revealing that their highschool is actually a secret military base..

Don't group Haruhi with those shows.

Oh, I'm not just talking about Haruhi. Remember Cowboy Bebop, Crest of the Stars, Evangelion and Gundam Wing? Shows of that caliber almost never come out these days. The quality of anime in general has been declining over the last decade, and K-ON is symptomatic of that.

Code Geass? Eureka 7? Neither one of those are great shows. Mildly entertaining, perhaps, but certainly not legends... and Gundam SEED was just horrible.

Ranma 1/2 had it's issues, but it was still infinitely better than K-ON. Instead of the absurd hilarity of shows like Ranma, modern anime has embraced an 'OMG MOE!' mindset. It's as if the industry expects us to love their shows merely because the characters are cute, in lieu of any actual interesting plots or character development.

I wouldn't go THAT far... it does have a LITTLE win in it ;_;

Well... 1-8 did.

Ryoko nickname, Ryoko avatar, Haruhi website..

Okay, i see why.. =w=

yes, but a sexy one

Rice bowl, duh…

They're all ok-ish. I wouldn't doubt some are even highly proficient in Japanese themselves. However usually fansubs fail for either

1. Not having a good enough understanding of the Japanese language

2. Attempting to translate from a translation

3. Unable to express what they want to say in English even though they understand the Japanese intent

4. Attempting to modify the intent due to either personal bias or the belief that it would be easier for non Japanese speakers to understand.

The thing is, if you're not proficient in Japanese, you'll never know if they're good or not. Anything you hear is always hearsay on that topic.

So... any group will do if you fall in that category.

PS. I trust no fansubber but I pick them based on how good their source quality is. Its a lot easier then searching Japanese P2Ps for releases.

>love for Chihiro

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also... can't be a good fansubber if they only made 3 eps ó-o

So no love for Chihiro?

PZ-Subs.

Ugh..

I forgot to mention that I was talking about brazilian fansubbers... XD

As for being good, they sure are, but they have many projects and are lacking people, then they and up having lots of delayed projects.
=/

I could always download english subbed ones, but I download to later share with friends who are interested, but most of then don't know more than basic english...

>>The thing is, if you’re not proficient in Japanese, you’ll never know if they’re good or not. Anything you hear is always hearsay on that topic.

Except if the English subs themselves are unreadable. If it reads like Zero Wing's introduction, it's no good. I guess that it's usually that's not hard to tell if that's the case though. Just saying. :P

I would contend that no good (English, can't comment on other languages) fansubber has done fewer than seven episodes.

So Coalguys isn;t good? Only ones I would willingly touch.

she looks surprised...