Some things just aren't made to be in English.

This is mostly a rant about how much the U.S. can ruin something good. Anyone who is even remotely familiar with Anime knows that the U.S. will completely destroy any decent Anime series with god-awful dubbing and censorship. This isn't always the case, but it's a solid 95% of the time, with exceptions like Full Metal Alchemist, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and whatever others.

My personal favorite example is Sonic-X. Sonic says things like "god dammit" "f***" "sh**" all the time. I may not speak Japanese fluently, but I know enough to know he's cursing regularly. The closest Sonic ever comes to cursing in English is "Darn", which is sad. It completely ruins the series.

Here is my favorite video clip example. The difference between the Intro's is a joke. It's so clear the English one is for kiddies, and the Japanese one is alot more fun and fitting.

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Since I made a huge mistake at Best Buy once thinking I was buying Sonic-X DvD's with Japanese Audio and English Subs, and wound up buying craptastic 4KIDS TV American Garbage Sonic-X DvD's, I took the same clip in English and Japanese for all of you to see the horrid difference between the two. I think the music is what pisses me off the most in the English one, it doesn't fit at all, it almost Looney Toons-like. Nothing wrong with Looney-toons, but the music just can't be done like this, its god-awful.

I don't know why the color got a little faded, but its fine otherwise.

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So what's the biggest problem with this? The problem is the U.S. public is too retarded to realize that everything they put on Cartoon Network is censored garbage with bad voices. Soooooooooo many people think Naruto in English is how it's meant to be. Uh, HELL NO. They have completely butchered Naruto's catch phrase of "Never give up" to "BELIEVE IT!". God damn its so horrible in English. Anime has such a bad reputation in the U.S. because of crap like Sonic-X and Naruto with English voices. Naruto is an AMAZING series. Don't be fooled and watch it with english subs and japanesea audio.