Dubbing Anime

Anime is an animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. It deals with a whole lot of subject matters and a lot of it reaches is America. But some English adaptations of anime come to the American Audience as different then their original form. There are a lot of different reasons for that. They include tuning down violence in a show sot that kids could watch it because in America in sometimes perceived as only kid’s watch. Social structures that are more accepted in Japan. Bad dubbing can ruin a good TV show. The most dramatic example of that was the dubbing of Card Captor Sakura. The people at Nelvana edited all the materials that they deemed unsuitable for children. They took out all the romance relationships from the show, took out anything that looks like they Japan out changed the characters personalities and aired their episodes in a different order then they were intended to . Since we were talking how some of the shows are cut and not aired those were some reasons why

Playing as a female in Harvest moon

You know I did a post on women in video games. So let’s get more specific. Harvest moon is a series of video games that simulates farming. The object of the game is to maintain a farm over a period of time, tending the crops and livestock through the seasons, while befriending the nearby townsfolk and getting married in some games. In The first couple of games you could only play as a boy. Then they would come out with separate games were you played as a girl. For example Harvest Moon Ds (boy) Harvest moon Ds Cute(girl) . The only major difference in those games is that you played as girl instead of a boy and determines who you can court in the game. It has only been in the last couple games when you can chose whether or not to play as a girl or boy in the last three games. So what do you think about that strategy