Sailor Moon 14

Episode 13 English: "Wedding Day Blues"  Ep.16 Japanese/Subbed: "Dream of a White Dress! Usagi Becomes a Bride"

~In this episode their Economics teacher is getting married. Most differences I see between the two versions in any anime is not the solution but what the problem is.  In Japanese, Akiyama Higure-sensei wants to make her own dress but can't find the right fabric. Ms. Lambert, in the English version, doesn't have enough money to get a great dress. Either way she has a friend to help her out.

~The Negaverse is already a big deal in the English version. Nephrite, a villain, wants to take energy from people to give it to the Negaverse to unleash the Negaforce.
It says nothing about it in the Subbed, though. Nephite looks at at the stars to see what energy would be best to take or what target to go after.

~There is a homemade wedding dress competition and the grand prize in the Japanese version is a free wedding reception. In the English version it is a trip to Hawaii.

~At one point Usagi's mom hits her on head with a tray for saying something rude in Japanese. In the English version her mom holds the tray but doesn't hit her with it.

~I thought it was a good point that in the Japanese version Ami said she doesn't want to get married.

~Usually the Japanese version is harsher and the English is funnier but it switched in this episode. The teacher wasn't answering her phone so her fiance came over and in the English version she was very harsh to him, saying that he was wimpy and balding and the wedding was over. In the Subbed it was basically 'leave me alone until I finish the dress' and freakishly obsessing over it.

Also in the Subbed, in a scene where Usagi was going to steal her mom's curtains to make a dress, I thought it was much funnier and cute than the English version.

~Rai's grandfather is kind of perverted in the Japanese version so when he says something to Ami, Rei hits him. He isn't rude in the English version until he says Rei is 'wigged out over wedding dresses and is completely losing it' xD

It was an okay episode, nothing special.

Dragon Ball Episode 4 comparison

Episode 4 Japanese: Oolong, the Kidnapping Monster English: Oolong the Terrible

~ Goku still doesn't really get the difference between girls and boys, in the Japanese version, so he slaps their crotches and if nothing's there- its a girl xD He did this with the young girl Pokawatha(?) and the old lady Paozu! Bulma gets onto him "No patting people's crotches!"
In the English version Goku said the girl was cute unlike Bulma ^-^  and asked Paozu why she had wrinkles.

~ There is a prophesy, in the English version, that says 'a monster will be toppled over by a boy who could dance on the clouds' and 'liberate them from bondage' (One the people who tells it has an Australian accent!) no such speech is mentioned in the subbed.

~ Oolong is much more perverted in the Subbed. When he changes into a hansom-man he asks Bulma her breast size (which she very willingly says is 85). When it came time to explain his transformation, it was very straightforward (can only hold a shape for 5 min.), however in the English version he has a sort of back story.

~ Goku pees on a tree but you can only see the pee in the Subbed.

~ When they find the girls in the English version they each have really distinct and different accents- so funny!

Nice episode! now we have Oolong =)

Back to Blogging

I've always wanted to keep a blog but every time I went to do it, I didn't know what to wright or it just wasn't important enough to type it out. Now I'm going at it again- let's see how long it lasts. No promises.

Now I stared a project way back with Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball and I fully intend on completing it. I'm also going to make posts about the things I have found and liked here as well.

I was listening to Pandora radio and a Simon & Garfunkel song Scarborough Fair came on. Maybe I had heard it before but I'd never really heard the lyrics or paid as much attention to it as I should have. I put the song on repeat for a while just to soak it up and then started listening to all their albums in order. The music is so wonderful, soft and calming. Its very recognizable as 60s and it connects with me on a deep level.

 Since I've only been watching anime regularly for a few years, there are a lot of great series I haven't gotten to yet. Psycho-Pass is the one I'm working on now. I'm on episode 12- its a good half-way mark- and holy crap is it picking up! Thought-provoking, intense and gruesome at times is how I would describe it. The first opening and ending songs are so awesome.

I watched the How I Met Your Mother finale. I'll edit this later to give my full thoughts because I do have a lot of thoughts on it, so much that I don't feel like writing that much right now =)

Edit: This article is basically exactly how I feel about it (Sorry for being so lazy)