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[toscas_kiss]

When fanfiction is miles better than life art anime...

I've just finished rewatching Weiß Kreuz Kapital for my Crawford/Schuldig ship_manifesto essay.

Eeeee.

I'd forgotten just how snortingly awful the subtitle translations for my version are. Not that I believe the dialogue is any better or less clichéd in Japanese, but sometimes the sheer Babel-Fishiness of it is mindboggling.

And the sheer stupidity shortsightedness of most of the characters - mentally, emotionally and logically - also never ceases to astound me. Though I guess without Angst (emphasis on the capital 'A') there couldn't be Weiß.

The plots? I'm not going to touch those with a six-foot naginata. Bad, bad, bad, bad, just plain bad. And Brain Damage fairly comprehensively covers everything anyone can possibly say about the 'quality' of the animation.

[ducks projectiles]

But I love it! you know I do!

Gratuitous and violent slaying of innocents, silly weapons, Wierd Science projects, truckloads of sexy bishounen assassins - both bad and good er, not-quite-so-bad. And those are just the beginning good points. How could anyone not love it?

[wanders off to write about synergy between sociopaths... ]

Comments

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

It gains a lot from the bloopers and jokes for the dubbing (from, er, some site I can't remember):

Crawford: *berates Nagi about not screwing up plot to eleiminate Schreient*
Nagi *thinks*: But I don't want that girl to die! . . . *perves* She's such a hottie!

Yohji: *poses against wall* God, I'm so sexy.

Eszett elder: Why are you doing this? I'll give you all positions of power when we come into our kingdom!
Crawford: Kingdom? Ehehe. We don't need no steenking keengdom!

[lisa-bee.livejournal.com]

Mmm, the bloopers and jokes from the dubbing are very funny. I think the american actors had much more perspective on the whole "this is CRAZYTIME!" aspect of Weiss than the Japanese ones did.

Also, your icon is so cute!

[toscas-kiss.livejournal.com]

We don't need no steenking keengdom!

ROFLMAO! Do send me the URL if you ever run across it again - that is too too funny!

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

Yay!

http://www.maniacnun.com/weissthr.htm

Have a look at the music videos as well, they're hugely impressive. Carnivale 2000 is a remake of the Weiss/Schwarz battle with Schwarz kicking ass in a most (un)righteous way - although you'll shriek at the end.

If you can ever explain what Schuldig's doing in another one, playing with Aya's hair while Aya-chan looks on in a drugged out state, I'll be most grateful.