From: kilpatri@nextnet.csus.edu (Joseph Kilpatrick)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: ANIMEIGO : BUBBLEGUM CRISIS ON LASERDISC
Keywords: animeigo bubblegum crisis laserdisc ld
Date: 20 Aug 92 04:46:49 GMT
Organization: California State University: Sacramento

In article <1992Aug19.015227.25619@foretune.co.jp> trebor@foretune.co.jp (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
>wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes) writes:
>
>>What, you mean you aren't God Emperor of AnimEigo yet and can exercise
>>your absolute will upon the company?  I'm so disappointed in you...8->
>
><5 minutes of incoherent laughter later>
>
>Roe and I are but demi-gods.  We put up a brave front, and do what the
>true gods tell us to do.

Then who are the true gods?  People like Artmic and Sunrise?  I can 
see it now....
[setting: a chapel set in an office.  Above the altar the rests a 
velvet painting of (no, not Elvis) Osamu Tezuka.  Sitting behind the
altar are two people on throwns...one is a young man with a substantial
mask on his face, the other a firey female redhead with a skimpy costume]

Woodhead:  I'm not worthy!  I'm not worthy!  Oh ye gods of anime, I have
come to humble request thy permision to do legally that which many of thy
followers have been doing in fear lo these many year.  To take thy great
works and merlely put upon them English translation.  I come begging for
thy permission and bring offerings of cash!

Kei: We hear your pleas.   However, knowest thou that another, Carl Macek,
has commeth to us with a similar request.  And he offer to dub mine work and
claims that this dubbing with make it better!

Woodhead: Zounds!  Not the dark archangel Macek!  Do you not knowest him for
what he is?  He taketh the cheeziest voice actors he can find and doth put
them on his tapes!  He takes thy holy anime and makes it fit for saturday
morning!  Be on guard!  Knowest that I will preserv thy meaning.  Knowest
that I will not say chikuso meanth "darn!"  Knowest that I will not leav
out the the enemy robots are sexaroids!  I will leaveth in that which makes thy
anime great: Praise be to the sex, violence, action, and gore that maketh thy
anime better than The Little Mermaid!

Char: We hearest you and have been warned.  Knowest then that thou hast been
found worthy. Your offerings are accepted.  Go forth now and subtitle legally
and may thoust make hella cash from thy labors.

 
And so, the Holy Knight Woodhead went forth, and subtitle he did.  And knowest
that he did such a good job that the fans stopped subtitling that which
he had been granted rights for.  And they didsn't copy his tapes.  And
he was elevated, in the holy religion of otakuism to demi-god, and all was good.

But be on guard my children.  For others still seek to shove cheezy dubbing
jobs on you!  Forever remember, when someone mentions dubbing, the 
abomination known as Robotech!  And be on gard, for video piartes who
would not selleth you the REAL THING...

Any may the Force be with you...always.... 

:-) [No offense inteded to anyone...I just made it up as I went along!]
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