{"id":3103,"date":"2002-12-29T21:16:34","date_gmt":"2002-12-29T21:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2002-12-29T21:16:34","modified_gmt":"2002-12-29T21:16:34","slug":"anime_on_tv_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3103","title":{"rendered":"Anime on TV and the Whole Dub vs. Sub Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this coming week, we get the start of TechTV&#8217;s Anime Unleashed.  Starting off the lineup is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techtv.com\/animeunleashed\/crestofthestars\/story\/0,24330,3411643,00.html\"><em>Crest of The Stars<\/em><\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>As is usual with most anime on US television it is dubbed. My first reaction is &#8216;bleh&#8217;.  Though, as I think about it more I&#8217;m starting to wonder if this is actually necessary as a first step.  While anime has a growing audience in America it still doesn&#8217;t have the pull of US animation (in general).  There are also a lot of people who just change the channel the moment they see subtitles.  My personal feeling is that once more people start watching shows, there will be more of a demand for subtitling.  I know I&#8217;d personally love to see them do a dubbed block, then maybe a subbed block really late that I could grab with my TiVo.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else have any thoughts on this?  Beyond just the whole &#8216;dubs are evil, subs rule&#8217; type arguments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this coming week, we get the start of TechTV&#8217;s Anime Unleashed. Starting off the lineup is Crest of The Stars. As is usual with most anime on US television it is dubbed. My first reaction is &#8216;bleh&#8217;. Though, as I think about it more I&#8217;m starting to wonder if this is actually necessary as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}