Ian Keldon
Fleet Captain
Never EVER bring up the subject of "Americanized" anime (also sometimes called "Japanimation") around hard-core anime fans w/o being willing to take a TON of heat.
When I was younger (and much more naive), a friend of mine asked me to go over to the table at a sci-fi convention we were for a local anime club and ask them if they had any information about the availability of Robotech on video.
Anyone who knows about the history of animosity of fans of the original Macross stories vs Robotech fans is probably cringing about now.
Suffice to say I had an "interesting" afternoon. First I was treated to a 5-minute lecture about the subject including words like "bastardizing" and "ruining" and the language went downhill from there. Even after I managed to get out of that argument, one or more of the anime club's members followed me around the rest of the afternoon, glaring at me.
A couple of years ago, I was looking for information about the transforming fighters used in the show. I'd exhausted all the reference I could find on Robotech oriented pages and someone suggested I try some of the Macross ones.
I did...unfortunately I slipped up and used the term "Veritech" to refer to the fighters instead of the Macross-appropriate designation "Valkyrie".
Oops...
Needless to say, my stay on that forum was short, painful, and full of flames.
Lesson: be certain who you are talking to when it comes to anime. It's less painful that way.
When I was younger (and much more naive), a friend of mine asked me to go over to the table at a sci-fi convention we were for a local anime club and ask them if they had any information about the availability of Robotech on video.
Anyone who knows about the history of animosity of fans of the original Macross stories vs Robotech fans is probably cringing about now.
Suffice to say I had an "interesting" afternoon. First I was treated to a 5-minute lecture about the subject including words like "bastardizing" and "ruining" and the language went downhill from there. Even after I managed to get out of that argument, one or more of the anime club's members followed me around the rest of the afternoon, glaring at me.
A couple of years ago, I was looking for information about the transforming fighters used in the show. I'd exhausted all the reference I could find on Robotech oriented pages and someone suggested I try some of the Macross ones.
I did...unfortunately I slipped up and used the term "Veritech" to refer to the fighters instead of the Macross-appropriate designation "Valkyrie".
Oops...
Needless to say, my stay on that forum was short, painful, and full of flames.
Lesson: be certain who you are talking to when it comes to anime. It's less painful that way.