It's a dark time in anime-fan-land.  The only real market they're going 
after is the kiddies, and they don't know any better and, being kids, 
probably wouldn't care if you told them.  It's almost like a lot of the 
manga is being printed correct now so that these little know-nothing 
snots can pretend to be smart.  Eh.

I don't know if I'll even be going to any cons this year, the whole 
culture has just degraded so much into blah, and worthwhile titles are 
exceedingly few and far between.

Ah well, go go fansubs.

-K.T.K



Gregory Himes wrote:
> I have Comcast at home for the moment and I got their digital box deal
> 'cause it was cheaper than basic...  They have both On Demand  Anime
> Network and Anime Selects.
> Both systems censor by only playing the baisc dub (no sign or other
> translations).  This is just due to stupidity and laziness, since most
> programs playing have 2 sub tracks sign/songs, and all.  And both
> systems take their program off of the DVDs.
> However, There is lots of fuzzy spots all over on many of the OVA
> programs that are being shown on Selects.  I watched the first episode
> of "Birdy" and there was at least a full minute of blurred material. 
> It was damn annoying.  Especially since I couldn't tell what magazines
> were being blurred out.  Half the jokes probably got lost in that...
> and not being able to read certain notes and messages...   \
> 
> <sigh> kind of reminds me of the stupid early days of Cartoon Network
> and the butchering of a cergtain few shows...
>