Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Tokyo Babylon

Decided to watch Tokyo Babylon today.
Bad subtitles and sound glitches plagues this DVD.
The subtitles are either too fast or too slow. Sometimes the subtitles even show up when no one's saying anything!
Like when there is a scene showing a meeting without voices for dramatic effect, the subtitles shows spoken lines!
Often the subtitles just make up its own dialogue. A scene where a boy is saying oka-san, oka-san(mother) over and over, the subtitles say something like, "We played, and i won!".
My first thought was, "dubtitles?". But no, the subtitles and the english dub don't match up at all.

I don't find much about it on the internet, but i think the problem is only with the old first release of Tokyo Babylon, wich i have(bought it on ebay).


As for the show itself...

It was okay. Didn't feel the characters were the same characters as in the Manga. Hokuto-chan's a lot noisier, and Subaru's just different =P
The two stories are original, and were not in the Manga. I think you could see them as additional chapters.
So i think that these 2 episodes may be better as a supplement if you've read or are reading  the Manga than on itself.
There aren't anything in it that spoils the Manga.

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