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F!S Anon Meme (the Tenth?)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with captchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it!

List of General Threads (for easy access!)
a. Vid Rec thread
b. Positivity thread
c. What do you think of other F!S members?
d. Best Comments thread
e. Canceled Shows thread
f. Confessions thread
g. TMI thread
h. Which fictional character would you be...
i. "Is this offensive?"
j. In the good ol' days of fandom...
k. Popular fanfic you don't like
l. Really weird things you read in fanfics

Comments

Re: why english in anime and manga

[(Anonymous)]

One Piece is kind of different than some because it's set in an alt world where there is no Japan (albeit one may argue Wa may be the stand-in) nor England, America, France, Russia, etc. So it isn't that "English" or "Japanese" is a language widely spoken, it's a matter of what Oda chooses to represent the commonly-spoken worldwide languages. I think the fact that he tends to use English more than Japanese (only an impression, not a scientific fact) is a way of differentiating the OP world even further away from his main Japanese audience.

The man tends to make puns in English, such as the Ammo-knights on Fishman Island, and he's well versed in Western mythology and literature, so his intentions for using English may be far different from the typical "lol English is so exotic and foreign!" reason you get with most series set in Japan. You can argue the exotic-and-foreign reasoning in some situations with some characters (e.g. Brook using terrible Engrish lyrics in his songs) but overall? There might be deeper reasons. Or it might be as shallow as "I'm educated enough to make references to literature most of you have never even heard of, so I'm gonna."

Re: why english in anime and manga

[(Anonymous)]

True. And then there's Princess Tutu which has German, of all things, as the base for its cultural mash-up.