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unbibiumThere's this show called "Banzai" on Fox.
Now, I didn't expect the show to be THIS racist.
Nor did I expect them to skimp on the writing. They seem to be filling the screen with random squarish characters halfway between katakana and kanji. Don't they realize there's a huge contingent of anime geeks and other Japanophiles who know how fake that is? Or do they just want to flush out the people who admit that we can tell it ain't real Japanese?
If they took out that, and the random shots of the Stock Martial Arts Screaming Guy, it might be an amusing show for about ten minutes.
There seems to be another quasi-Japanese game show on TNN. I forget what it was called, or what I saw, but all I could remember was that I could totally tell that it either wasn't really from Japan or the dubbers were making stuff up.
Now, I didn't expect the show to be THIS racist.
Nor did I expect them to skimp on the writing. They seem to be filling the screen with random squarish characters halfway between katakana and kanji. Don't they realize there's a huge contingent of anime geeks and other Japanophiles who know how fake that is? Or do they just want to flush out the people who admit that we can tell it ain't real Japanese?
If they took out that, and the random shots of the Stock Martial Arts Screaming Guy, it might be an amusing show for about ten minutes.
There seems to be another quasi-Japanese game show on TNN. I forget what it was called, or what I saw, but all I could remember was that I could totally tell that it either wasn't really from Japan or the dubbers were making stuff up.
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Date: 2003-07-21 06:02 am (UTC)ME NO RIKEE
Date: 2003-07-21 09:47 am (UTC)The British creators of the show may not have known any better, but the Fox executives who decided to bring the show to America should have.
(Then again, hey, Fox executives.)