HetareKing

It’s named after the floating island in Gulliver’s Travels, so blame Jonathan Swift for this one.

There’s a comic book series from the 1970s called Altri Mondi ("Other Worlds") by Italian physicist and illustrator Andrea Romoli, that only ever came out in Italian and Spanish. Despite this, it was adapted in the 1980s into a 77 episode TV anime called Spaceship Sagittarius. Most of it are original stories not directly based on the comic books, though.

By the way, watch it if you get the opportunity, it’s good.

This is not Jaadugar, but there was an issue of CoroCoro Comics pulled because of how a manga depicted Genghis Khan after complaints from Mongolian people living in Japan and the Mongolian embassy.

So this sort of thing does happen. I know next to nothing about Mongolian culture or how they balance the reverence many apparently have for Genghis Khan with the historical reality that he had a lot of people slaughtered or enslaved, so I can’t say how these same people would react to Jaadugar’s depiction of the Mongols, but I imagine it might be the reason why it didn’t depict Genghis Khan’s face.

Wouldn’t his mom also be British? And in order to pound her, wouldn’t she have needed to court her first, i.e. talk to a British person?

Waiter! There’s an internal inconsistency in my absurd joke!

That’s interesting, when I watch something that was in English from the start, I often turn on English subtitles to reduce the cognitive load.

That’s the thing, though: they don’t, usually. Falsetto doesn’t simply mean forcing your voice to be higher than it is naturally (which is, of course, very common in anime), it’s a particular way of using your voice. You can also create a higher pitch with a head voice or even a chest voice. Falsetto is the easiest way to do it, but it’s also the hardest on your voice, which makes it hard to listen to for prolonged periods of time.

It’s not just the squeaky little girls either, even the young men are always very throaty.

I’ve been told that English dubs are way better now than 10 years ago for the last 20 years, but every time I hear something from a new dub, it still ends up having the same old problems. Like, my throat ends up aching because they insist on doing everything in falsetto for some reason.