lol, alright alright, i'll get back to mushishi as the next show i watch with my buddy since he wanted to watch it. Right now were rewatching Hunter X hunter. i actually bought the US release and am PISSED. They evidently threw out all the different OP/ED's and use the first one for the whole series. Which REALLY sucks because the later ones fit with the mood of the show so much better. Im really pissed and dont plan on buying anything else from Viz media again. They sucked way back in the VHS days, and looks like they suck now. Do they chop up all their shows like that?
Sounds like Natsume is a winner, and as far as Mushishi goes, im assuming its as good as the first few eppisodes made it look? It seemed different and had an almost kinos journey feel to it
Viz does suck, they're my most-disliked of all major anime distributors.
Aside from the changed OP/ED and music swap issues that have affected several of their recent shows, they've also been guilty of:
Lack of song translations
Lack of Song/Sign/Only subs -- it's bad enough when DVD-rippers leave them out, but even worse when the companies themselves don't do it.
Hardsubs/Overlays -- even as recently as the Honey & Clover DVDs. To an extent, I don't care if fansubs/rips do hardsubs. But Viz keeps doing them even after all the other companies stopped when VHS was phased out in 2000-01. I even DLed the Trouble Chocolate 320x240 fansub VHS-rips because I didn't want to deal with Viz's image-destroying bullshit. While I don't feel downloaders are entitled to clean video, paying consumers should be.
Awful, awful subtitling -- I know some like Viz's subtitle colors more than other companies', but with stilted writing, mistranslations or incomprehensible subs (SaiKano), random/excessive localization, and sometimes near-dubtitles (SaiKano OVA), Viz's subtitles outright fail. Example, in Honey & Clover, if someone says "Takemoto," the subs will say "Yuta," "Mayama" becomes "Takumi" and so on.* And yet they leave "Senpai" as-is
Nobody, I mean nobody does the "Family Name Spoken" --> "Given Name Subbed" thing anymore. Well, maybe except gg in Kobato, but the difference is that I can't excuse Viz's actions as trolling.
Mushi-Shi doesn't change much -- if you liked the first few episodes, you'll probably like the rest just the same. Just take it slow and don't watch too many episodes in a row.
*Note: this is in situations when
only the family name is said, not the normal "Takemoto Yuta" -> "Yuta Takemoto" reversal.
