I wonder if its due to how closely Anime attempts to animate Manga? I feel like you can kind of “explain” what happens in text alot more smoothly than on a TV show due to how much faster you ingest knowledge.
Often it’s a localization issue too. Japanese dialogue doesn’t translate easily to English, it’s usually longer and has more layers of formality that English can’t express. And they often aren’t allowed to cut the content, so they have to make the English super wordy and explainy to match the long winded mouth flaps.
To be fair, that can be necessary to make the action understandable, especially when you’re adapting a game that you don’t expect the viewers to be experts in. (Which is always because these shows are usually supposed to be advertisements.
Imagine an MtG-themed show where battles looked like this:
Player A: “Okay, your turn.”
Player B: “Untap, draw… In my precombat main I play Isochron Scepter with Pongify.”
Player A: “Fold.”
Spectator: “Yeah, that was obviously unwinnable.”
…without even bothering to explain the cards, much less why player A’s game couldn’t stand up to a questionable use of an Isochron Scepter.
(Of course a particularly egregious case was Yu-Gi-Oh, which needed these explanations because the card game as shown on the show made no sense.)
Netflix has gained the power of repetitive exposition? Such a feat has only been attained by anime before! One should expect it there, but now it’s really bothering OP!
I find shows and movies that show something happen clearly and then restate it in the dialogue immediately quite annoying. Very common in anime.
I wonder if its due to how closely Anime attempts to animate Manga? I feel like you can kind of “explain” what happens in text alot more smoothly than on a TV show due to how much faster you ingest knowledge.
That’s a good point, I agree for anime it is probably stylistic like some comic book movies are comic-y.
Often it’s a localization issue too. Japanese dialogue doesn’t translate easily to English, it’s usually longer and has more layers of formality that English can’t express. And they often aren’t allowed to cut the content, so they have to make the English super wordy and explainy to match the long winded mouth flaps.
Yeah I also didn’t think of the translation part too, good point
Wait, you’re telling me that restating dialog makes you annoyed, especially because it happens so frequently in anime?
Nani?
Metal Gear???
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To the point that it’s a meme.
To be fair, that can be necessary to make the action understandable, especially when you’re adapting a game that you don’t expect the viewers to be experts in. (Which is always because these shows are usually supposed to be advertisements.
Imagine an MtG-themed show where battles looked like this:
Player A: “Okay, your turn.”
Player B: “Untap, draw… In my precombat main I play Isochron Scepter with Pongify.”
Player A: “Fold.”
Spectator: “Yeah, that was obviously unwinnable.”
…without even bothering to explain the cards, much less why player A’s game couldn’t stand up to a questionable use of an Isochron Scepter.
(Of course a particularly egregious case was Yu-Gi-Oh, which needed these explanations because the card game as shown on the show made no sense.)
In anime, you should expect repetitive exposition. Can it be that Netflix has gained this power, too?
Netflix has gained the power of repetitive exposition? Such a feat has only been attained by anime before! One should expect it there, but now it’s really bothering OP!
Some YouTube channels do this and I started to hide them in the recommendations because it pisses me off so much.
The constant restating on Youtube is to pad out their video and get more ad spots. I also immediately dislike and hide them because of that.
Same here, I know why they do it, but they will lose me as a viewer.