Elucidating Questions

Those themes from anime in the 90s

Some of them are better than the original

The Pokemon theme song for sure

Songs are so much nicer without casual sexual harassment, yeah?

The English one is better

Heck even the tune is more catchy

90s anime tended to have very bland, tasteful, sweet, no grit songs

Obviously there were outliers

Looking at you Cowboy Bebop

But even the more adult aimed ones were pretty tame

The first line of the theme in Japanese is

For instance, from within fire, within the water, within the grass, from within the forest

The first line in English is

I want to be the best, like no one ever was

Sort of sets the tone for the song

Props, however, to Satoshi’s voice actor

Because holy fuck can her mouth produce words at an alarming speed

The Digimon themes are hard because the English one is a freaking bop

But the Japanese one

All the adjectives I used above

But still really good

The thing is they’re all still really good

Maybe it’s because they’re precious memories

Man, singing in Chinese and writing in English is hard

But I have sing this one

Because she had such passion

And then cancer killed her

Fuck cancer

Anyways

Different theme songs

Other things I found the original and preferred it though

And I still cannot handle English dubs

Just can’t

There’s something resembling Uncanny Valley about it

I’m sure there are Japanese people feel the same about Japanese dubs

It’s like it’s all sarcastic

I don’t know

It would take an essay to describe

I need to disappear into history for a while

I thought it would be scary

But, yeah, that’s what I found

Did you leave it there for me?

Did I?

Love

Like all the bad memories wrapped around them never existed

Just the love of the things I was watching left

I know I was never the type to keep track of the terrible things people did to me

But I was expecting the pain to be wrapped up in the memories

I feel bad for that little kid who cried when they missed an episode and their parents said “you can watch it later”

So some 20 years later here we are

Here’s later kid

I can feel them stitching the story together inside me

Oh so that’s how it’s supposed to go

Enjoying the new with the old

Things I never got to do growing up