We do have Animax. But it's still belongs to Animax in Japan. And they don't even have branch at Malaysia ( i think lar.. if there's don't flame me lar) The only one near is at Singapore. Ever think of a Malaysian made Anime channel? 24/7/365 whole days filled with anime. Is IT POSSIBLE? well next 10 years i mean.

Last i heard from someone who knows someone in Sony, Animax will have a base in Malaysia very soon, so it won't be just Singapore.

I don't know what's your issue though since the Animax channel we get here is subbed in BM and more or less doesn't matter whether its in SG or MY or timbuktuu for that matter.

well the last time i watch animax is around... a year or two ago. ANd at that time, not all of the anime is english or BM subbed. They only provide english dubbed. And their sub sucks.... they translated it.. wrongly as i know some ( not all ) basic...
Not to say that they didn't put their effort. I appreaciate them doing so.

Even when you say it's not benifitcial for long run, maybe, why not made one company which is based in Malaysia? well.... it's just some... crazy though of mine. It might be impossible. Or even is.. bull shix  i am just curious.

Last i heard from someone who knows someone in Sony, Animax will have a base in Malaysia very soon, so it won't be just Singapore.

I don't know what's your issue though since the Animax channel we get here is subbed in BM and more or less doesn't matter whether its in SG or MY or timbuktuu for that matter.

Since most of us here prefer the free shortcut method with P2P, the anime market here in Malaysia are the least profitable IMO. Unless you're a newfag below 12, none would want to enjoy the ear raep of Malay dubs (how hypocrite of us, considering that our first animes were all Malay-dubbed). Don't forget the annoying cuts and censors.

Also, in before:

ANIMASI JEPUN PENUH SEKS, BABI, BUDAYA BERCANGGAH ISLAM, ELEMEN SEMBAH SYAITAN

Since most of us here prefer the free shortcut method with P2P, the anime market here in Malaysia are the least profitable IMO. Unless you're a newfag below 12, none would want to enjoy the ear raep of Malay dubs (how hypocrite of us, considering that our first animes were all Malay-dubbed). Don't forget the annoying cuts and censors.

Also, in before:

ANIMASI JEPUN PENUH SEKS, BABI, BUDAYA BERCANGGAH ISLAM, ELEMEN SEMBAH SYAITAN

Imagine a giant cock flying towards your mouth, and there's nothing you can do about it. And you're like "Oh man, I'm gonna have to suck this thing", and you brace yourself to suck this giant cock. But then, at the last moment, the media says it's un-islamic and and you get threatened with ISA.

You think to yourself "Well, at least I got that out of the way" after the High Court quashes the legal suit against you, but then the giant cock rears back and stabs your eye again, and again, and again. Eventually, this giant cock is wielding C4, and you begin to lose control of your motor skills when it inserts the said C4 up your anus.

That's when the giant cock slaps you across the cheek, causing you to fall out of your chair with the said C4 up your ass. Unable to move and at your most vulnerable, the giant cock finally lodges itself in your anus and blows up together with the C4. That's what watching locally dubbed anime is like.

oh shi-

get lost pl0x

I realized that the Malay-dubbed version of Pokemon follows the English-dubbed version. Also, watching Initial D on Malay dub really makes it sound like you're watching Impak Maksima the Animation.

Try pronouncing the following with a weak, unconvincing generic voice:

IYAAAAAHHHHHH!
HEEEEEYAAAAAHHHHHH!

I swear I heard the same voice yelling out with the same tone and vocal pattern a bajillion times on TV.
Tapi, misteri belum lagi selesai!

imagine malaysia dub ALL the anime.

OMGOMGOMGOM OMG NOOOOOOOOOOO

DO NOT WANT

I realized that the Malay-dubbed version of Pokemon follows the English-dubbed version. Also, watching Initial D on Malay dub really makes it sound like you're watching Impak Maksima the Animation.

Oh god. If we ever have anime channel made in Malaysia, I dont think I can take it with the BM dubbing. By then also, the government will start realizing what is 'echi' and 'hentai', start making censorship for cartoons (backed by religion excuse) and probably will declare Japan as bad influence. No more opening magic door to Suzuki's bathroom lol.

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Added on June 15, 2009, 9:33 pm

No offence. In Japanese language, the characters sound so intelligent. When dubbed in BM, they sound like washed out Mat Rempit. Btw, souldnt Initial D not be shown publicly since it does sort of promoting illegal street racing.

Since most of us here prefer the free shortcut method with P2P, the anime market here in Malaysia are the least profitable IMO. Unless you're a newfag below 12, none would want to enjoy the ear raep of Malay dubs (how hypocrite of us, considering that our first animes were all Malay-dubbed). Don't forget the annoying cuts and censors.

Also, in before:

ANIMASI JEPUN PENUH SEKS, BABI, BUDAYA BERCANGGAH ISLAM, ELEMEN SEMBAH SYAITAN

Imagine a giant cock flying towards your mouth, and there's nothing you can do about it. And you're like "Oh man, I'm gonna have to suck this thing", and you brace yourself to suck this giant cock. But then, at the last moment, the media says it's un-islamic and and you get threatened with ISA.

You think to yourself "Well, at least I got that out of the way" after the High Court quashes the legal suit against you, but then the giant cock rears back and stabs your eye again, and again, and again. Eventually, this giant cock is wielding C4, and you begin to lose control of your motor skills when it inserts the said C4 up your anus.

That's when the giant cock slaps you across the cheek, causing you to fall out of your chair with the said C4 up your ass. Unable to move and at your most vulnerable, the giant cock finally lodges itself in your anus and blows up together with the C4. That's what watching locally dubbed anime is like.

Some dubbing are good but then again...

All the animu in Singapore are all dubbed.

Haw haw haw haw haw haw haw

Imagine a giant cock flying towards your mouth, and there's nothing you can do about it. And you're like "Oh man, I'm gonna have to suck this thing", and you brace yourself to suck this giant cock. But then, at the last moment, the media says it's un-islamic and and you get threatened with ISA.

You think to yourself "Well, at least I got that out of the way" after the High Court quashes the legal suit against you, but then the giant cock rears back and stabs your eye again, and again, and again. Eventually, this giant cock is wielding C4, and you begin to lose control of your motor skills when it inserts the said C4 up your anus.

That's when the giant cock slaps you across the cheek, causing you to fall out of your chair with the said C4 up your ass. Unable to move and at your most vulnerable, the giant cock finally lodges itself in your anus and blows up together with the C4. That's what watching locally dubbed anime is like.

ANIMASI JEPUN PENUH SEKS, BABI, BUDAYA BERCANGGAH ISLAM, ELEMEN SEMBAH SYAITAN

dude this is SUPREMELY EPIC!

maybe if we get an otaku prime minister then can? 

No offence. In Japanese language, the characters sound so intelligent. When dubbed in BM, they sound like washed out Mat Rempit. Btw, souldnt Initial D not be shown publicly since it does sort of promoting illegal street racing.

m'sian gomen = /r/-tard

Why messed up your mind...........we got internet what....just download or streaming media and watch......

guest18 for Prime Minister?

I bet you are pretty much craving for the Defence Minister position.

I yearn for the day when our soldiers wear three eyewears at once and every assault rifle issued must have no less than 3 different scopes, 4 flashlights, 2 handgrips and 3 laser pointers attached (weighs nearly as much as a loaded FN MAG with all that, but it's moar tacticool). They can finally look OPERATOR that way.

YES GOLD-PLATED DEAGLES WITH 24x SCOPES, TACLIGHT, LASER AIMING MODULE AND M203 ATTACHED WILL BE STANDARD SIDEARM

ONE HIT FROM THIS AND IT'S ALL OVER

NO MORE COMPLAINTS FROM THE COUNTERSTRIKE KIDDIES HURR HURR

For a change, i wish ANIMAX can be softsubbed like WAH LAI TOI so you can change between BM and ENG subs by pressing the "..." button.

rempit came even before initial d lol. blaming initial d is not the correct way to solve the problem.
how about the government servants? are they /r/tard too?
yes i agree with u 100%

ya =(
Somethings i got to choose either the malay sub or the english dub.

T_T

LEts hold a demonstration for english subs

Bring back the glory days of Sang Kancil, Sang Monyet and the rest of ol skool heroes!

WAR TV PENDIDIKAN!

i need porn channel more

You can be the pioneer.

well they do self translation so not all the anime have subtitles so fast. The dubs are done in Phillipines or somewhere and they just take it from them that's why the dubs always come out 1s.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

So all the dub I hear in animax up until now is done by the philipines?

Look so perfect.Luckly not done by the Singaporean.If not the language a lil bit like Phua Chu Kang sitcom(becoz of the singlish)

Correct me if I'm wrong.

So all the dub I hear in animax up until now is done by the philipines?

Look so perfect.Luckly not done by the Singaporean.If not the language a lil bit like Phua Chu Kang sitcom(becoz of the singlish)

Some subtitles tend to literally translated everything including the meaning of the name of characters.

Remembering on Captain Jack Sparrow becoming Kapten Jack Pipit.

No wonder sometimes i can't read the subtitle, their malay seems different from us 

singapore, indonesia and malaysia have a varied malay origins. with different types of dialects and intonation. whatever it is, having Malaysian Anime Channel is really a bad idea,

If you really oppose it i can't do anything with it. I just hope. It's only a though. It's not to say that i wanted to do it. I just think of it. It flash throught my mind and i just wanted to ask it. that's all.

it's bad cause malaysian metality still treats anime as cartoon. until malaysians know how to value anime, it's still far from completion of it

I thought in malaysia anime = porn cartoon? Cant remember which idiot write this statement in Kosmo!.

I thought in malaysia anime = porn cartoon? Cant remember which idiot write this statement in dunno which newspaper.

Some subtitles tend to literally translated everything including the meaning of the name of characters.

Remembering on Captain Jack Sparrow becoming Kapten Jack Pipit.

Which reminded me of how Terminator: Salvation became Terminator: Pembebasan. 

Sunday June 14, 2009
Buy or download?

Xpressway

ARE anime sold in video stores worth buying? In my opinion, definitely NOT!

Have you ever come across anime that offer good subtitling? Apart from those that are imported from the United States, I can’t think of any anime that have good subtitles.

Most are directly translated from Chinese to English and Bahasa Malaysia so you might not understand what it really means in Japanese; sometimes the subtitles even give the wrong meaning. Names, definitions, items, and places are the common areas in which there are mistakes. And The poor English and Bahasa Malaysia really annoys me, too.

It’s so bad that I wonder whether these so-called licensed distributors are actually licensed by the official distributors in Japan.

In Singapore, where you can find anime with good subtitles, the licensed distributors are well-known unlike those in Malaysia. Here, there seem to be far too many distributors that I have never heard of.

And anyway, how do we know the anime we buy from video stores are originals? Yes, they have stickers labelling them as originals. But how do you define original? Original according to criteria in Malaysia or Japan?

A complete set of one anime can cost ¥35,000 (RM1,300) in Japan. In Malaysia, some stores sell such sets for between RM50 and RM150, which is very suspicious.

A few years back I heard about an anime fan who forked out thousands of ringgit to buy original anime from the United States. Some of us laughed at her stupidity then. Now, however, we admire her for supporting the licensed US distributors that offer good English subtitles. But not many of us would be willing to part with that much money for a hobby.

So, what should we do? Buy from the stores with poor subtitles or download from the Internet? The latter is cheaper and the subtitling by the fan-subtitlers is quite impressive.

This is something that we need to discuss further in the forums.

Eric

Sunday June 21, 2009
Xpressway

Buy original

I’M writing in response to Eric (“Buy or Download?”, OtakuZone, June 14). In my opinion, it is irresponsible of one to download anime from the Internet, even if the subtitles translated by fans are said to be better or more interesting than those in anime sold in stores.

For one, I believe that no one can translate the exact meaning of a word.

Furthermore, there are some words that just can’t be translated directly from Japanese as you need a Japanese language background in order to understand it.

If you really want to know what anime characters are really saying, learn Japanese instead of just complaining. If not, read the Chinese subtitles instead as they’re quite similiar to Japanese. English and Bahasa Malaysia, being quite different from Japanese, would not capture the meaning perfectly.

I strongly discourage downloading and encourage one to buy original instead.

Cedric, Kuala Lumpur

Poor subtitles

ONCE , I bought anime from a famous store, and was surprised to find the subtitles to be very bad. Sometimes they did not even make sense!

Because of that, I have to turn to the Internet to enjoy some anime. However, I do not mind spending hundreds of ringgit on a high-quality, and properly-subtitled anime as it is worth the money.

By the way, I have a request: Can OtakuZone enlighten readers about how one can be a mangaka in Malaysia?

Carbon artist monk-ed

RECENTLY, “OtakuZone” interviewed local artist Keith from Art Square (“Those Were the Days”, May 31) and we asked him how it was like being a mangaka in Malaysia. Rest assured that your request is heard and there will be more articles on local mangaka coming up. – Elizabeth Tai

Quality, please

I’M a big fan of anime and the Internet connection in my home doesn’t work very well. Downloading it would takes ages so I decided to buy the DVD. And guess what? The subtitles were a disappointment and the DVD quality was very poor.

I may not have spent thousands on it, but it was still quite a lot of money. It was disappointing and annoying.

I understand Japanese a little so I can easily spot the wrong words of places, names, and so on.

Is the one who subtitles the movie really getting paid? The truth is they don’t deserve it.

I’ve seen the work of fansubbers (fans who subtitle anime); they do a good job and they are not getting paid.

If the distributors want us to buy their DVDs, please do a good job of it!

Alyaa

Sunday June 28, 2009
Xpressway

Few options for local otaku

LAST week, Cedric of Kuala Lumpur wrote in his letter to OtakuZone that we should buy original anime and shun the act of downloading fansubs. I just wish to say that buying the “originals” available in Malaysia is no less “illegal” than downloading fan-subtitled anime.

Quality of subtitles aside, there is great suspicion as to whether the distributors in Malaysia actually managed to acquire licences from the studios in Japan to subtitle and distribute anime titles here. Any otaku worth their salt would know that US distributors pay big money – usually hundreds of thousands of dollars – to distribute just one anime.

Yet my Trigun with excellent subs and English audio cost me a mere RM39.90. Suspicious!

So I beg the question: how is buying unlicensed bootlegs any more legal than downloading fansubs? But if we can’t download, or buy bootlegs, it seems that the only legal means of obtaining licensed anime would be to pay hefty sums for titles licensed and distributed in Singapore. Or perhaps watch titles on online streaming sites like Crunchyroll, or in the worst-case scenario, the dubbed anime on our local TV.

The best option so far would be to catch them on Animax (Astro Channel 715) which has done pretty well by bringing us anime that are being aired the same time in Japan.

And there you have the predicament of anime fans in Malaysia. Want quality subs? Go for illegal fansubs. Want “legal” subs? Go for “original” fakes. Want best of both worlds? Sorry, correct me if I’m wrong, but it doesn’t exist here.

Of course, if anyone out there has evidence to disprove what I’ve said, please present it and I shall stand corrected.

Jon Lai, Kuala Lumpur

Language barrier

CEDRIC suggested that to really know what anime characters are saying, we should learn Japanese instead of complaining. Yes, that is an option.

However, language books and courses are extremely expensive. Besides, it takes months and years to get to that level of understanding in Japanese.

Furthermore, the Japanese used in anime is mostly informal. I’ve attended Japanese classes and I can tell you that we are taught polite Japanese and beginners will be confused by the informal words in anime. A particular Japanese verb has many forms that all carry different meanings.

When I first I attended my Japanese class there were 10 students. Most wanted to learn the language to better understand anime and Japanese dramas. Slowly, they dropped out.

By the end of the course, there were only three of us left. When you learn a language, you have to learn the basics of the language and grammar, but this may bore some people.

As for complaining, isn’t it a consumer’s right to complain when a product is not worth the money they paid for? Besides, how then are the anime translators going to know that their subtitles are terrible?

As for reading Chinese subtitles instead because they are similar to Japanese, what about people who do not understand Chinese? Do they have to spend hundreds or thousands of ringgit to learn Chinese now? True, English and Bahasa Malaysia will not capture the meaning perfectly. There are elements that remain lost in translation, of course, but fan-subbers somehow manage to do a much, much better job at subbing the anime.

I believe that most fans will agree with me when I say that we wouldn’t mind paying for original anime if they are high in quality and are subtitled properly.

Most fans resort to downloading because they are not getting what they paid for. Also, Eric (“Buy or Download?”, OtakuZone, June 14) was right. The anime DVDs in local stores are rather questionable.

Jules, Kuala Lumpur

All this discussion of "fansub or buy" does worry me. It might attract the attention of a certain monopolizing company in Malaysia that might force ISPs to monitor their subscribers and give out personal information of the subscriber's monthly usage. Just imagine if "buy" is our only choice as downloading fansub is outlawed. We'll have to live with shitty subs, poor quality video, and maybe even cuts and censorship.

It's always a good move to let grey area shit like this remain in the basement. Someone is bound to rob us of our freedom out there.

i don't like sub. cos sub destroy the joy of having a good anime. imagine if takumi changed to touhai, what will happen to the rest??

That is dub.

In sub, they retain the name of the character.

You mean you like to watch anime raw??

Ever think of a Malaysian made Anime channel? 24/7/365 whole days filled with anime. Is IT POSSIBLE? well next 10 years i mean.