Ya know after watching numerous clips, randomness has been wondering why this dub wasn't called the speedy dub instead of big green.
Or even just as a 2nd nickname, the malaysian dub never seemed very speedy.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.I've heard that it's a highly contextual language so a lot of stuff like object nouns just get left out to be inferred
There's also stuff like having to translate "You! (except super rude)"
edited 15th Apr '18 4:41:41 PM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the AvengersAdd in that it's common in Japanese to leave large parts of a sentence unsaid because it's obvious from context what you're talking about, especially in informal speech.
Example: let's say in English you wanted to say: "Damn, that guy has a huge nose!"
In Japanese, all they'd probably say is "Big!", while looking at the guy's nose.
edited 15th Apr '18 5:06:33 PM by DarkHunter
More or less. There are words in Japanese that essentially translate to "that" but one refers to an object close to (meaning either physically close or a concept very familiar to) the speaker but far away from the listener, the opposite, close to both, and far away from both. Combine that (which admittedly doesn't come up too often) with the fact that Japanese often drops the subject if it's obvious and can be a rather symbolic language and you get a language that can be really tricky to translate.
I don't remember Super ever making that explicit, but I'll admit I might have missed it - but that's kind of the problem. Even with an arc about a Supreme Kai, there isn't much showing of what they're actually supposed to do: just observe things (something I'm pretty sure we have a trope for) and occasionally screw the pooch. Zamasu's irritation at getting no answers when he asks "how are we supposed to improve things" is kind of apt.
It doesn't help that Shin is kind of awful at his job, as is Beerus, and the two explicitly screwed up Universe 7 to the point where they're the second worst in the cosmos.
Shin wasn't trained at all. All the guys who were supposed to do it got themselves killed, because a certain Cat Asshole (he's a Catsshole!) was sleeping instead.
One Strip! One Strip!Is there a bigger Woobie in the series than Shin? He watches all his friends get massacred, leaving him to literally run the universe, gets leapfrogged in power by mere mortals without even noticing, fails to stop the creature that killed his friends from returning, gets tricked into a forced fusion by his creepy-ass ancestor...
Gowasu, at least, has GodTube to blow off some steam as a beloved content creator.
Shin couldn't even keep up his imposing theatrics long after the World Martial Arts Tournament ended. But at least he has Beerus, right?
edited 15th Apr '18 9:58:45 PM by XMenMutant22
And speaking of the Tournament, I find it interesting that after sensing Shin is stronger than him, Piccolo initially assumes he's the Grand Kai, one rank down, before Kibito corrects him. Which implies that a) Piccolo has knowledge of the divine pecking order for some reason, and b) he had reason to believe that not just Supreme but Grand as well would be stronger than him.

Super had them as "creator gods" I believe, and in order for their to be creation they also need destruction as balance. Or whatever. So I suppose that's the justification for why they don't normally intervene in things: their position is predicated on things being destroyed anyway.
edited 15th Apr '18 3:27:06 PM by LSBK