Hikaru No Go on Bluray

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I believe iTunes has the whole thing dubbed and available for purchase. Blu-ray for animation seems pointless. There's hardly any detail worth a higher resolution.

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And dubbed? Dubbed?! If I don't watch it subtitled, how else will I pretend I can understand Japanese and the culture?!!

I prefer the dubbed, because I don't understand Japanese, and I don't want to have to read. I'd prefer to watch and listen. If I wanted to read, I'd buy the manga (which I did, by the way).

Besides there's much more information conveyed in the translated audio than in the often abbreviated subtitles.

Fair, I also strongly prefer subs over dubs. But one set of subtitles still irks me. Whenever someone says "Shindo," the subtitle reads "Hikaru." What is the thinking there? That the audience will be confused because someone's family name was used? I doubt even the younger audience will be that dense. I'm fine making it more understandable to a Western crowd, but reading something clearly inconsistent with the voice is terribly annoying.

They did the same thing in the Go Seigen movie, The Go Master

They would call his name, in Japanese "Seigen" but the English subtitles would use his Chinese name, "Wu" instead. For what little Japanese I do understand, it was highly confusing and annoying.