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Old 01-30-2013, 05:09 PM
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Default Re: A Certain Scientific Railgun

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Originally Posted by Ingraman View Post
I'm not sure what value the English commentaries can add to Railgun. I'm definitely not saying that all Japanese commentaries are terribly informative, either (although they at least might have the creative people involved), but since I rarely get to understand what's being said in those, I don't know what their usual information/fluff ratio is.
To be fair, I learned a lot about the mentality at Funimation from their director/screenwriter commentary on Ookami-san. While Japanese cast commentaries tend to be fluff similar to the Eng. commentaries I've heard (for the most part, TGwLtT did have an interesting set of commentaries), at least they were present for the making of the show. English commentary tracks seem out of place since they just add an audio track to the show and weren't present for the actual production.

Somewhat on topic, I should listen to the Railgun JP commentaries now that my Japanese is better than it was in 2010.
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