Well I dont know exactly why you decided to flame me all I was saying is that the opening WAS intentionally different BUT the gamma difference between the two scenes could have been caused by alot of things. Just becuase the scene was brighter "Reading" what that suggests as you did was a bit much.....gives me flashbacks to when I was an art Major.
The simplest explanation for it would be that Renton and Eureka are coming Closer together... so they wanted you to see it clearer.
OF course instead of trying to back up what you say ... you took a shot at my intelligence...asking me to try out thinking. I spent 3 years of my life listening to abunch of jackasses making works of art then explaining them using otherworldy EXTREEMLY obtuse explanations like yours...and if that is what you call thinking then no thanks ... I will stick to logic.
This whole rep system is stupid and only breeds comments like the one you made, chalk full of self righteous intent. I didn't even give you crap.... all I asked was if it was a bit much?
As for the voices all of them are pritty much bad... the worst by far was Matthieu's voice... he sounds like a whiny 16 year old. I guess the voices for Eureka and Renton are not totally terrible... but they are pritty sickening.
In Regard to the "we dont speak japanese" thing I actually speak some Japanese, just not enough to deal with the speed that most of the anime goes at.... I am gettin the hang of it and I figure another year of study and I wont need subs too often anymore.
The Toughest thing in understanding all of the japanese in these shows is the multiple "levels of politness" which is basically the worlds most organized system of slang; even without a full understanding of the language dont look at the screen and only from their voices try to tell what is going on......with the original voices you can...with the dubs its always like they are not in the situation in the anime. In the english dubs it really seems like they are just reading from pieces of paper.....and the only reason why you know what is going on is the understanding of the language.... and sound effects.
The reason why I claimed it was lack of voice talent is becuase in america cartoons and voice overs are just something done by some people....In japan anime creation and voice acting is akin to hollywood. I just think they have higher standards over there for voice acting is all. Think of all the great american cartoons... all of them are voiced with Film actors.