I seriously don't get why you guys are so "anti-"cartoon", Some Anime series have some exceptionly good Scifi behind them (Ghost in the Shell being the most obvious "current" one).
JUST WATCH IT!!
(Sorry, I'm a big fan of stories and I don't really care how they are told, just that they are told)
I don't know where you got that I was "anti-cartoon".
I prefer fansubs because I like hearing what the actors sounded like when the program episode was made. It's the difference between Inuyasha sounding like a hard ass or sounding like a petulant schoolboy. That's the difference between the Japanese and English versions.
Much like (visually), what happened to the anime "One Piece" when FoxBox (aka "4Kids") got hold of it.
They digitally removed all weapons and replaced them with popguns and the like. At least one character's ever-present cigarette with its attendant stream of smoke was altered to instead be a candy cane. Edited out booze, cleavage and blood, and even performed a couple race changes on characters -- and, for some unfathomable reason, they edited rice balls to become sub sandwiches.
(I still haven't figured out how a rice ball could be offensive...)
They turned it from a show that people of all ages could watch into an unpalatable gruel consumable by no-one, and thus, it failed miserably.
I was at dinner with a client. I found this series on Netflix, so I can catch up on it.