Anime aren't that safe at all. A crap ton of German translations of US stuff are in fact hack dubs. This sometimes worked out commercially if the original isn't that great to begin with or the gist of the plot is still intelligible and the German audience didn't knew any better. The German dub of Brand of Shame had been rewritten into a Parody of Django and The Persuaders! mutated into some sort of buddy cop comedy for example. Anime themselves have all been sourced directly from Japan for just 15 years or something. Before that they mostly came from other European countries or the US. Some German dubs are extremely horrible. When THE weeb station at the time got the rights to Wedding Peach, one of the first things they had done was redoing the dub. Other titles stuck on the direct to video market weren't that lucky and are still the same robotic slop they were back then. Sub titles were also very unreliable back then according to some older weebs. Most of the home video market for Anime was also under control of a monopolist who didn't give a fuck about quality and sold the cheapest Tapes and disc with a barely acceptable image quality in the cheapest packaging imaginable.
Thankfully the collapse of the DVD market almost killed that faggot publisher, forced them to sell off Germany's first weeb rag to its editorial staff, eat humble pie and make space for competition. Too bad the the anime industry kept their moon prices of 25 €urios per 4 episodes longer than it even made sense. These were derived from a poll among the readership of said weeb rags in the late 1990s when most Anime were either watched on TV or imported and the equivalent of 25 € for a VHS tape was the norm. As a result, Azumanga Daioh set you back 190 €urios when it came out. The current Bluray boxset costs like 63.
