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I’m not a purist. I don’t think Shin-chan’s moral restructuring in the Funimation dub mars the original show. But there’s a certain give-and-take to what translated work asks of its audience and creators.

This was Rambo’s America, where the drugs were fresh, Vietnam was more than a distant memory, and the Mujahideens were political friends who’d help beat the Soviets.

Nature, spiritual communion, and bucolic pastoral landscapes dominate the paintings from Bengal over the late 19th century, grouped...