Forum - View topicNEWS: Full Moon licensed by Viz, vol 1 in June
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championferret
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Awww, looks like everyone beat me to the 'NOOOOOOOO WHAT IF THEY USE CRAPPY DUB SONGS INSTEAD OF MYCOOOOOOO'-ness. Damn.
Anyway, I'm quite interested to know how well it sells, of course the manga has done well (and I would like to point out, as a I-hate-Viz's-english-manga-translation sort of person, that they're translation of the Full Moon manga, with the exception of the edited sound effects and the curious changing of Mitsuki's debut song 'Angel' to 'Ange', is absolutely fine) because, being a rabid Full Moon fangirl I know quite well that the Full Moon anime borders on....well, I dont want to say 'suckage', as it has plenty of its own merits, but anyone who expects it to follow the manga is in for a surprise. The main problem is the beginning is swamped in filler that generally gets the plot nowhere, and this is the first 4-5 dvds I'm talking about. I hope no one loses interest because of this and stops buying...in fact, that was the main reason I thought the Full Moon anime took so long to be licensed. Whether the commercial release of Full Moon anime is bad or good, I wont be buying as I already own the import dvds. I'll be interested to know how it turns out, though. |
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JTtheBrick
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Ah, thanks for the info, I was thinking the news was a bit premature. And, I too enjoy The Brick 
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Reeko
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Well I don't frequent the boards much, and no one I knew heard about it, so I figured I was one of the first to hear about it, so I reported it to the newsroom. D: Sorry. |
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Katsu Koneko
 Posts: 134 Location: California |
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*continues to cry* Why has Viz have to get Full Moon? I mean..look at what they did with Hikaru no Go. x.x I wuved that show..*continues to search for Fansubs* I really wanted Funi or ADV to get it. Well mostly Funi, since they dub the opening/closing songs of Anime like Yu Yu Hakusho for instance. I really wanted to hear the songs sung in English, but not only that, keep the Japanese one in the Japanese version.
Now...Eizou Hakusho is my last hope for Funi to licence. x.x Mew...*goes back to crying at the lost of another favorite anime to VIZ* |
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Pepperidge
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Umm... why do you have to look for illegal fansubs of HnG if the subtitled version is on the DVD?
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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I think Katsu is referring to the fact that HnG has no song subtitles, which I find disappointing as well. That decision is the reason why I'll wait and see if FMwS has them or not, because to me, that's a deal breaker. A series and story that is about singing and songs means those songs should be translated. It's too integral to the series to leave it raw. Since Viz has made an active decision to not provide song subtitles, it's a reasonable expectation that FMwS will lack them as well. I choose not to buy a series that gets a half-assed translation, and if Viz leaves out the song subs for FMwS, it would mean exactly that. edit: the above statements do NOT mean that fansubs are an acceptable alternative - I may choose a few options - I may keep the fansubs and buy Viz's releases anyway, or I may consider the actual expense of importing the R2 DVD's... or I may just destroy the fansubs and leave it at that. I won't make my decision until the product is actually out. (it's not like I distribute fansubs, so it's really just a personal decision affecting only myself.) Last edited by Godaistudios on Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:16 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Steventheeunuch
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Because not everyone is prim and proper and completely bound by ethical codes that never benefit themselves? |
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Katsu Koneko
Posts: 134 Location: California |
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Yes that was what I was doing and I heard that fansubs are kind of better than company subs. *shrugs* I dunno..Grr I wish I had the money to buy the whole series. |
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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I wouldn't necessarily state that fansubs are better than company subs... while it's true that translators/editors/companies do make mistakes and/or bad choices in the finished product every once in awhile, the majority of commercial releases are better handled than the fansubbers. Many of the fansubs out there tend to be rush jobs put together by fans who have limited knowledge of Japanese. On the other hand, the professionals are usually better educated in Japanese language and culture and have access to more materials provided by the Japanese companies, thus providing the opportunity for a better product in the end.
That all said, if Viz doesn't bother to sub the songs, fansubs are better than no subs at all. |
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Raimu-chan
Posts: 1 Location: Ohio |
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A lot better then 4kids. Meh, I'm not a big fan of ViZ myself. They'll probably only have three episodes per DVD. If that's so, someone would have to spend a lot of money if they want all of the DVDs. |
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jstrahan
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One of only two anime that actually brought me to tears (the other being Mahoromatic). I can only hope that Viz does a good job. I will be buying it.
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Little Miss Maria
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I love that they're doing this, but why'd they have to wait so long! I bought the series a in Japenese a while back expecting them not to dub it. I used up $42!
 I wish I could have bought it in both English and Japenese. Oh well...
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Sir_Brass
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Okay, so I'm late commenting on this, but I haven't been on here for a while, so please forgive. In my opinion, they ought to leave the vocals as-is for the songs for the dub. Now, redoing the songs in english gets props for consistancy, but large points off for artistry. I saw Bandai do this for the Gundam SEED dub (was watching it because a friend of mine who can't follow subs and keep focused on the story to save his life wanted to see it), and though I gave them props for redoing Lacus' songs in english for the dub, I was turned off in that the vocalist and voice actress didn't match (didn't help that I didn't LIKE Lacus' english VA in the first place). For FMwS, where music is an even BIGGER part of the story than it was in Gundam SEED, I think that it would be better if they just kept the songs in the original japanese, since it seems that they won't use the same person for Mitsuki's voice AND her songs, so stick with the original vocals, which are already goregous, and have subtitles. THis also has validity since the show is very much based in japan and around japanese culture, so keeping the songs in japanese (even though the dialogue will be in english for the dub) holds alot of validity and doesn't REALLY violate consistancy all that much considering the situation (and also considering that Mitsuki herself doesn't know english that well....will refrain from commenting further so as to not drop any spoilers). This is just my opinion, though. I'll def. be getting the dvds, as I loved this series despite oh-so-wrong (not incorrect, rather the other meaning) age difference between Mitsuki and Ecchi. |
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