Forum - View topicFive Star Stories from ADV to be subitled only
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kusanagi-sama
 Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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According to the press article at AnimeOnDVD, ADV will only be able to have a subtitle only release of Five Star Stories.
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Aaron White
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Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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There's a simple solution to this; record new music and effects tracks. I vote they use old Hanna-Barbara sound effects and music by the Lovin' Spoonful. It would be stupid; stupid fresh!
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kusanagi-sama
Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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Yeah, and ADV knows that people wouldn't like that at all (unlike Bandai, who doesn't seem to care)
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Aaron White
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Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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Did I mention they should draw digital moustaches on all the characters? And add fart sounds. And every time there's a joke they should add a laugh track and "LOL!!!" on screen in a great big font. And at the end of every episode they should have a clip of Carl Macek saying "I'm Carl Macek and I approved this message."
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kusanagi-sama
Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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Oh, quit being so stupid
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Aaron White
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Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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The deluxe edition would cost several thousand dollars, but for that money they'd send live actors to your house/apartment/Mom's basement to do a "Live Dub" every time you watched it. Along with foley performers and a small swing band.
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Steventheeunuch
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Add [explitive deleted -b] pointless 5.1 mix. |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4555 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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It's one of those one-shot 1980s OVAs that will likely mostly be purchased by the "old school" fanbase, which is fairly miniscule compared to the market for recent shows.
It could be that they didn't think it would sell well enough to be worth dubbing anyway, and the lack of availability of the music and effects tracks is a convenient excuse (not that I'm saying it's not a legitimate excuse). I haven't seen it in a decade or so, but I seem to remember that it was one of those OVAs based on a much-longer manga that just drops you in the middle of the story, so you wonder who these people are and what the hell they're doing. Lovely character designs, though. |
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Aaron White
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Posts: 1365 Location: Birmingham, Alabama |
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It's from the director of Please Save My Earth, which I have a soft spot for, and which also compressed a too-long-for-3-hours manga into 3 hours. Only I like the way it ended; it's got an ambiguous life-goes-on flavor that really speaks to me.
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Guilhem
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I'd buy this DVD even without any sort of translation anyway: it's simply too much good
Oh well, c'mon guys: a sub only is still better than nothing. I never watch the dub version anyway, as long as the film is not hardsubbed I'm happy... 
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beelzebozo
 Posts: 308 Location: Aurora, Colorado |
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Chalk me up for buying the release ASAP. FFS is one of those epic stories that is right up there with Crest of the Stars and Legend of the Galactic Heroes. The Movie (yes, it was teamed with another release in theaters) is barely the first chapter of the manga (original Japanese release, not the English translations).
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Cloe
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 Posts: 2728 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Seconded! Considering I never watch English dubs anyway, I don't think this is bad news at all. FSS is amazing! I remember watching it for the first time (on a fansub tape! Ah, the memories...) and being completely blown away by the incredible animation and delicate storytelling. |
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Guilhem
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My VHS tape wasn't even fansubbed but I had read a special issue of Mecha Press about FSS and got the essential to follow the story: it was love at first sight! Great animation, great characters, great everything... Then I lent the tape to an irresponsible guy who simply erased the film 
Edit : and this one's my evil post btw (see postcount) ^^ |
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Pat Payne
Posts: 45 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Can mine be Dixieland?
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