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NEWS: Sentai Filmworks Licenses Persona 4 The Animation

John Casey wrote:

Sentai > Different dub cast > Not worth giving a shit.

Hooray, we get a level-up from "no dub, don't care" to "no dub with the game English dub cast, don't care". Because there just can never be enough reasons on our "instantly dismiss an anime series" checklist.

Supposing that "multiple sources" means it will have a subtitled simulcast accessible from somewhere in North America, I wonder whether the sub would be worth watching?

And while I don't care intently one way or the other, such a sub would actually have the original VA cast.

Yeah, the original is the best for this, its basically an all-star cast of Seiyuu. Yui Horie, Rie Kugimiya, Ami Koshimizu, Romi Paku, Kappei Yamaguchi, Daisuke Namikawa. But I can understand people who are used to the game who want to hear the original voices.

I'm sorry I didn't know you can see the future and disregard everything else I wrote about the possibility of said dub cast returning being better then 0%. I would say it's probably closer to 50/50. If you don't have solid proof then don't spout off at the mouth as if everything you speak is fact because until Sentai says something it isn't. I'm not saying I'm right and I'm not saying your wrong. I'm simply saying that assuming off that bat that they will recast when they have been known in the past to care about cast consistency is pretty ignorant.

Just ignore them. You make a sound argument, and I agree with you; there seems to be a possibility that they could get the the voice actors from the game.

Sentai > Different dub cast > Not worth giving a shit.

The moment you have Rie Kugimiya and Romi Paku in here, "all star cast" loses all meaning.

Wow. People bitch when something doesn't get dubbed and when something DOES get a confirmed dub, and a Blu-ray, you people STILL bitch about it? Again, wow.

Welcome to the reality known as ANN where no one can see past theirown biases.

Wow. People bitch when something doesn't get dubbed and when something DOES get a dub, and a Blu-ray, you people STILL bitch about it? Again, wow. Be happy that this series is even getting an English release.

Some fans....I swear.... -_-


I, on the other hand, am happy that this series got picked up - dub or no dub.

I think its because everyone pretty much expected Funimation to pick it up, which would all but guarantee the original dub cast. When you play a game for like 100 hours, you get used to the voices and hearing new voices really throws you off, so its not odd for people to want the voices they know for the characters.

And don't think its only ANN like this. I've seen this news posted on 4 different sites, and the reaction is the same. Its a pretty big disappoint all around for fans of the original game.

Sentai Filmworks announced on Tuesday it has licensed the Persona 4 The Animation television anime series.

Sentai Filmworks will digitally distribute the series "soon through many outlets," and will release the show on both DVD and Blu-ray in 2012.

But why are you ASSUMING that its not getting the original dub cast?

Does the article say that it is getting a new dub cast? No.
Does the article say that it is getting a dub? No.