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darkchibi07
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:35 pm
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Someone posted a few audio clips of the English dub in the English Track forum on the AnimeOnDVD forums (I don't know if I'm allowed to link that though). Let's just say judging from the responses from the posters and the audio clips, it seems like the dub will be done by Blue Water Studios. Obviously with a rather high-profile series, a lot of posters expected a Bang Zoom! cast, but unfortunetely that got shattered!
Now given Blue Water Studios' rather....um....sub-par reputation, I got really curious how the Mai-HiME dub. It's actually not that bad. The VA for Mai (which someone said it was Carol-Anne Day) sounds pretty decent and quite cute though consistancy on certain moments needs work. I'm not going to pass judgement on the others since these are just snippits, and they're not enough to judge the whole thing. Of course I was mostly curious of how Mai's voice would turn out. Let's see how her and the rest of the cast can handle the dramatic moments since that's one aspect they seem to falter.
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Kusanagi_Kei
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:13 pm
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No way!
Okay, now you see, another bad choice from Bandai there; picking the wrong recording studios.
As always, I never liked Blue Water/Ocean studios, so most of what they dub are below average, compared to the (LA/Californian) Bang Zoom!, New Gen Pics, and MediaConcepts, studios, etc. OR the original Japanese dub.
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Tony K.
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:09 am
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Ugh, Blue Water. I don't have a total lack of respect for them yet, as G Gundam was the only decent dub of theirs, in my opinion.
However, everything else I've heard from them has always been either bad or terrible (Angel Links, Saber Marionette J to X and the Sekai series in particular). I'm just more curious to hear how they'll act out all the emotional parts with all the spine-chilling screams... Hopefully, it won't embarrass them more than a lot of their other dubs already have.
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ChibiGoku
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:20 am
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Tony K. wrote: | Ugh, Blue Water. I don't have a total lack of respect for them yet, as G Gundam was the only decent dub of theirs, in my opinion.
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... Actually, if anyone's seen their DBGT dub, that was pretty well done, in my honest opinion. Atleast they were smart enough to keep the original music in the show. Instead of FUNimation's... So Called "Opening".
(I always wondered why Dragonballgt didn't use the original music score. Ah well. It's just one of the few sub-par FUNimation dub.)
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joel_s95387
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:36 am
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I like the "new" DBGT music by FUNimation, although I think the intro is aimed more towards kids. But the original Japanese music gets old, most of it has been around since the original Dragonball. I dunno if the same studios does the DBZ movies, but I like the music that is put in these movies. This is how I began to listen to Disturbed.
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ChibiGoku
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:47 am
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joel_s95387 wrote: | I like the "new" DBGT music by FUNimation, although I think the intro is aimed more towards kids. But the original Japanese music gets old, most of it has been around since the original Dragonball. I dunno if the same studios does the DBZ movies, but I like the music that is put in these movies. This is how I began to listen to Disturbed. |
Actually, DBGT had new music instead of the same music that was rescycled between DragonBall and DragonballZ in the Japanese version.
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B-Rad Lascelle
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:54 am
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[Voice clips from the dub. Preserved from original post.]
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Last edited by B-Rad Lascelle on Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:23 pm; edited 1 time in total
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Alex K.
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:57 am
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joel_s95387 wrote: | I like the "new" DBGT music by FUNimation, although I think the intro is aimed more towards kids. But the original Japanese music gets old, most of it has been around since the original Dragonball. I dunno if the same studios does the DBZ movies, but I like the music that is put in these movies. This is how I began to listen to Disturbed. |
FUNimation did the movies as well.
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SekiGatha
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:11 am
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Try to give Blue Water Studios some credit. The company just got one of the most highly anticipated series, so they have to do a good job for the dub.
It's not like Blue Water has made all the bad dubs for Geneon and Bandai. Some of the worst I have seen from Bang Zoom, worst than many of Blue Water's, are Gad Guard and especially S-Cry-ed.
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Zalis116
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:53 pm
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Those don't sound too bad...I'm not familiar with many of Blue Water's other dubs, so I won't pass judgement yet. Still, the voices in those clips sound pretty much on target, and name pronuciations are generally good. And, since the dub is just beginning, they've got time to improve and get more used to the characters, which I'd hope will happen by the time they get to those "spine-chilling screams."
The only significant error I heard was in Takumi's name--Mai says it correctly, but when Takumi introduces himself, he says it as "tækumi" ("æ" is the sound of the second "a" in "attack") instead of the "a" as in "father."
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