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REVIEW: Le Chevalier D'Eon DVD 1

maybe i'm just nitpicking, but does anyone else have a serious problem with the accents? i mean the actors do a great job, but this show is about the French revolution and has a melting pot of characters... but everybody sounds exactly the same. it really kills the atmosphere.

v1cious wrote:

maybe i'm just nitpicking, but does anyone else have a serious problem with the accents? i mean the actors do a great job, but this show is about the French revolution and has a melting pot of characters... but everybody sounds exactly the same. it really kills the atmosphere.

Yes, you're nitpicking!

Just enjoy the series for what it is. Detach that part of your brain, sit back and enjoy the wonderful ride that, I believe, this story is going to take us on.

Chevalier d'Eon is a great show, but I wish it had a much better dub, which going by the first episode streamed online, was atrocious. I know it would be asking a bit much from the voice actors to supply French (or at least ambiguous European) accents, but they all sounded too American. In addition, it was poorly miscast, as nearly none of them fit their roles well, and the acting itself was suspect. That's pretty uncharacteristic from a studio that has had a reputation for putting out quality dramatic work, yet they drop the ball on this one. Perhaps the rest will work out better, though the miscasting aspect is its own biggest hurdle.

The Japanese cast, in contrast, seems to work out better, despite the lack of accents (not surprising, considering the difficulties with English alone). At least in this case, the VAs did a better, more believable acting job in the first episode than did the English cast.

LydiaDianne wrote:

v1cious wrote: maybe i'm just nitpicking, but does anyone else have a serious problem with the accents? i mean the actors do a great job, but this show is about the French revolution and has a melting pot of characters... but everybody sounds exactly the same. it really kills the atmosphere. Yes, you're nitpicking! Just enjoy the series for what it is. Detach that part of your brain, sit back and enjoy the wonderful ride that, I believe, this story is going to take us on.

I agree, although in a perfect world we could have VA that could have the right accents, I thought that in episode one I didn't feel like it killed the story/mood. Are you thinking that you wished that cast had some more diverse VA like in Master Keaton?

Sam Murai wrote:

Chevalier d'Eon is a great show, but I wish it had a much better dub, which going by the first episode streamed online, was atrocious. I know it would be asking a bit much from the voice actors to supply French (or at least ambiguous European) accents, but they all sounded too American. In addition, it was poorly miscast, as nearly none of them fit their roles well, and the acting itself was suspect. That's pretty uncharacteristic from a studio that has had a reputation for putting out quality dramatic work, yet they drop the ball on this one. Perhaps the rest will work out better, though the miscasting aspect is its own biggest hurdle. The Japanese cast, in contrast, seems to work out better, despite the lack of accents (not surprising, considering the difficulties with English alone). At least in this case, the VAs did a better, more believable acting job in the first episode than did the English cast.

You actually thought the Japanese cast was much better chosen on this one?

Wow.

This is one of the few series where I saw it partly fansubbed (well, okay, only the first two eps) first, and I still disliked the Japanese casting well before I heard the English dub. Louis XV sounded much too deep, Anna sounded much too girly, and in general having 18th century European characters sounding Japanese threw me off a lot more than French characters speaking English. And I'll reiterate what I said in the review: they don't sound right voicing those Psalms in Japanese.

Oh, well. To each his own, I guess, but from what I've seen there are far, far worse English dubs out there than this one, as well as much better Japanese dubs.

but Adv did it with Air Gear, and Geneon has no problem with accents (Hellsing). i just don't see how it's impossible, aside from resources

I cringed when I heard them attempt to speak French. They should work on their French because the location is in France.

I admit I haven't read all of the reviews that ANN has to offer but this is THE MOST positive review I've read in a while of at title that I'm interested in.

The opening theme “Born,” which first appears on episode 2, plays second fiddle to some of the best visuals likely to be seen in any opener this year...

Character designs by the same person involved with 'Kurau', no wonder 'Lia Beaumont' looked so angry. Hahaha!!

I thought the first episode that IGN had was a fairly mediocre historical mystery/horror tale. Animation was nice and l liked the conspiracy elements which gave it a From Hell-vibe (the superb comic, not the poor movie), but pretty bland characters and storytelling for the most part. But the end twist certianly was a pleasent suprise, even if its a pretty standard anime convention at this point. I guess a rental is in order to see if the praise is justified.

Doesn't Key have a favorable bias towards historical anime?

If you don't mind the mystical elements in it, then Chevalier is definitely a very strong anime that, from the first thirteen episodes I've seen, gets better as the series goes on.