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NEWS: Sentai Filmworks Announces English Dub for Love Chunibyo & Other Delusions!

But regardless, as long as Gen Fukunaga owns Funimation, I won't be buying or supporting any of their products.

dragonrider_cody wrote:

But regardless, as long as Gen Fukunaga owns Funimation, I won't be buying or supporting any of their products.

Um, why? Dude just owns the place, he doesnt make the dubs :p

SpacemanHardy wrote:

Also nice to see that they have in fact decided to dub it. Apparently enough people complained about the sub-only release that they decided to bite the bullet and do it. Good to see that they're still planning to put out the sub-only DVDs for those who don't want to wait for it, though.

The problem with this is that the subtitled-only version is only listed as "DVD" on their tumblr post today. "A DVD for the subtitled version will still release this May" or something like that. So we get punished for something we don't want and that will probably be terrible because an anime like this with so much culture almost always gets translated bad.

Complicated?! This concept isn't exactly rocket science. We had Eric Cartman explaining this concept to us over a decade ago in South Park (Good Times with Weapons), for crying out loud.

Um, why? Dude just owns the place, he doesnt make the dubs :p

A 180 suitable for a terrible company like Sentai. I swear to Christ these guys are like the enemy of English dubbing. Whenever a show I like get picked up by them I always die a little on the inside thinking about the quality made English dub that could have been.

I still pray that one day Penguindrum will get that Funimation dub it deserves.

A 180 suitable for a terrible company like Sentai. I swear to Christ these guys are like the enemy of English dubbing. Whenever a show I like get picked up by them I always die a little on the inside thinking about the quality made English dub that could have been.

I still pray that one day Penguindrum will get that Funimation dub it deserves.

Funi dubbing that would still be garbage. They only put effort into massively popular stuff like Naruto and Bleach.

Funi dubbing that would still be garbage. They only put effort into massively popular stuff like Naruto and Bleach.

Well, apparently I'm nuts. For some reason, I thought Funi was a subsidiary of Viz.

Funi's still bad.

North American anime licensing company Sentai Filmworks announced on Sunday that it acquired Kyoto Animation's (KyoAni's) Chūnibyō demo Koi ga Shitai! anime series. The 12-episode anime will be available soon through select digital outlets with a home video release to follow in 2013.

North American anime distributor Sentai Filmworks announced on Monday that it will dub Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!. The previously announced subtitle-only release will still ship in May, but due to popular demand the company will also release a DVD, Blu-ray, and Limited Edition Numbered Premium Box Set with an English language track later this year.

FireChick wrote:

Great. Just great. This is getting a dub? It really shouldn't, because a show this terrible doesn't deserve a dub. There are much better anime out there that deserve an English dub, and this over hyped insult to humanity doesn't need one.

Now, I love to bitch, complain and use hyperbole as much as the next guy, but insult to humanity? Hitler was an insult to humanity. The subjugation of the people in North Korea is an insult to humanity. The spread of famine and disease in Africa is an insult to a humanity. A tv show that you don't like? Probably not so much. I know that anime is serious business, but it ain't THAT serious.

For my two cents, [chuunibyou] reminds me of symptoms for autism or asperger syndrome. Which I have.

Most of the time, they'll only go back and dub a show if the subbed version already sold fairly well, or if one of the foreign licensors like Manga UK or Madman wants them to. Chunibyo is really the only exception to this rule where they actually made the decision *before* the release even came out.

sometimes I wonder if anime network guys are on drugs

this show is over a year old

and most of the people who watched it wanted a dub in the first place, I don't really understand what there was to consider about it.

of course, they also announce a whole bunch of DVD only releases and annoy a bunch more people in the process. I guess reselling anime in america must have a much smaller profit margin than I thought as everyone seems to sell whatever license they can get.

I wish they would learn to say No. when companies give them ridiculous licensing restrictions because I sure as well have. In this age of online streaming it is rather irrelevant when an american video release comes out as it doesn't matter when it is added to your collection, most people have already seen the show long ago. I wish people would stop buying DVDs, it only encourages this behavior.

SquadmemberRitsu wrote:

I still pray that one day Penguindrum will get that Funimation dub it deserves.

This made me vomit a little bit in my mouth. A horribly cast dub, most likely with not only Japanese words mispronounced, but even simple English terms like those in Shiki.

Ironically, Shiki is the only semi-recent Funimation dub I've heard that didn't seem like it was cast by tossing darts at a board.

SpacemanHardy wrote:

Most of the time, they'll only go back and dub a show if the subbed version already sold fairly well, or if one of the foreign licensors like Manga UK or Madman wants them to. Chunibyo is really the only exception to this rule where they actually made the decision *before* the release even came out.

[Citation Needed]

Audience: Have you ever been surprised by how a sub-only release went and thought you should go back and dub that?

Williams: That happened with Clannad but not so much the sales as there were other English-speaking countries that wanted to release it and wanted a dub for it, so we were able to go back and do the dub because we could spread out the cost. There's the case of Princess Resurrection and I thought we should do a dub for it at first, but it sold well enough that we went back and there's now a dub for that one out there. That's one case where we've done that. Most cases though, it was like with Clannad where we could spread it out with other countries.

Audience: How do you deal with streaming in other countries?

Williams: It depends on the rights that you purchase with the Japanese. In some cases you'll get all English-speaking countries, in others you'll get North America and Canada only, so it depends on the rights you get. Generally for us if we get a show and we have, say, Australian or U.K. rights or whatever, we'll work with a company there to handle that for us.

Bablioteca wrote:

People talk a lot about voice actors, but really for me, I'm hoping this is an opportunity for the script writer to really land a home run. The show lends itself well to an adaption.

Sentai/Seraphim has script writers?

They always just read the subtitles and make a few minor changes in areas where needed.