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NEWS: Digimon Adventure tri. Anime Gets English Dub With Jeff Nimoy Reprising Role

AceLuffy4Ever wrote:

I am just hoping everyone keeps their English Dub names since those the names i personally prefer and grew up with.

I was kinda hoping they would use their original Japanese names this time around. Those who watched Digimon back in the day are adults now, myself included, and wouldn't mind calling them by their un-Americanized names.

I'm wondering who picked up the films of Digimon Adventure tri. and how they will be handled... The seasonal shows' English versions of Digimon have been been altered drastically when they debuted on TV years earlier, through arbitrary renaming of most characters and even completely changing the script from the original in some cases. I'm hoping at the least that the characters will keep their Japanese names intact this time, although I'm not holding my breath on that.

AceLuffy4Ever wrote:

I am just hoping everyone keeps their English Dub names since those the names i personally prefer and grew up with.

No it would be horrible for me, for example i could never see myself calling Ash(satoshi), Misty(Kasumi), or Brock(Takeshi). The Japanese names just don't resonate with me so i personally hope they keep the Americanized names for continuity,

Animechic420 wrote:

AceLuffy4Ever wrote: I am just hoping everyone keeps their English Dub names since those the names i personally prefer and grew up with. I was kinda hoping they would use their original Japanese names this time around. Those who watched Digimon back in the day are adults now, myself included, and wouldn't mind calling them by their un-Americanized names.

No it would be horrible for me, for example i could never see myself calling Ash(satoshi), Misty(Kasumi), or Brock(Takeshi). The Japanese names just don't resonate with me so i personally hope they keep the Americanized names for continuity,

KH91 wrote:

Awesome. Now the question is...will there be edits?

Saban Brands has stepped away from the franchise and, like Freyanne said, this is unlikely to air on TV. So it'll hopefully be uncut.

Personally, I'd like it if they used all the Japanese music, but use the dub terminology, attack, and Digimon names (Gatomon, Digivolve), and use the Japanese names most of the time but use the dub nicknames occasionally when using nicknames would be appropriate.

veemonjosh wrote:

KH91 wrote: Awesome. Now the question is...will there be edits? Saban Brands has stepped away from the franchise and, like Freyanne said, this is unlikely to air on TV. So it'll hopefully be uncut.

From what I recall Jeff Nemoy was the man who was considered the mastermind behind the atrocious American dub, so even if Saban aren't involved having him on board isn't a good sign, especially the fact he's reprising his role which indicates this won't be like Viz's redub of Sailor Moon which tried to distance themselves from the original dub as much as possible. This one seems all for embracing the terribleness of yesteryear.

-Stuart Smith

ninjamitsuki wrote:

Personally, I'd like it if they used all the Japanese music, but use the dub terminology, attack, and Digimon names (Gatomon, Digivolve), and use the Japanese names most of the time but use the dub nicknames occasionally when using nicknames would be appropriate.

Oh no the american digimon music in my opinion was much better, there is nothing more iconic than DIGIMON DIGITAL MONSTERS, Run Around, and Change into power.

AceLuffy4Ever wrote:

ninjamitsuki wrote: Personally, I'd like it if they used all the Japanese music, but use the dub terminology, attack, and Digimon names (Gatomon, Digivolve), and use the Japanese names most of the time but use the dub nicknames occasionally when using nicknames would be appropriate. Oh no the american digimon music in my opinion was much better, there is nothing more iconic than DIGIMON DIGITAL MONSTERS, Run Around, and Change into power.

I'm sorry, but some guy chanting "Digimon Digital Monsters Digimons are the Champions" doesn't hold a candle to Butter-fly and Brave Heart.

As someone who grew up on the dub and watched a subbed version as an adult, I'm of the opinion that the original score should be kept but the dub's names and terminology should be used.

Even after watching the subbed version, I still mentally connect those characters to the names Matt, TK, Gatomon, Omnimon, etc. rather than Yamato, Takeru, Tailmon, Omegamon, etc., and a dub not using those names would just feel bizarre to me.

Also, "digivolve" is a much cooler thing to say than just "evolve".

Agreed, but maybe with English lyrics for Braveheart and Butterfly.

I loved watching Digimon Adventure in Japanese and in English, and it wouldnt matter to me if they used the JPN names for them. I would still refer to them as Tai, Matt, Izzy, Kari, ect. And this is coming from someone that now refers to the Sailor Moon characters as their JPN names, save for a couple of them.
Would it actually be a serious deal-breaker for people if the dub for Tri actually kept the US names for the cast? I really didn't even know fans were that hardcore about the name changes for Digimon Adventure, compared to other series that had the dub treatment. At least the dub names for the main characters of Adventure are similar to, or the same as, their original Japanese names..