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INTEREST: Sentai Filmworks Reveals Inu x Boku SS Dub Cast

Most other Texan VAs are shackled to the beast that is Funimation up in Ft. Worth, and outsourcing to California is usually only done in very special cases. Yeah, Sentai's in-house talent pool is definitely in need of new blood if they want to remain competitive.

Panzer Vor wrote:

Most other Texan VAs are shackled to the beast that is Funimation up in Ft. Worth, and outsourcing to California is usually only done in very special cases. Yeah, Sentai's in-house talent pool is definitely in need of new blood if they want to remain competitive.

They're not "shackled". They are freelancers, though some may not want to take the (*gets out Google Maps for research*) 4-hour drive to the other city.

Also, there are a surprising number of new names in Seraphim dubs lately, looking over the large casts such as Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere and Bodacious Space Pirates.

they will have to dig deeper come season 2 of Horizon, or else we might hear Andrew Love as 10 other characters plus the 3 he already voices.

getchman wrote:

they will have to dig deeper come season 2 of Horizon, or else we might hear Andrew Love as 10 other characters plus the 3 he already voices.

To be honest, the Horizon dub is...not good. I watched the first episode dubbed a few months ago and maybe it's because I'm used to the Japanese voices, but I couldn't go throughout half of the episode before I turned it off. Seriously, ow.

EDIT: Aaaaand it turns out that Stephen Foster directed the dub. Of course.

Why does Sentai keep this jackass around, again?

To be honest, the Horizon dub is...not good. I watched the first episode dubbed a few months ago and maybe it's because I'm used to the Japanese voices, but I couldn't go throughout half of the episode before I turned it off. Seriously, ow.

EDIT: Aaaaand it turns out that Stephen Foster directed the dub. Of course.

Why does Sentai keep this jackass around, again?

Okay, so here's my little Thursday morning rant:

I followed the thread that unraveled regarding the Inu X Boku SS dub, and I'm just going to put this out there for anyone who gives two shits: I am so DONE with all the stupid, whitewashing hatred of Steven Foster's work, and especially the presumption that he hates Anime and would rather be somewhere else writing for a sitcom. Goddamit. It's so easy for somebody to sit behind a [expletive] keyboard and peck away their opinion to broadcast to all of Otaku-dom, while, say, STEVEN FOSTER, is up at Sentai sometimes seven days a week, sometimes sleeping on one of the couches in the studios at night instead of going home, because he's working his ass off to put out what he considers good or great work. I watch this man work all the time, I see and hear his passion for what he's doing, and then I read bullshit on the internet about how half of what he turns out is practically ruinous. What this all translates as to me is, "Steven Foster didn't handle the dub EXACTLY the way I would have, and zohmygodz he even took some liberties!" Ya know what? Go open your OWN studio, hire an amazing engineer (or three), get a bunch of backers to put out the highest quality work you can fathom, become (I guess) your own Producer/ Director, have a casting call, get a legal team to write up your contracts, hire some incredible translators and writers, then YOU go make Anime the way YOU want it done. I've read this anti-Foster drivel for over ten years, and it's just SO. DAMN. TIRESOME. Especially when I know the guy, see him working his ass off, and on top of that NEVER expecting any critical praise or recognition. He just shows up, does his work (and does it well) and then moves on to the next. He has even refused convention invites because he believes that fans, and I'm paraphrasing, "don't want to see the directors, they don't really care, they want to see the actors, and that's fine".

And believe me, I don't need to speak for the guy. He's incredibly strong-willed, opinionated, erudite, eloquent, and thick-skinned. I'm doing this on my own, because sometimes you can only take so much bullshit from people who think it is their divine right to be delivered cheap, impeccably produced Anime that meets every little standard on their fantasy checklist.

When all is said an done, yes, everybody has the right to an opinion, and we are all free to express ourselves however, wherever, and whenenver we wish. And while it's not my desire to personally "stop all the Foster haters", I would at least like people to be aware of that at which they hurl there invectives and tirades.

And with that, my tirade ends.

To call someone lazy or incompetent when you really aren't familiar with them or the situation is just bullshit.

Aniamerican: Clearly Patton isn't saying that because he's on Foster's payroll. Clearly.

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To call someone lazy or incompetent when you really aren't familiar with them or the situation is just bullshit.

Mr Patton can defend his friend all he wants, but he is not going to bully me into liking something I found offensive. Am I really supposed to think all that "funny stuff" in the second half of Guin Saga was unintentional?

When all is said an done, yes, everybody has the right to an opinion, and we are all free to express ourselves however, wherever, and whenenver we wish. And while it's not my desire to personally "stop all the Foster haters", I would at least like people to be aware of that at which they hurl there invectives and tirades.