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NEWS: Ghost in the Shell 2 DVD Replacement Program

It's great that you guys were able to get this non-issue corrected, but I want to know when the language Nazis at Go Fish will re-issue this DVD with a dub! I hate not having a choice of language.

On the contrary, that's a non-issue. Dreamworks should be praised for respecting the integrity of the original acting work under the direction of the film's creators by not degrading the film with a horrible English dub of their own doing. Same goes for their release of Millennium Actress. Thank god Manga Entertainment didn't have the rights to Innocence's American release, an hour and a half of having to listen to Richard Epcar and Crispin Freeman's attempts at being convincing actors. Outside of anime it's more difficult to find dubs, and even moreso outside of America, because the audience generally values the integrity of the original voicework done under the direction of the work's original creators. But disrespectful corporations like ADV have had no qualms about trying to commercialize, homogenize, and generally degrade anime so as to appeal to the lowest common denominator. The stupidest people become the core audience, and thus great Japanese works get turned into laughable piles of garbage with consistently mediocre English dubs. That's what you wanted for Innocence?

But disrespectful corporations like ADV have had no qualms about trying to commercialize, homogenize, and generally degrade anime so as to appeal to the lowest common denominator. The stupidest people become the core audience, and thus great Japanese works get turned into laughable piles of garbage with consistently mediocre English dubs. That's what you wanted for Innocence?

Do you have any examples to back up such big claims?

Gee, every dub ADV's ever done? From the days of Evangelion to more recent series like Rahxephon they've shown no effort to either respect the integrity of the work they publish or even produce a halfway decent culturally-transitioned product. I'm perplexed as to why you call it "big claims", I personally don't know anyone who thinks ADV's dubs are anything good.

To get back to the whole DVD replacement program that DW is offering, I'm going to ask a paranoid question: is the website legit, or is this some scam to get ahold of a lot of DVD of GitS2? I'm just saying that because the website address seems a bit strange to me.

Ah, the integrity of internet polls and the whims of the lowest common denominator. To quote yourself, "Those are not specific examples of anything." If popularity is the determining factor of what's good then by that logic Britney Spears is the greatest singer in the world.

No it's legit. You can also access the replacement form by going to http://www.gofishpictures.com/GITS2/main.html clicking on "the dvd" and then on "questions about your dvd?"

What exactly in Eva or Rahxephon do you disagree with?

Well, David Williams has even stated that he wishes he could go back and redub Eva...
That and Gainax told them it was entirely unacceptible and ADV told them it was too late and they'd already shipped it.

Well, David Williams has even stated that he wishes he could go back and redub Eva...

That and Gainax told them it was entirely unacceptible and ADV told them it was too late and they'd already shipped it.

It's also unfortunate that ADV didn't do a new dub for the Eva Platinum series release, because that of course offered the best opportunity for them to do so. But at the same time it didn't surprise me because, come on, ADV spend money producing a new dub for a popular series when they've already got one, no matter how bad it is?