Forum - View topicNEWS: FUNimation acquires Slayers TV series
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Razorlight6
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It seemed Nagisa might not have read those and thought the post came out of the blue, when it didn't. Having just read through the entire thread, I was pointing out the fact.
It's in Cartoon Network's interests to stay somewhat diverse to attract more viewers, though they skew towards action regardless of setting. If anything, I'd think Slayers would be a good replacement for Inuyasha since they both have fantasy/comedy/action (though the romance angle is lacking). CN won't pick up old series, but I don't blame them. They want to stay current and have the best looking shows. Who wouldn't? Imagine the very dated-looking Slayers TV following any of CN's current anime. People would say "WTF?" Then they would hear the dub and say "WTF^2?!"  But anything to bring Slayers more attention and hopefully extend it is a good thing, so I'm glad for FUNimation's decision to grab the license (even though I already got all three TV collections  but for cheap  ). Hopefully other classics are as fortunate to get a second chance.
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NightHedgehog
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Actually, Toonami had shown interest in airing the show years ago, but Fox Kids bought the rights and sat on them. And how can you say that they wouldn't buy dated anime? Lupin III was made in the 70s and Case Closed was made around the same time as Slayers.
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Steventheeunuch
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Well, yes and no. While it's the same studio, it probably bears no real reference to actually getting stuff done, since the studio 4Kids uses is not completely bound to 4kids. |
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Nagisa
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No, no, I've read the entire thread. The debate on Fullmetal Alchemist's dub was completely and 100% irrelevant from the get-go. It had no place from Post One. |
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Andromeda
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Well, no. But (and this I get from having met Tiffany Grant and a couple of other ADV voice actors last year at a con and going to a couple of VA panels they hosted), voice actors almost always work in studios / with companies that are close by. A Studio in NYC, for rinstance, would probably hire casts made up almost entirely, if not entirely, of actors who live in NYC (not that that'd be all that hard, heh). It's only a handful of VAs, such as Tiffany Grant, that tend to get brought in from further away, but they tend to have a lot more "street cred". Hence, the Slayers actors, they're probably all locals from the area the studio's located in, and therefore more conveinient for both companies to hire for their dubbing work, is all. So, there is a connection - conveinience! 
-Andromeda |
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tlsmith1963
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I didn't buy Slayers the first time around, so this will be good for someone like me. But $50?!! I hope that isn't $50 *a disc*!
Tammy |
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Steventheeunuch
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You're missing the point, in where this actually bears no relevance to 4Kids what so ever. The actors and studio would be contracted through FUNimation directly, not 4Kids, and even if they were located on the other side of the planet, it wouldn't matter worth a shit, since it's not as if they're redubbing the entire thing. |
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Steventheeunuch
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..... I don't know what's worse, the inability to read, or the lack of COMMON SENSE
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Andromeda
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Um, no, I didn't "miss the point". And indeed it had virtually nothing to do with 4Kids - THAT was MY point. YOU seemed confused as to why somebody had even brought it up. Somebody else had brought up the fact that it was "strange" or something that a lot of the Slayers dub actors (<--- on-topic!) ended up also working for 4Kids, somebody mentioned they "use the same studio", and somebody else (and possibly yourself, to an extent) seemed to not really realize that: IT DOESN'T MATTER. All sharing a studio meant, probably, was that they record in the same studio, and that the same group of local actors would be quite likely to be brought in. That's why some of the actors from Slayers have worked on 4Kids dubs. That, my dear, was my point. Which you obviously somewhat missed. As for this:
Actors don't always work for the same company all the time - most VAs are freelancers, as was mentioned earlier in the thread. As a matter of fact, I seem to recall that most VAs are simply actors that, well, do voice work. They have agents, and that agent is not likely to be the same company that even does the dubs, let alone the company that releases the anime (which isn't always the same group that dubs it). The agent is the person you would talk to about hiring them, NOT one of the companies that their acting happens to appear in some releases for. Additionally, the simple fact that it's only a handful of scenes that are being re-dubbed is even MORE reason to hire locals! They'll probaby only be in the studio for a day or two recording the new takes for the dub, and it's not a new series or even a new release - it's a re-release of an OLD series. Hence, there'd be very little reason to drag someone "located on the other side of the planet" all the way to the other side just to dub maybe a half-dozen or whatever scenes for it. It's not like any of them is as popular as Tiffany Grant or Wendee Lee, so if they lived that far away, they probably wouldn't be brought in - it'd be too expensive. Either the company would foot this huge travel expense for only a few scenes, or the actor would have to, and most actors don't make nearly enough money to do that. Once again, this was related to something someone brought up (and the above two paragraphs were a response to your post, as well) about the Slayers dub. Not everything not relating specifically to the new DVDs is automatically OT, and you are NOT the owner of or even a mod for this forum, so please stop foaming at the mouth long enough to read other people's posts before going Topic Nazi on them, alright? Especially with a thread this long - sometimes people miss whole pages in ones this long. Eat some chocolate or take some Prozac or something already, and stop picking on newbs and throwing a hissy fit over "OT" that isn't. In any case, actors aside, I'm glad - this means that I'll be able to buy the series in Best Buy for a reasonable price fairly soon. The ony shops that had Slayers anime before now around here were Suncoast in the mall (now out of business and they were expensive to boot!), and one of the local specialty shops which has apparently closed for good. So this release is good news for people like me who waited years to buy it (I do have the first season box set, and have been considering buying the rest; think I'll wait now, though, for the remaster, since it's not going to be all that expensive anyway). -Andromeda |
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Steventheeunuch
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I never said it was off-topic. The only thing I ever said was off-topic here was talking about the FMA dub. The original point I have been trying to dismiss was "4kids uses the same studio as slayers, so thats a coincidence, or had something to do with it". Yes, the actors still do work for the same studio, but it DOESN'T have any relevance to 4Kids what so ever. Infact, I even said-
Studios can be used by different companies, actors can work under different studios, and I haven't ever debated that. So, I fail to see how you mis-construed "4kids is irrelevant to this thread" into "dont be offtopic for talking about voice acting". |
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Andromeda
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The brief references made to the FMA dub were not entirely off-topic, actually. FMA is dubbed by FUNi, and the discussion topic of the thread was about FUNi's now having the rights to Slayers and re-leasing it - with some portions re-dubbed. The re-dubbed bits were what made someone make a throwaway comment about Winry's voice in FMA, and somebody else posted a single sentence in disagreement. Again though, that was brief talk of a series being put out by the same company, and the dub, because it was mentioned that they're re-dubbing some bits of Slayers. It was related, however loosely. That's hardly the whole topic going OT.
Ah, this is what happens when I surf too late at night. I missed that post. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have gone off on that point so much. My apologies.
Since I missed that post, I wasn't aware of that, being that much of the posting you've done in the thread was simply chewing out others for being OT when they weren't all that OT at all.
No, I "miscontrued" it (read: missed one key post + disagree on a key point here) that into "it isn't OT to talk about dubs the same actors have worked on in the time after the original Slayers dub". In fact, I neglected to mention a key argument of mine (damn sleepiness) as to the on-topicness of it; the actors may have improved in their acting since the original dub, and since certain scenes are being re-dubbed, this may affect the quality of dubbing on the re-dubbed bits (especially if their acting has actually improved). Fact is, discussing actors' other roles since then can be related to their current acting skill. Therefore, it still can relate back to the new Slayers release. That said, I'm seeing not all posters really discussing the relationship to the Slayers dub... however, topics have a remarkable way of sorting themselves out, or even branching out into some related sub-topic that actually provides some decent info, so while I do apologize for such things as the "foaming at the mouth" comment (I was cranky, and I shouldn't have taken it out on you like that), I still don't see why you kept complaining about OT when frankly, I've seen topics way, way more off-topic than this (for instance, a topic on another forum I visit was on this bad LotR fanfic someone had found that actually was supposed to be a revenge-fic against the forum itself, but was really, really stupid and badly-written; the topic eventually devolved into completely random parodies of "[forum name] badfic", with horrible pairings, songfic, and all, as well as numerous other things that had nothing at all to do with the actual fanfic, whatsoever). Just for perspective. In any case, thank you for (as far as I can tell) responding maturely and intelligently, instead of just flaming me; I've had had times like the one where some newb who was too stupid to realize that the April Fools Day stories were jokes (and he was all "i wont trust ANN ever again!", too  ) flamed me repeatedly for calling him on his stupidity and eye-acheingly bad grammar and typing skills, so the fact that you actually acted rationally is a relief, especially since I probably would have just gotten stupider-acting if you hadn't, and then we'd likely have both embarassed ourselves severely.
Ah, I AM wandering into the edges of OT now. Sorry about that. Back On-topic: Are the new DVDs going to have any additional extras, do you think? I can't remember exactly, but I don't think it mentioned anything about the DVDs other than the touchups to the episodes themselves, in the article and in the sources I've seen so far. Personaly, while I thought the actor interviews and such were nice on the original DVD box sets from Software Sculptors (I *think* those are the ones that put out the box set I have for season one; I think they're part of CPM anyway, if I recall), I'd have liked some other little extras, like I dunno - a guide to the spells or something (yes, we kind of know them already, but still), kind of like how ADV did with the cultural notes on the Chrono Crusade DVDs? Or A music video (you could do a very nice one to almost anything from the Slayers soundtrack, after all). Since the price suggests to me that number of discs in the sets will remain about the same, but since compression technology has gotten a little better, I wonder. It's probably too much to ask for an audio commentary track, though, with six or seven episodes to a disc (though ADV has fit three audio tracks for six episodes onto one disc before, so hmm...). And I wonder if the artbox will have a new design, as well? I mean, other than having the FUNi logo and saying it's the new remastered edition and all. If there's both new extras AND a pretty new box design, I may just sell or give away my old set for season one and buy the new edition; I know I'll probably buy the new editions for the other two seasons. -Andromeda |
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Allen
Company Representative
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Plans are still being made for this release. Artwork, logo and other things will get a facelift for this new release. Extras are being discussed and the ideas that have been tossed around are very solid. We have contacts with many of the original actors. There is no plan to re-dub the show with a new cast. For any tweaks that will be made to the original dub, every effort will be made to use the original actor. What was said at the panel at ACen was many of the original ideas for our release. These things change as we get a better feel of what materials are available to us. Allen Divers Regional Marketing Manager FUNimation Entertainment http://www.operationanime.com |
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darkinusgurl
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Konnichi wa! I can't wait 'til Slayers comes out!! As an anime fan I feel ashamed to say that I didn't get to see Slayers when I was little(I was at my grandmothers mercy watching Spanish soap operas). It'll be good for all of us to get acquainted with it. LOL, I hope it's as good as my friends said it was!!!
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Andromeda
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Thanks for the info!  I'd like to note that even ONE audio commentary track with the actors would be a fantastic addition (actors are usually quite entertaining and interesting, and I'm an AC junkie), and would definately motivate me to buy even the first season set in the new release (not sure if I'd buy it otherwise since I already own the season, so yeah, it'll need a nifty extra or two for me to buy it, but I'd probably buy it again if it had that kind of neat stuff on it). So if you're still throwing ideas like that around, there's that and the music videos (hey, why don't they ever caption the lyrics in music videos or clean open/close on DVDs? Especially since the versions of the OP and ED on the original Slayers DVDs already have dual subtitles, you could just use the same section of the sub track, couldn't you? Well, that could be an option you could turn on and off, I mean. But that'd be neat, since the Slayers soundtrack is often quite infectious, and I happen to not speak fluent Japanese, so seeing the lyrics on-screen is the only way I know what I'm saying, should I choose to do an embarassing form of impromptu karaoke).
In any case, it does sound as if there will be a new extra or two, which is cool. Again, thanks for the info! -Andromeda |
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