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Samurai Champloo DVD LE + Artbox- Thoughts

Hey, that bandana does look nice! ... But the box does look sort of plain (in the pictures anyway). Well, mine also shipped, should be getting in by Monday, hopefully.

Thanks for the review. In your own words though, how much fun is it?

Rememer all the naysayer backthen that said Hip hop and samurai won't mix or how crappy it's going to turn out. Typical anime fans hate rap and hip hop with a passion. But you don't hear much complaint about the hip hop in champloo now a days because champloo prove them wrong. It created something fun and new.

Animerica: Do you try to match the american with the original japanese actor?

Jonathan Klein: (he's co owner of a dubbing studio)
I use the japese voices as a guide for my casting, but not to the letter of the law. If I happen to casts somebody who sounds similar to thier japanese seiyuu counterpart, great. But I will never let my actors simply imitate the japanese seiyuu. After call, it's called "voice-acting" not "voice imitating". Actors should make thier own character's performance thier own.

Animerica: After all that work on dub, how do you feel when somebody say they don't like listening to dubs?

Jonathan Klein : If somebody simply tells me the "all dubs suck" line, I tend to think that's a narrow-minded perspective. What irks me the most are those who say "The Japanese actors are much better than the english voice actors", as if it's the universal constant. When I hear that I ask them in japanese, "where did you study japanese?" To which the person usually replies "huh?"

If you dont' understand the language for all intents and purposes thej apanese actors may as well be reciting the phone book. Since it's animation, you can't always pick up the subtleties in body language and facial expression that you get in a live-action film. and TV, so you completely relying on the person's voice to deliver the acting performance. If the listener doesn't understand the language well enough to know what they're saying, how can they pick up the subtleties in the delivery of the japanese line.

-Animerica Vol 13 #1

1) you don't know Japanese

2) dubbing companys are not trying to imitate their Japanese actor like you want them to.

3) I have a feeling that you're one of those people that think all Japanese voice actors are always much better than the English, as mention above.

So if you don't understand Japanese, but you think all Japanese voice actors are better than English and you're comparing the English voice actor with the Japanese, then no dub will ever be right for you.

The dub is fine.

Hold on...im confused....i thought the release date was 1/11/05....where are you guys buying it from?

benbboy wrote:

Hold on...im confused....i thought the release date was 1/11/05....where are you guys buying it from?

1/11/05 is the official street date but depending on where you buy or order from its possible to get it sooner. For example, in my online experience, amazon.com ships items out on or after the official release date, never before. But digitaleyes ships out whenever they get the item in stock which can sometimes be up to a week before its officially released.

The dub is fine.

wanderer wrote:

benbboy wrote: Hold on...im confused....i thought the release date was 1/11/05....where are you guys buying it from? 1/11/05 is the official street date but depending on where you buy or order from its possible to get it sooner. For example, in my online experience, amazon.com ships items out on or after the official release date, never before. But digitaleyes ships out whenever they get the item in stock which can sometimes be up to a week before its officially released.

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. If I'm not mistaken, darkhunter ordered it from Deep Discount DVD, and they have a (good) tendency to send preorders out a week before the street release. My friend did the same thing and used Priority shipping, which is also what darkhunter probably did.

Originally when I first saw mention of this show in Newtype USA, I was beyond not interested. But as I read more about it, the idea of hip hop and samurai started sounding really cool. But, I've read from other fans that the music isn't really hip hop (or at least what Americans consider hip hop) and definitely not rap, but more like techno.