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REVIEW: Chrono Crusade DVD 4

I wouldn’t mind at all if Satella got killed off at some point

I didn't find the characters to be annoying.

I love this series. This and Last Exile are my favorite Gonzo titles.

Are you talking about the last episode on the DVD or the series? Because I feel like this is one anime that has a definite and well suited ending.

As far as the dub goes, when I hear Hillary Haag's performance, I hear Hillary Haag (along with some of her other characters in past series) rather than hearing Rosette. That makes it too difficult for me to appreciate the dub.

Erufu wrote:

I didn't find the characters to be annoying. I love this series. This and Last Exile are my favorite Gonzo titles. Are you talking about the last episode on the DVD or the series? Because I feel like this is one anime that has a definite and well suited ending.

Yes I am talking about the TV series, 22-24 realy pissed me off some because I love the Manga so much.

Godaistudios wrote:

As far as the dub goes, when I hear Hillary Haag's performance, I hear Hillary Haag (along with some of her other characters in past series) rather than hearing Rosette. That makes it too difficult for me to appreciate the dub.

I have never had that problem with Hilary Haag, but I have with Steven Jay Blum. I have great difficulty disassociating him from Spike Speigel (of Cowboy Bebop, of course) anytime I hear him in any other role.

And Richard Cox always sounds like Inuyasha to me, no matter what he's actually doing in a given role.

I think their slipping on the 1920's references abit.

For example, in one of Az's Extra Classes, they make reference of the Gang Wars of the Prohibition Era. Problem is, they make NY seem to be the battleground of the gang wars, and references to Al Capone, when most of the action was in Chicago, where Al Capone had most of his operations and where some of the more imfamous Prohibition Crimes happened (St. Valentines Day Massacre, Elliot Ness, etc.).

I couldn't get past the point in the review where the reviewer makes the mistake of calling the lore "Catholic". It's Protestant! PROTESTANT! Big, big difference (well, if you're a Catholic or a Protestant, it's a big difference)!

Sorry, sorry... but, I can't stand it when a review has a crucial bit of information wrong like that. The Order of Magdelene isn't a Catholic organization - the uniforms for the women may resemble those of Catholic nuns, but they're not actually nuns. It's a Protestant group.

Hey, anybody ever read the Orlando Sentinel? I'm thinking of no longer reading any of their movie reviews lately, because there's one reviewer that keeps saying completely wrong crap about anime - and he clearly hates it with an unrivaled passion AND always take his frustration out on it in his reviews (you'd think they'd know enough to stop forcing him to watch anime, but apparently his editors are too stupid to realize that they're seriously offending some anime fans).

For instance, he called anime "a genre of Japanimation". WTF? First, it's not a genre, second, almost nobody uses "Japanimation" anymore, third, by American definition they are the SAME EXACT THING... and fourth, by technical definition, it's the reverse, as "anime" literally just means animation.

Oh, and that same review? That was of the Cowboy Bebop movie, in which he once again got his facts completely screwy, and didn't seem to care - he stated that it was "based on a comic book", and that being animated, was probably "closer to being a direct comic book adaptation than live action"...

No. Wrong-ola. The CB movie was done as a "lost episode" for the TV series. It was, hence, based on the TV SERIES. The comics werne't the original story, they, too, came from the people who made the anime, and are a spinoff product, NOT what it, or the movie, were based from! Christ, all it takes is ten minutes on Google or ANN to find out that much!

Oh, and he ragged on the characters, the writing, the plot (which any CB fan can tell you wasn't half as good as the rest of the anime), the animation... yet he "neglected" to mention the one thing that would redeem it, indeed, the one thing pretty much EVERYONE mentions when they talk about Bebop: the music. That's right, he reviewed the CB movie without one damn word about the soundtrack. He spent the entire introduction of his review not even TALKING about the movie in question, but rather, ragging on "anime, that peculiar genre of Japanimation", with if I recall its "Speed Racer lip flaps" (the CB dub is a HELL of a lot better than the Speed Racer's dub! Come ON!)... and then doesn't even mention the soundtrack. And he got his background info completely incorrect, to boot!

I can't stand it when reviewers can't keep their facts straight. While this review is nowhere near as bad as the one I just mentioned, of course, it does have an error that could be considered a pretty big one - and a silly one, since this is a review not of the TV series, but supposedly of a specific DVD! If this reviewer's seen the other DVDs, at least (I haven't gotten up so far as volume four), then they should have checked out the DVD extras, including the audio commentary, which for volume 1 specifically mentions that it's a Protestant group, not Catholic. Catholicism and Protestantism are two often VERY different branchs of Christianity, and should be referenced as such, especially when it's canon specific to the series, as in this case.

In any case, I've noticed that people tend to either like/love the dub, or hate it. Personally, I like the '20s slang - which fits perfectly well, since it's a period piece - and while I definately agree that when Hilary Haag shreiks, it's ear-splitting, she does a pretty good job otherwise (then again, I haven't heard her in anything else before). I'm glad I'm not the only one, though, who can't help but think of Spike Speigal whenever Blum has a role in another series (or Faye Valentine, whenever whatshername who played her plays opposite him in pretty much anything, as she, too, seems to be a "one trick pony"), or who can't watch the Ranma dub without thinking "gah! It's Inu-yasha! What's he doing here?". Personally, while I understand using people for "signature voices", it does seem like you'd want to find actors with bigger ranges. As someone working on an animation project and who's doing a lot of VA work for it, I can tell you, it's a lot more advantageous and interesting if you can, you know, change your voice a little? That said, whoever played Faye does have a nice voice; I don't mind so much hearing her all over the place, but I still wonder if she even has another voice in those vocal chords of hers.


-Andromeda

Haiseikoh 1973 wrote:

I think their slipping on the 1920's references abit. For example, in one of Az's Extra Classes, they make reference of the Gang Wars of the Prohibition Era. Problem is, they make NY seem to be the battleground of the gang wars, and references to Al Capone, when most of the action was in Chicago, where Al Capone had most of his operations and where some of the more imfamous Prohibition Crimes happened (St. Valentines Day Massacre, Elliot Ness, etc.).

Well, the creator does state in one of the mangas that he hopes an American audience can forgive him on his interpretation of a 1920s America. He said he was really nervous about how well it would be recieved in America. Plus, it's fiction, and fiction has a right to do whatever. It's not a historical fiction work, either. It just happens to take place in America. So, I think we can all get over this "mistake" and continue to love Chrno Crusade.