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REVIEW: Lazarus Anime Episodes 1-5 Review

It’s funny to me that Adult Swim poured all this money and resources into getting Watanabe to direct an expensive show for them with action choreography from the John Wick guy to hand the English ADR direction to such a cut-rate voiceover studio like Sentai Filmworks. They do some of the cheapest work with single-takes and terrible direction. All that money and they still couldn’t pony up for high quality ADR.

Ajc228 wrote:

It’s funny to me that Adult Swim poured all this money and resources into getting Watanabe to direct an expensive show for them with action choreography from the John Wick guy to hand the English ADR direction to such a cut-rate voiceover studio like Sentai Filmworks. They do some of the cheapest work with single-takes and terrible direction. All that money and they still couldn’t pony up for high quality ADR.

Wow, I'm not a native English-speaker but though from the English langauge clips that I've seen of Lazarus it kind of sounds a bit generic, are all of Sentai's English dubs that bad? Because of the few dubs they made in Neutral Spanish, none of them were well received, especially since they sent them to Córdoba, Argentina a place where almost nobody knew it had a dub industry, so all of their dubs were done by unknown actors. And this sounds weird since I've always heard that Cowboy Bebop's English dub is held in high regard and with Lazarus being made by Shinichiro Watanabe, one would assume that [adult swim] would make sure that the English dub would be of high quality, since the show itself seems to have been made for a U.S. audience first, though I hope it's international dubs will be decent, but sadly, all of [adult swim] original anime Neutral Spanish dubs had their problems, with Uzumaki being the only one that was actually kind of decent... but even then it didn't make the show any better.

We're also living in a world where people in positions of authority continue to threaten the lives and livelihoods of non-white and non-cis people, so maybe it's appropriate for Lazarus to hit its audience over the head with how unfairly these groups are treated.

Ajc228 wrote:

It’s funny to me that Adult Swim poured all this money and resources into getting Watanabe to direct an expensive show for them with action choreography from the John Wick guy to hand the English ADR direction to such a cut-rate voiceover studio like Sentai Filmworks. They do some of the cheapest work with single-takes and terrible direction. All that money and they still couldn’t pony up for high quality ADR.

Wow, I'm not a native English-speaker but though from the English langauge clips that I've seen of Lazarus it kind of sounds a bit generic, are all of Sentai's English dubs that bad?

Where are these episodes being made available? I'm in Canada and I checked Adult Swim up here but it doesn't seem to have them nor does HiDive.

Wow, I'm not a native English-speaker but though from the English langauge clips that I've seen of Lazarus it kind of sounds a bit generic, are all of Sentai's English dubs that bad?

Silver Kirin wrote:

Wow, I'm not a native English-speaker but though from the English langauge clips that I've seen of Lazarus it kind of sounds a bit generic, are all of Sentai's English dubs that bad?

They aren't bad but they're more inconsistent compared to the other studios.

Ajc228 wrote:

It’s funny to me that Adult Swim poured all this money and resources into getting Watanabe to direct an expensive show for them with action choreography from the John Wick guy to hand the English ADR direction to such a cut-rate voiceover studio like Sentai Filmworks. They do some of the cheapest work with single-takes and terrible direction. All that money and they still couldn’t pony up for high quality ADR.

Wow, I'm not a native English-speaker but though from the English langauge clips that I've seen of Lazarus it kind of sounds a bit generic, are all of Sentai's English dubs that bad? Because of the few dubs they made in Neutral Spanish, none of them were well received, especially since they sent them to Córdoba, Argentina a place where almost nobody knew it had a dub industry, so all of their dubs were done by unknown actors. And this sounds weird since I've always heard that Cowboy Bebop's English dub is held in high regard and with Lazarus being made by Shinichiro Watanabe, one would assume that [adult swim] would make sure that the English dub would be of high quality, since the show itself seems to have been made for a U.S. audience first, though I hope it's international dubs will be decent, but sadly, all of [adult swim] original anime Neutral Spanish dubs had their problems, with Uzumaki being the only one that was actually kind of decent... but even then it didn't make the show any better.

They aren't bad but they're more inconsistent compared to the other studios. Also something is off about their sound quality, almost like its too compressed(even on Blu-ray). Maybe its bad mixing I don't know. Still they can make great dubs sometimes so I'll give Lazarus a try.

However, I will argue that I think they're at their best when they dub sports/slice-of-life/rom-com anime. Their best dubs (in my opinion) are anime like Haikyuu, Shirobako, My Love Story, Nozaki-Kun, and Run With the Wind. I also really like their dubs of Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night, Ya Boy Kongming, After the Rain, O Maidens in Your Savage Season, and Dangers in my Heart. I also like their dub for Oshi no Ko (which I think improved in S2) but I know that's a more contentious opinion.

This is just my opinion, of course- I don't think I have any authority to say whether any of these are "objectively" good or bad. I just know I had a lot of fun watching them and will keep rewatching them, ESPECIALLY Haikyuu's dub.

the review wrote:

We're also living in a world where people in positions of authority continue to threaten the lives and livelihoods of non-white and non-cis people, so maybe it's appropriate for Lazarus to hit its audience over the head with how unfairly these groups are treated.

Oh boy, can't wait to see people complain that Watanabe's gone woke.

Anyway, Watanabe's one of the few producers that get a "must watch" response from me so I'll be on the couch for sure this Saturday.

Silver Kirin wrote:

Ajc228 wrote: It’s funny to me that Adult Swim poured all this money and resources into getting Watanabe to direct an expensive show for them with action choreography from the John Wick guy to hand the English ADR direction to such a cut-rate voiceover studio like Sentai Filmworks. They do some of the cheapest work with single-takes and terrible direction. All that money and they still couldn’t pony up for high quality ADR. Wow, I'm not a native English-speaker but though from the English langauge clips that I've seen of Lazarus it kind of sounds a bit generic, are all of Sentai's English dubs that bad?

They're not all bad (I actually quite like their English dub of Made In Abyss) but they're certainly not the best in the biz, that's for sure. Personally I don't know the processes that go into choosing which dubbing studios get picked for which anime but if it is Adult Swim's fault that Sentai was picked, I would probably blame that on the fact that WBD (their parent company) is run by the cheapest man alive, David Zaslav.

By "their" I mean Sentai in general (didn't really like their Eizouken dub, the Saint Seiya cartoon's voice work was awful, the redubs of their Netflix acquisitions aren't as good, and their other dubs are hit or miss at the best of times), but the WB-produced ones are bottom barrel at their most obvious. I'm honestly just waiting for them to farm out a Looney Tunes project to them just to show how bad WB is being ran.