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Vigilante024
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I agree alot with this, especially more recently, when I've noticed I've been watching more dubbed anime while I do other things. I just don't have much time to fully give my attention to watching subbed, and with dubbed I don't always have to be looking at the screen to not miss something. Half the time when I watch anime now I'm also doing other things that require some attention too, the attention that normally would have gone to reading the subs.
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4555 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Well, maybe dubs are a need for some, but I've worn glasses since I was about 10 (though not on a regular basis until I was in my late teens) and I didn't start watching subtitled anime on a regular basis until late-summer 1994, when I was a few weeks shy of turning twenty, and my preference is still always for subs, even if I have not-too-spectacular eyesight.
I don't mind watching dubs on TV or at the movies, but, if I'm watching a DVD by myself, I'll only watch the dub in one of four circumstances:
It's not to say I don't think that there are some good dubs, especially You're Under Arrest, but, if I said there were any instances where I didn't prefer the Japanese audio, I would be lying, and if I'm in a mood wherein I feel like watching episodes of a cartoon in English, I just put in one of my King of the Hill, South Park, or Futurama DVDs. EDIT: Also, Kodansha, the Japanese licensor for Cardcaptor Sakura, licensed to Nelvana because they were interested in the "big money" from the kiddy TV audience, not the "little money" from the purist niche. As it turned out, pretty much all they got in the end was the "little money" from the purist niche, but it's not the level of profits they were expecting to make even if the subtitled release was successful by purist niche standards. Yes, Pioneer/Geneon would have done a much better job with the dub from day one, but, at best, had Pioneer/Geneon gotten the license rather than just the sublicense, a more accurate Cardcaptor Sakura dub would have been relegated to cable if it had shown up on television at all since Pioneer/Geneon is not really in the kiddy TV syndication game, they just distribute some of the DVDs of the people that are. |
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Mohawk52
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Funny. I could have thought I had originally started this thread but for some reason Vigilante024 has taken that place and mine has vanished. Oh well, Must be the intarnet stumbling into the "TwilightZone" again.
Anyway I'll add (again) that I thought that report was well written. I had a similar arguement with AnimEigo back in 2000 requesting that they dub KOR and UY. But they were still feeling the sting from the "Angst Otaku" over their alleged poor dub of BGC, and flatly refused. Thankfully they have recovered from that set back and have decided to dub UY anyway, and hopefully KOR too in future. I loved KOR, Can't wait for the TV series to get licensed soon. Last edited by Mohawk52 on Sat May 15, 2004 2:40 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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Umm... you hope that the KOR TV series gets licensed soon?
It's been licensed (and out on DVD) for awhile by Animeigo, so I'm not really clear by what you meant in your last sentence. |
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Mohawk52
Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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Godaistudios
Posts: 2075 Location: Albuquerque, NM (the land of entrapment) |
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Ah, I had considered that a possibility, but had to admit I was a little lost there.
I suspect though, that since there was no "test" market for the dub in the U.S. that Animeigo wouldn't consider it to be financially sound for them to make a dub for the U.K. Of course, I could be wrong on this, but I just don't see it happening. |
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Mohawk52
Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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Seriously though and we already get some of AnimEigo's titles through their UK licensee, MVM. He just hasn't got that title series in R2 PAL yet. |
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