So new season of anime started. top three new anime to watch is Fate / Apocryhpa Made in Abyss Youkoso Jitsuryoko shijou shugi no kyoushitsu e or.... Welcome to the Classroom of the Supreme Ability Doctrine
Watchin' Cowboy Bebop. I thought I'd give the sub a shot since I hadn't seen it before. Got as far as "I was born on Mars" and realized--this is one show where the dub's not merely good, it's just flat out better. This show's a love letter to American Jazz and Blues and Sci-Fi and you can tell the English VAs picked up on that and reciprocated because god damn it's so good.
Cowboy bebop is one of the few anime shows i will watch in English. They did a really solid job on the voice acting for that show.
Yeah. Im not sure if for the english dubs it is the writers or the voice actors being mediocre (probably more the voice actors). There are a few where the voice actors are good. Spike in cowboy bebop is the same guy as shishio in ruroni kenshin (he may used a different name in kenshin though. He's steven blum)
Ha, also been watching Yu Yu Hakusho which Hulu only has as a sub. It's kind of surreal hearing Kuwabara talk like a normal teenager instead of Tom Waits after someone stepped on his balls.
problem is a combination of things, American companies don't take voice acting seriously, and therefor the contracts often go to the lowest bidder who use subpar equipment actors and translators. Japanese companies that attempt a dub frequently attempt to hire locally, which exacerbates the issue when you have second language English speakers attempting to voice act and the editors don't speak the language at all so there's no quality check. Any one of these issues can make a good product bad, but all three of them often make for horror shows or unintended comedies. Slightly less affecting is the tendency to hire legitimate actors, who then don't take the job seriously. This is becoming less of an issue as animated AAA movies become more prevalent and the actors from these movies gain more notoriety, but it's still an attitude issue from time to time.
Wish you could get a sub only version for the blu rays.. would be so much cheaper. Can normally pick up the sub only animes for 30 to 40 for the whole season, but they are rare to find.
Jesus Netflix's Death Note is awful. I can't understand how they managed to fuck up literally everything. Light is an ostracized nerd who fights with his dad and constantly lets Misa lead him around by his dick. He doesn't figure out how the Death Note works--instead it comes with a fucking user manual which Ryuk knows comprehensively. L is fucking weird which sounds like they got the right idea but instead they've got him dressing like antifa and jumping to batshit conclusions supported by nothing. MISA OUTSMARTS LIGHT. LIGHT ADMITS TO SOME RANDO HE'S KIRA. L KILLS LIGHT WITH THE NOTE. HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY FUCK THIS UP SO BADLY!?
Easy.. You let corporate hired writers think they know how to writer better then the original source material. you could tell it was a shit show from the casting and trailer
So the batman and harley quinn animated movie was actually quite good. yeah.. not a anime but... still animated. They are also doing a animated movie version of Gotham by Gaslight.
LOLWHAT? Is this an actual thing? I wasn't even a fan of the original, but this sounds like the people behind it somehow watched less of the show than me and then tried to reboot it. Why reboot a series when the original was still very popular? How does that even work? I can hear the wales of fans from here. EDIT: ah okay... its live action. yikes. what a train wreck. although far from perfect, I'm glad the GITS movie didn't end up like that.
Honestly I don't even know what they were trying to do, unless it was just to get Willem Dafoe to cosplay as Ryuk.
Americans live studios have been misunderstanding/ruining cartoons for decades. No reason to stop now.
