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When a dubbing company is told they can do whatever they want by the Japanese company
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Paracelsus
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It's like duwang, but they actually consider themselves professionals and get paid for it.
Yeah I had characters in Rahxephon, Angelic Layer, and Spell Wars.
My last dub was back when I was 13 years old for Angelic Layer. They had me play a ~18 year old guy and my vocal chords hadn't dropped yet so I lowered my voice as low as my prepubescent suprano could go, and you could tell it was a kid trying his hardest to lower his voice. It was horrible, I knew it was horrible, and that was the last work I ever did for ADV
Wait, was that a one-off competitor or something?
I played Ringo in that one.
(I also hate the Ghost Stories dub)
Funny, but tasteless. Closed it after this part:
H.Protagonist
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Amazing. I would love to do something like this with a game script, but like a secret bonus setting. What fun they must have had.
Not surprising. Some of this stuff is funny (I happen to enjoy the Shin-chan dub) but I can easily see why people would get pissed off or move in the direction towards subtitles via Crunchyroll. When you are paying for or even tuning in (be it legit or otherwise) for what you expect to be a honest localization/translation and you get some of these stuff on top of what would be horrible voice acting/direction in most shows no wonder it drives people away from dubbing. Let's be honest here even if you can't understand the Japanese to know how it sounds there there are plenty of animated shows in English for example that one can look to for voice acting done well and can make the comparison.
That was always my problem with dubbing. If the story was altered for whatever reason I didn't care because I didn't know. Localizing something means you'd have do change things. I loved Robotech as a kid so altering stuff is something I can't really complain about personally. However as a kid I could watch something like Batman the Animated Series, any Disney show or movie, etc and hear how the voice acting was done, sound editing, etc and then watch some dubbed anime shows and just hear the difference as soon as the episode began. That stuff I don't accept or forgive.
ClivePwned
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this is amazing
grandjedi6
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#GhostStoriesForToonami
Trojita
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This is too next level for GAF.
Also "That escalated quickly" at 50 seconds in the first clip.
Prinz Eugn
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There was an amazing punchline after that which redeemed the racist part at least.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Geez, they really didn't give a fuck, did they. Are dubs like these even being made anymore nowadays? I can think of Space Dandy or Panty & Stocking which take creative liberties, but they're also faithful to the original versions. It'd be impressive to see a dub just go against everything of the original anime in this day and age.
Shin Chan dub did the same thing.
Oh, is that an ongoing series? I thought it was a decade old or something. That's pretty cool, then.
Crossing Eden
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They literally gave no fucks.
Adult Swim aired it a few years back and I knew even then despite never knowing about Shin Chan they were going off the beaten path in the dub. I didn't mind since I was cracking up.
I remember another thing Adult Swim did years ago was during April Fools, all the anime that aired that night (re-runs of course) had fart noises in them. Ghost in the Shell became a lot more entertaining that night.
Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG3UhUFbabU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqoYYzupV6o
Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG3UhUFbabU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqoYYzupV6o
BattleMonkey
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Nah this was rare. Its a shit show, they didn't care. Like many licenses for shows at the time, the companies were forced to pick up several shows in order to get a particular show they wanted. So lot of anime companies got stuck with garbage shows they were forced into buying. Ghost Stories wasn't going to sell, so they did this crazy dub, and it probably did get more coverage than the show done leg it would have.
UberTag
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Process of elimination tells me that perfectchaos007 voiced Tomo in Episode 19.
The fact that I submitted both the cast lists for RahXephon and Angelic Layer back into the CrystalAcids database over a decade ago made that relatively easy to deduce.
Incidentally, I'm a big fan of your Ringo. Of course, I've said as much to you before. I need to scope out some of your recent work in Last Exile and Railgun sometime.
That's a good explanation. I guess business isn't done that way in the industry anymore or, if it is, they wouldn't ever do a dub like this to attempt to cut costs.
Yet, it manages to be even more offensive. It's pretty amazing.
"Thanks, most girls wouldn't be so understanding after they've just been raped."
This is amazing.
SixMachine
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I love the Ghost Stories dub, they did such a great job with it. Crayon Shin Chan is also pretty good. Action Bastard is Troy Baker's greatest role.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubBwXLKA-dY
Here is his audition for the role, you can tell he just can't take the script seriously:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mERZ5K4tVFA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubBwXLKA-dY
Here is his audition for the role, you can tell he just can't take the script seriously:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mERZ5K4tVFA
QueenOfThorns
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Man. Something like this would be really cool and this does have funny lines like "FILL THE HOLE, HOLE FILLER!" but the 2004 edgy XDDD racism and misogyny and homophobia and shit ain't funny at all.
I would like to see more dubs be allowed to just do whatever the fuck they want like this though. Just with a bit of taste so it can have the funny bits without the Typical Internet Humor Ha Ha I Said Fag bits.
I would like to see more dubs be allowed to just do whatever the fuck they want like this though. Just with a bit of taste so it can have the funny bits without the Typical Internet Humor Ha Ha I Said Fag bits.
Black Republican
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yeah i fucking love the dub, watch from time to time when im feeling down.
the way they pick on the little brother kills me, poor thing, the religious nut girl is jokes too
the way they pick on the little brother kills me, poor thing, the religious nut girl is jokes too
zero shift
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I watched this last year. It was very good and funny....up until the two thirds mark of the series. Then they just took things way too far and it just got stupid.
Mechanized
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This. Is. Amazing. People complained about this? Do this to more anime as far as I'm concerned.
SixMachine
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This is hilarious, on the DVD for Neon Genesis Evangelion, the voice actor of Shinji just rants about the ending https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hzjuf686oA#t=01m50s
Feels good to have ten under the belt!
Battersea Power Station
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Do you need knowledge of Anime to get this?
No, you need knowledge of surreal humor.
In so far as you're aware that the japanese version was probably sincere so the dumb shit they say is even more ridiculous in contrast with the self serious animation and framing.
BeatnikGunsoo
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part 3 of the ghost stories compilation is just so goddamn funny
Rex Griswold
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I've never seen the Berserk ones.. Griffiths singing is simply incredible. Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Kite
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IIRC this was pretty much an abridged series before those became popular on youtube. In the past there have been other anime with funny dubs, one of my favorites was Shinesmen which was pretty much a sentai/Power Rangers parody who was kinda loose with the dub's translations. But Ghost Stories took everything to a whole new level and completely rewrote the original script cus it was mediocre and was probably only licensed as part of some package deal with some more popular show.
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thepotatoman
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I think the recent Kill la Kill dub was pretty good at inserting english humor.
Unfortunately, the catch is the worse epic battle cries. I don't know if any dub has done epic battle cries well outside of DBZ.
They only dubbed 78 episodes of Shin Chan. I've been rewatching them on funimation's site and it has been a lot of fun reliving the Bush era humor.
"My love for you.... Is like a truck. Berserker!"
Oh yeah, I remember seeing these clips of the dub. Kill la Kill's a good, modern example of a dub seemingly more laidback; though it totally fits with how absurd the show is in the first place.
flaxknuckles
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Those Berserk Outtakes are ridiculously hilarious:
My love for you........is like a truck berzerkeeeeerrrrrr. Do you want to making fuck berzerkeeeeeerrrrrr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stdY7NMWhLc
My love for you........is like a truck berzerkeeeeerrrrrr. Do you want to making fuck berzerkeeeeeerrrrrr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stdY7NMWhLc
industrian
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I watched all three parts. I've not laughed like this in a long time. This is absolute gold.
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