as a massive fan of the show, i would love this.
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K-on! Community |OT| Never Ending Talk About Never Ending Girl's Talk
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as a massive fan of the show, i would love this.
Chet Rippo
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It would be great, assuming they don't kill themselves before then.
yui & azusa could have a rain man relationship.
Chet Rippo
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She was born that way obviously.
Chet Rippo
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Such an unfortunate fate.
nckillthegrimace
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I'm so offended that my monocle popped out.
Chet Rippo
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How so?
Unknown Soldier
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Idiot Savant Moe
Chet Rippo
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She's kinda really lazy and unambitious. Sure she gets better by the time she's done with high school, but still. It's a good thing she got into the same university as her club mates.
The fact she is able to even get into the same university as her mates speak volumes about her potential. I could almost see Yui being a teacher like Sawako-sensei for the future Light Music Club. Yui is going to be that shining star. Just you see.
Azusa, I see her doing better than anyone in HTT sans Mugi...cause she is already rich and shit.
Chet Rippo
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I didn't mean she was dumb, I meant she's unmotivated. Her friends help keep her in line, otherwise she'd just be a NEET.
HTT is what keeps Yui motivated and maturing. Quite a few times in the anime other characters that knew Yui for a long time mention how much she has changed since being part of the Light Music Club. Its why I think she will have a brighto future post K-ON!
Chet Rippo
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And it's all thanks to Mio.
...and the other girls.
...and the other girls.
Unknown Soldier
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It's mostly thanks to Azunyan, she basically dragged Yui into the library and forced her to study a number of times.
Chet Rippo
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Well if we really want to get down to it, it's all thanks to cake and tea Mugi.
And they drive off to get married and have babies... <3 <3 <3
I'd ship that
Chet Rippo
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Watch out Mugi, that's a 3D car you're in! Who knows how jarring your trip will look!
Chet Rippo
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Wahaha~!
Not in the best condition ever,
nckillthegrimace
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So I'm watching the dub, and did they not ever call her Sawa-chan? That's kind of strange considering all of the honorifics are still there. Also, Ritsu's English voice is like perfect.
nckillthegrimace
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Yeah, I was pretty pleased with it. The songs aren't dubbed, though, which kind of sucks.
Chet Rippo
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Yeah, sometimes they're really weeaboo-ish with honorifics, and then all of a sudden they're talking dollar amounts and calling Sawako Miss Yamanaka. Not exactly how I would have done it. I should check out how they localized season 2.
And I like both Mio's and Ritsu's English voices, and I think Yui's English voice can sing better than her actual Japanese voice
The funny thing is that they do have dubbed versions of some of the songs on the dvd, but not in the actual show.
nckillthegrimace
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I'll have to check that out.
Also, Nodoka's English voice sounds way too sexy. I want to know what was going on in that recording booth.
Also, Nodoka's English voice sounds way too sexy. I want to know what was going on in that recording booth.
Chet Rippo
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It sucks how Nodoka is mostly just a background character, because both her voices are awesome. Her image songs are some of the best.
It sucks how Nodoka is mostly just a background character, because both her voices are awesome. Her image songs are some of the best.
I love her hair O:
Chet Rippo
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nckillthegrimace
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The English songs are pretty bad.
Chet Rippo
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Which is probably why they stuck with the Japanese songs in the actual show.
nckillthegrimace
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Yeah. Translating a song so it sounds good and retains the same meaning, rhythm, cadence, structure, etc has to be hard as shit. I had to translate some poetry, and I wanted to blow my fucking brains out. I cannot imagine the difficulty involved in a song.
Chet Rippo
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And yet they still did it. Though I can't imagine anyone else could have done it any better.
nckillthegrimace
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Someone could have done better. Just from a quick listen, all three of the translated songs sound very stilted, which is probably a result of being way literal with the translation.
Easy: it's Laura Bailey.
Also, on the subject of posters and the K-On dub, while the picture quality is way worse and it's probably not as nice looking as Chet's, I do have this:
Signed by the English cast of HTT.
I want to marry her <3
Chet Rippo
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Eh, maybe, but I don't really care to figure out if it could or not. But what I don't get is why they didn't just get the English actors to sing in Japanese, as I think they did do that for some anime convention in promotion for the dub.
Well, everything in the dub could have been handled better, but oh well...
That would explain it, lol.
Hehehe
They're only good because I'm using a nice SLR camera for the most appropriate things.
But that is a nice poster. Maybe one day I too will have a poster signed by Christina Vee.
I just realized that this event was long before this thread got started, so I'd never talked about it here. At the San Francisco J-Pop Summit Festival last fall, Bandai USA was still promoting the release of K-On volume 3, so they'd brought the main dub cast with them. Besides handing out tons of those posters, the girls also did a few live "perfomances" in costume, singing for real but not actually playing the instruments.
They also had a theater screening of the episodes, but I didn't stick around for it.
Yes, Christine Marie Cabanos was wearing cat ears.
Chet Rippo
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Where's Mugi's pickled radishes?
Maybe Shelby Lindley didn't feel like wearing fake eyebrows? Who knows.
Chet Rippo
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Such a wasted opportunity...
Wahaha~!
Not in the best condition ever,in fact, I'd say it is in terrible condition,but I love it!
It already had fold lines when I bought it. I didn't know they would get that bad when I shipped it.
I'm sorry.
