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Originally Posted by Geta Boshi
Ep 3 was great wasnt all that scary but definately very intresting . Its really nice how they combined a shonen/horror with a very good message . The chracter developement of Nube has been done really good with each episode we get to see new facets of his personality and chracter . The monsters are very Devil Man ish thats a welcome change as they use the apperance of the monster to create horrror rather than other relying on physcological effects and build up .
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For someone as who firstly has seen the Spanish dub before the Japanese original, IMO the characters' voices for the Spanish dub sound better than in the original language.
Not to discredit or mean rudeness to the Japanese seiyuu that provided the voices in Nube.
It is only an observation to comment that the Mexican actors, who supplied their voices for the characters, did a splendid job to capture the charisma and staying true to the characters' personalities, just as the original seiyuu did for the Japanese broadcast of Nube.
The Spanish dub remains faithful to the original at all technical aspects, as well narrative ones. That means there is no censorship and editing whatsoever in each of the 48 episodes which comprise the series.
I don't ever want to imagine or even fathom how Jigoku Sensei Nube would sound or look like if it ever gets licensed in the United States.
I am just giving my opinion that the voices for Nube and the rest of the 5-3 classroom characters sound more emotive in the Spanish dub. Maybe this is due that the Japanese language uses high and low sounds, while the Spanish tongue uses strong and soft sounds.
Yes, the show why delving on horror and comedy to flesh out the characters' personalities from different facets, also implies a moral or lesson about daily-life issues that run rampant in ourselves, homes, and society in general.
Basically, the goal of the youkai is to break down their victims by inflicting on them a curse that will force them to stray and keep themselves isolated from the rest of their friends with a trouble or problem that is common at first.
The victims will usually enter first a denial stage, forcing to accept that they do not need help from outsiders and rising their anger and fear upon frustration that the trouble does not disappears and instead gets worse.
In other cases such as the one established in episode three, the youkai will make those people close to its target to loathe that person and thus leaving him or her for good, so as the target becomes exposed and weakened. That is because the youkai will usually take advantage of the defects and flaws that it sees on that person to further their nefarious plans.
As you witnessed in episode three and you will in the next ones that follow, Nube's secret identity is that of the buffoon or joker teacher that fools around in class with his overboard ghost stories and allows his hormones to get the idiot of him when comes to flirting with Ritsuko-sensei.
This is only but the mask or diguise, a facade to plainly put it. Nube's true identity is of the man who risks his life to ensure the safety and happiness of his children. His
Oni no Te makes him more than a match for the youkai to handle him.
Ultimately, the youkai's downfall stems from them underestimating Nube and the true facets of his real personality, since they'll mostly judge him by the looks of the dorkhead, bumble teacher that he behaves when everything is at peace.
You may have noticed it. Although on the surface Nube is nuts, he has quite sharp senses to feel and detect the anomalities that the youkai cause.
In addition, Nube has his reasons as to why he cannot properly invite Ritsuko-sensei to a former dinner or lunch.
Spoiler:
He just cannot afford it.
You see, Nube is broke. His job as a school teacher does not brings him enough money to pay for a decent living, so he owns a rundown and tiny apartment with only one room but no kitchen and bedroom. And usually he serves himself instant noodle cups to fill his tummy.
