2004-05-14, 18:50
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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[brief pause] while donning flame retardent clothing [/brief pause]
I actually didn't mind those trailers. Considering all factors. It still has a certain darkness that implies its not being "kidded up" and the voice, while definitely not emotional enough for al, and definitely lacking somewhat, was still not as tragicly bad as it could have been. I liked the edit of the second trailer from the perspective of someone who is not being spoiled by it, but can still understand (and agree) with those who think that the scene selection was too spoilerfull for new viewers. But this is the American way with this sort of thing in my experience. Is it that TV execs are often failed marketing execs?. This is what they do. And I have seen a lot of non-anime shows spoiled the same way. So anyway, while I do think the scene selection for the second trailer could have been better, it wasn't all that bad and it showed some small amount of the variety of characterisations that are present in the anime such that those seeing the trailer wont autometically equate it with DBZ (I hope) all in all, the trailers are better than I had hoped, though a long way still below what the ideal would have been. Given the darkness of the series is to a reasonable extent still present in the trailers, we can hold out hopes that the subbed dvds will be of acceptable standards. |
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2004-05-14, 19:45
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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FMA will be on AS: http://forums.animeondvd.com/showfla...b=5&o=&fpart=1
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2004-05-14, 23:47
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Join Date: May 2004
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While watching the English version, the notion occurred to me... I wonder if Funimation has ever considered sending the Japanese language audio on one of 3 audio streams of NTSC (well, really only 2 are available since we like stereo sound) But using SAP would be a nice alternative, and it's multiplexed so it would be VHS-recordable.
And the could provide a subtitle text stream on either the caption-2, text-1, text-2 channels, which again are scan-line encoded and thus VHS-recordable (And comp recordable if your card doesn't strip the "blank" scan lines above the standard picture) That would make having cable TV really worth it again... Hmm, I wonder if there is any extra content on those streams currently *arms with remote and awaits for anime* |
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2004-05-15, 11:37
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Everett, WA
Age: 42
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 I kinda noticed that too while watching the trailer.
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2004-05-15, 18:17
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Join Date: May 2004
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I kinda thought the japanese voice for Al was a bit lispy too, but since I can't speak a lick of it, I was never really sure. As far as dubbing goes, Have Faith. It seems that ever year the quality of work goes up. Maybe this will be the one where it all comes together. But man! I sooooo do not want to have to wait that long. sadness  sadness sadness K. |
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2004-05-15, 18:44
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Rockin' Alchemist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Sweden
Age: 37
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Uhh... the accent the dubbed Al has is... a typical American accent? I don't think you can specify a region, where his accent is from, since it is spoken from the east to the west. But we only had a short glimpse at what the American FMA will look like. Maybe they'll change Al's voice? |
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2004-05-15, 23:09
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Kemono no Renkinjutsushi
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Somewhere in Japan
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Holy crap, i come back after a long time and it's already LICENSED. -_-;
Al's american voice definitely has a southern accent. It doesn't hit you over the head, but it's still there. Maybe it's 'cause i'm from new york or wasn't expecting any kind of accent, but i really noticed it from the first "anything." By that token, people could say that i just have a new york accent, but it's really subtle and i'm conscious of it, so i could speak "normally" if i wanted... normal being "standard" american, which i hear is taken from someplace in ohio and newscasters are trained to speak that way 'cause it's most easily understood. Al's voice isn't totally standard american. But this is a tangent. I'd always thought of being a voice actor myself, but there's no way i could compete in the japanese market unless they just really needed a native english speaker. That would leave me with voice acting in the states, which would likely mean doing dubs, going against some of my major principles concerning anime. Having seen a lot of the japanese work, i might be able to mimic if better than someone who's never seen the original, but it would never, ever be the same. Recently, i wondered what it would be like if i auditioned and ended up with the role of, say, al. What a character! I'd be flattered with the role, but would i really be able to do it justice knowing how moving the previous actress' performance was? I'd feel guilty, but mostly inadequate. In this way, i feel sorry for dub actors. They're being held to such high standards, the japanese voice actors who come from a much more serious and competitive market, thus getting a lot of bad feedback. A lot of them don't see the original work, and it's a shame that they're deprived of that as well. It's easy to say "this actor sucks," but what really sucks in a bad dub is the people in charge. I kinda feel like roy mustang in that sometimes i think that if i worked hard and sold out my principles for the time being to be in charge later, i could change the system and make it better or something. But maybe that's just my romantic idealism. ^_^; Something that kinda bothers me, though, is that i was almost sure they'd cast a woman to play al's part; his voice is that high. Though there have been disastrous male impersonations in dubs in the past, they don't necessarily have to be. I was even wondering if ed's voice would be done by a girl or a guy, though i could understand if they used a guy. What if al's voice changes mid-series?! This is the problem with using "real" boys... *sigh* Oh, another thing, sorry to bring up al's accent again, but i can kinda see how they'd justify it if they came from a place like rizenbul... in fact, if done right, it could be okay. But i absolutely can't imagine ed with a southern accent! >_< But if they're brothers who grew up in the same place, how could they have different accents?! Aaaagh! >_< *head explody* I still don't know what to think. :/ |
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2004-05-15, 23:12
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Folsom, CA
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Well if Funi can get the rights, the OP on the dub track will be in english. This may be hard considering it's by a Sony Music artist and when Media Blasters made an English version of Sobakasu for Rurouni Kenshin (originally by the excellent band Judy and Mary,) and the ending theme (Namida wa Shitteiru) Sony put a stop to that quick.
So depending on what Sony decides, dub fans may get an English op, or we'll get just the Japanese op. However, stuff airing on CN might not get an op either way. |
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2004-05-15, 23:16
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StrykerX
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Everett, WA
Age: 42
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Well, we got Gundam SEED's OP; Invoke (after several attempts at the Toonami intro of Gundam SEED, but after that the acting just went downhill. Oh well guess I'll have to see future episodes of SEED). But I'm saying is that it's not all so bad.
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