Oh dear god they dubbed it and aired it....

[ifonlyiwereclvr.livejournal.com]

Ok since I posted a gripe against the dub I thought it only fitting that I post a follow up. My initial reaction which I'm sure i shared with many was "You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!" In defense of the dubbers they made a few decisions that i agree with. They did change the aggravating trailer "This Britannia will be obliterated" (though i still think obliterated is a poor choice of words), they cast the English Straight Cougar (s-cry-ed) and Alucard (Hellsing) {I think his orange will be phenomenal}, they kept the other "Yes my lord!" so can someone please tell me why in the name of all that is both holy and unholy did they insist on having loser soldier boy say "happily your highness" I'm sure they've at least seen their lines in the original Japanese, you'd think as an actor you'd want to stay as close to the source material as possible, and the emperor didn't even mention the Ragnares race though he did say something about the Ragnarok. It's only the first episode so i hope that they can pull it together because honestly I'd love to see a good dub come out of this, the show is so spectacular that any deviation from what we know should be is disheartening (to put it mildly) Still C.C.'s intro was surprisingly good, and they have 24 more episodes to go, fingers crossed. 

For those who have yet to see it...

Comments

[meeraku.livejournal.com]

I agree =]
*pointstoGitS:SACdub*-♥

[bodyline.livejournal.com]

See, I actually love the Yuugiou dub BECAUSE it was sooooo bad. It just made it so much cheesier and funnier and spawned the beauty that is the Abridged series. AND IT WAS LIKE MY CHILDHOOD so I find myself biased, but. XD

[festivewind.livejournal.com]

IAWTC.

[meeraku.livejournal.com]

Sorry, just have to comment-
OCEAN GROUP = LOVE♥

[saitaina]

See, I actually love the Yuugiou dub BECAUSE it was sooooo bad.

I can see that, I just have to remeber it's a dub and not scream at the TV when something goes horribly stupid. I have an urge to have a wine cooler every time I watch the dub to better enjoy it. *grins*

[clockwork-joker.livejournal.com]

"I'll show you what this badass mother can do!"

Need I say more? Srsly, Karen, srsly. 3:

[tsuyogaru.livejournal.com]

I thought it was fairly well done. The only real complaint I have is that Lelouch's voice actor was a terrible choice. He has no range and everything he does sounds the same to me. He just doesn't have the vocal quality for Lelouch :/ Maybe if he lowered his voice a little? It's strange to hear the exact same voice coming from Guy in Tales of the Abyss, Ichigo in Bleach, Nero in Devil May Cry 4, etc. and Lelouch.

I personally loved Jeremiah's the best. Suzaku was pretty good, too.

[bodyline.livejournal.com]

IMHO, CLOVIS HAD THE BEST VA.

NOTHING WILL EVER MAKE HEARING THE VOICE OF GUNTER VON KLEIST ORDER A MASS MASSACRE OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE NOT AWESOME. NOTHING.

[teaclovers.livejournal.com]

I know &hearts

[shizuka85.livejournal.com]

I liked Clovis' dub voice too, possibly because I hate his Japanese voice. (He played Tomo in Fushigi Yuugi and that scary guy in Get Backers.) Too bad Clovis will be dead by soon, so his voice won't matter anymore.

[inksmears]

Strongly agree.

[wabisuke.livejournal.com]

That too! She does have the appearance of a southern belle and all. It would have been tempting.

[kyen.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with you on the Lloyd bit. I liked his English VA very much compared to the Japanese one.

[kaiserkehl.livejournal.com]

I want to see/hear it.

random>heh, dubs are usually very good in spanish, I know nothing compares to the original audio, but some dub studios are really really good at what they do. Can't wait to hear Code Geass in español unless they dub it in Venezuela, then I'll save myself the sour momento</random

[zalem.livejournal.com]

For a dub it was tolerable. And I don't mind the happily your highness stuff....as long as they get the general meaning right. My problem is with the voices. Lelouch's VA is just bad. Or at least he is bad for this role. Maybe he's ok in other stuff. But it's enough to ruin the dub for me since Lulu is my favorite character. C.C. is even worse. O_O But what's the point in saying anymore? I mean I'm just not going to watch the dub anymore that's all. DVDs have subs so it's all well and good.

[rayquaza.livejournal.com]

Late, but thank you.

[teaclovers.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they like to throw in a southern or British accent here and there sometimes.

[rayquaza.livejournal.com]

But I will always have a certain fondness for "YES, MY LORDO." :)

[zerorevenge.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[zerorevenge.livejournal.com]

O'lay!

[zerorevenge.livejournal.com]

Also Kamille Bidan in Zeta Gundam, and the Major in Hellsing: Ultimate.

[pinao88.livejournal.com]

For me, it was not so much the voices as it was the delivery. There was too much emphasis where it wasn't needed, there wasn't enough emphasis where it was needed. It started out awkward and became obnoxious very quickly. Orange-kun and Diethard were the only ones who weren't guilty of this to me; perhaps it's because they had very few lines.

I also think "obliterate" is a poor wording choice. There were a lot of poor wording choices, but I'm not going to complain about them because I see it as being mostly minor and up to personal preference. It's the same as the strange pronunciations and editing Pizza Hut out. I can overlook that stuff easy, it doesn't really matter to me.

The delivery is simply too important. I can't ignore it when every other line sounds like it's being spoken by some amateur with no emotion reading off a cue card.

[morose-doll.livejournal.com]

Well I watched the first episode...it wasn't to bad.

I initially hated Lelouch's voice, it lacked so many things, but I am slowly getting more and more used to it. It might take me a while, though. I just thing Lelouch sounds to rough, like he's gonna brawl someone. This works best with Ichigo, not Lelouch.

Kallen was okay, except her first few lines when she sounded like a small bratty child. Suzaku and Lloyd were good to me, and C.C. I was hoping for a deeper voice instead of the light, blank one we are recieving.

I am sad to say that I have to record this series for a friend. Poor girl, she has to bare witness to the dubs since she doesn't have a computer.

[vicks111.livejournal.com]

yes, dubs are good in spanish, personally I prefer those done in Mexico, though they are all good and never splice an anime.
Cardcaptor Sakura is one of my preferred dubs and Inuyasha XD

[rainbow-cnxn.livejournal.com]

*signs*