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

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

I must be the only person in the fandom who liked "Happily, your Highness." I really thought the actor pulled it off incredibly, and it worked with the expression of rapt glee. Perhaps I was just too busy being in love with that soldier's acting, but I thought it worked very well. Sure, "yes" was the line, and to be completely honest I'm not sure why they changed it, but I don't think it made any real difference. It's one word, I just can't see how one word has sparked such bitching.

Personally, maybe I'm just way too old and too accustomed to the days of god awful chop jobs that go by the name of dubs, but... I wasn't horrified. I wasn't even upset. I wasn't impressed, for the most part - an actor or two exceeded my expectations, but my overall impression was simply that it was neither better nor worse than I'd expected. I didn't think it was any sort of travesty, like so many others seem to feel. Actually, I'd say the only voice acting I had a real problem with was C.C.'s.

[rainbow-cnxn.livejournal.com]

I must be the only person in the fandom who liked "Happily, your Highness."

Nope. I was more than pleasantly surprised by that line. It adds an extra layer of creepy/absurd to a platoon of soldiers shooting themselves in the head.

People complaining about bad dubs should watch some of the older stuff. Like Gundam Wing. Wowzers. (And that's not even that old.)

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it goes with the way that violence in Geass often has this strangely comedic feel to it. Euphinator, anyone?

Well, and Wing was good for it's time, imo. It had a few voices I actually liked a lot. I was thinking more like Ronin Warriors when I thought terrible dubs. xDD Now THAT was a trainwreck.

[vspirit.livejournal.com]

No, you're not.

However, when an audience likes a line or two out of the 1076234 lines there are in the movie so much that they keep zoning in on it, it doesn't exactly bode well in the larger picture cos that'd mean the other 1076233 are forgettable. xD

[sandrock.livejournal.com]

Personally, maybe I'm just way too old and too accustomed to the days of god awful chop jobs that go by the name of dubs, but...

Ditto to this and basically the whole comment. I guess it is because of my past experience with dubs, but I'm relatively interested in this one. If people want bad dubs, they aren't hard to find (Prince of Tennis, anyone? -- and that's pretty recent too). This is not the bottom of the barrel.