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

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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...

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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.