Although I agree that the intro/outro (they are pretty much the same thing) are alright, I couldn't really tell whether the lyrics were Japanese or some sort of unintelligible grunting.
But the intro has nothing on Haruka Kanata.
Although I agree that the intro/outro (they are pretty much the same thing) are alright, I couldn't really tell whether the lyrics were Japanese or some sort of unintelligible grunting.
But the intro has nothing on Haruka Kanata.
Rocket-Propelled Ralph Waldo Emerson.
naruto sounds way too young in the dub
Formerly known as 'Animemaster'
Impressions from voices in episode 3:
Sasuke - sounds bored and aloof. Not angry or arrogant enough I think. No real problems.
Sakura - Annoying, typical anime girl voices. Meh - wasn't expecting much.
Inner Sakura - Pretty awful. Nothing at all like her japanese voice and almost devoid of any anger or emotion.
Shikamaru - Completely different from his japanese voice. Not bad though. I can't say I like it very much, but he doesn't really do anything wrong. As someone else said, he doesn't sound bored or annoyed enough.
Chouji - Love it. I think the voice is David Umansky but I'm not sure. He's done a lot of anime (Chou the Sword Hunter in Kenshin, Keitaro in Love Hina, various Digimon voices, etc). He fits chouji's personality pretty well. I like it. Also very similar to Chouji's fat, nasaly voice in japanese.
Kakashi - Sounds ok. Next episode is his time to impress us.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
Nothing is as crappy as the One Piece English OP, not even the DBGT English OP. And I personally like this more than Rocks, though when its Haruna Kanata time and eventually Seishun Kyousoukyoku time then there are gonna be some major problems, though at the moment I like it a little more than Rocks. Oh, and once again the patheticly stupid Anti-Gay attitude of American television censors another thing, I can't believe that they would really care that much about it. At this rate I am wondering if they are going to censor Haku telling Naruto he's a guy and all of the parts where Naruto farts.Originally posted by: Necromas
Are you kidding? the intro and ending for the dub are pathetic, rivaling the one piece rap theme (but not as bad because these ones are bareably short, only like 30 seconds each).
From the little I heard of Kakashi I wish he was handled better.
Naruto is growing on me though.
I really cant wait to see how Oro is handled.
And yeah I wish they could have kept the entrances, but face it, it's a 21 minute show and there must be time for commercials. It could have been a lot worse. It's metal and that makes me feel good inside. To compare it to rap in the slightest is terrible.
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
I just watched the first ep. I thought it was rather well done. At first it was strange, but this is really gonna be a popular series in N.A. I didn't mind the choice for the voices at all, except maybe Sukura, but she wasn't on screen much.
About the pronounciation of Naruto... Well, in English it can't be helped that it would sound different. The 'u' sound in Naruto just doesn't exist in the English language. In English, they say 'oo' or 'ew' and they even pause before saying 'to'. It's just the way it is. Now French does have the correct pronounciation and some have said Spanish. Anyways, it clearly is NOT the correct pronounciation, but whatever, they come real close sometimes and it's obvious they tried to match the original. At least they didn't change the characters' names.
This ep, even in English reminded me why I liked this show in the first place. Man, I hope things return to normal soon.
I haven't managed to watch any of the episodes on CN yet but I have watched one of the "Clip of the Week"'s on their website. Kakashi's voice is absolutely horrible. Sakura's is as bad as could have been imagined. Naruto's voice is really bad as well, but I don't think it's quite as bad as the others. From the little I've seen, I have no intention of ever buying the English dub DVDs, and if I ever were to buy ANY Naruto DVDs, I'd buy the Original Japanese imports, no matter the cost.
The US release of the DVDs will contain the original japanese dialogue just like EVERY OTHER anime release in the US. This is not 4Kids.
Though they are releasing "edited" and "uncut" versions, so just wait for the uncut dvds.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
or just download them right now...Originally posted by: XanBcoo
Though they are releasing "edited" and "uncut" versions, so just wait for the uncut dvds.
I already have [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
I'll be making several backup copies of my fansub DVDs and CDs. Uncut versions still tend to have some edited content. Will have to wait and see if they would be worth getting.
I can picture Oro being voiced by the same girl who voiced Freeza in DBZ
rofl
If they make the VAs throat super dry before she does Orochimaru it could turn out OK lol.
have they gotton up to Sasuke yet? and how do they pronouce it?
They pronounce it just like the Japs, which surprises me.
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
Yeah, they pronounce it correctly. (Also with the emphasis on the U-chiha in stead of u-CHEEha) - which is cool.
And
Originally posted by: aznroyale
have they gotton up to Sasuke yet?umm 0.oOriginally posted by: XanBcoo
Impressions from voices in episode 3:
Sasuke - sounds bored and aloof. Not angry or arrogant enough I think. No real problems.
Also, lol at Oro/Freeza
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
rofl, i cant stop laughingOriginally posted by: Terracosmo
I can picture Oro being voiced by the same girl who voiced Freeza in DBZ
rofl
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i remember a long time ago when we were discussing the naruto english dub opening and everyone got pissed off at the thought of something similar to the dragon ball z opening... too bad it's all reality now [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]
sauce-kay
I don't know if anyone mention this yet but are they trying to make Naruto punch line "Believe It" or something I could have sworn he said it like 20 times in Ep. 4. Maybe it was just me.
OK, short rant. I caught an ep of the cartoon network version, the one where Naruto finds out who his teammates are, and has the infamous kiss with Sasuke. And they edited out the kiss. OK, editing some of violence I can see, but this is just gay. Or not gay. Whatever. I hate how American shows can't have anything that can possibly be deemed offensive to anyone, even something that is so obviously just silly comedy. This is why most American shows suck. They take out everything even vaguely interesting and leave bland, inoffensive oatmeal. So a show is violent, or is offensive to an interest group, or shows violence to animals, or smoking, or drinking, or anything the least bit controversial. So what? It's entertainment. Not Real. People are intelligent enough to know this. Go ahead, BE offensive, use sterotypes, swear, eat live turtles. If someone disagrees, well fine. They can complain. At least they'll have something interesting to talk about for a change instead of reruns of "Friends."
Not completely realted to the topic, but watching the ep made me remember why I don't watch network television. DIE ALL YOU PC BASTARDS!!!!
Originally posted by: Mae
OK, short rant. I caught an ep of the cartoon network version, the one where Naruto finds out who his teammates are, and has the infamous kiss with Sasuke. And they edited out the kiss. OK, editing some of violence I can see, but this is just gay. Or not gay. Whatever. I hate how American shows can't have anything that can possibly be deemed offensive to anyone, even something that is so obviously just silly comedy. This is why most American shows suck. They take out everything even vaguely interesting and leave bland, inoffensive oatmeal. So a show is violent, or is offensive to an interest group, or shows violence to animals, or smoking, or drinking, or anything the least bit controversial. So what? It's entertainment. Not Real. People are intelligent enough to know this. Go ahead, BE offensive, use sterotypes, swear, eat live turtles. If someone disagrees, well fine. They can complain. At least they'll have something interesting to talk about for a change instead of reruns of "Friends."
Not completely realted to the topic, but watching the ep made me remember why I don't watch network television. DIE ALL YOU PC BASTARDS!!!!
I just watched that episode on CN and completely agree. I couldn't believe the edited out the "kiss" scene. The worst part of it though is not that they just edited it out, but that they tried to keep the joke the same. What they ended up with was a scene (while hilarious in the original version) that was trying to be funny even though they made it so nobody had much of a clue what the joke was, since the "kiss" was just barely implied. Apparently two guys staring each other down and being bumped into each others faces that made it seem like a kiss is just way to gay for American television. I can't wait to see what they do to the episodes where they have two boys holding hands, and this also doesn't give me much hope that Haku will be portrayed very well.
I can almost understand the editing of graphic violence, especially when you are trying to market this to a young audience, but they really take this shit too far.
On the note of the actual Dub work, there are actually a few good points in all the crap. One good point is that most of the main characters aren't doing too band of a job pronouncing Naruto's name. The little robot guy on Toonami does the worst job with his naRUdo. From what I've seen in this episode, Sasuke's VA does the best job with pronouncing Naruto. Sauske's voice is probably one of the best VA to character matches, maybe along with Iruka's voice work. (Though I wasn't paying much attention to Iruka's voice, and I've only seen the majority of this one episode.) On the bad side, Naurto's voice is horrible, Sakura's voice is your typical bad voice acting for an anime girl, Kakashi's voice does nothing to portray the actual character, the Hokage's voice also doesn't fit the character at all, and Shikamaru's voice once again just doesn't fit the character. When you read the interviews with the people who chose the VAs for this Dub, and read how they made sure to get voices that matched the characters really well, it only serves to show how incompetent these people are.
Ok, I'm done complaining for now.
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