Sunday, March 18, 2007 – 9:25 pm
Someone on YouTube apparently decided to put together a series of two videos contrasting the (what I would consider to be minor) differences between the Cardcaptor Sakura anime as aired in Japan and as released unedited by Pioneer vs. the Nelvanda….retelling (to put it nicely) of the series called Cardcaptor.
These videos focus mainly on the on dub of Cardcaptors, but what was done to Cardcaptors goes beyond just the dub (which isn’t horrible, but I think some of the character’s voice, especially Sakura and Tomoyo, are way off) but also the fact that they essentially cut up and reassembled the series.
Besides just listening to the dubs, also note things such as music changes and small edits (I noticed at least one and there may be others I didn’t catch).
The author had disabled embedding, so here are the links to the videos:
Video 1
Video 2
Sunday, March 18, 2007 – 12:02 pm
The English The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya trailer has been released by asosbrigade (thoughts below the trailer):
I had my concerns about Wendee Lee playing Haruhi Suzumiya for a couple of reasons. First off, she tends to play characters with Osaka accents, which is typically expressed in English dubs by that character having some flavor of southern accent (and I KNOW she can play a character without a drawl - see Mrs. Shimizu from Chobits for example). I almost had nightmares about Haruhi going around sounding like Tina Foster or something.
The second is that, Haruhi appears to be a very assertive character, and I don’t necessarily recall Wendee Lee playing any exceptionally assertive characters (at least in the anime I’ve seen).
Well, after watching the trailer - and it’s obviously impossible to judge the entire body of work from a few clips in a 90 second trailer - but it seems that it could have been a lot worse, but it’s not necessarily great.
I’m trying to think of the character which she sounds most like. Kero-chan from the dub of the 2nd Cardcaptor Sakura movie is the first character that comes to mind, but it still isn’t exactly the same I don’t think. Umi from Magic Knight Rayearth also comes to mind, but the drawl doesn’t seem as strong for Haruhi.
We basically hear one line from Kyon and one line from Mikuru so it’s basically impossible to judge their voices from the trailer.
I’ll ultimately have to wait until I get the DVD to fully judge the dub (which is to be expected). I’m glad this is out so we can get a taste of Haruhi’s voice, but I’m still highly skeptical of Lee doing her voice and the trailer didn’t help calm that skepticism very much.
