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NEWS: Funimation Adds Nichijou, Scrapped Princess, The Betrayal Knows My Name Anime

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@ willag - I watched Scrapped Princess earlier this year and didn't notice any visual quality issues. I wonder if you got a bum set or something.

Rather doubt it. There have been a number of complaints about those DVDs, from myself included. They're not terrible (at least in my judgment), but when I first watched it on a larger screen and at higher resolution I definitely noticed some flaws, especially in the opener.

Scrapped Princess with Kari Wahlgren and Bridget Hoffman?! YES!!!!

I hope I'm not fooling myself that The Scrapped Princess license gives me hope for a possible Wolf's Rain rescue in the future (both OOP R1 Bandai releases)?

Pretty much, and because Aniplex USA doesn't care for catalog titles (See this for more), it's done for. They didn't even get the movie from a few years ago.

Yeah, that's a huge concern of mine. It's exactly why I was a tad annoyed with how the Xenosaga anime had none of the VAs from the game. I wouldn't say the new VAs ruined it (quite the contrary), but I wanted to hear Lia Sargent and everyone else from the game.

It's the same with Abyss; Tales of the Abyss still has one of the best dubs in gaming history period, so if the anime were to have been dubbed, I would want to hear Yuri Lowenthal, Johnny Bosch, Nicole Karrer (the voice of Tear, it's confirmed, no arguments), Kirk Thornton, Stephanie Sheh and all the rest in their amazing roles, not some replacement cast whose voices try to imitate the original actors.

Joshua Seth did make for a more introspective, mysterious chaos though, so it wasn't a completey bad recasting choice in terms of one of the male characters (don't get me wrong, Derek Stephen Prince was great in Episode I, but Joshua seems to fit his whole gentle aura personality a bit better). It took me some time to get used to him as chaos instead of Derek, but I was okay with it eventually.

^Exactly. Sadly the only one who didn't return for Episode III was MOMO's original VA, Sherry Lynn, who seems to be MIA in the dub world. I guess they figured the little Realian matured enough as a character that Christina Puccelli was a better fit for her in Episode III. But Olivia Hack as Shion and Colleen O'Shaughnessey as KOS-MOS were definitely a bit rough as casting choices; my ears were not pleased despite Olivia is a good soundalike for Lia Sargent. Funny how it's the female party members who got the most drastic changes for their VAs.

Joshua Seth did make for a more introspective, mysterious chaos though, so it wasn't a completey bad recasting choice in terms of one of the male characters (don't get me wrong, Derek Stephen Prince was great in Episode I, but Joshua seems to fit his whole gentle aura personality a bit better). It took me some time to get used to him as chaos instead of Derek, but I was okay with it eventually.

EDIT: Also, interlaced video plays best on plasma panels and old CRTs, which can play interlaced video directly. However, my computer and HDTV have LCD displays and use progressive scanning, so I see these artifacts during movement on screen.

I agree I was disappointed the first Xenosaga cast didn't get to come back. The voice changes in the Xenosaga anime with Funi's cast I was more able to live with and still enjoy though (like you said) as they were pretty good despite favoring the original dub cast whereas the changes really bugged me in that second game, though that may have also been because they came out of nowhere and for no good reason. Thank goodness Namco surprisingly fixed that by bringing them (like Bridget Hoffman and Lia Sargent) back for Xenosaga 3. The voice changes in XS2 away from the awesome cast of the first game were pointless. Just like the rest of the changes with 2, the backlash from that game probably helped get their voices back too.

I actually got a chance to ask Richard Epcar about the Xenosaga dub. He's apparently good friends with Chris Ayres (the ADR Director), and Chris apparently didn't know that there WAS a pre-existing cast, or he would have tried to get them back.