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Zalis116
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And as has been covered in some AnswerMan columns and other threads, anime companies need to sell series as single discs first to cover the production costs from volume to volume and pay the licensing fees. Occasionally there are series like Avenger, The World of Narue, and the 2nd season of Super Gals that get released initially as boxed sets, so buy those
Also, it would be nice if the subtitles actually corresponded to what the characters were saying in Japanese, instead of the English dub, which is another occasional Viz issue. And then there's the large amounts of onscreen text, another area in which Viz has always been weak. I'm sure Funimation can tell them how well the "Ignore onscreen text and hope nobody notices that the fansubs did better" approach worked with that last episode of Rumbling Hearts. |
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DKL
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Zalis116: Well, again... we could e-mail VIZ in mass numbers with the same message if we wanted to get them to do stuff...
Maybe it might not work with smaller shows, but it might with something like Death Note... That said... Uh... who'll make the e-mail I can copy and send? ... Yeah, I'm kinda lazy to make one myself...
I dunno... Doesn't like everybody always say that? Anyway, if this is going to Canada, then I'm happy with it; the place is on fire right now. (not literally) Well, as far as all the Canadian dubs I'm listening to anyway. |
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population_tire
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im going to start buying stuff from rightstuf instead of hot topic! thanks whoever reccomended it.
they're cheap! |
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Paploo
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FYI---
Individually written, POLITE e-mails would work a LOT better then a form letter sent enmasse. And sending letters through the mail would work even better [companies still include those mail-in response cards with their dvd's for a reason] And yup, it's an Ocean dub. Anyone who bases clearly uses the "Jump to Conclusions" mat too much. I'm more for wait and see, with a bit of leaning to "it'll be great!" given how well Ocean dubs usually turn out, many of their preferred actors having lengthy voice actor experience in both anime and domestic animation. |
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DKL
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But how about one well-written polite e-mail sent enmasse? ... Right? ... ... no? I dunno; I'd better get off my ass soon and write something... |
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Ashen Phoenix
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Same here! I'm really excited to hear the dub's preformance (though it'll be tough to top Kappei Yamaguchi for L's voice. He's such a diverse seiyuu). 
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unsinkmbrown
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Yeah, I know it's a pipe dream.  Doesn't stop me from wishing it was feasible. I really like the idea of downloadable episodes. If they make the dub available, I might do that to save money.
I looked at the trailer Max power posted and I agree Light's acting doesn't sound very good. That could be due to bad editing and not a bad dub, though. I'll reserve my judgment until I actually see a dubbed episode. |
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Raven Shinobi
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I wonder why Viz has taken this long to release the DVDs after months since acquiring the license. Unless the figurines that we're going to get are the cute "chibified" ones like what came with the JP release of Ouran then I would've preferred something else like pencil boards, sountracks, artbooks and such since they could give us some poor quality figuirines with ugly design like what came with the SE of Scrapped Princess.
If the dub was of the same quality as that of Shana, then we can be reassured that it's going to be a good dub. I think Ocean should use the same technique that Bandai did when dubbing Haruhi and just hire the best actors that the company has without any new comers. |
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Kitakaze
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Heck yea!! I've been waiting a loooong time for the release date of the first DVD of Death Note! Can't wait!! It's makes me more excited!
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penguintruth
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The hell with figurines - I want Near's finger puppets.
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Paploo
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Viz isn't big enough that a form letter would go unnoticed, especially if it were sent in the 100's. If a person keeps noticing that people are sending the same e-mail, over and over again, they'd start suspecting it was automated/spam of some sort. It's not that hard for everyone to forward their own e-mail to VIZ, and if each e-mail is individual, and distinct, the comments would be taken more seriously [the more time you appear to take the more seriously you'll be taken- it shows you cared, which counts for a lot] |
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Paploo
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I seriously doubt corners are getting cut- Ocean has a stable pool of actors, and will probably cast whoever suits which role the best. We'll probably get a solid dub that some people like, some people don't like, some people like only parts of. Which always happens whatever language it's in. The figures look to be something along the lines of trading figures, like little statues, though I can't seem to find exactly how big they are- still, we're basically getting a mirror of the Japanese release. As the japanese release didn't have pencilboards/soundtracks/etc, I don't think we'll be seeing those. Still, it wouldn't stop VIZ from trying later on if they want to make some kind of crazy ultra deluxe expensive edition [or from licensing the soundtrack themselves or to Geneon's CD division] I imagine we'll definitely see a flood of Death Note merchandise either way, packaged with the dvd's or not- VIZ deals with Great Eastern a lot, so plushies are a definite possibility. |
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Max power
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So are people saying this ( http://deathnote.viz.com/trailer_popup.php?t=3 ) is not the final dub... if so this makes me very happy.
Last edited by Max power on Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:05 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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population_tire
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i can't decide...get the first 13 episodes subbed from a website I know for $30
or get volume 1 dub with figure for $40 *Sigh* I guess there's always eBay for the figures....
I'd hope not. He never once says "Lawlz i have da power and im not afraid 2 kill lolololz" |
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Jedi General
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Finally, a release date is given! And as an added bonus, the DVDs will be release monthly! Big ups to Viz for releasing monthly.
I thought the first DVD would be 5 episodes also making for the 9 DVD total (since having only 8 DVDs is pushing it). We can only hope that there will be a 5 episode DVD somewhere in the middle or at the very end perhaps. As for the LEs though, I probably will pass on those. As much as I love DN, I don't think it's really worth it. I'm not really into figurines all that much. EDIT: Now that I think about it, it might be a good idea to have 4 on the first 5 DVDs, then 5 on DVD 6 and then 4 on the remaining 3. I say this because that would end DVD 6 with the huge episode 25. |
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. The English dub sounds terrible! 
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