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NEWS: Star Blazers/Yamato 2199 #1's English Dub Shown at Anime Expo

I am just barely old enough to have seen this show as a kid. Keeping the whole Argo/Yamoto thing is so minor that it just smacks of out and out whining to me. If it really is just that one thing, then let it go.

There are much more important things to concern yourself with in this world.

ValkyrieZeroZeroOne wrote:

If renaming the Yamato Project the Argo Project is as far as they go in using the old dub name of the ship, that's a good nod to the Star Blazers series without ruining a dub by mixing nomenclatures (and thereby contradicting the multitude of visual references to the Yamato name in the animation). The ship itself isn't mentioned by name in the first episode, so hopefully the subtitles of the OP video shown and posted at starblazers.com will remain something for initial promotional purposes. The fact that they kept the Japanese names for every other character and ship mentioned is promising.

If it's in the subtitles also, it's a slap to the face of the original work.

Did they NOT get the message from Robotech? We want to see the original folks.. not Star blazers 2.0.

I am just barely old enough to have seen this show as a kid. The whole Argo/Yamoto thing is so minor that it just smacks of out and out whining to me. If it really is just that one thing, then let it go. There are much more important things to concern yourself with in this world.

It really irks me when someone throws the "Robotech argument" out without any context and any justfication. If you're going to play that card, kindly give it some context and justify what you're saying. What message from Robotech are you talking about? If it's how they bastardised the Macoss TV series then you've got no leg to stand on. (1) Macross on its own wouldn't have sold in the 1980s because you needed a minimum episode count of 65 to get syndicated, and that was the only way to make money in those days. (2) Aside from Americanising charater names and making small plot tweaks to tie it in to the Robotech storyline, Macross hasn't been changed that much. (3) There are still a lot of Robotech fans out there who think the series is just fine, thanks. Most of them are mature enough to have watched Macross as well and enjoy each in their own right.

If these changes persist, consider my interest in the official English release to be nil.

I'll stick to the fansubs.

Why can't Funimation just get this like with the Resurrection movie? Is there some unwritten clause that Voyager has to market it like this?

At least this is a pilot dub presumably so hopefully it doesn't get edited much.

You guys who are complaining about the changes DO know that Voyager is a Japanese company and is calling the shots, right? If you're really that disappointed then go yell at them. I'm kind of annoyed about the Yamato change too and I'm assuming they will hear us out and change it for whenever it comes out proper but that doesn't mean you should act like it's an important life matter.

Still, Captain Avatar and Derek Wildstar should still be their names