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NEWS: Attack on Titan to Run on Adult Swim's Toonami Block

And Kodocha has one of the worst, most poorly acted (and horribly cast) dubs Funimation has ever done. Linebarrels of Iron and Vexille were passable at best, but virtually any Texas director could have got the same average level of quality out of those mediocre releases.


And for the record, I would consider his directing on Kodocha a HUGE fail. Perhaps it that show had been given a respectable dub, it may have helped boost the numbers enough to allow its release to be completed.

This is awesome news! As for the censorship and ratings, I wish Adult Swim/Toonami could be it's own separate channel so they wouldn't have to air these shows so late at night.

^ Yes, I know. But it would be nice.

This just solidifies Toonami's rule of "Shows that have a ton of action but no substance or intellectual value". In other words we'll never see real masterpieces like Dennou Coil on there (I know, it's never been licensed for some reason, just an example).

In the end, it makes sense. Please the masses, and according to Michael Bay the masses like the violence and that's all.

SAO also had very little action, to me, so not sure where you are trying to go.

Ronin2081 wrote:

SAO also had very little action, to me, so not sure where you are trying to go.

There's a fight scene in almost every episode. That's like saying One Piece is lacking in wacky pirates and goofy naval admirals or that Hamtaro is lacking in hamsters.

dragonrider_cody wrote:

And Kodocha has one of the worst, most poorly acted (and horribly cast) dubs Funimation has ever done. Linebarrels of Iron and Vexille were passable at best, but virtually any Texas director could have got the same average level of quality out of those mediocre releases. And for the record, I would consider his directing on Kodocha a HUGE fail. Perhaps it that show had been given a respectable dub, it may have helped boost the numbers enough to allow its release to be completed.

Um, what? Kodocha might have been a failure in sales, but it had nothing to do with the dub, which I thought was quite good. Laura Bailey did a great job as Sana; even Zac, who was otherwise critical of the dub in his review of the first DVD, agrees on that. I thought most of the rest of the acting performances and casting choices were at worst passable and settled into the roles with time, especially Chris Sabat as the principal and Colleen Clinkenbeard as Misako. Babbit and Akito weren't great casting choices but were at least tolerable, and they were (arguably) the most questionable choices.

No, that series didn't sell well (and thus, sadly, never got finished in its American release) because it was old (and looked it) and most American otaku aren't interested in watching an ongoing dramedy about elementary school students. I can't recall a case in the DVD era where something has failed to sell primarily because of an awful dub.

I never said the show sold poorly because of a dub. You should actually read a post entirely before you reply to it. I said that a good dub MAY have helped it sell better. I never indicated a reason why it sold poorly.

And everyone has their own opinions on dubs. Personally, I thought Laura Bailey was absolutely terrible. She took a somewhat annoying character and turned her into an completely intolerable brat. Every time she stated to talk, I cringe and hoped that she would shut up soon. The rest of the cast wasn't too bad, but I can't agree with you on Bailey at all. I've enjoyed most of the roles I've heard her in, but I consider Kodocha to be her worst by far.

Mr. sickVisionz wrote:

Ronin2081 wrote: SAO also had very little action, to me, so not sure where you are trying to go. There's a fight scene in almost every episode. That's like saying One Piece is lacking in wacky pirates and goofy naval admirals or that Hamtaro is lacking in hamsters.

There were fights, but majority of them were skipped over/stills where the main action was Kirito posing after striking them. Then with the big fights they tended to completely gloss over them and instead of actually showing us a fight we got flashes of light/slug fest like DBZ, if we were lucky. Other times they built up to a big fight coming next episode, only to have it finish off screen.

So you can try and claim SAO had action but the action it had wasn't any better then the action in some Ben 10 episodes.

Ronin2081 wrote:

Mr. sickVisionz wrote: Ronin2081 wrote: SAO also had very little action, to me, so not sure where you are trying to go. There's a fight scene in almost every episode. That's like saying One Piece is lacking in wacky pirates and goofy naval admirals or that Hamtaro is lacking in hamsters. There were fights, but majority of them were skipped over/stills where the main action was Kirito posing after striking them. Then with the big fights they tended to completely gloss over them and instead of actually showing us a fight we got flashes of light/slug fest like DBZ, if we were lucky. Other times they built up to a big fight coming next episode, only to have it finish off screen. So you can try and claim SAO had action but the action it had wasn't any better then the action in some Ben 10 episodes.

You haven't seen SAO. That is an objectively false description of how they did their fight scenes.