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NEWS: Funimation Licenses Speed Racer, Noein Anime

Do you suppose they'll redub Noein or just reuse the crappy English track from the Media Blasters release? I tried listening to the English track on my DVD and couldn't make it past about five minutes. I especially cringed during the scenes with Yukie-sensei. While I understand how using an American Southern accent was the de facto standard for representing Kansai-ben speakers, the actress who voiced Yukie sounded like she had just left an afternoon tea with the Birmingham, Alabama, chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Noein on bluray?

YUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

I am very pleased by this news. After I pick it up, it'd be a good opportunity to rewatch it.

I hope we can see the original Japanese video as well (which includes a longer version of the opening; the English dub left out the second verse to the theme song).

Oh yeah, and as this is clearly a family show (though I'm told the dub cut out some instances of violence), I REALLY hope that Funimation's subtitles don't try to make it more "mature" than it really is. Just saying, but swearing gets you nothing and nowhere, plus it just makes you look stupid, among things. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but anime isn't just for the older fans. Families watch it too. Okay, I'm done.

If Funimation's not redubbing Speed Racer but including the old English audio, I really wonder how they're going to pull that off without using separate video tracks. It's not clear how extensive the cuts were in the dub. I've also read that prints on the more recent releases may have been shorter than they were in the original American broadcast run, as a result of syndication cuts.

When Streamline Pictures made that compilation movie back in 1993, by editing 3 episodes of the dub together, they actually managed to re-integrate cut footage from the Japanese version. However, these were non-dialog scenes (like shots of drivers trapped inside burning vehicles).

Speed Racer? Really? Is that a typo? Its not "Busty Racer" or "Speed Booty: Tokyo Rift"? It could sit next to Funi's Sekirei, Freezing, Ikkitousen and other shows. Oh, wait it really is Speed Racer? Wow, I would have expected a Discotek or even Sentai to pick this up. I'm surprised as it doesn't seem to be in the normal stable of shows that they pick up. Maybe its a package deal or they acquired rights to future stuff in the franchise? I'll be really curious to see where this goes.

Oh yeah, and as this is clearly a family show (though I'm told the dub cut out some instances of violence), I REALLY hope that Funimation's subtitles don't try to make it more "mature" than it really is. Just saying, but swearing gets you nothing and nowhere, plus it just makes you look stupid, among things. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but anime isn't just for the older fans. Families watch it too. Okay, I'm done.

Oh, and one more thing. I really, REALLY hope that the subtitles don't insult everyone's intelligence by simply being a "dub-titled" version (especially if it's a "dub-titled" version that simply substitutes the dub names for the original ones), or worse yet, by being a new translation, but with the dub names (e.g., audio says "Michi", but the subs say "Trixie"). That would be the worst thing ever.

If Funimation's not redubbing Speed Racer but including the old English audio, I really wonder how they're going to pull that off without using separate video tracks. It's not clear how extensive the cuts were in the dub. I've also read that prints on the more recent releases may have been shorter than they were in the original American broadcast run, as a result of syndication cuts.

I'm assuming they'll probably be releasing Speed Racer and Mach Go Go in separate boxsets. Like they'll probably have one dubonly set for Speed Racer that will just be the edited dub and then have a separate boxset for Mach Go Go that will be sub only. That's pretty much how every anime company has done for edited dub shows.