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NEWS: Sunrise to Release Gundam Seed, Gundam Seed Destiny With New English Dub

...Why? I don't understand this to be honest. Both shows already have english dubs which to me are perfectly servicable. I realize not everybody likes it that much, but that's pretty much with any dub.

Look, I absolutely love these voice actors (Stephanie Sheh is simply the best), but I don't see the point of this.

Remember, the remaster has new scenes, and is shorter than the original series (48 vs 50), so this was inevitable.

I feel like it needs to be stated more clearly that this dub is for the HD remasters of SEED and SEED Destiny, which, as someone else in these comments pointed out, is a few episodes shorter and features new scenes and I imagined new dialogue, meaning the old dub won't work without calling the actors back in, and that could get expensive considering its been a decade and a half, not to mention the VA's have gotten older and likely couldn't put out the same performances as before. This was really the only option other than just making it sub-only.

Canaime is dead. This just makes me upset. What's next, recasting Brad Swaile's Amuro with Bryce Papenbrook?

Under. Goddamn. Statement.
The USA has Wing; Canada had SEED. It's funny because I don't even think SEED did well enough to get more than a single run in the US. While as in Canada, we got 4 and a half runs of SEED and 1 and half of Destiny.

Like, this is kind of ass backwards. I'd kind of expect Wing to get the redub considering how popular it is in the states (especially since that could mean Kaye and Hildreth could kind of reprise their roles as Treize and Heero respectively).

So somehow Seed, which is reasonably popular, gets a brand spanking new English dub for no reason at all, whereas Gundam X gets the shaft? Uhhh...why?

They should just include both dubs into the DVD release. That way everyone will be happy.

The problem with SEED's dub is that they shuffled scenes around, shortened some, and inserted scenes from the Special Edition movies, and when they redrew certain scenes, they altered the mouthflaps to better line up to the Japanese audio. They didn't add anything that requires new voicework thogh. If they have the seperate dialogue stems, they could "easily" remix them with the HD Remaster music+effects track and resync the dub. The mouthflaps might be an issue, but it'd work. I say "easily" because it's still a good bit of work to mix all that stuff again.

If they don't have the separate stems, which, being that SEED's dub is 10+ years old, wouldn't surprise me at all if they final mix is all they have, then the issue you run into is the change don't allow the dub to sync properly. It can be made to work through selective edits, but the music and effects make noticeable jumps if you do that. It also becomes a bigger issue later on where they altered things more, like the scenes with the new Perfect Strike. The launch sequence for that was changed up because the Strike has all 3 Strikers mounted, so the effects hit much faster as they are attached. If you try and use the original version of that scene from the dub, only the Aile Striker was installed, so the effects fall totally out of sync.

As for your suggestion of an edit to match the dub, the problem there is, they would need to have upscale a whole bunch of material that was removed or reanimated, like the aforementioned Strike changes. All those battle scenes would need to be restored to the Aile Strike version. The HD Remaster episodes run the same length as their old counterparts, it's just the shortening of scenes to account for new stuff like the Special Edition scenes and such. If they're just gonna upscale the whole thing across the board, it loses it's luster a bit.

The whole situation is a mess. Honestly, at this point, if they don't have the separate stems, I'd expect a sub-only release unless they decide to have Ocean redub the whole series, which is probably not gonna happen.

Not Gundam related, but Viz is going to have to pick up those newer Japanese live action Death Note productions eventually. They haven't dubbed anything in Vancouver since InuYasha: The Final Act, so Brad Swaile's Light replaced with [insert LA actor here]

ZZ Gundam, V Gundam, Gundam X, Turn A Gundam, etc, are all old. At this point it's safe to assume none of them are either popular enough or marketable enough to warrant new, full 50-ish episode dubs. Well known enough to get out there with sub only Blu-rays or whatever, but not much more than that.

This would seem to suggest they believe the HD remastered Seeds are more marketable or that the Seeds are sufficiently popular to begin with. I guess.

It's possible that's their reasoning, but I had a friend suggest that there might be something more to it than that. A SEED movie was penned and reportedly finished well before the director(Or was it the writer?) passed away, just never animated. SEED is one of the most popular Gundam series in Japan, so perhaps the HD remasters are being redubbed so that the new voice cast can be used for the movie, rather than having a disconnect? Assuming Sunrise has actually decided to move ahead with the movie after all these years that is.

Admittedly though, that sounds like a crackpot theory now that I've said it out loud.