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NEWS: Netflix Adds Evangelion Anime Worldwide on June 21

A modern dub would totally be welcome to new viewers, especially a big company like Netflix who probably have higher standards than a small dubbing company in the 90s.

AICO was dubbed in Miami. Not much anime has ever been done there in English, but the new Captain Tsubasa is also being recorded there. Don't know if it's the same studio as AICO, though.

I've heard conflicting information on who handles the dubs for Netflix. There's reason to believe Netflix themselves have little input on that and it instead falls upon the individual production committees to contract that out. That may be why we tend to see all foreign language dubs for a Netflix show produced by those big multi-national localization houses (BTI Studios, Iyuno Media Group, SDI Media, etc.) even if the work they produce isn't exactly acceptable (a problem that seems to happen more often with non-English dubs).

Same reason Sunrise seems to like redubbing Gundam shows in the States now if I had to guess. Because they can?

Steve Minecraft wrote:

A modern dub would totally be welcome to new viewers, especially a big company like Netflix who probably have higher standards than a small dubbing company in the 90s.

Are these the same higher standards that gave us the A.I.C.O - Incarnation dub? IIRC, weren't some of Netflix's other dubs also considered slapdash and subpar?

1dbad wrote:

According to this Tweet of Amanda Winn Lee's (Rei's original VA), the new dub has an entirely different cast: https://twitter.com/amandawinnlee/status/1109279696347291648

I love this news, really want a new take on an Evangelion dub. I'm not a fan of the ADV dub.

Er, I know this isn't your intention most likely but because you've paired it with THAT tweet it reads like "Amanda Winn Lee is heart broken, FANTASTIC NEWS!"

At this point, I don't watch any new dubs.. they are all just utter garbage.. sorry dub fans.

GracieLizzy wrote:

Er, I know this isn't your intention most likely but because you've paired it with THAT tweet it reads like "Amanda Winn Lee is heart broken, FANTASTIC NEWS!"

I do wonder if it was requested they not return. I believe that is what happened to Berserk 2016 as well, the actors from the 1997 version work at Bang Zoom but were still re-cast anyway and not even told about it. Just seems like sometimes companies want to take a new fresh direction.

They let us audition- AFTER we found out auditions were being held and raised a fuss. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they threw out the files as soon as we left the studio. They never had any intention of involving us.

My only sadness with the Eva redub is I feel like Netflix tossed to it to Bang Zoom or similar and they got their usual actors to do it. Which isn't to insult those people, they're plenty talented and I've loved them in many projects, but I liked how Eva's dub stood out from the rest. (And yes, I know that for the time it did not cast-wise, but how many of those shows have stayed as relevant as Eva has?) The Japanese cast is still phenomenal though, so if anyone has discomfort watching Eva with a new English dub, the Japanese version is always there.

I'd like to hope that was an experiment that failed and they won't be using that company again after the backlash and having Bang Zoom re-dub it. That mess aside I've been satisfied with the dubs of Netflix.

Have they really redubbed that many, though? SEED was a special case, since the re-edited/upscaled footage for the HD/16:9 version didn't line up with the old dub.

Actually in a Tweet that was made in December of 2018 (which unfortunately it's now deleted) it's been confirmed that Bang Zoom! won't be doing the redub of NGE and also the dub is voice directed by a woman.

Zalis116 wrote:

Have they really redubbed that many, though? SEED was a special case, since the re-edited/upscaled footage for the HD/16:9 version didn't line up with the old dub.

Escaflowne was redubbed for ten minutes of new stuffspoiler[ and given the recent news about Vic makes the thing hilarious looking back given how bad of a miscast that was to begin with], Beyblade Burst's second sequel was moved from Ocean/Blue Water to LA (making it the first non-Canadian Beyblade dub, mid-series at that) SEED was redubbed with zero attempt at all to get any of the old cast back (which is especially odd, given how much of a hit it was in Canada to begin with), Funimation's treatment of Shana (which had problems that Funimation couldn't have done about anything at all) was a mess, Funi's rerelease of the LA Death Note movies are sub only despite a dub existing for them, etc. I'm shocked YuGiOh hasn't been moved up to Canada dub-wise though, given iirc, it had the English TV Premiere of both Arc V and Vrain up here.

The US dub scene might've had issues with stuff like the various different dubs of Akira and the like but man, I don't recall it being this tightly packed together which might actually make it feel bad, more so than usual.

Levonr wrote:

I'd like to hope that was an experiment that failed and they won't be using that company again after the backlash and having Bang Zoom re-dub it. That mess aside I've been satisfied with the dubs of Netflix.

Actually Bang Zoom! is not doing the NGE Redub.