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NEWS: Funimation Streams Requiem of the Rose King Anime




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mulletZERO



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 10:01 am Reply with quote
I've been waiting for this announcement! Thank you Funimation! Can't wait to see one of my favorite manga series get animated.
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 10:40 am Reply with quote
Not too surprising. I wonder how much "flourish" they'll add to the dub script.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:47 pm Reply with quote
I see VAs listed for Joan of Arc and a Queen Elizabeth; ( I assume that's the English #1 ). So does this work cover a long span of time, or are the creators just enjoying some artistic license with things, like they often do with stuff like the Sengoku era warlords? I'm not objecting or anything, just wondering.
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Dayraven



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 1:11 pm Reply with quote
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I see VAs listed for Joan of Arc and a Queen Elizabeth; ( I assume that's the English #1 )

Going by Wikipedia, Queen Elizabeth is Elizabeth Woodville — wife to King Edward IV rather than a reigning queen. Joan of Arc appears posthumously.
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MagicPolly



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 6:16 pm Reply with quote
I know this is wishful thinking considering it came out almost 15 years ago, but I hope they do something similar to the Romeo x Juliet dub where they make the dialogue much more Shakespearean than the direct subs.

For an example, in the subs Juliet says "even if this flower had no name, it would smell just as sweet" where in the dub, she says "an iris by any other name would smell just as sweet" (the anime switches roses to irises for some reason). They both mean the same thing, but the dub line is closer to the "actual" line in the play.
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AQuin1904



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 08, 2022 10:47 am Reply with quote
MagicPolly wrote:
I know this is wishful thinking considering it came out almost 15 years ago, but I hope they do something similar to the Romeo x Juliet dub where they make the dialogue much more Shakespearean than the direct subs.

For an example, in the subs Juliet says "even if this flower had no name, it would smell just as sweet" where in the dub, she says "an iris by any other name would smell just as sweet" (the anime switches roses to irises for some reason). They both mean the same thing, but the dub line is closer to the "actual" line in the play.

That sounds like a reasonable approach, considering that modern Japanese translations of Shakespeare are much more straightforward and intelligible to present-day readers than Shakespeare's English is to present-day English readers. On the other hand, making lines with no Shakespearean equivalents (which far outnumber lines you could link back to Shakespeare in this series) mesh with that and still sound good might prove tricky.
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