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FUNimation, GXP, and the case of the original VA's for Ep-17

Just to update this little controversy, I have just received an e-mail reply to a letter I had posted to Jennifer Darling a month ago. It was from either her friend, or Personal Assistant, saying “Jennifer was never contacted”. So that’s three of the original VA’s who dispute that statement from FUNi. “The Game’s afoot Watson!” as Holms would say.

You know, I'm really having a hard time understanding why this is worth complaining about. Is the problem with FUNi allegedly lying, or that the VAs aren't returning?

Emerje

Why do people care so much about this?

You're whining and tossing out conspiracy theories because a single episode of Tenchi GXP might not have brief cameo appearances by voice actors who performed in a dub that's over five years old. A dub that..

And I'm going to say this, so try not to freak out...

wasn't very good!

I also noticed a lot of the voices seem kind of uninspired and unemotional. It's OK, but I don't see what all the fuss is about. I'd say it's pretty average by today's standards. Heck, maybe FUNimation can do better than what I just heard (no offence to fans of the original VAs .)

I think that the main issue is that people get used to hearing certain voices for characters. It doesn't matter whether you particularily like them, or think they are good voices. If you listen to the same voice for the same character for more than a few eps, then that voice will be the one you associate with that character. Another voice just wouldn't have the same feel anymore, that's what I think anyway.

However in this case, it's all for just one episode anyway, so I don't really see the point in that.

But I think it's still reasonable to ask.

but I'm not going to get all worked up over it if it doesn't happen.
Emerje

Why do people care so much about this?

You're whining and tossing out conspiracy theories because a single episode of Tenchi GXP might not have brief cameo appearances by voice actors who performed in a dub that's over five years old. A dub that..

And I'm going to say this, so try not to freak out...

wasn't very good!

Steady Zac. That pulsating blood vessel might burst. I don't whine. I just report the facts. As Kasuki-san said earlier. Whether one considered the dub good or bad, it was consistent for the main characters, at least for the duration of the franchise mostly, and so a precedent was set with those voices that has endured. Sure I'll admit that by today’s standard the earlier dub wasn't great, but at the time it came out it was considered one of the better one's, by most who cared about these things to say back then. Some may not care, but I for one do not like to be taken for a mug by a company who has a very low opinion of most of its customers, it would increasingly appear. You may feel, as you have stated that this is "whining". But I’d be willing to bet Zac that if you went into a restaurant that advertised a steak dinner, only to serve you a Hotdog instead, you would "whine" that they didn't give you what they said they would, and loudly too I'd wager as well. I'm only highlighting the integrity of FUNimation's statement. with hard fact. Like others, I look toward to the third OVA, and though this may irritate you, I liked the dub of the OVA's. then and now.
They said "they would try" with GXP. I didn't "expect" that to mean "try it on". It would appear that it is FUNi who are being the true hypocrites, though I don't understand where you could think I have been one here as well.