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What do you think makes FUNimation dubs unique?

Well for me...

They translate the japanese credits to english in the OP/ED of their dubs. Unlike other studios such as Viz Media, in their Naruto DVDs they actually kept the japanese credits in their OP/ED even title cards are kept in japanese even though they were translated in english when they aired on TV. In my opinion Viz Media takes the term Uncut DVD way too seriously.

I personally think that FUNimation can appeal to a wider audience by doing techniques like this.

I personally think that FUNimation can appeal to a wider audience by doing techniques like this.

But more importantly, how did the topic go from dubs to credits? No one dubs credits.

FUNimation's credits are, at times, atrocious. Take the recently released Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: in the ED they give credit to their English staff. That's cool, they definitely deserve some dap, but not at the expense of not listing any of the Japanese staff in the ED aside from the episode director, storyboarder, scriptwriter and animation director. How are fans supposed to educate themselves about the animation that goes into the shows they love if FUNimation doesn't even credit the key animators? At least when they had alternate angles you could flip over to the JP track, but now you have to go to their streaming site to get the JP credits.

I prefer Viz when they list the kanji credits and have an extra for the English staff. To me, that's the best of both worlds. But when they list the credits in English they always list generic credits, which is an insult to everybody involved. Who is ignorant enough to believe that the same team worked on every episode of any given series?

Well, Funi dubs don't totally suck in terms of acting. Rewriting of the script is another issue, and they cast the same folks over and over again. Imagine if every movie you saw come out used the same cast every time. I'll pass and just throw on the Japanese track.

How are fans supposed to educate themselves about the animation that goes into the shows they love if FUNimation doesn't even credit the key animators?

The translated credits is just their attempt to put their efforts in front of the Japanese crews. Just like any time I go on Amazon the information Funi submits has their VAs listed first and the ADR listed as the anime director.

ArsenicSteel wrote:

The translated credits is just their attempt to put their efforts in front of the Japanese crews. Just like any time I go on Amazon the information Funi submits has their VAs listed first and the ADR listed as the anime director.

ADV did the same thing back when they did translated credits. And how do you know it's Funi who's submitting that information to Amazon? I don't see what's so wrong with putting the English VAs first -- judging by the sub-only release bitching threads, pretty much nobody watches subbed anime on DVD anyway.

By the way, there aren't many OP/ED songs dubbed in English by FUNimation. Most retain their Japanese original because translating them isn't easy to do nor is it cheap.