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Hetalia US Premiere and Cast Panel

derpMonster wrote:

Saturn wrote: musouka wrote: Yeah, you know what Hetalia needed? Cuss words and Nazi jokes. Thanks for filling in those gaps that the Japanese version left, Funimation. thank you for saying eloquently what I couldn't even form in my brain due to the RAGE. Wait, the Original Japanese Anime didn't have that??? I thought they directly translated dialogue word for word!

The subtitles follow the Japanese script more closely while the dub's script intentionally takes some liberties.

"liberties" is a... kind way to put it :\

derpMonster, in the original there are no references to Jews, Catholics, Germany being really "white" or anything like that.

It's kinda offensive, no?

This really infuriates me. They've turned it into a completely different show; one that Hetalia was never meant to be.
This really doesn't make sense to me. They knew Hetalia was popular, and it was popular because of the original script. Why 'fix' what was never broken? A move like this is only going to alienate more people and lose them a lot of the show's original fans.

I for one am not supporting this stupidity. My money goes to the Japanese DVDs. The humour in these dubs sounds like something a fratboy came up with, or like one of those joke 'abridged series' fandubs on youtube. It's completely out of place in an official release, and is woefully unfunny anyway. (Not to mention how OOC they've made the characters act...)

...Is it really that bad? o.O I like the original (based on Funi's subtitles) and I like the dub. So am I a horrible fan because I like the radical changes in the dub even though I still like the original dialogue?

Really, if the dub isn't your cup of tea, you can still support Funimation by buying the DVDs and just watching the sub (or buy the Japanese release, if that's an option) or watch the free streams. It's better than anything else.

Aura Ichadora wrote:

...Is it really that bad? o.O I like the original (based on Funi's subtitles) and I like the dub. So am I a horrible fan because I like the radical changes in the dub even though I still like the original dialogue? Really, if the dub isn't your cup of tea, you can still support Funimation by buying the DVDs and just watching the sub (or buy the Japanese release, if that's an option) or watch the free streams. It's better than anything else.

Yeah, it's really that bad when you take the Nazi joke into account; in that context, the other "off-color" jokes seem a lot worse than they did originally.
It's bad enough that some fans have decided that they don't want to support Funimation at all.

My initial reaction to all the wanking about the dub was, "hey, I don't watch dubs anyway, so it doesn't matter to me" but now I've moved into the camp of "Funi isn't getting any money from my pocket to ruin Hetalia". It's not just a matter of not liking the dub; they've lowered the show to a level it's not supposed to be on. People who don't watch Hetalia have a habit of thinking of it as "that show that makes fun of the atrocities of war" when it's actually not.
Except, watching the dub, that's exactly what it is.
I'm not saying Hetalia ever deserved a Nobel Prize or anything, but it deserved better than it got.

If it's not making fun of the atrocities of war then why does it portray Italy in WW2 as some sort of carefree kid with only pasta on his mind?

Do you know what Mussolini did in Italy? Do you know what Italy did to Ethiopia? I can't imagine that Hetalia showed any of that.

How are people supposed to feel about it? It's a show that takes place during wartimes that shows the countries as being all cute and innocent. Maybe that's not "making fun" of the atrocities of war, but it certainly is "making light" of them.