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NEWS: Star Blazers/Yamato 2199 DVD/Blu-rays Offered With English/Spanish Subtitles

Dimlos wrote:

blaizevincent wrote: Wait weren't these already released with English Subtitles support? No.

Yes they were. At least the Japanese release. With all 7 discs...
^Article must mean this is a foreign license as opposed to a domestic Japanese release. As there's no other way to interpret this...?

A 'rerelease' of the Japanese one would have been a bit strange as the current prints are still available in qood quantity.

Edit; The article does mention at the end that Bandai Visual offered the original discs with English subtitles.

penguintruth wrote:

Wasn't an English dub made? And why is "Yamato" still subtitled as "Argo"? It's one thing to continue to call it Starblazers, but even in the subtitles for the Japanese version the ship will called "Argo?" That's just spitting in people's faces.

Production IG commissioned Bang Zoom Entertainment to dub one or two episodes for marketing purposes, that was all.

There's no word yet whether they'll use the Argo nomenclature in the subtitles. If they're smart, they'll simply use the subtitles from the Japanese Blu-Rays. It would be foolish to do otherwise. But then, Voyager Entertainment haven't exactly done logical things with Yamato as far as international marketing goes in the last twelve months.

Then they fired Tim Eldred, perhaps the greatest single ambassador for Yamato/Starblazers in North America.

Well I'm happy they just didn't scrap the whole thing when them getting others to pay for their dub idea fell though. They are not getting an order out of me before someone writes up a review for this release of this. For once I hope they are being cheep and use the extising English sub.

Have to go it's clasic series rewatch time.

yamiangie wrote:

Well I'm happy they just didn't scrap the whole thing when them getting others to pay for their dub idea fell though. They are not getting an order out of me before someone writes up a review for this release of this. For once I hope they are being cheep and use the extising English sub.

Personally I thought directly importing from Japan was worth the money, I enjoyed the series that much (then again, I planned a trip to Japan around being in Tokyo for the opening day of the final movie).

yamiangie wrote:

Have to go it's clasic series rewatch time.

As in the 8:30pm Sunday night rewatch time Started up in the Facebook community?

ValkyrieZeroZeroOne wrote:

yamiangie wrote: Well I'm happy they just didn't scrap the whole thing when them getting others to pay for their dub idea fell though. They are not getting an order out of me before someone writes up a review for this release of this. For once I hope they are being cheep and use the extising English sub. Personally I thought directly importing from Japan was worth the money, I enjoyed the series that much (then again, I planned a trip to Japan around being in Tokyo for the opening day of the final movie). yamiangie wrote: Have to go it's clasic series rewatch time. As in the 8:30pm Sunday night rewatch time Started up in the Facebook community?

I have a pathological hate of expensive shipping.

And yes it is the rewatch as stared at Cosmo DNA facebook page.

I have a friend at work who will go nuts about this. He has fond memories of Starblazers from his youth, and he doesn't give two flips about the ship being called Yamato. In fact it being called the Argo will probably make him happier.

I hope the English dub is able to finish. I would love to see it, and it would be nice for the English voice actors to get the work.

I don't personally care if they use "Yamato" or "Argo" in the dub, but I agree that the subtitles should be as accurate as possible.

Argo is not the name of the ship. At all. "Yamato" doesn't even sound somewhat like "Argo". It's like calling Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach "Bob Hastings". One is nothing like the other. It's not a translation. It's a completely different thing altogether.

There's zero reason why any part of a modern anime release should change the name of something so important because of... what? Nostalgia?

It shouldn't even be changed in an English dub.