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This Week in Anime - The Rise and Evolution of Old Classic Dubs

What dub haters don't (or won't) understand is that these are shows for children, and that despite overlap, Japanese children and American children are different groups. I think the shows that stood the test of time (Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Digimon) were ones whose adaptors understood what would appeal to American kids and just flavored what was left to taste.

Digimon's nonsense in particular being restricted to mostly doodling in the margins made watching it a fuller experience because without the humor it's a heavier, more dramatic show with blander characters, and that's likely not going to be for everyone.

I always felt the English cast for these shows were horribly matched and don't work as a straight dub. (...) It's hard for me to picture the English voice of Taichi being serious and not cracking jokes every few seconds.

Awesome post about how Discotek should also dub in Canada

Here in Latin America almost all of the actors from the cartoon reprised their roles in the PPGZ anime, with the only exception being Rossy Aguirre as Buttercup, but that was due to differences between her and the recording studio, as she has voiced anime characters like Akane Tendo and Ami Mizuno. In fact, It's quite common in LatAm for dub actors to work in cartoons and anime, for example, Blossom's VA is known for vocing Sakura Kinomoto, Kari Kamiya and Gatomon, while Bubble's VA voiced Erza Scarlet and Nobita, she also performed the third opening for Inuyasha.

Speaking of which, while re-dubs like this are probably interesting for those who grew up with the dubs and want that ping of nostalgia, I'm a bit confused who these dubs are for, exactly. People who want the original story will be watching them subbed, but fans of the dub will probably find them 'boring' if the script is written faithfully and there's no jokes or edits or changes.

The Digimon fandom collectively lost it's mind over the dub announcement to the point where there was more buzz about it than the full trailer for the new 02 The Beginning movie the same day. Plus it's going to use the same style of subbing they've used since Tri - completely uncut and a faithful but looser script, which people have been fine with. Discotek probably knows their audience better than any other licensing anime company if we're being honest.

Just want to set the record straight that the original Japanese version of Ghost Stories is 100% on Crunchyroll (in the US). It's been there since Crunchyroll added the entire series in 2016. You just have to click on an episode and change it to Audio: Japanese (original) and turn on the subtitles. Discotek's bluray has both as well.

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You still see the old mindset pop up now and then when new brands are attempted. This article already focuses heavily on Pretty Cure, but LBX was undoubtedly the most extensively edited show of the '10s. Yo-Kai Watch and Zoids Wild had their alterations in both content and character names, though they weren't as dramatically altered as they might've been in the past.

There are a couple of other minor things. The original Macross has received multiple uncut releases in the US and even has its own dub separate from Robotech. Additionally, all of Medabots was dubbed into English. Yes, it's edited, but I don't know why anyone would want a re-dub of the second series over the first. That one's not good in any language. The theme song and some character designs are the only really amusing bits.

Now if only somebody would do the same for stuff like Tokyo Mew Mew, Ojamajo Doremi, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Pretty Cure.

Not only are the classic dub versions of shows released first, but they must outsell the sub-only versions by a decent margin because Discotek has encouraged fans of the shows to pick up those versions if they want them to keep coming.

Digimon's nonsense in particular being restricted to mostly doodling in the margins made watching it a fuller experience because without the humor it's a heavier, more dramatic show with blander characters, and that's likely not going to be for everyone.

There is still an opportunity for Discotek Media to co-operate with Vancouver/Edmonton/Calgary, Toronto and Montreal dubbing studios. It would be great if Discotek Media outsources their dubs to Canada and/or does the cross-regional dubs featuring Los Angeles and Vancouver voice talent like ''Yashahime''. At this moment, I am wondering. Even after the success of the Viz Media's dub of ''Sailor Moon'', why Discotek Media didn't redub ''Saint Tail'' in its entirety or at least dubbed the last 28 episodes?

What they did with Danball Senki pisses me off to this day because it basically prevented us getting W (either the anime or the game) and considering the cuts the first season got, they wouldn't have even touched Wars given the entire premise is a full scale proxy war between real countries using the war game premise as a way to keep the kids in the dark. At the very least, Bandai should've continued with the kits but that didn't even happen.

Yeah I was wondering why that poster only wanted the second series dubbed and not the first. Maybe they liked the dub of the first season?

I don't really understand why the Ghost Stories dub was getting dragged in here, given how different its situation was than most of the other shows that were discussed. I mean, the original series was essentially Japanese Scooby-Doo, a low-budget "spooky" show aimed at elementary school kids. It's not the sort of thing that had any sort of widespread appeal among anime fans then or now, and almost no one would have known or cared about its existence if not for ADV's dub of it.

You don't see dubs like the original Digimon's anymore because anime largely isn't marketed towards kids in the anglosphere and hasn't been for a long time. I mean, just look at the recent Digimon shows. They either don't get dubbed, or get a lowkey streaming release targeted at adults.