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Murasakisuishou
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It's not the Major I'd be worried about, since she's ridiculously easy to act. It's characters like Aramaki and Batou, the ones who lend themselves easily to stereotypes.
I'm just guessing here, but Manga probably figured that anyone who would buy this hasn't seen the TV series already, so it didn't matter if the dub voices were different. Having Ocean do it was probably cheaper than getting the SAC cast and ZRO Limit to re-record stuff they'd already done years ago, so there you go. |
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Nerv1
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One question, isn't this OVA(?) basically a rehash of SAC season 1 with additional footage like Death And Rebirth?
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Mohawk52
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Both are blatant cash cows which I'm not even renting let alone buying. Because they are so obvious I can't see the point of them even wasting the budget producing these. They also cheapen the value of the individual original gigs IMHO It's a pointless failure as far as I'm concerned.
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AY War Horse
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The quick answer to that is yes, it is an abreviated version of the laughing man incidents that occured in the first series of SAC 1 , with some additional scenes added in to enable it to work as a movie. And I must say that at times releases like this OVA and "Death and Rebirth" add little to, but don't necessarily detract anything from, the series that they have been born from. Therefore in this regard such movies could well be more about making money than about adding depth to the original. However if someone watched the Laughing Man movie and this produced interest in the series then that can be a good thing. As for the change in english voice actors it can happen at times, it is no different from some film sequels or television series' where there has been a change in actors. Both of these changes can throw the audience, in the anime it can be strange to see a character who sounds differently which can cause both disorientation, irritation and as in the Laughing Man film controversy. When it comes to film and TV pieces there is no previous reference in physical look when the actor changes but there will be some diorientation since a character may well have become identified with the previous actor. Overall such changes do, at times throw, me at times and then i have the option to either carry on watching and just accept and get used to the change or not bother to watch it, for instance in the Laughing Man film as has been mentioned above it is always possible to go over to the Japanese version instead, but not sure about turning off the sound which could end up as disorientating as a silent (i.e. pictures no words) comic strip, but knowing the original series I am sure it would not be too hard to follow the film in this mannor  .
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