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NEWS: Funimation Reveals Shakugan no Shana English Dub Cast

Fencedude5609 wrote:

hojo 360 wrote: or its not a problem, for me and is for you and i'm sorry you have a problem with it but why not take it up with Funi? anyway i understand your point but since there's nothing i can do about it ill just make the best of it. have a good one i'm off too bed. Christ, what is with the passive-aggressiveness of people recently? And this has jack-all to do with Funi, honestly.

or maybe you need to get. off your damn high horse and just wait and see. whats funny is you seem mad? and about what. the fact that some of us don't mind what funi is doing?? ill say this one time. the pics that were posted are just that pics. nothing more how do i know the guys that posted the pics have the box from funi? id like to all so see the box set pic!!!!!! please i mean what if the pics are from funimation's stream?? until i own the sets my self i'm done wasting time with you going back and forth about how it will look and. i can care less if someone owns the JP BDs as sometimes the NA team that owns it ---->funi they do there own mixing to fix up the look and colors ect till its out by funi there's no point in trying to say anything more. the fact that most on here have been going back and forth about this is a little sad. can't we just be happy its coming out?

This is true, but Funimation certainly had options. They could've done the Movie or second season at Ocean and screamed from the top of their lungs that fans needed to support it if they wanted that cast to continue. Instead they went silent for months before showing up with an entirely new cast.

Primus wrote:

This is true, but Funimation certainly had options. They could've done the Movie or second season at Ocean and screamed from the top of their lungs that fans needed to support it if they wanted that cast to continue. Instead they went silent for months before showing up with an entirely new cast.

If they were going to do the entire second series with the Ocean dub cast, it would be a bit late in the game to change after that.

As to doing the movie with the Ocean dub cast and saying it had to sell well for the cast to be used for the series, that would be workable, assuming Funimation actually received the movie from Geneon before they did they second series. Given that the series is being released first, I suspect that was not the case.

To be honest, if I was in Funimation's shoes, I would have probably made the same call. The only difference is that I might have considered going back and dubbing the first series (for continuity's sake) with the same cast if sales did well enough.

Also, you do know that the Japanese is still on the disc, right? Oh wakt, of course you don't, that would require thinking, something you seem to be averse to.

Seriously??? This is exactly why I stay away from 95% of the dubs that are done these days...literally sounds like a 5 year old doing a puppet show...its that bad. This was absolutely amazing when it aired in Japanese and I feel that it would be a shame to sell this garbage.

Why couldn't they get the Ocean VAs? Are they too busy voicing My Little Pony? Bad blood after the voice switch in DBZ?

So Funimation and Ocean Studios have some of feud then? I wonder if that had anything to do with Ocean doing their own dub of Dragon Ball Z that has lead to that?

well that's sad since most of my buddy's who like anime are just happy to get there hands. on anything anime dub or sub. i think the anime fandom. needs to just support the fact we are still geting anime in NA buy what you love ect. or maybe its just in my day anime was only on VHS and was about 75min per VHS for all most 30$ so i just don't care how it looks

hojo 360 wrote:

well that's sad since most of my buddy's who like anime are just happy to get there hands. on anything anime dub or sub. i think the anime fandom. needs to just support the fact we are still geting anime in NA buy what you love ect. or maybe its just in my day anime was only on VHS and was about 75min per VHS for all most 30$ so i just don't care how it looks

See, there are these things called capital letters that are supposed to be used to begin sentences and these things called periods that are supposed to be used to end sentences, not just randomly stuck in the middle of them. Your text in your posts in this thread goes beyond just being sloppy; it's actually painfully annoying to read.

You need to make at least a reasonable effort to use proper grammar in these forums.

As to doing the movie with the Ocean dub cast and saying it had to sell well for the cast to be used for the series, that would be workable, assuming Funimation actually received the movie from Geneon before they did they second series. Given that the series is being released first, I suspect that was not the case.

Well I just back from MizuCon & they had Monica Rial there and someone had the pleasure of asking this question of why the cast change happened. From what I can tell you Monica didn't know the actual details (She made that very clear) but she told us that FUNimation & Ocean seem have an odd relationship (They don't agree with each other on certain things) but she did say FUNimation did at least try to get the original cast back.

(and I hope the season 2 delay is actually so they can do their own upscale)

Some of you may have noticed that the eagerly anticipated Shakugan no Shana Season Two Part 1 & Part 2 releases have been delayed, but that’s because we’re packing the release full of EXTRAS! Including the animated specials of: Why? What? Shana! Ask Anything Question Box (aka Naze Nani Shana), and Shakugan no Shana-tan. So while there may be a bit of a wait, it’s all so we could make the release just a little more special for all of you.

Ryu Shoji wrote:

(and I hope the season 2 delay is actually so they can do their own upscale)

They already confirmed the reason for the delay and it's not because of the upscale.

Rojas wrote:

Some of you may have noticed that the eagerly anticipated Shakugan no Shana Season Two Part 1 & Part 2 releases have been delayed, but that’s because we’re packing the release full of EXTRAS! Including the animated specials of: Why? What? Shana! Ask Anything Question Box (aka Naze Nani Shana), and Shakugan no Shana-tan. So while there may be a bit of a wait, it’s all so we could make the release just a little more special for all of you.

They caught a lot of heat for not including these shorts when the extras were first announced so their delay for season 2 is actually for the better.

The only thing to worry about now is the OVA that came with Geneon's season 1 sets because it was confirmed by those who own FUNi's combo pack that it's not included.

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