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NEWS: Monster Anime Premieres on Syfy's Ani-Monday Tonight

Prede wrote:

penguintruth wrote: Adult Swim has one commercial break per program. They play a few commercials, then back to the show. Rarely do they cut anything, unless there's one of those after-credits epilogues in the final episodes of programs, and only a couple of times. No, Syfy is far, far worse. Not to get in a fight with you here. But Adult Swim plays one commercial that never, ever ends. The SyFy commercials are so short, that by the time they start they are over. I'd rather that. And yes Adult Swim cuts things. Watch Paranoia Agent on DVD, and then remember what you saw on AS. They cut stuff from almost every episode... Adult Swim is much, much worse, just by the terrible time slots they give anime alone. Never mind the way they treat fans and anime, or their blatant unprofessionalism, or their messing with the schedule way too much, or their dropping of shows...I could go on... I'll take professionalism, great time slots, and better choice in shows, over whatever-the-hell anyone thinks Adult Swim has going for it anyday.

I'd think most people would prefer one five minute commercial over 3 3 minute commercials. And Sci-Fi does it in the worst ways. You get like 5 minutes of show, commercial, 3 minutes of show, commercial, 1 minute, commercial, ending, commercial. I'd prefer Sci-Fi too if they have a better way to play the shows, but it's irritating to watch when every hour has to have 25 minutes of commercials.

I wasn't able to watch the whole first episode so I can't say for certain if there were any cuts or not. What I did find troubling, however, was what was done to the soundtrack. Earlier, I watched one of the dub preview clips of the first episode's opening scene with Tenma asleep at his apartment and thought something was off but couldn't quite place it. When I saw the conclusion of the episode I was able to understand what was wrong. The music used at the beginning, the end, and possibly elsewhere has been changed, one track swapped out for a completely different one. With the closing scene, where Doctor Tenma comes to his decision to ignore the order from the director and operate on Johan instead of the mayor, they swapped out the original music and replaced it with another, much darker track, that gives the impression that something terrible is happening. What is particularly troubling about this move is that it changes the entire tone of the scene. Tenma doesn't yet know the danger Johan poses. As far as he is concerned he is an unfortunate child who is at death's door and may very well be left there to satisfy the director's greed. Given the wholly negative light in which the views of Eva and the director are presented, the original scene came off as something of a victory, the music more positive in its tone. That positive tone, however, is then compromised in the final moment when we have the young Anna lying in shock, repeating the words over and over "please kill him." The new music that has replaced the original, while not a bad piece in the right context, blunders through this moment making it seem as though Tenma's just made the worst decision of his life when, at this point, we have no reason to think that.

Having more commercials means they have faith people are watching their shows. Which is much more then Adult Swim has. It's a good thing, not a bad thing.

Anyway, I can sort of understand why someone who's never seen the original would find the dub adequate, but to say that this melodramatic, overstated effort eclipses the wonderful performance of the Japanese ensemble is just puzzling to me

O' Brien's kind of using his Maniwa persona from Paranoia Agent, which is my favorite role of his, while I always thought the original, far from sounding older, sounded very young and quite overly passionate at times.) The exception to this are the scenes where he's particularly ragged. Then he adds a lot of scratch to his delivery that makes him sound older, but that's certainly not all the time.