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NEWS: Sunrise to Dub Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Release Gundam Build Fighters

All of their dubs have excessive obnoxious American accents (I should clarify, general American accents are fine, but there's a specific stereotypical obnoxious American accent that seems to be used a lot in dubbing that is just awful and straight up painful to listen to.) even when the work clearly does not call for it. And the delivery is always done in this sort of cheery manner, even when something bad has happened, and it comes across as a bit "My father died but I can't stop smiling".

I find most American dubs in general really really grating, but FUNimation have managed to tone the American-ness down or make it work in a way others haven't...

Also, there is a special place in hell for whoever gave Durarara!! the most American cast they possibly could, did the casting director not realise the show is very prominently set in Ikebukuro?

dark13 wrote:

English is my first language but Japanese is not and if you try to Translate,a word that makes sense in Japanese into English,there will be lots of head scratching, a good example is Gad Guard

Tell me what was head scratching about the translation in Gad Guard. Because I don't think its the translation but the show itself so you must be confused.

animenewsnetwork.com/review/gad-guard/dvd-1

The negative Carlo gave was, "Ragged storytelling and ill-timed cuts lead to several "what the heck?" moments".

Buzz201 wrote:

All of their dubs have excessive obnoxious American accents (I should clarify, general American accents are fine, but there's a specific stereotypical obnoxious American accent that seems to be used a lot in dubbing that is just awful and straight up painful to listen to.) even when the work clearly does not call for it. And the delivery is always done in this sort of cheery manner, even when something bad has happened, and it comes across as a bit "My father died but I can't stop smiling". I find most American dubs in general really really grating, but FUNimation have managed to tone the American-ness down or make it work in a way others haven't... Also, there is a special place in hell for whoever gave Durarara!! the most American cast they possibly could, did the casting director not realise the show is very prominently set in Ikebukuro?

Really? You find all 176 titles (per their ANN Encyclopedia entry) to have obnoxious American accents? Have you seen all those 176 titles?

I guess I shouldn't be surprised about your statement of finding most American dubs very grating. This is because the general statement I tend to see of dubs is that they are annoying/suck/fail to live up to the original.

As far as the casting director, while I do feel casting questions are questionable for the dub and sub, have you forgotten that they are subject to the approval/disapproval of the Japanese companies?

That cool that there dubbing the new one but build fighter be even better

firedragon54738 wrote:

That cool that there dubbing the new one but build fighter be even better

Build Fighters is definitely one that should be dubbed and aired on Toonami. They need to recruit young blood for the fanbase here in the West and Build Fighters could be for this generation what Wing was for mine.

English is my first language but Japanese is not and if you try to Translate,a word that makes sense in Japanese into English,there will be lots of head scratching, a good example is Gad Guard

So, do folks want the new Gundam dubbed or not? I'm confused as to what you're all arguing about here since some of you are complaining about the darnedest things. By the way Buzz201, there's no such thing as an "American accent".

dark13 wrote:

English is my first language but Japanese is not and if you try to Translate,a word that makes sense in Japanese into English,there will be lots of head scratching, a good example is Gad Guard

Then how come your grammar and syntax are so bad? As for Gad Guard, you do realize the Japanese love slapping random English words together because they think it sounds cool to them, right? They've been doing that since English became a fad for them in the late 80s.

Nyren wrote:

firedragon54738 wrote: That cool that there dubbing the new one but build fighter be even better Build Fighters is definitely one that should be dubbed and aired on Toonami. They need to recruit young blood for the fanbase here in the West and Build Fighters could be for this generation what Wing was for mine.

the problem is that would be targeting the children since build fighters is that type of show and I'm not sure that what sunrise has in mind for gundam at the moment

Gundam iron-blooded orphans is getting dubbed this is fantastic news and by Bang Zoom no less they always do great dubs. Also I hope IBO airs on Toonami soon it would be the icing on the cake if it does looking forward to the home video releases too.

Really? You find all 176 titles (per their ANN Encyclopedia entry) to have obnoxious American accents? Have you seen all those 176 titles?

I guess I shouldn't be surprised about your statement of finding most American dubs very grating. This is because the general statement I tend to see of dubs is that they are annoying/suck/fail to live up to the original.

As far as the casting director, while I do feel casting questions are questionable for the dub and sub, have you forgotten that they are subject to the approval/disapproval of the Japanese companies?

So, do folks want the new Gundam dubbed or not? I'm confused as to what you're all arguing about here since some of you are complaining about the darnedest things. By the way Buzz201, there's no such thing as an "American accent".

What even is an "American accent?" I didn't realize there was such a thing.

And personally I find that Bang Zoom does some of the best dubs out there.

I wish I understood what you were,saying but I'm totally lost,you said something about Gad Guard ? but that about it.

How hilariously rich , the nation that seems to think British people speak with a "British accent" is slagging me off for grouping too many accents together*...

*If you didn't know Britain has far greater regional variation in accents than America, and the accent Americans generally refer to is Received Pronunciation (or The Queen's English).