Forum - View topicNEWS: Eyeshield 21 to Stream on Toonami Jetstream Monday
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SSJ Gohan 64
Posts: 223 Location: Silver Spring, Maryland |
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Viz has nothing to do with the dub for this. The dub was done by Eyeshield 21 Project, which consisted of NAS, TV Tokyo, and some other company I forgot the name of. Viz's name is not in the credits.
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BrothersElric
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Aw man, you guys are dashing my hopes for this!
 Well I don't know, usually when a popular series like this gets dubbed you get all kinds of haters. I'll just wait and see for myself before I make a final decision.
There's probably not much I'll be bothered by, seing as how there never usually is. Of the 3 episodes I actually did see, The OP and ED were pretty "meh" to me anyways, so that probably won't bother me. I'll probably be a lot more ....ed about the musical score though, I never like it when ANY anime gets screwed over that way!  But if the acting is okay, which I probably will think that since I'm not so picky about it  and if they don't start cutting actual story elements out of it, I'm sure I'll be just fine.
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billyarnie
 Posts: 190 Location: San Antonio, TX |
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Since I'm a dub fan, I have No Clue about the original voice work. There are enough good VA's in America that help to create good anime dubs. GATSU is right; it is a dub, but it's a dub of an anime interpretation of an American sport! IMO, there's a lot of explanation of a game that is needed in Japan, but with Pop Warner football & 13-16 games a week on American TV & radio, it's possibly boring to Americans. Possibly... as Eyeshield 21 is a tutorial of American football to the Japanese, it could also be an anime tutorial to NFL fans! |
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1stAgent
 Posts: 36 Location: Wisconsin |
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No, it's bad. I watched the first 2.5 episodes just now and while it's not One Piece... actually, no, it might just be down there with the original One Piece dub. Thankfully I remember Cardcaptors and have an immunity to stuff like this. Unfortunately, I've made a few posts on various forums defending the intent of the original One Piece and must now do the same here with my beloved Eyeshield lest I be labeled a hypocrite. And I will. Just, uh, give me a sec here... Um... Got it! The dub reminds me of why I found the series so unlicensable to begin with. I've stated that it would almost have to be aimed towards a much younger audience that might not be familiar with football yet aren't completely irritated with its ubiquity here. Hiruma made this difficult. When NFL Rush got involved, we should have known that this was indeed the route they were taking (has anyone seen NFL Rush? That site's made for ten-year-olds). Their only mistake was putting it on Jetstream, because this thing will get *no* support from anime fans. It's NFL Rush, children's TV or bust. I'm disappointed to be sure, but not angry. I understand what they tried to do. And besides, the original episode two is fifty percent filler anyway and with 130+ episodes I suppose a few cut corners will happen. I don't blame the cast for the iffy acting- these are mostly top tier VAs, so any problems should rest with the direction. Personally, I was hoping Hiruma would be more Digimon Emperor than Beelzemon. 
Once the shock wears off, I'll give it a few more episodes. Even watered down (and the original anime is watered down from the manga as it is), there's still potential once more characters are introduced and things start rolling. But it's not an encouraging start to those of us who love the series and are trying to spread the love. The real good news? Anytime someone complains about the Naruto dub... we now know where to send them. 
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Falce
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The dub to me was ok, it's something I'll have to get used to, but the thing I hate the most was that dumb theme song. I hope they pull a naruto and return the original Opening or/and Ending themes wth subtitles.
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ClichedUsername
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Fiesta alert.
spoiler[In the 2nd part of the video, fast forward to the point in which 00:58 is left before shifting to part three. Kuroki's bat is nowhere to be found.] I was kind of disappointed, but the dub should satisfy whoever liked the MAR dub, at least. It seemed as they transplanted the entire team into this show. |
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BrothersElric
Posts: 1996 |
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Yeah, just watched it. Looks like I was HORRIBLY wrong about this dub!  A few things I expected, since you all were mentioning them, but man, 3 episodes spliced into 1!? And they really rushed through a heck of a lot of important points!
The acting I didn't really think was all that bad though. Or at least not in comparison to what some of you have said about it. I'm just pissed that they pulled a 4kids on us. I mean, Viz has done some pretty bad stuff in the past, yeah, but I never thought in a million years they'd sink this low, especially after giving us such great dubs in Naruto, Bleach, Death Note, and Hikaru no Go. Well, at least we know they want to give us a good dub anyways, unlike 4kids. I guess it just depends on whether or not they can. And I definitely could see all sorts of reasons for why they couldn't handle things better. I think I'll at least try and give this dub more of a shot anyways. It's just saddening that the only way I have of getting into the rest of this series past episode 3 or volume 3 (manga) at all has to be such a hackjob! 
I saw the MAR dub and thought it was okay. Although I guess that's because I've only seen the dub version of that series in the first place, huh? 
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redhandgrunt
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It really is quite bad. I mean they rushed though a ton a good parts like how Hiruma and Kurita first start recruiting Sena and others to the club. However my biggest problem is they cut the Blackmail Book
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