Forum - View topicNEWS: Funimation Dubs Psycho-Pass 2, Laughing Under the Clouds Anime as They Air in Japan
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rinkwolf10
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Actually, the main reason for such "late" physical releases of shows is because of the Japanese companies. They are scared shitless of reverse importation. Thus, they make companies on this coast wait for at lease 6 months after they finish releasing the show in Japan before they "allow" English companies to release them. A lot of people assume that the reason for shows coming out so late after the Japanese release them is because they spend so much time dubbing them. Well that isn't the case (this article is proof enough of that) and almost always is the due to the Japanese companies involved slowing down the R1 releases as much as possible. |
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niastyle
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I am so excited about this. And perfect timing too, I was gonna start watching Laughing Under the Clouds this weekend. Good thing I already have a subscription.
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Ambimunch
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Very cool stuff, having dubs of a show like a month after it airs in Japan. I don't even mind being 4 episodes behind in a show like PP2 just to hear it in dub
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Kid Ryan
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This is epic news, though I still need to watch the first season of Psycho-pass lol.
Hopefully future popular anime will get simul-dubs too. |
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Greed1914
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I'm hoping that will be the case. Psycho Pass 2 makes a lot of sense as a test case, and I'm personally quite pleased since I liked season 1 a lot and wasn't looking forward to waiting. I would assume that subsequent seasons of successful shows are the primary candidates for this going forward. This is really, really exciting to me since I prefer to watch in English anyway, so I pretty much never watched simulcasts. Considering that Funi has mentioned several times that they look at simulcast numbers for various things, I always felt like I was missing a chance to give some sort of feedback in regards to what types of shows I wanted to see. Also, it is good that they are willing to take another crack at the dub for the home video version. Space Dandy was done well, but there is always the chance that the emphasis on being quick could cause problems, so making it known that they are willing to address problems is crucial. Of course, that doesn't mean they can totally rely on getting to redo it later since there is a good chance plenty of folks watching these shows won't have any idea that the home video version would contain corrections and might dismiss it as a poor dub.
Quite right. Something like this won't make any difference as far as reverse importation is concerned. The biggest hurdle from the licenors that I can see is that some might not want to be tied into a situation where they have to have the materials ready to go on a consistently timely basis. The delay of an R1 physical product gave them some wiggle room that they might not have if they go along with this. |
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Haterater
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Wonderful news. I hope this works out for them and we see more anime getting this treatment.
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enurtsol
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Why would it be longer? Depending on when the Japanese releases all their Blu-rays and how much time they ban Funi to release theirs, Funi could release theirs as soon as the ban date ends since the difficult part has already been done. If anything, this should allow no excuse for a delay of Funi BDs beyond the ban date (e.g. they'd have extra weeks to proof-check their BDs). And isn't that what everybody wants - that localizers finish their affairs faster?
They could also make changes if what they thought was a correct translation in an earlier ep turns out to be incorrect that's revealed in a later ep.
That'd depend on how many dubbing studios and personnel are available by then. There's only so many hours in a day and so many people to coordinate for work.
There's a little bit of extra work like translating and adapting to natural English lip-flaps. And they're at the mercy how prompt the Japanese in providing the necessary materials, especially if there's last-minute changes and adlibs. Japanese side makes corrections too.
That, plus since they'd already been dubbing Season 1, they'd hit Season 2 in stride (instead of starting from scratch - makes for smoother logistics). |
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dtm42
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True, but I don't see why that would be an issue say ten years from now. Obviously the resources to dub most of a season's shows don't exist right now, but that doesn't mean they can't exist in the future.
Last minute corrections and withholding of materials are definitely problems which require extremely closet co-operation to overcome, but the lip flaps are not an issue at all. Almost no television anime has the lip flaps match the Japanese dialogue anyway, so matching voices to pre-made lip flaps is something that seiyuu have to grapple with just as much as foreign VAs. As for translating, it doesn't take that long to translate an episode; just a few hours for your typical three-hundred-line script. It'd be even faster should the translator have access to the official script (which they presumably would). |
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enurtsol
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That's not what I meant by translating then adapting to lip flaps. For instance, I may translate something into a 10-syllable phrase, but there are only 5 lip-flaps. So then I'd have to adapt that translation into 5 lip-flaps of natural English. Do that for all the lines that need it and timing issues. So translation is just one step; adapting to the video is another. Do the same for last-minute changes on the Japanese side. So it takes a bit more time. |
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mglittlerobin
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That would be awesome if they did it for Fairy Tail, I'm really enjoying it. |
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