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Greed1914 wrote:

tuxedocat wrote: OTOH, I really liked Mr. Cook's comparison of Funimation to a reperatory theatre group. It makes sense considering their location. Now that he made that comparison, I can actually see some similarities to my part-time job. I help manage ticket sales for my university's theater productions and part of the time we go with a repertory group and the other part we go with students.

And to keep the Funi metaphor, I take it the theater's production of Hamlet has taken the bold, creative, mass-market step to rewrite Shakespeare's "outdated dialogue the audience was too familiar with and wouldn't get the obscure references" into "Yeah, and they killed my dad, which would, like, totally suck, 'cause it's like that Disney movie, only my uncle isn't a gay lion..."?

What I watched in Japanese wasn't funny because it relied a lot puns etc. and they let people give them feedback prior to production.

On another note, I think the Funi VAs are a talented bunch and I'm glad to hear that they are slowly inducting new talent in. Maxey Whitehead is an example of a great new talent. I'm looking forward to hearing her in new roles (maybe a female one someday?) and I've also been very impressed with Aaron Dismuke. I can't wait to hear him in a leading role again!

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What I watched in Japanese wasn't funny because it relied a lot puns etc. and they let people give them feedback prior to production.

Then why bother. If the original product was not funny by your assessment. Why pick it up? Since extensive re-writes will inevitably draw criticisms from those that, heaven forbid, liked the original product. The resistance from the established fanbase will only serve to detract from the dub's appeal.

You and others may like reversions(this is the internet I have heard of stranger fetishes). If reversions really worked in 2010 then Funimation would not be the only company still doing it there would be more Samurai Pizza Cats, Ghost Stories, and Milk-chans.

If reversions really worked in 2010 then Funimation would not be the only company still doing it...

I, like many others, am out to enjoy a show for what it is, not look for what it isn't as reasons not to enjoy it. I default to English dubs because I love them. If a reversion makes me laugh or gives me pleasure then that's all that's important to me, not how closely it resembles the Japanese. For this reason I will continue to purchase and enjoy Funimation releases and hope they continue many more.

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If reversions really worked in 2010 then Funimation would not be the only company still doing it...

Have you considered that the reason Funimation can afford to keep doing dubs when others can't is because theirs are ones that have reached the wider audiences and gained the returns that others haven't, and that this may be in small part down to that reversioning? Ok that and DBZ.

Have you considered that the reason Funimation can afford to keep doing dubs when others can't is because theirs are ones that have reached the wider audiences and gained the returns that others haven't, and that this may be in small part down to that reversioning? Ok that and DBZ.

It is obvious that Funi is the only company willing to chasing rainbows by trying to do heavy handed reversioning. The supposed wider audience sure has been a catalyst in getting the 3rd seasons of Shin-chan and Frog released at blinding speed.

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Have you considered that the reason Funimation can afford to keep doing dubs when others can't is because theirs are ones that have reached the wider audiences and gained the returns that others haven't, and that this may be in small part down to that reversioning? Ok that and DBZ.

It is obvious that Funi is the only company willing to chasing rainbows by trying to do heavy handed reversioning. The supposed wider audience sure has been a catalyst in getting the 3rd seasons of Shin-chan and Frog released at blinding speed.

Regardless of the volume Funi is capable of doing. The current reversioning of long running shows don't retain much fan enthusiasm(but yay for thumbsup on 'Tube). But who really cares about the bad sales of reversioned shows as long as we get multiple generations of DBZ releases.

Your not backing up statements at all, your just making claims while not actually answering from anyone else. You can claim that a Kerero Gunsou dub true to the original series would have been a huge sucess but frankly shows like that have never been huge sucesses. The fact that the show was aimed solely at Japanesee would turn everyone else off. If you explain the joke than the joke is no longer funny so putting "Japanese consider Osakans to be funny" really wouldn't be all that funny.

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Your not backing up statements at all, your just making claims while not actually answering from anyone else. You can claim that a Kerero Gunsou dub true to the original series would have been a huge sucess but frankly shows like that have never been huge sucesses. The fact that the show was aimed solely at Japanesee would turn everyone else off. If you explain the joke than the joke is no longer funny so putting "Japanese consider Osakans to be funny" really wouldn't be all that funny.

The lacking of the 3rd seasons of Shin chan and Frog is obvious to the people not feigning ignorance. What I covered about youtube was mentioned by Cook in the interview and is part of the Sgt Frog diabolical.

I haven't claimed anything of the sort. I am not responsible for your imagination. You want to talk about me not providing evident when what you claim as an absolute and fact is untrue. That only needs one person to say they preferred the original to the revised version, that has already been said in this thread. I may be dealing with that statement at face value but there is no other way for me to address such a baseless exaggeration.

Once again if reversioning worked there would be more companies doing so and the reversioned shows I referred to would not be on either a 10 month lapse between releases or possibly not renewed.

That's why you don't see revision fromy any other company anymore, the few that exist are not taking any chances like they did 3-5 years ago.

What I said was reversioning does not work out in the end. That does not predict or claim any magnitude of success a more accurate dub of this show would have garnered.

What you are arguing down is a strawman you made up. You can go look in a mirror and debate the point you made up all you like, I am done commenting on it.

You say the show was not popular with fansubs which infers that the show would not be liked here. This is back to the question I asked earlier. If a show is not funny or popular to begin with why bother picking it up for heavy reversioning. It is already an uphill battle due to the source material (A. not being funny and (B. coveted by purists and/or some of the preexisting fans. Their ensuing shit storm does more harm than good for sales.

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That's why you don't see revision fromy any other company anymore, the few that exist are not taking any chances like they did 3-5 years ago.

Because chasing after a wider audience with a show whose popularity is so dubious that a heavy reversioning is warranted, is not a smart business decision. Doing so just leaves fans of the show(any audio track) with incomplete sets on their shelves time and time again. It is a bad decision no matter how many titles a company gets their hands on.