Forum - View topic

Exclusive Interview: Viz Media's Charlene Ingram and Josh Lopez on Sailor Moon

Will hulu truly look better than DVD? Yes, the resolution will be higher but without bit rate resolution is nothing. Macroblocking, banding, etc...for a while the Funimation streams were, despite higher resolution, noticeably worse than the DVD.

jr0904 wrote:

FLCLGainax wrote: So, it sounds like the approach to the new dub will be analogous to how ADV re-adapted the original Macross TV series. Interesting... Unfortunately ADV went six feet under before it could complete dubbing the entire macross tv series. hopefully this wont happen to viz as well or worse, the releases wont sell well to warrant new eps to be released as with Saint Seiya.

Eh? The entire Macross series that was licensed by ADV was dubbed and released. If you mean ADV didn't dub all of Macross that exists, then that's because they didn't have the rights to do that to begin with. Macross and its licensing status for the entire franchise is one of those special hells that would take too long to get into here but it boils down to only the original TV series was ever licensed by ADV to begin with.

As for VIZ not finishing up these new Sailor Moon dubs, I won't say it couldn't happen. Bad things have come down with shows and dubs in the past and VIZ has been involved, as well as other companies, so I won't say "never" or "won't." But at this points odds are looking good that VIZ will finish this up barring something major happening to stop them. Sailor Moon is a much more mainstream show than many of the older anime shows and a new English dub is going to be something other DVD/BD markets, Japan included, are going to want to license for their own use. It's in everyone involved interest to try and get a new dub for Sailor Moon produced in full, so I think everyone involved will attempt to make it happen.

There's no way the BDs will be of good HD quality if they're not working with a new film transfer, so just buy the new DVDs to save yourself from disappointment.

@AtoMan
Perhaps you don't realize this, but most people consider it a positive that Ranma 1/2 is offered in the original aspect ratio. To get rid of the "pillars" that bother you they would have to crop the original image. That is truly unacceptable.

She has no interest in careers or education, instead her dream is one of domestic servitude, marrying another aristrocrat to be his baby machine.

LUNI_TUNZ wrote:

Quote: One of the things about the previous dub is that there were so many cast changes throughout that there's no one Sailor Moon, there's almost no "one" of anybody. There's actually quite a few "ones", I can think of off the top of my head (Jupiter, Luna, Rei, Mina, Artemis) And there is definitely a "one Sailor Moon".

Of the characters you list, only Jupiter, Luna, and Artemis had one consistent English VA.

Mars was voiced by Katie Griffin for dub episodes 7-65, 83+, and the movies, and by Emilie Barlow for dub eps 66-82. DiC dubbed those last 17 episodes of R two years after the first 65 dub eps, probably the reason for the recast. Katie Griffin came back on for Cloverway's dub of S and SuperS.

Venus was voiced by Stephanie Morgenstern for dub episodes 29-82 and the movies, and by Emilie Barlow (Mars' second VA) for dub eps 83+.

And no, Moon herself had three different English VAs: Tracey Moore for dub eps 1-11, 15, and 21; Terri Hawkes for eps 12-14, 16-20, 22-82, and the movies; and Linda Ballantyne for eps 83+.

In fact, of the main cast, the ones you originally listed (Jupiter, Luna, and Artemis) are the only characters I can think of that had one consistent English VA. Mercury, Pluto, and Chibimoon had two each, and Tuxedo Mask had three. Of the senshi, only Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn had one VA, understandable considering they only appeared in the seasons that were dubbed by Cloverway.

The casting of the supporting characters (Naru/Molly, Umino/Melvin, the Tsukino family, etc.) and the villains was much more consistent. But for the main cast, Charlene is exactly right re: cast changes.

Source for the English VA names and episode numbers: WikiMoon. It's a great resource for random SM information, if you're interested. (I used to do a lot of editing there myself back when it first started up.)

Not to mention, your analysis omits the fact that Usagi grows up to be the greatest political power on the planet and (if manga canon is accepted) increases the health and wealth of Earth's people exponentially.

They know their show, they know what they want, they have the vision. That's all it is. It isn't just a Sailor Moon thing, any time an anime company licenses a title, it is not really their title, it belongs to the IP owner, it belongs to the author.

(laugh) There's absolutely nothing wrong with a comparison to the old dub or to what DIC put out, especially because that's what some people can recall loving about the title and that's just fine. We're not trying to just do things different from them, what we're trying to do is make something that pays honor and respect to the original version of this, and that means we're offering everything to fans this time. It's not going to be censored, we're not going to hold back any episodes or seasons, you're getting everything.

That's the thing, the original dub cut and spliced episodes together, shortening them, changing genders, changing relationships, changing a lot of stuff. There were complete episodes never shown before. So this will be the first time all 200 will be fully intact.

zeo1fan wrote:

Not to mention, your analysis omits the fact that Usagi grows up to be the greatest political power on the planet and (if manga canon is accepted) increases the health and wealth of Earth's people exponentially.

I think her career aspirations at 14 are more important than what she actually grows up to become, Because feminism.

A fourteen-year-old dating a seventeen-year-old is legal in Japan.

It'll still be a disappointment if remastered Ranma DVD sets (brought up in the article) are any indication - they are pillarboxed even on DVDs! That's unacceptable.