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Seif
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Holy crap, epic 80's style ballad for the win.
Man, I totally agree. Man, I totally agree. In particular, the transformation music. was freaking awesome. And English insert songs gave me chills as a kid. It made it feel so cinematic. Man, of all the bad dubs out there, I totally forgive it. -edit- Also, I totally had a crush on Sailor Jupiter. Last edited by Seif on Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:30 am; edited 3 times in total |
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ichiro3923
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Well, I had a crush on Sailor Venus when I was really young, and then had a crush on Sailor Mercury and Sailor Moon as I grew older 
Just to mention again, for amateur singers, these songs aren't really that bad. But the Psycho Diver rap song - that tried to sound thug and sing about how "the man" is out to get us - made me laugh. |
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Kenotic
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I remember watching the Ranma one (also one of my first episodes) way back when, and thinking that someone couldn't afford replacements for the non-singing actors. That being said, the song was wedged in (and not very good in the original) and inconsequential to anything else going on in the series. I don't think we ever see them sing in an episode again, other than a few moments here or there.
I do remember watching some of the OAV dubbed songs and thinking that the woman who voiced Kasumi (Willow Johnson) did a great job singing - was that her or someone recast? Everyone else (save English Shampoo) was rather unmemorable singing-wise, IMO. |
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TsubomiKoneko
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I think you mean 'Rainy Day Man'. That was one of my favorite songs too... I'm still at the point where I want to try to find someone who'd be willing to make a karaoke version of it for me from scratch on a keyboard or something... My friends and I used to sing the Sailor Moon dub songs all the time before we got into Japanese music. They weren't the best substitutes... but at least they were done very well (compared to some other dub songs, obviously). |
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Romuska
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I love Washu in both English and in Japanese. That's why I'm going to forgive Kate T. Vogt for that song. But I don't EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER wanna hear her rap again.
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Royal Devil
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Wow, that awful.
I can understand why people would be up in arms about completely replacing the opening like what 4Kids did to their anime and the original Naruto opening, though I still have their Pokemon opening memorized. But in most cases where they straight up translate it, it's basically the same thing to me. Like Vic's recent rendition of the One Piece opening for Funi's dub Since we're on the subject, I loved the songs the village elder sang about Punk and Rain Spider in the Desert Punk dub. So campy and awesome. And Ikkaku's Lucky Dance.Especially considering what he had to work with |
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luisedgarf
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[quote="Seif"]
I agree, The Japanese soundtrack until Sailor Stars sounded like elevator music for me (maybe the songs are OK, but the original BGM sounds awful for me) and the US version really had a very good soundtrack (and the songs are excellent too!) |
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cool3865
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for unknown reasons i wonder what the bad ones were like........... |
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marklungo
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Mohawk52
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coolGAL
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Oh My God THOSE WHERE FREAKING TERRIBLE ugh the ranma one was just pure crap the funny thing about this artical there are some actuall good dubed songs I think Funimation does a good job on most of there dub songs for there anime.
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mastertr
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Just a note about the Ranma 1/2 OVA, you can still also get it, if you try hard enough, on english dubbed VHS. It was included on the VHS that had OVA 3.
I actually enjoyed the Ranma 1/2 english dub song ;x I remember singing along with it on many occasions. |
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rti9
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First of all, the video musical montage was great. ANN should have more articles with video.
After listening to many of the songs mentioned in this thread I was wondering who demands the dubbing of openings and endings? Is it politicians trying to preserve the national language or is it the companies trying to reach a wider audience? |
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1stAgent
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The latter. Also remember that most of these were several years ago when VHS tapes were dub only. It makes sense that a director would want everything in English, including the music- *especially* if a show was on TV. Nowadays it's not done much because DVDs are bilingual and having Japanese music doesn't affect anything unless it's a character singing in the middle of an episode. And even much of the anime shown on TV retains the Japanese openings. Such crappy music dubbing is a remnant of a bygone era, and I'm so happy to see a thread discussing such classics, even in the context of its not-so-shining moments. |
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foreverlov786
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I totally agree that a lot of dub song was terrible; however, i find that a lot of Cantonese dub is excellent. Not only the song, but the entire episode is perfect, and sometimes it is better than the original (japanese) verison. A nice example would be Tokyo Mew Mew (cantonese name: 東京喵喵).
I always find that english dubber shows no feeling. Unlike english dubbing company, which the actress voice is WAY beyond the original version, the cantonese actress voice are so PERFECT that it will make your mind blow! 
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The first TV series had a good opening redub. 
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