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Veers
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darkhappy1
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Oh hey, a dub! Now that's nice. I'm still waiting for an official announcement of a Blu-ray release and desperately wishing for the staff commentary tracks to be retained, but it's nice to know that Aniplex is putting a lot of faith in Madoka. If Aniplex releases this on Blu-ray without any of the restrictions and screw-ups on current!Bandai's Blu-rays (or releases in general), then I wouldn't even mind buying it in a singles format provided that there's a sturdy artbox. (I don't think that would be a smart move in today's market though...)
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TsukasaElkKite
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HELL YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! |
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DangerMouse
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Glad to see The Space Show finally get mentioned again, a dual-language Blu-ray would rock. Really looking forward to finally seeing what the ROD team made for their "new" movie.
Nice someone brought her up, one of my favorite VAs.
Totally agree with all your points! I'm also very glad Madoka Magica's getting a dub and will likely be supporting that since I enjoyed the part of the show I saw. I'm still really bummed at Blue Exorcist still seemingly not getting a dub (or a freaking Blu-ray with it's gorgeous animation).
So true, unless it's a really niche or old show I'm almost at the point where I'm starting to hesitate now that we're passed the point where these shows are mostly being made with HD and Blu-ray in mind (and whether something will perhaps get a BD later if I wait in some cases and have to buy twice).
Agreed. I'm glad Madoka's getting dubbed but it's crazy and sad. Honestly it's like *insert your favorite big mainstream action show that broke out as a hit the US since it was given a chance with a dub whether or not it aired on AS or not* not getting the chance to break out.  I was really looking forward to re-watching it with a dub on blu-ray after watching the simulcast.
Same here. |
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Parse Error
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I have a suspicion about why they chose Madoka over Blue Exorcist, and while I could be very wrong, as I often am, there must be some good reason because a good deal of thought would have gone into such a decision.
There's no doubt that Blue Exorcist has a larger potential market, but that doesn't immediately translate to higher sales, especially when the economy will almost certainly still be in relatively poor shape even by then, and there is competition from better established franchises that appeal to the same demographic. Madoka, on the other hand, has a decent enough number of dedicated fans who Aniplex must see as guaranteed customers. As has been pointed out, they still would be for a sub-only release, but if there's no reason to worry about breaking even at worst on the dub, then even a tiny increase in sales would be pure profit. What would have been nice is if both had an English dub, but if enough people don't give into spite by refusing to buy the subbed release, then perhaps there may be one later on. For now I just think it's pretty nice that at least Madoka is getting dubbed. Due to poor hearing I seldom listen to them when watching by myself, but they are great for watching with others and getting more people around me into things. It's also surprised me so far just how many people who I've never had any success with before have loved the show, so it may do better than one would expect if given enough exposure. I seem to be one of the few people who haven't watched Durarara!! yet, so I'm wondering, was its dub fairly good? |
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PurpleWarrior13
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I've never heard of this show before, I think it's good that Aniplex is dubbing. I like their English dub for Durarara so far! How many titles have they licensed so far?
If they license the new Kenshin anime, I really hope they reunite the original cast (Richard Cansino, Dorothy Fahn, etc). |
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Nephuxs
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FTW!
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FireChick
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I think the dub is great! Kida's voice is especially good!  That and Erika's and Dotachin's voices!
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Megiddo
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Finny-chan
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So they dub this and not Blue Exorcist WTF?????
Although I did hear this series is good might as well pick it up sometime. AND DAMN IT ANIPLEX DUB BLUE EXORCIST OR I WILL NEVER FORGIVE!!! Since That series would have done well dubbed in the US.
Actually its only slated for 25 episodes. The last I heard the manga only had 40 something chapters and I think its a monthly serialization. Then again I could be totally wrong about that, but the anime still is going to be only 25 episodes. Which is why I'm pissed they passed a dub up on this. I won't buy it since I can watch it on crunchyroll with my membership. |
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DangerMouse
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Yeah it's so frustrating.
I feel the same, I so wanted to watch BE dubbed, after seeing the first couple of episodes, it was easily one of my most anticipated shows to see with a dub and I thought it was a pretty safe expectation and that Funi would likely get it.
That's still the case so far, the show is only scheduled for 2 cours at the moment. |
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Parse Error
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Thank you, that's excellent news. |
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DangerMouse
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Yup, you should check it out. Not that it was a guarantee of a good dub before it actually came out but they got a top notch cast with many of our best. 
Erika and Dotachin are so funny together lol. Since I never got to hear him in Vampire Knight this is the first major role I think I've heard him in so Kida's voice has been quite the cool surprise, I was wondering how he was going to do it after hearing the character's Japanese voice. I don't want to start listing off since they got quite the cast but I also think Wahlgren's Celty is great. And it feels like ages since I've heard the always great Crispin Freeman. |
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ConanSan
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) This is about as much of a show for otaku as you can get. It may be a popular show among otaku, there's no disputing that, but it seems like a pretty safe bet to me that it would retain that popularity sub only. So how many sales are they actually going to gain by adding a dub? It'll please the relatively small group of people who are both otaku and dub purists but I gotta think that will be about it. And again, it would be one thing to just dub Madoka. I mean, maybe I'm wrong about Madoka, but to dub it while at the same time they don't dub a show like Blue Exorcist which just screams: "I have mainstream/TV appeal!"...I don't know. It just makes me think that Aniplex simply doesn't know what the hell they're doing.  |
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