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NEWS: Right Stuf's Nozomi Adds So-ra-no-Wo-to, Utena TV

poehitman wrote:

If you know about the market, then you know the market is fluid. It's always changing. An anime may pick up popularity later on due to something happening in Japan. Maybe a really popular sequel is released and it would then be profitable to dub the first series, but with Nozomi holding the license, it will never be done.

Why? We don't need glorified fandubs.

poehitman wrote:

Regardless of semantics, the fact remains the same. Most dub fans will not buy a sub-only release. My experiences with "official" sub-only releases show them the quality of the translation to be suspect.

Which level of the JLPT have you taken?

EDIT: And names don't mean squat. Those aren't' translated. They're merely Anglicized (if needed). And names don't only sound screwy in the subtitles. I remember when I watch Gundam SEED fansubbed as it was coming out in Japan many years ago, it had Asuran Zara, Kagari, Frey, Rakusu, etc. When I turned on Toonami a few years later and SEED was playing, I heard Athrun Zala, Cagalli, Fllay, Lacus, etc. Names get warped through Anglicization, be it in the subtitles or the dub.

To my ears, that basically sounds like what the Lyrical Nanoha dub was.

einhorn303 wrote:

To my ears, that basically sounds like what the Lyrical Nanoha dub was.

All dubs are glorified fandubs. And thus, we should never buy the DVDs because we can just download for free.

If people want to use that argument for not buying sub-only DVDs, might as well use it for BOTH. It works both ways. Guess I won't be buying anything with an English dub or subtitles anymore.

einhorn303 wrote:

To my ears, that basically sounds like what the Lyrical Nanoha dub was.

All dubs are glorified fandubs. And thus, we should never buy the DVDs because we can just download for free.

If people want to use that argument for not buying sub-only DVDs, might as well use it for BOTH. It works both ways. Guess I won't be buying anything with an English dub or subtitles anymore.

poehitman wrote:

And names don't mean squat. Those aren't' translated. They're merely Anglicized (if needed). *snip* Names get warped through Anglicization, be it in the subtitles or the dub.

And correct me if I'm wrong (I just started studying Japanese, so I may be) but the name that he claims is incorrect is Coartie/Coatie which, to my understanding, is pretty much the same thing. Y'know, seeing as how the Japanese 'r' is much much softer than an English 'r'.

It's with Nozomi, which used to be a good company that did original dubs, but has degenerated into a company that only does rehashes of old dubs and glorified fansub releases.

They ruin a title from possibly having a dub down the road by licensing it and releasing it as a glorified fansub.

I said I won't pay over $10 for a VOLUME.

If you know about the market, then you know the market is fluid. It's always changing. An anime may pick up popularity later on due to something happening in Japan.

Most dub fans will not buy a sub-only release.

But when a translator can't even get the name of a main character right, how can I trust that the rest of the translation is accurate?

If the Japanese director approves of it (which he does, he supervised the production of the movie dub), then it's good (he even named his car, "Rachel" after Rachel Lillis).