Forum - View topicMihoshi Special/Pretty Sammy DVD review (re: dubbed songs)
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4663 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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That is indeed true, but only for the songs in the Pretty Sammy OVAs... the dubbed versions of the songs "Sleeping Beauty on the Balcony" and "Magical Girl Pretty Sammy" from the Mihoshi Special are pretty much line-for-line identical to the gist of the Japanese lyrics, just the nonsense words ("Pipopa no pa de") and the onomatopoeia ("Fuwan powan powawawawan") don't really work in English so they're replaced by clauses that convey the intended meaning ("Say the magic words..." and "I float and sway in my sleep..." respectively). If anything, the problem with the English dubs of those two songs is that they stick so close to the Japanese lyrics that they don't even rhyme. That is, if the DVD uses the same song dubs as the old bilingual CAV LaserDisc of the Mihoshi Special... I haven't gotten the DVD of it yet. But still, another fine review, Bamboo! Yes, I've always found the nude transformation sequences to be quite disturbing also, especially the version of Sasami's nude transformation sequence in the Mihoshi Special, where Sasami is arguably anatomically correct for a single frame depending on how you interpret the sparkly thingies. In Magical Project S, the Pretty Sammy TV series (which I've only seen for the first time very recently), Pioneer USA made her flesh-coloured transformation sequence into a rainbow-obscured transformation sequence, but left it intact for some reason on one of the extras in the first set. |
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