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NEWS: Crunchyroll Adds English-Dubbed Episodes of Gintama

Gemnist wrote:

Actually, about the previous episodes, is it possible that Crunchyroll/Ocean is still maybe trying to wrestle the license away from Sentai Filmworks? I was on their site just now checking solicitations, and I saw (in addition to the movie, which everyone knows is dubbed) there are three Gintama collections, numbered 1, 3, and 4. It didn't give the episodes, but here's the link: https://shop.sentaifilmworks.com/collections/shows?page=4&sort_by=title-ascending

Sentai doesn't have the license anymore and the fact that set 2 is missing there and elsewhere proves it. No idea how they're allowed to sell copies of expired titles though since I also see Eyeshield 21 & the Guin Saga BD available and not the latter's DVD set.

I agree. They may release these two seasons in blueray and, should they make profit, dub the first seasons as well. I hope they do. These are good news!

Pikagreg wrote:

Is it just me or is this actually an Ocean dub?

i'm afraid its worse. their probably doing that NIS America & Right Stuff/Nozumi Ent did with card captor sakura & gundam build fighters seasons 1 & 2, and are using the animax asia english dub version.

besides. that cast definitely dont sound like an ocean group dub. hell, no one have really heard anything about the ocean group after they did the dub version for the black lagoon ova. its either they went out of business, or they are exiting from the anime voiceover business and only doing western cartoons now.

either way, this doesnt sound or look too good for the series let alone crunchyroll. if this goes south, dont be surprised if the die hard otaku community start comparing their dub work as bad as 4kids and demand they stick to only show sub versions and leave the dubs to studios that know what their doing.

they should have did what netflix did for nanatsu no taizai (seven deadly sins) and use a competent dubbing studio like bang zoom to dub gintama instead of doing the NIS and right stuff route and being dirt cheap with their english dub.

1dbad wrote:

I'm excited about the dub! It's great seeing something use Ocean again, and some of the names mentioned already have me hyped. (like Janyse Jaud) Where they're starting the series from is odd, but hopefully they can dub the earlier stuff at a later date. Fingers crossed this does well!

I agree. They may release these two seasons in blueray and, should they make profit, dub the first seasons as well. I hope they do. These are good news!

You're saying their being "dirt cheap" with this dub, yet you are saying the dub should of used BangZoom. A.K.A. one of the pillars of the generic overused LA voice acting pool that drains the inspired parts of characters in videogames/animation and replaces them with generic-sounding LA voice actor no.943725387874762 whom gets by because of union-advantage

so would i. and its a relief that i am wrong about ocean studios biting the bullet. though with cast, no one that ISNT LIVING in canada would even know it is one. not to mention that they haven't made any noise in the US anime industry since the black lagoon ova.

when it comes to that studio and their dub announcements, people would expect to see well known ocean studios VAs like kirby morrow , brad swaile , richard cox or even paul dobson aka inuyasha's naraku to be in the main front for their dubs since that's been the norm back when they were doing most of the gundam dubs for bandai ent.

guess this must be a brand new ocean group VA casting since i sure as hell never heard of them. however i wont be surprise i am wrong about that as well since i DONT live in canada after all.