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Gem-Bug
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That is apparently more or less what happened. I recall someone mentioning it in greater detail in one of the other recent threads regarding this series. |
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AmpersandsUnited
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At the end of the day I would say the anime is.. adequate. It's not amazing, and it's certainly not the perfect adaption we were hoping for, but at least it exists. "It's better than nothing" is always a depressing rationalization, but I would much rather this anime exists than not. At the very least it has a chance of getting newer fans to check out the manga and make the fanbase larger and introduce it to a newer generation. Maybe that alone can lead to better future projects |
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jrockfreak
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I've always known about the original but I've never seen it which was why I was watching the reboot but I dropped the reboot about 5 episodes in because the pacing was just killing me. All this reboot did was make me want to go watch the original.
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theNightster
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If I where to guess either they have beef with Sean Schemmal or their was a schedule conflict. Either way I kind of prefer Kaji Tang’s take on Amidamaru anyway, it’s kind of fun hearing Gaius from Trails of cold steel as ghost samurai bro. |
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DisneyXAnimefan95
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Overall I really am digging the dub of the 2021 Shaman King series and the actors they utilize. The dub isn't masterpiece level as it has pacing issues but I did enjoy some of the vocal performances from the original actors and the new voices and I'm grateful that Netflix and VSI Los Angeles went all out to bring back some of the voice cast from the dub of the 2001 version of Shaman King done by 4Kids to reprise their roles such as Tara Sands (Anna), Oliver Wyman (Manta), Veronica Taylor (Tamao), Lisa Ortiz (Tao Jun), Michael Sinterniklaas (HoroHoro) and especially Dan Green (Silva).
Even the new English voices for Yoh Asakura (Abby Trott), Tao Ren (Laura StahLl) and Hao Asakura (Erica Mendez) aren't that bad as others have complained and I'm optimistic their voices will get better over time in the next set of episodes will drop in the November or December on Netflix. So I give the dub a 7.9-8.0/10
The dub of the 2021 version of Shaman King, it's not a phenomenal one but not a terrible dub either, the dub is just fairly decent is what I can describe it. Now granted this is Hermes Baroli's first anime dub so when compared to his direction to the foreign Live-Action dubs he's done at VSI it does have it's hills and valleys in some instances but some of the performances of the original actors like Dan Green, Oliver Wyman, Lisa Ortiz and Michael Sinterniklaas did a good job as do the new voice actors like Abby Trott and Brianna Knickerbocker. Plus the ADR script by Erica Mendez and Michelle Knotz did somewhat helped the dub not be as bad as everyone thought they say (but that is subjective). I'm optimistic that Hermes would get better in the next several dubbed episodes and I'm optimistic he would do more anime dubs beyond Shaman King so he can perfect his role as an ADR Director, besides there are some folks like Carrie Keranen, Todd Haberkorn, and Kevin Hoffer who do voice directing both on the foreign Live-Action shows/films and Anime dubs so this isn't the first that you have an ADR Voice director being familiar doing voice direction in Live-action dubs to do anime dubs or vice-versa.
A similar situation also happened with Cristina Vee who wanted to reprise her role as Reina in Sound! Euphonium The Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day but but wasn't told nor given the opportunity to reaudition for the film before she learned she was replaced which would explain why she hasn't done ANY new voiceover work with VSI Los Angeles since Last Hope/Unit Pandora and Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas back in 2018 other than her reprisal as Sailor Mars in Sailor Moon Eternal this year. Perhaps someone from VSI Los Angeles (either the voice director, producer, engineer, etc.) or the actors (Sean Schemmel and Cristina Vee) has creative differences or disagreements which resulted in the production team refusing to hire Cristina Vee and now Sean Schemmel in their Future dubs at the studio, maybe that would likely explain why they don't do voice work at VSI Los Angeles. |
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