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NEWS: Uma Musume Pretty Derby: Beginning of a New Era Anime Film Screens in N. America on February 2

All I'm saying is... this should've been licensed to GKIDS.

A bit out of topic. People talk about GKIDS should license it. That would be great, But wouldn't be better if any licensing company took the advantage of the franchise popularity by giving the anime for the anime including like the recent cinderella gray before the hype down? If its GKIDS something like DANDADAN, then the dub cast might be an L.A/california based.

Farhanawesome wrote:

A bit out of topic. People talk about GKIDS should license it. That would be great, But wouldn't be better if any licensing company took the advantage of the franchise popularity by giving the anime for the anime including like the recent cinderella gray before the hype down? If its GKIDS something like DANDADAN, then the dub cast might be an L.A/california based.

I'm wondering if it's only a matter of time, or if there are deeper legal reasons for why it cannot be that simple.

On one hand, Uma only became global less than a year ago. While huge in Japan, I wouldn't be shocked if most people behind-the-scenes were cautious of how popular Uma would be anywhere else. Now that it's proved to be a major hit, maybe the anime is the next big step. Given how many characters and anime seasons there are, any foreign dub or physical release will need time to cook.

On the other hand, there's the possibility that Cygames wants to keep foreign releases heavily controlled to avoid certain issues. The race horses are real and are icons in Japan's horse racing scene. From what I've been told, this means their portrayals cannoy defame/dishonor these horses and their history. Which also means Cygames requires explicit permission and approval from the actual owners for a lot of things.

That's easy to manage in Japan, but not so much when you have to work with overseas partners. Unless strictly regulated, there's a high risk of something going wrong with translation/localization that the horses' owners may not be happy with.

But this is all based on speculation and a loose idea of how seriously Japan takes defamation/dishonorable portrayals of real figures (or in this case, beloved horses.) I can be looking into it way too deeply.

Still- as much as I would love a dub for one of Uma's anime (especially New Era, which is such a fun movie), I can also accept and understand why it may never happen. I'll probably still see this movie in theaters either way ^^;;;

I saw on X that Uma musume is already get thai dub, and i think doesn't caused any problem. Is the whole fans speculation/theory that you talk about has to do with the controversy surrounding english dubbing game industry ? I've seen this speculation on reddit as some unsure or against the english dub for this franchise