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Joe Mello
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Re: English anison, I just hosted Name That Tune at a con and was able to get a full round out of English-language songs from more recent-ish stuff like Frieren, New PSG, Dan Da Dan, and Your Name. It'd be nice if there were more non alt-rock songs but beggars can't be choosers, I guess. (I think Digimon Fusion had the best English theme possibly because it was EDM that turned into a rock leifmotif)
Also, since it was mentioned, during a recent power outage I decided to put on some tunes and "Be The One" was what was playing when the power came back on, so Beverly really did be the light 
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Renakoala
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Candy Boy mentioned!
That will continue to be my biggest guilty pleasure anime, especially since it was one of the first ones I watched |
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Greed1914
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Golden Kamuy did the song starts just before the credits thing a while back, and it was such an obviously right way to do it that I would have actually called it a miss if they hadn't.
I do still miss when 26 episodes was normal. Something about it working out to exactly half a year made sense, but it has been a long time now since that was the case. The completely replaced theme songs are something I didn't necessarily mind at the time, but I don't mind that not happening these days. It's understandable for the time since the goal was getting these in front of kids, and that also meant convincing cable channels to air it. Obviously, that isn't how it works these days. I do think it is a shame that Sony did away with English versions of songs during the episodes though. The casting for Zombie Land Saga was done with singing as a primary consideration, so it's disappointing that they only got to do it under Funimation. Tojima Wants to be a Kamen Rider has a scene where Tojima drunkenly sings to himself, and it switches to Japanese, and is made all the more jarring by how everyone around him is talking to each other, and it's also in Japanese despite not being part of the song. It's like someone said, "There's music, just skip this whole section" |
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FilthyCasual
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Triltaison
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I always loved the ED song creeping in at the end of the episode. It always seemed to build more anticipation for the next episode. Fushigi Yuugi is the first one I remember encountering, and Gundam Seed+Destiny is another. I think A Place Further than the Universe might also have done it.
I'm still quite annoyed every time an insert song is performed on screen by the characters in a dub and it plays in Japanese. It's never not jarring. One of the more recent ones that really hit me with how awkward the language shift was was the rap battle in Ya Boy Kongming. The scene is lengthy and because rap is mostly spoken rather than pitched, it was as shocking as whiplash. Not dubbing something plot important in a dub just makes the show less accessible to people, too. Just feels like an incomplete product. |
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ZelosZoidberg
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I love English song dubs where sometimes I think they are better than the original (granted sometimes they are un-official covers like Sapphire's). However it does not help matters when one of those official singers is V.M. if you know those initials and I think you do. I also bet it costs extra for those covers both for the VA and the original rights holders.
Of ending theme leading into the credits I remember Angelic Layer doing it well. |
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Takkun4343
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The ED getting a head start on its animation sequence is a top-tier trope. So top of one, I implemented it in two of my own hypo-anime! ("Butterfly Swimmer" by school food punishment for the one, "WE ARE ONE" by JAM Project for the other.) Regarding actually existing anime to have used the trope that weren't already mentioned, I remember Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans making good use of it in its first quarter.
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harminia
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I think you should watch Gnosia, which definitely does the first, and could be said to do the second, at least in terms of vibes (lots of crazy faces). Unfortunately no dance animations though. |
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ninjamitsuki
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I really loved that moment in the Slayers dub where Lina, Amelia and Zelgadis were singing a song in English and Lina just goes "in Japanese!" before the full song and it swtiches to the Japanese song.
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Bern73
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As far as I'm concerned, Re:Zero is the king of "playing the ED song before the credits". Made almost every episode end with a HUGE impact. It's a shame season 3 didn't lean into that as much.
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harminia
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Theater D kicking in in episode 14 was incredible. |
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It's also been ages since I saw an anime play the first opening during the climax of the show.
City: The Animation had it worse. The second half of the final episode is not dubbed. A whoe 10 minutes... despite how they had no issue dubbing all the other musical skits in the show. |
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ZelosZoidberg
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Gina Szanboti
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Never mind the English dubbed OPs, the Italians knocked it out of the park, basically starting from scratch rather than just rewriting lyrics. The haunting Italian OP for Hunter x Hunter is especially beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shQ8hNvVepE
Funny, I just recently commented on the power walk in Troopers. It certainly didn't originate with 1992's Dogs though. See e.g., 1971's A Clockwork Orange's Flatblock Marina scene, or the 1969 The Wild Bunch walk to the final shootout (not slo-mo but inarguably a power walk) or 1983's The Right Stuff, which is probably the most iconic version, even though it's not slo-mo either. To me the RD walk is pretty much the only one I've ever seen that really didn't look all that cool because we almost never see their whole bodies. And it doesn't have to be a lineup, or even a group to look badass as hell (heck, they can even be on horseback! (hey, the horses are walking  )). However it's done, it never gets old. One recent one that I never tire of watching was OP4 of JJK with the cast slow walking through the torii gate.
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Kadmos1
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Even back when Funimation as we knew them still existed*, there were times they didn't dub in-show songs into English. "Zombie Land Saga 2" comes to mind. Specifically, with ZLS2, I don't know what the reason for that was. In terms of the simuldub, that I can and do see in not case of time crunches and possible rights issues. With Sony Pictures owning Funi, I doubt it was a case if rights issues and money when it came to the box set release. Yeah, I think it was just a case of laziness.
*Really the last season that Funimation's own Web site had a then-new seasonal simuldub was Spring 2022. One of the final not if not final home video releases under the Funimation label was "Full Dive". |
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