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Forum - View topicNEWS: Viz Media to Release 2018 Captain Tsubasa Anime, 2023 Captain Tsubasa: Junior Youth Arc Anime
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ZetMoon80
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Will the first season have a new dub with the cast from the second season? Apparently, the first season's dub was terrible.
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NJ_
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Okay, that's a second confirmation here along with Crunchyroll Store because their cover art on Amazon & Gruv doesn't list audio tracks for some reason, just the English & Spanish subs. I assume they'll fix that closer to release date.
DVD is 480 though, do they actually not know that?
It was dubbed in Miami for Primo TV, that should say how bad it probably was, never watched myself, my interest comes from the video game from 6 years ago.....which I still need to beat. |
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SinisterOracle
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Something is clearly wrong with this paragraph as DVD has never supported 1080p quality. Also, why would an anime from 2018-19 and 2023 be released on DVD only? It doesn’t make sense to not release it on Blu-ray. |
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Primus
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If they were going to re-dub the show, it probably would've happened before they put it on Netflix and other big streaming platforms. |
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AnimeCornerStore
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I talked about this a little bit in our newsletter yesterday. DVD does not support 1080p. DVD is 480 SD in NTSC. I don't know if Ken Sasaki or Brad Woods are directly involved in their home video strategy, or someone else down the chain is making these decisions, but a lot of what Viz has been doing since last summer in their home video division has been a real head scratcher. A DVD only release in 2026? Surely the masters for the show are in HD. The only reason I can think of, and this is just spit-balling, is that the license (for some odd reason) required a format that is not in the same region as Japan. I would love to know what the thinking was. |
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Ultimate N
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Viz’s whole Captain Tsubasa license is probably one of the saddest I’ve ever seen. When this remake was first announced I was genuinely so excited as someone who had never gotten into it and was so hyped over possibly getting into a classic staple of Weekly Shonen Jump. Seriously, you tell me an anime is based off of a beloved classic manga from Jump I’m immediately sold. I love when anime/manga I missed out on are given a second chance. Then I hear Viz has the license and I’m even more excited because I’m out here thinking an English dub is guaranteed and I’m a dub watcher so I think I’m all set. Then the dub came out….
Now obviously I know the first season’s dub wasn’t Viz’s fault (or at least not primarily). I know Viz basically got kneecapped because the agency in charge of the band that did the OP kept them from doing literally anything, but even so I [expletive] hate Captain Tsubasa’s dub. Just in general I really don’t like Miami dubs, every time an anime gets dubbed from Miami it’s no better than those dubs made by Animax for Southeast Asia. In my opinion the first season’s dub single handedly KILLED the reboot’s success in the west, and this is coming from somebody who not only is able to enjoy most of Sentai’s dubs, but was able to tolerate WORLD TRIGGER’S dub. I’m all for most companies handling dubs so we can get a wider talent pool, but I still want dubs to be GOOD, I’d rather hear the same 12 actors because at least they’ll deliver satisfactory performances! Tho ironically that is my biggest issue with season 2’s dub because obviously yes it is a massive step forward, but admittedly I wasn’t super big on Erica Mendez as Tsubasa, partially because I have felt she’s been getting overused in young boy roles (felt similarly about her casting as Yaiba) tho really I just found her voice to not fit Tsubasa at that age since he got older and taller, tho ironically had she played him in the first season it definitely would have fit better there and likely would’ve been an easier transition. Still I’m glad they actually got people who knew how to act in dubs. And I understand that it would have been impractical to redub all of season one, even with a bad dub unless the dub audio can’t be synced up to the footage for some reason there is objectively no reason to spend money on redubbing a whole anime (let alone a 52 episode season) tho I am super confident part of the reason Mendez was cast as Tsubasa was because they assumed they were going to go back and redub the first season, but the fact Viz just decided it wasn’t worth it and now with this announcement of a DVD release instead of a basic Blu-ray (which let’s all be real, this is happening because Viz were either contractually or morally obligated to put the anime out on home video and wanted to save as much money as possible) just shows how much this was not a title they had much faith in. And again, I know it wasn’t entirely their fault, even if sports anime aren’t as hard of a sell today, anime based on older manga are. Had Viz been able to do things normally with Captain Tsubasa normally it still probably wouldn’t have been a big hit for them, tho I have to believe it would have lead to more than the barest possible minimum from Viz, and I least I would have been happy. Instead we’re stuck with two DVD sets that have a god-awful dub for the first 52 episodes and then an actually decent dub after that, but it still sucks Captain Tsubasa couldn’t even get a consistently decent dub and get at least a LITTLE bit more of a following than it is now. Just such a sad shame for what is seen as a pinacle series for the greatest producer of Shonen manga ever. Also yes I know the easiest solution is to just watch the sub but I’m still allowed to be upset I got screwed out of my preferred version. |
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ZelosZoidberg
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^Does not help matters that the margins on Viz discs are super low if non-existing.
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NJ_
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I put the show's failure here more on Johnny's than anything else. The fact that the 2018 show didn't get streamed until almost 5 years later with those songs finally cleared after Kitagawa's death says something.
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Ultimate N
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Oh yeah definitely, tho I still wish Viz could have actually put more effort in when they were finally able to do things normally after he died. Like did they really have to be stuck with the Primo TV dub even after getting a normal one for season 2? They really couldn’t go back and use that cast for season 1 and put these shows out on Blu-ray? |
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luisedgarf
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The "west" or the U.S., you mean? Because in other countries, like Latin America, the 2018 series got a pretty good dub. |
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zawa113
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A DVD only release? In 2026?? I am completely baffled by this. I mean, sure I can play it on my PS2 on my CRT, but I haven't really bought any DVD anime in ages.
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NJ_
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The show also had a good amount of hype around it on the European side from Viz Europe (pre-Crunchyroll buyout) which made sense since Captain Tsubasa was very popular there. |
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TheSeventhSense
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A DVD is ridiculous. The only conceivable market for it would be Walmart, and kids aren't going to beg their parents to buy an anime they've never heard off on DVD.
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