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This Week in Anime - The Panty & Stocking Phenomenon

I have to give the English dub props for just going for it on all celebrity impressions involved with these bits. Especially Tom Croose Jr.

I have to give the English dub props for just going for it on all celebrity impressions involved with these bits. Especially Tom Croose Jr. here, as played by Evan Ferrante—the guy who automatically comes to my mind as THE not Tom Cruise.

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I have to give the English dub props for just going for it on all celebrity impressions involved with these bits. Especially Tom Croose Jr. here, as played by Evan Ferrante—the guy who automatically comes to my mind as THE not Tom Cruise.

Definitely one of the few parts of the dub I actually liked. Shame everything else is a mixed bag.

Outside of the necessary changes with Garterbelt and Corset (& frankly the latter didn't work since Keith Silverstein is so different from Chris Ayres voice-wise), almost all the recasts fall into the camp of sounding too samey to S1's dub (Brief, the Demon Sisters) or radically different (Panty and Stocking). The script is incredibly inconsistent and sometimes doesn't take enough liberties which makes things come off stilted (e.g. the first few episodes use "Repent Bitch" only to suddenly switch back to S1's "Repent Motherfucker" for no reason, the lack of changes to the show's use of the word "Bitch", which is closer to meaning "slut" when used in Japan, makes nonsense like "Bitch-Shaming" really not work)

I really don't hold anything against the cast but I really do wonder who was responsible for this (especially when word of the dub auditions came out early and Jamie Marchi made it clear she was never contacted). Dubbing studio Pixelogic already showed they're capable of getting cast members back with the Mono dub which had some Laid Back Camp characters appear and even this dub has Texas regular Corey Wilder as one of the Angel brothers.

The season itself is still great and shows how Imaishi and team haven't lost a step (plus are going above and beyond) which just makes this sort of stuff surrounding it much more frustrating.

With the Amazon dub I wonder if this is a union issue, i.e. Amazon has agreements with SAG to use union members for its original productions (including anything for which they are responsible for the actors, like an anime dub). One of the reason CR and Sentai are in Texas is because you can use non-union actors without issue. I don't know if Jamie Marchi and Monica Rial are SAG members but given the work they do with those 2 companies my guess is probably not as SAG would definitely have issue with it. This is just a guess as I don't know for sure. I do know Cristina Vee (Stocking) is a SAG member.

With the Amazon dub I wonder if this is a union issue, i.e. Amazon has agreements with SAG to use union members for its original productions (including anything for which they are responsible for the actors, like an anime dub).

I'll watch it once Monica Rial and Jamie Marchi return for the redub once Crunchyroll is streaming this.