Kanzenshuu

My condolences to his friends and family.

The conversation regarding his passing and the other narrators has been frustrating to observe. Some of the attempts I've seen to clear up confusion come across as downplaying Doc's involvement. The man did over 200 episodes that were seen across a bunch of ...

Ray has done a few follow-ups to this and plans on putting out more weekly. In this week's video , she spoke with Frank Ward, the founder of Renaissance-Atlantic. The reason his company made these adaptations was because broadcasters just weren't interested in the original Japanese versions, but ...

Also kinda blows my mind how much people just... never looked there in the first place. After all, In order to get copyright registered on a work, one of the steps involved is sending a copy of the work to the LoC. Hell I'd have figured that'd be one of the *first* places people looked for lost ...

I made a thread about this back in 2019.

Marlene Sharp has spoken about her time at RA a bunch over the years. In an interview with a Saint Seiya podcast, she said they were developing a Digimon adaptation at one point, too, but it never went beyond paper. Part of me wonders if that's the same ...

Is a distinction even necessary when there's only one English dub?

As far as Ian Sinclair being a "non-union actor" is concerned, that doesn't necessarily mean the World Trigger dub is non-union (though it certainly points to that being the case). A quirk of the US's ridiculously convoluted organized labor laws is that there are two kinds of states when it comes ...

TheBlackPaladin can explain this more, as it's been his theory, but what if Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai is the holdup? It's a TOEI show that was being dubbed by Ocean, but there's been controversy surrounding Ocean's decision to outsource some of the voicework to non-Union dubbing studios ...

Dragon Ball and GT were recorded in Calgary because it was substantially cheaper. The Vancouver dubs all featured performers signed to Canada's leading actor's union. The Calgary actors are not under that union and are subsequently paid less.

One Piece is just a less appealing show to English speakers. Long after 4Kids' dub had faded, the franchise isn't some mega powerhouse in North America. The show failed on TV three separate times (4Kids, Funimation on original Toonami, Funimation on revival Toonami). The dub is ongoing because of ...

Might be a weird thing like how Powerpuff Girls Z's dub never aired there, despite being recorded there.


The vast majority of anime dubbed in English-speaking Canada has never aired on Canadian television. Powerpuff Girls Z's dub isn't any more weird than other things produced for foreign ...

Courtesy of Gaming Kraken , I've come across a title I've never heard of for an equally unknown platform. A Chinese toy company by the name of M&D released a low-end handheld video game console for kids called the Monon Color in October 2014. It has a Dragon Ball game called Budo Conference (七龙珠武道大会 ...

This conversation seems to imply Don Brown returned for this dub:

They were definitely working on the Ocean dub up to at least 2013, one of the voice actors was a regular at a place I used to work in BC and we chatted about it a couple times. [...]

Don Brown, voice of King Kai and Hercule/Mr ...

The music swap has nothing to do with Cancon. Dubs are given a 50% time credit regardless of whether or not the score was composed locally.

https://i.imgur.com/1q1Tc69.png

I'm also sceptical that this dub's score is original. There probably were new pieces composed for the show, but the Anitunes ...

I just have one question: what makes anyone think that FUNimation used the would-be Ocean dub footage for broadcast TV?

I don't know; this entire thing sounds asinine (from their perspective). And if that is the case, then it just sounds like a rich person's pet fan project. So just go ahead and ...

I never cared about a network picking it up, honestly. I don't think that would benefit most people short of having it saved and shared online like what happened with the original Z dub (except, y'know, now it won't sound horrible because technology has changed). But I don't see why it can't be ...

Who's to say that leak came from someone at Ocean. That pilot was screened at multiple conventions.

Speaking of "Snyder," I have some news for you all that really surprises me that it wasn't brought up sooner.

Michael Hirsh and WOW! have appointed Stuart Snyder to the board of directors.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/02/19/1986926/0/en/WOW-Unlimited-Media-Announces-Board ...

Anime distributors, by and large, have stopped marketing to children in North America. Funimation is guilty of this, but they're not alone. Most of the anime properties promoted at that market are from non-anime distributors. You don't see Viz trying to get Boruto or Sailor Moon in front of kids ...

None of Geneon's shows went to YTV. All of them aired on G4 Canada


That's not entirely true . Anyway, that reference was in regards to the three uncut Dragon Ball Z movies Geneon (then Pioneer) had Ocean dub. YTV aired those. Did they get them from Geneon? I don't know.


Canadian TV stations ...

Canadian TV is not a major factor in what gets dubbed in Canada. Maybe if that broadcaster was the first international one to pick up a show, but even then. Just look at what's currently airing on Canadian television: Bakugan, Beyblade, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!. Of those four, only one is a ...