Innagadadavida wrote:How many times have they been left out in the dark? Now they want the other side to be left out? That's not right, it's immature. Like a little kid pushing another little kid in the sand because he fell down.
I can't speak for anyone else. But for my part, I don't "want" any dub fans to be left out with this release. Why would I specifically WANT anyone to not get what they want out of something this cool?
But by the same token, if the dub DOES get the short end of the stick with this release, you'd have to be kinda dense not to realize that there'd be a LOT of dry eyes amongst the vast majority of people that are primarily interested in something like this.
The point of lot of us were making is, from FUNimation's perspective, a release like this would only interest fans of the Japanese version specifically. The VAST majority of dub fans don't know, and don't particularly give a shit about the Dragon Box footage. The vast majority of fans who've raised a stink over getting said Dragon Box footage in the U.S. however, are by and large Japanese version fans. That's just the way it is.
From a pure marketing POV on FUNimation's end, this is a product that will be primarily sought after by a group of people who frankly WILL NOT miss any aspect of the dub that happens to not be on this set. At all. Does it suck for the compariatively rare dub fans who DO give a shit about the Dragon Box footage? Of course it does.
But again, not a helluva lot of stringent dub fans have raised anywhere
near as much of a ruckus over these sets as the Japanese version fans have. From FUNimation's perspective that equates to releasing them with THOSE people firmly in mind. In "marketing logic", the season sets are more than adequate in satisfying the dub fanbase who are so loyal to it that they'd care about Faulconer's score.
And as dick-ish as this sounds, the dub fans have NEVER ONCE been tossed over in a U.S. Dragon Ball release. If this indeed will mark the first release that that occurs with, then it'll be a first for you guys in over
13 years of being put on a pedestal in FUNimation's marketing priorities. As sorry as I genuinely am for you... little perspective here in which side of the coin has had to put up with more bullshit from FUNimation in those years.
And also, for all we know, both BGM scores MAY WELL be on there. So all this hubub may just as well be over nothing.
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Kunzait's Wuxia Thread
Journey to the West, chapter 26 wrote:The strong man will meet someone stronger still:
Come to naught at last he surely will!
Zephyr wrote:And that's to say nothing of how pretty much impossible it is to capture what made the original run of the series so great. I'm in the generation of fans that started with Toonami, so I totally empathize with the feeling of having "missed the party", experiencing disappointment, and wanting to experience it myself. But I can't, that's how life is. Time is a bitch. The party is over. Kageyama, Kikuchi, and Maeda are off the sauce now; Yanami almost OD'd; Yamamoto got arrested; Toriyama's not going to light trash cans on fire and hang from the chandelier anymore. We can't get the band back together, and even if we could, everyone's either old, in poor health, or calmed way the fuck down. Best we're going to get, and are getting, is a party that's almost entirely devoid of the magic that made the original one so awesome that we even want more.
Kamiccolo9 wrote:It grinds my gears that people get "outraged" over any of this stuff. It's a fucking cartoon. If you are that determined to be angry about something, get off the internet and make a stand for something that actually matters.
Rocketman wrote:"Shonen" basically means "stupid sentimental shit" anyway, so it's ok to be anti-shonen.
