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xparrotTo all those watching the Yu-Gi-Oh dub, wondering what you're missing--I can assure you now, it's not just the dub. The show really is that bad. Do I keep watching it? But of course!
That being said, even in the bad little kid shows, in which most of the action is moving mouths and monsters duking it out in recycled footage, the Japanese seiyuu still act their little hearts out. They maybe can't compare to the talent of One Piece, but definitely worth listening to.
Jounouchi's voice (Morikawa Toshiyuki) bugs me a bit, he's a good actor but it's too deep for a 16 year old kid's. On the other hand, his "Shinuna, Yuugi!!" at the end of their Domino port duel is one hell of a scream.
Yugi's voice I didn't care for at first. He wasn't much for acting; as Yami he just sounded permanently pissed off. Some of that could be that Kazama Shunsuke apparently isn't a seiyuu at all, but a J-pop star? Though I can't complain about him not sounding his age, he was 17 at the start of the anime's run! (Ah, nothing like Japanese idols to make you feel like you've done nothing with your life. When Oda-sensei was my age, his single series was well on its way to becoming the most popular in Japan... >_>) Anyway, I don't know if Kazama grew into the role and improved his acting as the show went along, or if I've just gotten used to his voice, but I've gone from disliking it, to tolerating it, to, er, really liking it quite a lot. As Yami he drops his voice significantly to sound different from Yugi, into this sort of raspy forced growl that is really much more appealing than I make it sound. Some of his battles I don't fastforward through just so I can listen to him holler at his cards/opponents.
I don't know why Bakura's voice in the beginning sounded like an evil grandmother's. It's improved. Eh. Bakura bores me. Yami Bakura is marginally more interesting, but I'm watching this show for the cute friendshipping, not cheesy mad villains (...Okay, so I like Malik. Malik is hot. And wears a belly shirt. And is doing the 'mwahaha I know the best way to hurt you is to hurt your friends, so that's just what I'm gonna do!" psychopath routine, which is a personal fave of mine.)
And Kaiba's voice is just the sex. As expected. His is about the only voice that sounded pretty much exactly like I thought it would. (Mokuba's doesn't count, since I knew what to expect of Takeuchi Junko. She doesn't disappoint.) Except in the first ep Seto was using "boku" (maintaining his schoolboy identity, I guess), which was extremely wrong. But it's always "ore" now *phew*. Tsuda Kenjirou isn't a seiyuu I know, he's been in almost nothing - recent guy, or maybe he's got another gig? Don't know. His voice has a slightly stuffy quality that suits Seto's arrogance, and he's good enough at the boasting, though I prefer his more thoughtful internal tone when he's musing in his head. And he has a great mad laugh, which you hear a lot of in Battle City. I wonder if Mokuba is worried to realize his oniisama is clearly losing sanity points every time he plays Obelisk? But my favorite Seto-sound has to be the "hnn," which he makes whenever he's amused by someone foolishly challenging his might. That is to say, all the time. Mmm.
I also just picked up v.6 (or rather v.13. Confusing, much?) Definitely prefer the manga to the show. Not only are the wretched card battles shorter, but the characters have more edge. Yugi's resolution to become stronger than his 'other me' (and Jounouchi offering to beat up the other Yugi, if Yami let his pride get in the way of what Yugi needed to do!), Honda asking Yugi to save the Kaibas because he owes Mokuba - good stuff. It's a shame the anime didn't have Death-T, because it set up a lot of running threads, and the story is weaker without them.
That being said, even in the bad little kid shows, in which most of the action is moving mouths and monsters duking it out in recycled footage, the Japanese seiyuu still act their little hearts out. They maybe can't compare to the talent of One Piece, but definitely worth listening to.
Jounouchi's voice (Morikawa Toshiyuki) bugs me a bit, he's a good actor but it's too deep for a 16 year old kid's. On the other hand, his "Shinuna, Yuugi!!" at the end of their Domino port duel is one hell of a scream.
Yugi's voice I didn't care for at first. He wasn't much for acting; as Yami he just sounded permanently pissed off. Some of that could be that Kazama Shunsuke apparently isn't a seiyuu at all, but a J-pop star? Though I can't complain about him not sounding his age, he was 17 at the start of the anime's run! (Ah, nothing like Japanese idols to make you feel like you've done nothing with your life. When Oda-sensei was my age, his single series was well on its way to becoming the most popular in Japan... >_>) Anyway, I don't know if Kazama grew into the role and improved his acting as the show went along, or if I've just gotten used to his voice, but I've gone from disliking it, to tolerating it, to, er, really liking it quite a lot. As Yami he drops his voice significantly to sound different from Yugi, into this sort of raspy forced growl that is really much more appealing than I make it sound. Some of his battles I don't fastforward through just so I can listen to him holler at his cards/opponents.
I don't know why Bakura's voice in the beginning sounded like an evil grandmother's. It's improved. Eh. Bakura bores me. Yami Bakura is marginally more interesting, but I'm watching this show for the cute friendshipping, not cheesy mad villains (...Okay, so I like Malik. Malik is hot. And wears a belly shirt. And is doing the 'mwahaha I know the best way to hurt you is to hurt your friends, so that's just what I'm gonna do!" psychopath routine, which is a personal fave of mine.)
And Kaiba's voice is just the sex. As expected. His is about the only voice that sounded pretty much exactly like I thought it would. (Mokuba's doesn't count, since I knew what to expect of Takeuchi Junko. She doesn't disappoint.) Except in the first ep Seto was using "boku" (maintaining his schoolboy identity, I guess), which was extremely wrong. But it's always "ore" now *phew*. Tsuda Kenjirou isn't a seiyuu I know, he's been in almost nothing - recent guy, or maybe he's got another gig? Don't know. His voice has a slightly stuffy quality that suits Seto's arrogance, and he's good enough at the boasting, though I prefer his more thoughtful internal tone when he's musing in his head. And he has a great mad laugh, which you hear a lot of in Battle City. I wonder if Mokuba is worried to realize his oniisama is clearly losing sanity points every time he plays Obelisk? But my favorite Seto-sound has to be the "hnn," which he makes whenever he's amused by someone foolishly challenging his might. That is to say, all the time. Mmm.
I also just picked up v.6 (or rather v.13. Confusing, much?) Definitely prefer the manga to the show. Not only are the wretched card battles shorter, but the characters have more edge. Yugi's resolution to become stronger than his 'other me' (and Jounouchi offering to beat up the other Yugi, if Yami let his pride get in the way of what Yugi needed to do!), Honda asking Yugi to save the Kaibas because he owes Mokuba - good stuff. It's a shame the anime didn't have Death-T, because it set up a lot of running threads, and the story is weaker without them.
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Date: 2005-07-07 07:41 pm (UTC)...that almost makes me wanna see PoT. Because damn, yes, he's got a way of saying names that is faaaantastic. The way he drawls/breathes "Yuugi" is...nice. Verra nice.
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Date: 2005-07-07 07:55 pm (UTC)The thing about PoT, by the way? Don't think of it as a sports series. Think of it as a fighting tournament series... in which all the battles happen to be fought with tennis. It actually makes more sense that way anyhow. XD
(And it's just full of wonderful rivalries and team spirit and fun friendships and... eeeee, boys being boys.)
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Date: 2005-07-08 08:09 am (UTC)And I know sports and fight shounen are pretty much two strands of the same thread, but I don't care for the fight tournaments nearly as much as the save-the-world scenarios anyway (which is what most tournies turn into in fight shounen ^^;;) In all honesty, one of the main reasons for my fight shounen love is that I am an incurable h/c junky. I like watching them get beaten to a pulp and putting their lives on the line and dying for friends and such. Not as interesting to me when it's just a game. The only reason I'm surviving the endless YGO duels is because a lot of them involve risking one's life/soul, often by extremely contrived if not totally bizarre ways...
On the other hand, Shaolin Soccer is the best movie ever. So I'm not totally immune to the joy of really wild sports. I have little doubt I could get into PoT if I were introduced in the right way at the right time. Except...you don't know how, er, impatient certain people are getting with me already, what with this new obsession. I, uh, need to fulfill other fannish commitments before I sell my soul to yet another batch of cute friendshipping boys? ^^;;
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Date: 2005-07-08 11:45 am (UTC)I have found that my buttons are pushed just as well by things like one boy getting injured in a match and another boy proceding to embarrassingly defeat the culprit. (And yes, there are some surprisingly bloody for prime time TV injuries. I'm actually not much of a h/c fan, but PoT speaks to whatever latent tendencies I might have.) Oh, and there was the time that some of the Fudoumine boys were in a car accident on their way to a match and tried to conceal the fact from their captain so that they could play anyway...
On the other hand, I totally understand the whole 'I need a new fandom like a hole in the head' thing. XD