hysteria. but not HP-induced!

[xparrot]

EEEEEK - I just downloaded an ep of YGO. A dubbed ep. BWAAHAHAHA now I am going to go stab out my ears.

Why do they change the soundtracks in dubs? WHY? YGO has good BGM (pretty standard videogame-esque, but there's several overblown orchestral tracks, I am so very weak to those.) No god card theme? Tragic! Then they rewrite the script, which is already pretty talky, to narrate every single bloody event on the screen. Because American children are too stupid to interpret moving pictures, apparently.

And then there's the voices. Will not even mention Kaiba. Will not will not will not... okay, so Tsuda Kenjirou is a new favorite seiyuu (thanks to his almost-not-quite crying in episode 116. And his mad laugh. And every single Blue Eyes attack. --Speaking of which, what the hell is this "White Lightning" shit? "HOROBI NO BAASUTO SUTORIIMU!!!") This guy? Not so much. And "virus" is such a cooler word when contorted into Japanese pronunciation.

I'd been warned about Jounouchi's Brooklyn accent before, but still, yeah, that's pretty bad. Wait, who's talking now?

OMGGGGGGGGG THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE CALLING YAMI'S VOICE??? THAT DEMENTED SQUEAKY--

...

Never mind, Malik just spoke. Baby, what have they done to you?

Mokuba gets off easy, considering. Annoying instead of adorable but what can you do? *cringe* But, "Seto"? Aw, man. I know, I know, "big brother" sounds dumb in English, and "sir elder brother" moreso. But still - "Nii-sama!"

Wait, now I'm confused. Yami talks in a different voice in his head? Is that Yugi's voice? Yami's talking aloud now in a deep narrator's voice. A really irritating narrator's voice.

--oh good grief, I want to punch out Jounouchi Joey. Just to shut him up. That's wrong. I like Jounouchi.

I shouldn't have picked an ep with so much dialogue from Kaiba *wince* His mad laugh doesn't hold a candle to Tsuda's lunacy. And he doesn't have his special gentle Mokuba-only voice, either. And what the hell, where's his great "Ore no pride, ore no tamashii" Blue Eyes summoning speech?? That was such a great bit! (I'm watching ep 94, 2nd part of Isis vs Kaiba. Or Ishizu? Thought it was supposed to be Isis?)

Mokuba: "Oh no!"
Yami: "Oh yes!"
X-parrot: "Oh god!" *gets fork for ears*

Comments

[immicolia.livejournal.com]

Heh. Maybe I should consider myself lucky that I never saw any of the Battle City eps of the dub and therefore didn't have to hear dub!Malik. But I have seen some of season 4. And in there you got Bad Australian Accent Guy (I can never remember his name... Valon I think? The one who ends up fighting with Jounouchi over Mai) And... Yea. There was an at least four episode long duel between those two which I ended up calling "Battle of the Bad Accents" I was seriously wanting to start pealing strips of my own skin off in an attempt to distract myself. Which is why I was glad when Joey lost his soul and went comatose. That means he's not talking.

Yami's dub voice still mostly makes me want to laugh my ass off every time I hear it. Kaiba's I could actually put up with (although I still laughed at it a lot) although now that I've heard the original, I'll probably be even more intolerant.

(as a sidebar since you did vaguely bring up the virus thing. I need to get off my chest the fact that while I was watching those eps I laughed every time everyone was all shocked that whoever Kaiba was dueling got around his "virus chain" To which I say: of course they did! He only attempts it every fucking time! And when has it ever really worked? Therefore I laugh.)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

But that's so wrong! I like Jounouchi! He's probably my third favorite character (umm. if you count the Kaiba bros as number 1, and both Yugis as number 2...) But yes, even just the little bit I saw of him in that eppy...it wasn't just the accent, it was the script, too. Jou's supposed to be funny and sweet and not quite as stupid as he can seem (he's impulsive and a gambler, but he's not actually dumb)! not...that...voice, if you can go as far as to call it that...

Yami's voice is just a really, really bad narrator's diction. Which makes sense considering they seem to need to narrate every single freaking event in the duels and elsewhere. I thought the duels were over-explained already but this is ridiculous...and Kaiba, yeah, his voice wasn't as painful as the others, but it has so much less emotional range - at least the ep I saw, but Kaiba goes through a lot of emotion in that ep, so...yes, 'pissed', 'angry', and 'gloating' are all important Kaiba expressions, but he also needs 'shocked' and 'caring' and 'thoughtful' and a lot of others...he's the definition of a complex character, and his voice should reflect that. Also his voice should be hot. But American VA casting rarely considers that quality...

Ahahah I'll see you the virus chain and raise you a FUCKING MAGIC SILK HATS. If Yami uses that ploy one more time I'm gonna scream. The duels would be less annoying if for like half of them they're so bloody obvious that I'm watching thinking oh for pity's sake just gimme the damn deck and I'll beat him. And I don't even play these games. This is more true in the beginning, the later matches have had some pretty clever stuff. ...and then I realize I'm fanning on card games and consider killing myself to end my shame. Though in Kaiba's defense, a couple of the times he uses the virus chain was in the filler, in which they all play worse and tend to repeat past moves a lot. It actually did work against Yugi at Duelist Kingdom, and against Isis (though she let him do it as part of her trap).

...And now I must go commit ritual suicide for actually knowing the mechanics of those duels.