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.)

[lady-karasu.livejournal.com]

*laughs* And suddenly, I feel bereft for having never seen the original... perhaps I'll just weasel some episodes off of Stacy, come Otakon- since she's our resident fan. ^_~ (I do feel your pain, however- for the first time in ages I caught the dub-that-will-remain-nameless *cough*onepiece*cough* last weekend and am still pining over poor Smoker-- er... captain chaser, I mean. o_O;;)

[lebateleur.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. I get so natsukashii for YGO. It was one of the first anime I ever watched in Japan, back to back as it was with Hamutaro, so there was one I could do with the host sister and one with the host brother. And I actually kinda dug YGO, to the point that I'd rave about it to friends back home.

Who'd always politely change the subject after a significant silence. Little did I know why, until I returned home to find that they'd already watched an ep in the dub. And man, was I then embarrassed...

[ekisa-himani.livejournal.com]

Hi, I think I reviewed some of your fics on ff.net a while ago and I decided to have a mooch around your LJ.

Just in case you're wondering who the nosy girl is ^^

And he doesn't have his special gentle Mokuba-only voice, either.

Actually, he does, but it doesn't come out to play very often, it seems. In fact, if I remember rightly (I haven't seen the epi in ages), it's only at the end of DK. So that makes a grand total of, uh, once that I've seen.

I have to agree, though, the dub is nasty. When I first got into YGO, I had to watch the dub and I remember that I really did not like Kaiba - or Jounouchi. Jounouchi's dub voice got to me and Kaiba was just... urgh. I kept wondering why he was so damn popular.

Then the translated manga came out and enlightened me ;)