● ♦ ● Burimyu, Tenimyu, and *Pnish* too! ● ♦ ●

[Neko Reno-chan]

My friend is actually trying to re-write the musical. He says the only way it could be done right is if an otaku were to do it. He's debating on translating just the spoken parts and leaving the songs as is or translating the whole damn thing. He wants all of us to pull this off and has even started online auditions. I agree that the musicals are great the way they are. Although releasing subbed version of it to American audiences would be nice. So we don't have to hunt youtube for 'em...
On another note, this same friend is trying to write and translate skits for an American Pnish. He's wanting to play Eiji and I'm supposed to play Tuti. And this all spawned from a Tuti Host Club cosplay I'm working on. (Just need the hair) I'm not 100% sure if we can pull it off, but we have a Daiki and a Wasshi. Four insane American otaku doing English version of Japanese stage skits. This could be interesting. Although I don't think our Daiki (who's a girl like me) would want me grabbing our Wasshi's (her boyfirend's) "boobs" blaugh

[Neko Reno-chan]

That and the Japanese DVDs won't even PLAY in American DVD players unless you have some special add-on gizmo that I can't remember the name of right now... Damn that's gonna keep me up tonight...

[Deep Fried And On A Stick]

Neko Reno-chan

Deep Fried And On A Stick

Wow....

I've always thought it'd be cool to see an anime done as a musical.

Sadly, after watching this, I no longer think so...

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What makes you say that? I thought it was very creative. Only the Japanese could come up with something like this. You KNOW they'll bever bring this to America. And if they DO, they're gonna screw it over royally. stressed

Its just not my definition of musical. Too...too...I don't even know the word for it.

But...eh, it could just be that I'm not a big Bleach fan. Personal opinion might be the way to describe it.

[Neko Reno-chan]

It DID keep me up for a while. And I DID finally think of what the device is called. It would be an emulator that you would need. Or region free disks or Japanese DVD player as you said 3nodding I just download the torrents... Yes I'm stealing sweatdrop But I've heard that the Japanese don't really care because it's free advertising. They don't care about anime downloads either. It's the American's and dubbed anime that you have to watch out for. Stupid FCC's on everyone's asses.
But I don't really care for dubs anymore...

[Neko Reno-chan]

What gets me about the Bleach dub the most is how they mispronounce names and they refer to Rukia and such as "Soul Reaper" stressed But they can say "Shinigami" in Death Note. Like retard kids are gonna know that "Shinigami" means "Death God" Some of the voices were bad too. I've met Ichigo, and he actually tries. The guy they got for Renji was great as Rufus Shinra, but he SUCKS as Renji. They should've gotten Reno (Quinton Flynn who I also met! whee whee whee ) to do Renji instead of Kon. Quinton has the cocky redhead down. I mean he's done Reno and Axel, why shouldn't he do Renji? Hitsugaya's voice grates on my ears. He sounds like a whiney little brat in English. And Doug Erholtz could've done SOOO much better with Gin. He had the tone down but he didn't have the accent (Kansai can easily be brought over as something of a southern accent or something like that...) Rukia was alright I suppose. And Ikkaku was Vic Minongna (is THAT how you spell is last name? I'm a friggin' idiot... neutral ) Met him too. He was pretty cool. If you can't tell I hit a few cons...

[Neko Reno-chan]

According to my friend (the one who's trying to translate the musicals) it's because many otaku know that Shinigami means "Death God" and you can't refer to a human-like character as a "God" but you can refer to a creature like Ryuk as a "God" Viz knows this and that's why they say "Soul Reaper" I don't know why I torture myself with Adult Swim really. Although I am kinda looking forward to seeing how they screw up the episode where Izuru fights Darku. That should be comming up pretty soon.

[Neko Reno-chan]

The only reason I remember it is because it's Izuru. Izuru is heart Izuru is Eiki. 4laugh whee If anything I can just picture Eiki while Viz screws the episode over. Then I guess I won't be as mad. It'll take some of the sting out of it. blaugh

[PromisedSword]

I've seen a few episodes of the Bleach anime dubbed. The whole translation of 'Shinigami' into 'Soul Reaper' doesn't bug me that much (probably because it was introduced to me that way--my sister bought the VIZ manga and I started reading that first) but Gin's voice is AWFUL. The nature of that character is such that, unless the seiyuu pulls off the voice JUST right, it lessens the impact of said characters words.

An example of this is the scene on the bridge when Rukia is being taken to the Soukyoku--there is this subtle, underlying MALICE in his words that, unless delivered JUST right, would destroy the impact of that scene.

FYI: IMO, the musical GOT it just right. x3

Sadly, I haven't watched much of the anime, so I don't know how well the same scene (which serves as an example, IMO Gin's voice would have to be perfect ALL of the time for me to get the same impact his I got from his scenes in the manga) is done in the subbed anime.

Then again, I've always preferred the manga over the anime, and to me manga is a more personal experience of characterization. No seiyuu can ever match the reader's image of ANY character in their heads.

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...Whoa, I've been ranting about Gin so much, and I don't even LIKE him. Hehe. Well, he does serve as one of the best examples of what I'm trying to illustrate in Bleach.