@LUFFY#1:
Well I haven't been in this thread in a few weeks, tbh I'm happy episode of east blue is getting a dub. I actually would like to collect those recaps, and it'll be interesting seeing the dub cast return to those early episodes.
Except for the few actors they'll replace because the company is no longer associated with them; there seem to be 3 characters in this special who have actors that fit that description
@Zephray:
Would they rerecord or just grab voices from the old episodes, where able, to save money?
For a full on recap special like this they probably would not; I don’t think it would even really be all that possible.
When it comes to many reanimated flashbacks used in episodes they at least somewhat use the original footage as reference, so it’s easier to place the existing recordings in. For these specials, while basic elements might be the same a lot of these sequences are structured quite differently from how they were originally; lip synching, dialogue, context of the scene and the overall pacing of the scene can be quite different. So it would be quite a bit harder and many times probably completely impossible to just reuse old dialogue.
And yeah, they did try to reuse some dialogue in the Marineford recaps in the previous specials (despite them having similar issues at points) but that’s probably due to them being relatively short sequences in context to the special as a whole, so they probably figured a few “kind of out of place” lines wouldn’t be too bothersome. But even there I still noticed quite a bit of redone dialogue (even re-recordings of lines where only a word or two were changed).