Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ)

Captain Krupp

@Blake-Bakes-Cakes said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):

Okay so to start I can actually tell you who two cast members are by ear.

Orochi is Keith Silverstein. Not sure how I feel abt him tbh. I love him as an actor including previously in one piece, and maybe it’s precisely because i’ve heard him so much and his voice is so unique, but there’s just kindve a disconnect there for me. Maybe it’ll get better as time goes on.

Yasu is Kenny Green. This is his 4th One Piece role, and while that sounds like a lot most of his roles are minor enough I don’t think everyone will notice? but he honestly fits him great imo. He was a really kindve old cooky sound to his voice that really fits his whole style and attitude.

Queen I was highly anticipating, but I have to say I don’t think I’m sold yet. Queen as a character and his original performance really stick out to me and the performance here just doesn’t so far. That said it’s not bad at all, and he really doesn’t get many scenes, so I’ll see how I feel once they get to the more fun content.

Page One is a bit hard to judge because as Zephray mentioned his voice changes a bit going from full dinosaur to hybrid, so we don’t know how it sounds normally yet, but a bit older sounding than I expected. I’ve always felt the age gap between the rest of the crew and him and the rest of the crew kindve made him a bit of a charming dork even if he’s. Awful. Hasn’t really been conveyed much so far but again I can’t really make a fair judgement yet.

That’s all the major new voices I think but one last note is that on the last episode they refer to it “Oshiruko”, when in the official subs it’s actually translated to “red-bean soup”, which is the opposite of what’s usually the case. I wonder if this will cause another discrepancy between episode titles as I believe it’s referred to in one.

I guess Toei wanted more Japanese Authenticity and or felt audiences wouldnt like red bean soup. At least its not JELLY FILLED DONUTS LOL.

And Crunchyroll's subs are no indication of what we will get in a dub. King Kai Fist anyone?

Zephray

New clip up from that special.

AceLuffy4ever

its been a long two months, i hope this isnt the release schedule going forward

Zephray

Same, I definitely felt that wait. Actively miss watching it every week when it’s gone.

Zephray

Lol, that first Queen line sounds like Daveed Diggs.

Luffy_80

@AceLuffy4ever said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):

its been a long two months, i hope this isnt the release schedule going forward

Didn't Bowling say they're trying to get as close to day and date as possible? Sounds odd that they would say that, then slow things down.

AceLuffy4ever

@Luffy_80 wait when did he say this?

Blake Bakes Cakes

God yeah it’s really distracting that they only dubbed half of it jesus. There are so many characters that barely appear here, and zoro and vegeta literally don’t even appear until the end. Also I haven’t watched toriko but I know toriko fans were excited to hear dub Zebra, in which he literally just does a scream lmao. If anyone’s curious we actually got credits for once and he’s Alejandro Saab.

midod

Still not a full credit list, as several characters were missing

wjbraden

Leave it to Toei to have half a special dubbed lol

Zephray

It still strikes me as weird that they dubbed liked four movie-length tv specials instead of dubbing the old films. You’d like the old films would’ve sold better and been more worth their time.

wjbraden

@Zephray I think this shows that they're willing to go back and dub old stuff, now that we're in the home stretch of getting caught up. The timing sorta made sense on this one too I guess, because Toonami's in the middle of Punk Hazard right now (at episode 605 right now, this special was ep 590).

Who knows, maybe ep 590 was part of Toonami's episode order package and everyone just decided they should go ahead and dub it so it could air??

Zephray

Yeah, the package deal idea kind of makes sense. Wouldn’t be too surprised if that was it.

Captain Krupp

I hate saying this but I'd just rather they'd dub what matters: The actual series.

Spain for example has dubbed every movie. Every last one of them! The catch? They havent touched the actual series in years! Remember that topic about Spain getting to Water 7? About more than ten years ago? Ok I am probably wrong and I know the rights for the show and the movies are different. But even Latin America which lest we forget had to redub One Piece and only started on 2019 got farther than them!

Zephray

Well, that’s what they’re doing here in the US. They’re finishing the series, then we’re all hoping they move on the old films. That seems likely enough. My question next is whether or not they’ll ever bother with the old tv specials. Some of them are quite fun. Would love to see all the old content dubbed.

midod

https://twitter.com/GabeKunda/status/1633289652961411072

Skippy

Judging by his reply, Major Attaway is voicing Queen - he's also Urouge

Blake Bakes Cakes

Genuinely really happy so many black people have been getting cast.

Zek

Wow yeah that’s all three calamities, huh? Awesome!

Also looks like Major has some Broadway credits, such as the Genie in Aladdin (not OBC but still) so I’m even more excited for Queen’s songs now! What a great pick!

G1Ravage

Gabe Kunda was Fisher Tiger, IINM.

Glad to see Major Attaway returning. Guess he'll definitely be available for Urouge, should he ever return to the story....

Captain Krupp

What does IINM mean?

Zek

@Captain-Krupp said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):

What does IINM mean?

If I’m Not Mistaken. First I’ve seen it, it’s nice.

Blake Bakes Cakes

Just found this tweet. So it seems the directors are only allowed to announce certain roles themselves, presumably if they’re a smaller part and/or the VA’s don’t have a twitter. So dumb. https://twitter.com/bowling4anime/status/1628879890656251906?s=46&t=Kq3IHPuSvKT2MXKx8HKScQ

Zephray

I don’t know if he’s not “allowed,” or if he just wants to give them the chance to announce themselves. Not sure if it’s a courtesy thing or not.

Blake Bakes Cakes

That… would still be dumb. I know it’s not his decision, but I feel like when you’re not actually properly crediting your actors you’re throwing curtesy out the window. I would honestly find it more insulting if I had to announce the roles myself for people to know.

Zek

It’s an actor thing, they love to announce roles themselves.

Guess this also confirms that Bowling is Kawamatsu since he said he was a scabbard and everyone else has been heard/confirmed.

Blake Bakes Cakes

Ah, you’re right I forgot about that. I think someone here predicted that so congrats Anthony Bowling Kawamatsu is real.

Skippy

@Blake-Bakes-Cakes I'll take my bow

Zek

Funi has the next set!

G1Ravage

@Zek YES!!!!!! runs to watch

Blake Bakes Cakes

For a second I thought you meant they like got voyage 4 early and now Im dissapointed lol. That being said voyage 3 isn’t showing up for me. although that’s just on mobile web browser I don’t use funi now.

Zek

Yeah it’s kind of fickle, I have it queued on my main page on Funi so when new dub episodes are added it shows up, but I have to go and change the settings to the Uncut episode with English audio.

Zephray

@Blake-Bakes-Cakes said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):

For a second I thought you meant they like got voyage 4 early and now Im dissapointed lol. That being said voyage 3 isn’t showing up for me. although that’s just on mobile web browser I don’t use funi now.

Yeah, I thought the same thing for a second, lol.

This set went on Funi quicker than usual, eh?

midod

Film Red will be available on Microsoft, VUDU and iTunes starting March 28:

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2023/03/16-1/one-piece-film-red-available-for-digital-purchase-later-this-month

Kaiolino

How long before someone edits the AmaLee songs in?

Sano

Crunchyroll June releases are out. No One Piece in June.

Zephray

This isn't a problem unique to OP, fyi. Since Crunchyroll took over Funi, anime releases have slowed to a near halt. It seems like physical anime releases are beginning to die off, unfortunately.

Blake Bakes Cakes

Since Anthony said they were approaching the raid, and Sonny phrased it like he hasn’t recorded in a little longer than usual here, I’m guessing they’ve just reached it since the Oden flashback takes up so much time https://www.tiktok.com/@sonnystrait/video/7211265157576674603

Zephray

Yeah, “again” makes it sound like there was a long break. But yeah, the flashback is around sixteen episodes, which translates to probably a month or so of production time, plus the two week delay due to the Texas freeze. So yeah, he probably went without recording for like a month and a half, maybe two. Makes sense.

In one way or another, I’m willing to bet that Texas freeze was responsible for the delay in the last set. Hopefully we’re back on a monthly schedule now. Time will tell.

Also, that would put them around 45 episodes ahead of us. That tracks, too.

Zek

I think the Dub has been more liberal with their use of strong language lately, that is to say, they say “shit” twice in this batch and I can’t remember if there was a bit more in the last couple. I remember they’d put a few in here and there at the beginning but it seems they stayed away for the longest time. Also Queen calling King an attention whore made me laugh quite a bit.

Blake Bakes Cakes

Yeah, I think they tended to do it in most dubs around the time they started OP because it was made to air on toonami, and it just kindve stuck. Figure since it’s been so long and networks don’t even censor shit anymore they probably don’t care. Not to mention toei uses it in the sub pretty often nowadays I think.

Zephray

Also, they used the word “bitch” in the Komurasaki intro episode. Caught my wife and I by surprise.

Elektrik Dynomite

There has definitely been more "harsh language" (lol) since dub picked up with Punk Hazard. I feel like it used to be this way in the first 3 season, Luffy would "kick your ASS" a lot, but then from Enies Lobby to Fishman, it became "kick your BUTT" more often. But now its back for sure

wjbraden

So I've (slowly but surely) been going back and doing comparisons between the TV and DVD versions of Skypiea, and I'll say there was definitely very little swearing going on so they didn't have to do too many alternate lines. Wouldn't surprise me if early Water 7/Ennis Lobby was light on the swearing, on the off chance the show would go back to kids TV.

Blake Bakes Cakes

Voyage 4 is out! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/season-1404/8d6kgwxzfz2j

midod

So after listening to him...yeah, Kawamatsu is definitely Anthony Bowling (in case it wasn't already obvious by this point)

Zephray

Very exciting! 3 weeks, eh? Speeding up a little to make up for lost time. Will be nice to me to go back to three episodes a week. Queen sounds good from the clips I've heard; hard to beat the OG Japanese VA, who has a distinctive and fun voice/style of acting.

Really liking Keith as Orochi. No issue to me that he was Tesoro, since Tesoro sounded very different. I actually kind of thought Orochi was played by the green haired demon in that recent DS arc. (Brandon McInnis)

G1Ravage

@Zek said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):

I think the Dub has been more liberal with their use of strong language lately, that is to say, they say “shit” twice in this batch and I can’t remember if there was a bit more in the last couple. I remember they’d put a few in here and there at the beginning but it seems they stayed away for the longest time. Also Queen calling King an attention whore made me laugh quite a bit.

Yes, and it's been appropriate usage of language, too. Sharp-tongued villains, mainly. I got a kick out of Kaido telling King and Queen to "GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!!!"

Wish someone was posting new dub clips these days....

Zephray

Lmao, Microsoft commented.

https://twitter.com/microsoftstore/status/1638297063048740866?s=46&t=Y_xZqPkMLcbf6aL2cRhjXw

Zephray

Am I crazy, or does this set cover less chapters than usual? I feel like this set moves at a crawl content-wise. Voyage three had so much great stuff in it. The next voyage to be super hyped about is voyage six. Five has some great BM stuff, but six is Ishitani & the flashback begins. Whew. Can’t wait.

Ah. And there’s a new theme song in this set. Bummer.