My only complaints about Foster dubs are when his genius has to be restrained to make a “serious” (read: lamer) dub, namely Angel Beats. I think that there was plenty of room for more Fosterization in HSotD, but for reasons that I would like to forget, there isn’t.
Strangely enough, Funimation’s PR crew are pretty weak public speakers. Adam Sheehan ain’t no Demosthenes, that’s for sure. They could improve by hiring Bob Napton of Bandai fame. Or they could have the directors and actors do the promoting for them; Chris Bevins and Josh Grelle were much better promoters than funi’s dedicated PR crew when they were promoting Princess Jellyfish this past winter.
I don’t know what happened but Jamie Marchi seems to have taken a nose-dive in quality, especially as a script writer. I thought her older stuff, and even her bit in Spice and Wolf, was pretty good, but this newer stuff doesn’t measure up, with her performance in this being the new low in the decline.
I thought the show was terrible in Japanese, but this dub could have done so much more. The more I think on it, the more I get back to Chris Ayres’ “catchphrase” of “blame the director”. Ian Sinclair delivers a performance that is worlds better in the contemporary dub of Shiki, Marchi has been awesome elsewhere as an actor, Monica Rial’s awesomeness didn’t seem fully utilized…all of which brings my blame back to Colleen.
Out of all the actors they had to make regular directors, why her?
Gotcha. I did not mean the voices sounded the same. The over dramatic voice acting is due to match with PPG. It possible VA for Japanese PSG matched with Japanese version of PPG. It might have been lost in translation when move to PSG to sound more like the American PPG.
I do think Stocking is trying to sound like Buttercup, agree not a good job if that is what they were going for.
Mmm…yeah, think I’m gonna wait for the reviews on this since I keep hearing/reading that the JP BDs just aren’t good; and in the slught chace Funi does their own mastering, they still won’t be on my priority list.
In the spirit of Halloween and because I needed a good laugh, I started a re-watch of this one. It’s been a while, but it hasn’t lost any of its “charm.”