The Garden of Words / Kotonoha no Niwa

Cover art has been posted.

English Dub Cast

ADR Director - Steven Foster

Takao Akizuki - Patrick Poole
Yukari Yukino - Maggie Flecknoe
Takao’s Mother - Shelley Calene-Black
Takao’s Brother - Crash Buist
Brother’s Girlfriend - Brittney Karbowski
Mr. Ito - David Matranga
Matsumoto - Mike Yager
Sato - Alison Sumrall
Aizawa - Hilary Haag
Young Takao - Blake Shepard

Additional Voices
Shannon Emerick
Kalob Martinez
Andrea Schutter
Wendy Martin
Summar Salah
Shannon Hill

There are some names on there that I don’t recognize (the ones with the bigger font). Are they all new(er) actors or should I be expecting to hear some old voices with new names mixed in there?

Whaattt…

You don’t know who Steven Foster is…naw, I don’t believe you.

Mike Yager is I guess somewhat new, but I think you’ve already heard him:

Mike Yager ANN Page

The others are prob fresh new faces/voices. Newbies are always cool to hear.

LOL. I had some issues with the tags on that post. Shoulda just taken out the other names but I wanted to play with the tags…and I got tagged for it :laugh:

I guess in a way I don’t know who Stephen Foster is, he keeps a low profile lol. I’ve seen David Williams and I know Matt Greenfield is “that guy who looks eerily like George Lucas” but Foster is just a big ? to me lol.

It does seem like I have heard Mike Yager after all but didn’t really recognize the name thx.

Speaking of things that I missed, I totally missed that this has an English commentary track until now (relooked at the pix posted above). Now I am compelled to buy it. Maybe even several copies…

So the Blu-ray of this shipped from Rightstuf for me.

A few people on FandomPost have already received their copies. The movie and dub are getting great reviews. The male lead, Patrick Poole, has especially been getting raves. I was hoping to order this soon, but I may have to hold off. I just had $600 in car repairs done and we have to spend another $600 on surgery for our dog. :stuck_out_tongue:

600 bucks on dog surgery?!!

Now my interest in the dub is piqued, though I suspect it is from what is called “morbid curiosity” as I’ve found that “the internet” and I generally disagree on what makes a great dub. Though to clarify I, due to Foster’s involvement, doubt that this will be a bad dub, instead suspecting that it just won’t live up to the hype.

How good is the movie by itself? “Absent-minded older woman meets up with younger man” has potential, kinda…I guess? Also, RightStuf sending this out over a month in advance is nice. It’s even cheaper than Amazon’s offering (significantly). This helps “restore my faith” a bit in 'em after their sketchy sale.

Interestingly, as I post this the BD of this is cheaper than the DVD on RightStuf (by $0.75). That’s progress.

Completed prelim watch of this in Japanese.

Subtitle of this should be “The Ballad of the Beta Male”; the ex and the woman were perhaps more right than they knew when they referred to the protagonist as an “old woman”. I take it that this is an example of those “herbivore men”.

I guess this could be taken as a piece about how having a messed-up mother messes up the children. Maybe.

Though the Jackie Chan line “Not every Asian is Bruce Lee!” is definitely appropriate here.

I just watched the dub of this on bluray. The sound is royally screwed unless this is watched in 5.1. This has the most awkward audio mix for a 5.1 series that I think I’ve heard; why are the BGM and thunder FX on the primary channels and the dialogue really not?

To hear the dialogue I had to crank the volume but then when a peal of thunder went off it was so loud that the sub caused items to shake on my shelves.

Sentai Fail.

I’ve seen this 3 times now…

English extras were pretty interesting. Japanese video interview extras were less so; DNAngel or Planetes this was not.

I could do with more of these though.

The Garden of Words (Sub/Dub) is live at ANO

Global Shinkai Day 2014

And though it’s not part of the CR Shinkai celebration, you can watch this on TAN to participate in the Shinkai celebration.

Garden of Words Wins Stuttgart Fest of Animated Film’s Top Award

posted on 2014-04-29 09:11 EDT
Competed in AniMovie section with Giovanni’s Island, Bill Plympton’s Cheatin’, 9 more films

HIDIVE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SPANISH DUB STREAMING

2019-06-24T05:00:00Z

The Garden of Words (LAS Dub) is live at HIDIVE

The Garden of Words Cover/Disc Art

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It sure would be nice if Sentai would start doing English Commentary tracks again.

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The Garden of Words (Sub/Dub) is live at HIDIVE

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