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Elite Overlord LeSabre™ said:
Caught the second half of Durarara on Adult Swim last night after getting home late... the dub is okay, nothing special but nothing horrible either.

And no, it's not in my usual genres of series to watch, but with so few series being broadcast on TV nowadays, sometimes an otaku has to watch what an otaku has to watch, lol
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I will probably have to rewatch it since I was busy at the time it was on AS last night. Hopefully they get some more new shows *Hopes for Soul Eater, Inuyasha Final Act, Hitman Reborn.* At least something to get AS going again

Charizard★ said:
Well said my friend. Aren't there any channels that specifically air Japanese shows or something? I remember having one a few years back on free preview or something but I can't remember the name of it. And if I do recall it had some anime on it, not a whole lot, but some that don't come on other channels.
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I wish there was cause I sure don't know if there is one in the US. As far as I can tell they have AS, the junk on Toonzai(Disney XD) and they used to have Ani-Monday on Sci Fi.
 
Lets see....

DRRR!, i'm planning on watching soon as I adored Baccano!

I'm enjoying AnoHana and C, I dropped and didn't even bother with the other two you mentioned.

Still no laptop. ;__;

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Downloaded and watched the last couple of AnoHana eps....As a fan of loldramam and lolemotion I have to admit i rather enjoyed that series, Fuko arc on steroids.
 
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I'm reading and watching Exorcist, it's pretty good for a generic battle shonen. Easily takes Kekkaishi's place as my favourite series of it's type on my reading list. DGM is on my massive to watch list, looks fun. I'll probably get to Claymore before that though.
 
I didn't like that guy very much so i wasn't that sad, good for character development that death. I'm really hoping the woman that wrote that gets another series published soon.

And yep, you totally need to watch that.
 
Elite Overlord LeSabre™ said:
Caught the second half of Durarara on Adult Swim last night after getting home late... the dub is okay, nothing special but nothing horrible either.
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I saw the entire episode when it first came on Adult Swim, and I'd have to agree with that assessment. Of course, all the good roles (just Johnny Yong Bosch as Izaya and Steve Blum as Kyohei so far) were limited to bit parts. Of the people who actually had considerable amounts of dialogue, I'm not too impressed with either Darrel Guilbeau as Mikado or Bryce Papenbrook as Masaomi, though Brian Beacock as Walker, Mela Lee as Erika, and Patrick Seitz as Simon are actually pretty decent.



Also, bloopers. Again, Johnny Yong Bosch and Steve Blum are awesome. Crispin Freeman also has his moments.
 
jigglyppuff8 said:
Want to know whose early death I did not care for?
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YOU MUST BE BURNED TO DEATH.

I really wanna watch Ao no Exorcist. I can't be bothered reading the manga. Read the first chapter once and I immediately dropped it. Though, I also did the same with TWOGK and I love it now.

I never finished Clannad.

The end of C is like that? I hope it's not like Denpa Onna where it forgot the plot and focuses on moe.
 
In any of your guys' opinions, what would you say is the last truly great English dub of an anime? Not merely the last competent or even generally good dub, but Cowboy Bebop/Fullmetal Alchemist/Samurai Champloo/etc-tier dub? Did high VA standards for important anime go out the window with the mid-00s boom, or are there hidden gems relegated to DVD that few people are aware of? I'm honestly curious.
 
I don't usually watch dubbed anime, but the last one I did watch was One Piece by funimation, which I didn't mind. It just took me a while to get used to, considering I've seen what, 500 episodes in japanese, and became accustomed to their japanese voice actors. :P

Anyway, while I'm on the subject of One Piece, I actually really liked the last episode. If you watch it generally, you'd know that it's a good episode to watch, or at least I thought so. :3
 
Chairman Kaga said:
In any of your guys' opinions, what would you say is the last truly great English dub of an anime? Not merely the last competent or even generally good dub, but Cowboy Bebop/Fullmetal Alchemist/Samurai Champloo/etc-tier dub? Did high VA standards for important anime go out the window with the mid-00s boom, or are there hidden gems relegated to DVD that few people are aware of? I'm honestly curious.
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VA standards have generally remained high even with the mid-00s boom for the most part. Limited to just shows that have aired on Adult Swim, both Code Geass and Death Note had dubs that were on par with those three examples. As for stuff that's remained exclusively on DVD so far, Black Lagoon is the very first title to come to mind. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya also had a great dub, especially considering the high expectations for a series of such considerable stature being brought Stateside. Likewise with Gurren Lagann, despite what some people may think about Kamina's voice; hell, I'm probably one of the few who thinks that Kyle Hebert is easily just as hot-blooded as Katsuyuki Konishi.
 
Chairman Kaga said:
In any of your guys' opinions, what would you say is the last truly great English dub of an anime? Not merely the last competent or even generally good dub, but Cowboy Bebop/Fullmetal Alchemist/Samurai Champloo/etc-tier dub? Did high VA standards for important anime go out the window with the mid-00s boom, or are there hidden gems relegated to DVD that few people are aware of? I'm honestly curious.
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Death Note and Ghost in the Shell are two some of the best English dub that came on TV, also FMA:B wasn't that bad either, but on DVD I'd say Baccano! was a good one. I haven't really heard any other anime in English Dub that could compare to those.
 
Baccano! and Black Lagoon had dubs on par with Champloo and Bebop imo, also the Ghibli movies seem to pretty high tier as well.
 
インフェルノの津波 said:
They're already at that point, huh...I wonder how long they'll wait for the manga to go along?
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Also, every Ghibli dub is perfect. Always better than the Japanese.
 
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Btw. I should totally finish watching Thriller Bark, I never even finished watching that specific arc. :P
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This One Piece show is DELICIOUS.
 
Only at episode 80, feels bad man.

Anyway, I shall be finishing C tonight if it doesn't cool down any time soon also re downloaded Haibane Renmei on my mums laptop so I can get back onto that. Hope they don't end up letting me down.
 
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