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random_pickle said:
I don't watch too much anime, but I'm a huge fan of the anime Detective Conan. It's about a teenage detective that had a run in with two assassins. He was defeated and force-fed a poison that was supposed to kill him. Somehow it doesn't kill him, instead, it reverts him to the physical age of an elementary school kid. Living with his childhood friend and her bumbling detective dad, he has to track down the assassins and take them down. While doing that, he also helps solve murders, thefts and other shit.

Unfortunately, not only did Funimation cancel the English dub, they also threatened to sue a group that was fansubbing the remaining episodes. The dub stopped at episode 90 while the show is actually still continuing past the 700's.

I've always have been a mystery-nut, and it's hard to find any mystery genre anime out there.
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WanderingVagabond said:
Funimation can go fuck themselves after reading this.
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Well Pickle, I don't know if you'll ever read this but you should check out Conan's rival series "Kindaichi". The anime might not be the best representation because they have to cut down on details so the episodes fit but good luck finding a proper scanslation.
 
Bound2 said:
I think Funimation now tries to dub one on-ongoing show per season. Last season, it was that three brothers prison show.
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IMO, Funi has gone down the drain these past few years. The quality of their dubs is becoming notably worse, and they keep reusing the same VAs. There's also how, in the case of both Free! and Tokyo Ghoul, they're dubbing the second seasons first for some reason (I know it's been explained before, but I'm too lazy to look it up). What makes this more stupid is how Tokyo Ghoul's second season hasn't even finished airing yet.

Which is a shame, because their dub of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist is my favorite of all time.
 
Right now, I'm reading Silver Spoon. A manga created by Hiromu Arakawa, the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist.

It's a fun read so far. What got me interested in this was that it took place in a high school with an agricultural focus and the author has mentioned a few times about how she grew up on a dairy farm.

R.A.E.L. said:
IMO, Funi has gone down the drain these past few years. The quality of their dubs is becoming notably worse, and they keep reusing the same VAs. There's also how, in the case of both Free! and Tokyo Ghoul, they're dubbing the second seasons first for some reason (I know it's been explained before, but I'm too lazy to look it up). What makes this more stupid is how Tokyo Ghoul's second season hasn't even finished airing yet.

Which is a shame, because their dub of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist is my favorite of all time.
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Yeah, I loved the dub for 2003 FMA. And I was happy to see they got most of the old cast back for Brotherhood. (Minus Alphonse and Scar. The former for obvious reasons)
 
I never paid much attention to Funi's stuff. My main beef with them is with Tatami Galaxy and Ping Pong, two great series that will probably never get a physical release and will remain buried on Funi's website.

That said, go watch Tatami Galaxy and Ping Pong.
 
All, I'm just going to put a little rant here. I love anime. I should post pictures of my bookcase that is tripled stacked full with anime and that only holds a small portion of my collection. My wife and I watch it together which is equally awesome. Anyway, I like a good dub when it's good but she won't watch subs. Subs are fine with me. I don't care.

What's pissing me off is Funimation. The recycled voice actors are all talentless nobodies who sound like ass. I am tired of hearing the same people over and over. It makes me want to watch subs and buy all of Section 23's obscure crap (at very unreasonable prices.)

Sorry for this blast of my opinion. My Japanese friend is a major 30-something year old Otaku and he feels the same way about all of anime in Japan, so I guess I am not alone. Actually there is one voice actress whose name I don't know but she did the voice of Zoe Hange (crazy titan otaku) and he will rfuse to watch any show with her in it and will buy the US release and watch it in English.
 
I don't really have a big problem with Funimation, but yeah they've been going down the shitter in recent years. As a whole (or at the very least, years back), their voice direction is good, but recycling the same voice actors is without a doubt their biggest problem. Do you know Kent Williams, the voice of Father from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood? Perhaps you better know him as Sid from Soul Eater? Or Admiral Perry from Space Dandy? Or Turkey from Hetalia? Or Jura from Fairy Tail? Or Dr. Gero from Dragon Ball Z?

Now Kent Williams is just an example of a recycled voice that I actually like, Funimation hires PLENTY of shit ones like Bryce Papenbrook who you may remember as being the bland voice of that asshole named Kirito from Sword Art Online.

It just sucks because when Funimation actually has someone new voicing in a dub, a lot of times they're absolutely terrible, they just hate taking a risk like that and stick with more well-known ones. Basically it's a Catch-22, you either:
A. Play it safe and stick with VAs you know and lose the interest of your audience.

or B. Find someone new and take the risk of him/her being terrible
 
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My main problem with these recycled voice actors is that they have such a limited range. Take Christopher Sabat, who did practically half the characters of Dragon Ball Z, and compare him to Todd Haberkorn.

This is also one of the issues I have with the Viz dub of Sailor Moon. Michelle Ruff's Luna is literally just her Rukia voice from Bleach. This isn't always a bad thing, but for some VAs, it's really jarring.
 
My problem with most animes i've experienced is that they have slow or awkward pacing. Are there any that are more free flowing, or ones that I can watch in any order?
 
On the topic of recycling voice actors, I've noticed this in almost every anime dub (and cartoon) made over the past 20 or so years (if not even older). Now I'm not saying it's always a bad thing. But for companies like Funimation, 4Kids or Ocean Group (but especially Funi), it can get very annoying after a while.
 
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Johnny Yong Bosch has two voices and both are the main character of tales of symphonia 2. That game was a huge letdown anyway.
 
SEED Destiny is going to kill me. I don't think I've ever seen such a horrible anime. It's making the bad parts of SEED look good. I'd gladly buy a copy of SEED at this point while turning my adblock back on while watching Destiny on the official Gundam youtube channel.
 
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HipstrsGonnaHip said:
You have no one to blame but yourself.
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Everyone said the first part of Destiny was fine and it was only the endgame that shat on everything. I didn't even get that first part.

When fake-Kira descended on Alaska with the Freedom spouting out the bullshit of one Lacus Clyne, that's where SEED started to really piss me off. That's the point where the moral ambiguity was shown the door and we got cartoony bad guys. Until then I had liked SEED, moreso than the original Mobile Suit Gundam (which is my third favorite of the shows I've finished, after Zeta and 00. It's just charming in it's own way). But that happened 3/4s of the way in, and people kept saying Destiny was good until Kira steals the show.

But it's not. It's just not. It's going into my face and saying "How dare you call SEED too cartoony! I'll show you cartoony. Fuck ambiguity, people will be overtly evil but no one will do a thing about it. And we'll show you what the character is thinking about, to really drive things home. Oh, those complaints you had about how ORB sounds too perfect? It's our ideal Japan, it should be run like that. You want it to be realistically affected by the war? Fuck the rest of the world, ORB's ways are best."

SEED had a simplistic message about acceptance. Hypocritical considering how all the good guys have some sort of superior gene, but it was still inoffensive. Destiny is about xenophobia and throwing off the influence of foreign nations that corrupt the country's youth.
 
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