That said, dubs still have inferior voice acting to subs outside the 2000s Renaissance and monkey's paws like Digimon Tri and Sword Art Online. I'm a madman who values good voice acting more than "respecting the source material", if only because my nostalgia is tied to badly dubbed "Buy these fuckin' toys" anime. I'm glad dubs got past The Next Shadow Dimension, but phoned in voice acting just makes me want to watch with subtitles anyways.
No disrespect intended but you are wrong on the most fundamental level. You fire the person responsible for the problem, then if the problem is great enough, you fire EVERYONE who had a hand in it because if you don't, your bottom line will just keep dropping. I have seen and taken part in that scenario and witnessed the results first hand. Idiots do not increase profit. They cost a company financially, in morale, reputation and standing in their circles. And they tend to be repeat offenders.
Fair enough. Shit like the dub of FMA: Brotherhood are really rarities and it’s not like watching subs (official or fan) is some duty that anime fans are called to do anymore, especially since with stuff like DVDs and even Crunchyroll despite all the shit that gets.
I have a pretty fair collection ranging from the 80s to mid 2000s and I must have low standards because most are at worst, OK. Some are great (IMO) but truly bad? No, not really.
. But yeah, Japan doesn't give a shit.)
Don't you know that reputations are always based on what random third parties who are in no way shape or form related to you do or say?
Using Vic as example, when you're successful and popular you can get people to show up to cons and pay you for your time to relive the glory days, but in the end, there's no anime voice equivalent for 90s Hollywood "a-listers", by which I mean people who will literally mean the potential difference between a blockbuster hit or a flop. At best, a big name voice actor might mean the difference between a title breaking even or barely losing money, but that's a space of maybe a few hundred to a couple thousand dollars. There's potential of funi losing hundreds of times that in this lawsuit. In other words, if funi has to pay 6+ figures in settlement/judgement, there's not anyone on the roster that's worth that. At best, they'd do what they should've done with Vic and keep em until current roles are done and never hire them for new work.
Granted, we're in a totally different place today compared to when this case started, but under the law, they could have made it all go away just by issuing a retraction at the start. Under the law, a legal "oops, my bad" could've at least gotten rid of any defamation claims. With that in mind, I don't see a public apology on the horizon. (great if he can get one, but definitely a "believe it when I see it" kind of thing)
Always been a subs over dubs guy. Only heard about this stuff because of Nick
Yes, someone said pages back that VAs give life to the character. No, they don't, because those characters were already brought to life by the seiyuu. It's not unheard of for characters to be written with specific seiyuu in mind (I believe Inuyasha was specifically written for Yamaguchi Kappei). Meanwhile, localization teams aren't even an afterthought of the creators. Can you imagine an English cartoonist writing something that's intended for the Spanish performance? Because that's what we'd be talking about.
