a FUCKING men. The Media Blasters dub was localized quite well for its time but the earlier “Samurai X” Sony dub was bad and the new “Kyoto Arc” that was done by Sentai is absolute (sorry David) GARBAGE.
I don't mean to harsh on the dubbers for Reflections and New Kyoto, but when compared to Media Blasters, it sounds almost amateurish. The voice actors sound like they slur their execution as if the animation cannot keep up with them or something. If there's anything for them to improve on, it's their pacing.
Gunsmith Cats is a relic of the early 90's and has faded into obscurity.
Them's fightin' words. Gunsmith Cats had word of a reboot two years ago for Riding Bean.
@Captain Manning, I can amicably say that we can agree to disagree on voice acting, because as much as I like anime, again, my experience comes mostly from video games akin to a 55%-60% video game / 40%-45% anime and manga ratio give or take. Like, I'm glad it's improved on one upside, but as
@Jelly Duvall can attest, the talent pool's been typecast and receded a bit after the 2000s. I never touched Robotech either, so I don't know entirely the mess that Carl Macek made other than through study and vicarious eyewitness, but I guess I can pinpoint my love for older dubs on a strange mix of hearing middling voice actors sound like people and the better ones having unique acts for characters that we've never heard before otherwise on typical TV, while given the impression that grassroots attempts to get anime in was a persistent effort with an almost community like collaboration going on behind the scenes. I guess I can say that I liked the feeling that there was a hustle going on behind the scenes and that there was something artistic going on, that being voice acting. I know when professionalism is needed, but it was that chaos and frontier journeying that make it all so exciting, like we were witnessing how anime was getting to be big out west in its own way, like going to the moon or settling planets or new lands and stuff like that. There's also something about the whole inspiration gets people to make their own anime stuff thing going on, but I can't exactly sperg on about that regarding this though. It was just great to see alternative sourced entertainment for what it was, is what I believe I am trying to say.
You're still a swell guy, and I know well that the past wasn't exactly all it was cracked up to be, but I suppose it's in my nature that I love this kind of stuff.
