wwwwhhhhoooo

But of course. 😉 In the meantime:

I only bet if it’s a sure thing 😉

Sadly, Arise is one for me personally–not unlike Roberta’s Blood Trail–that I’ll likely end up waiting to watch dubbed because like RBT to Black Lagoon, I loved the dub of Ghost in the Shell so for verisimilitude’s sake I don’t think I want to “spoil” it for myself ahead of time (a part of me lamented not having seen RBT sooner, but overall I’m glad I waited).

Interesting move on FUNi’s part…very interesting…first time they’ve ever released a “sub only” for a title they’ve acquired. I think it’s a good idea this go around, but it’s strange, I don’t know how I feel about it if they should decide to do this more often: on the one hand, I think they (or someone) ought to do this more to make series like Kaji more accessible to non-Japanese viewers; on the other hand, if this was FUNimation doing it, it would be for a title they have the licensing rights to, which undoubtedly means they’d want to dub it, and as much as I love dubs, I don’t know if it’s always achievable or desirable–especially, in the case of the aforementioned example, by FUNimation (no offense).

Even though it would seem at first to be not in their best interest, and certainly against the grain of what they’d normally do, perhaps FUNi should consider, for certain titles–titles they nor anyone else has dubbed–acquiring the rights simply to make a subbed version available to consumers in a collectible disc format without dubbing it (generally speaking I mean, I’m not against Arise being dubbed). Guess we’ll see how well this first disc set sells.

u & me, we talk later, yes? 😉

Indeed, indeed, Crispin Freeman is in the dub. I should have read this thread a long time ago, before I obtained my dvd copy at Otakon…

http://tenchiforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&p=19514#p19514” class=”bbcode_url”>http://tenchiforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&p=19514#p19514

…but I digress

Interestingly enough, ML, I found on my dvd copy the exact opposite of your particular source with regards to the dub version toning down Photon’s age (not bashing or saying you were wrong, this is just what was on my dvd I watched recently). They “up-play” (opposite of downplay? lol) his age precisely because of the nudity. As stated by shades, Photon is certainly very young; not knowing his precise age, I would have pegged him as even younger, say like Son Goku in Dragonball aged (then again, I guess I don’t know his precise age, either), but 15 is a good guess. But the point is even 15 was too young for the English version distributors, so to play it safe, in a seemingly last-ditch effort to make it less appalling to conservative-natured folks, they put a disclaimer before the video starts that says something to the effect of “all characters in this production are at least 18 (or maybe 19, can’t remember) years of age” & blah blah nudity, blah blah.

Even though, of course, the few times Photon is in the buff, the context is non-sexual, I can see why (especially in the nineties) production people would want to play it extra safe (but Photon being 18/19 yrs? That’s just incorrect, imo, and I’m guessing centralparkmedia knew that but “fibbed” anyway).

Now, for folks who haven’t seen it, there are some scandalous scenes, but they’re of the whimsical, typical anime fan-service type, nothing more “egregious” than in Tenchi. I’ll probably say more later, but it’s great, see it.

Oh, and just so I can add my own little patch to the quilt of funny “well how about that?” ‘s that ML and Makoto started: I happen to buy both Photon and School Rumble at Otakon, two (unrelated) series I love. I particularly love the intro to School Rumble, “Scramble” which is sung by Yui Horie…who also voices Aun in Photon! Small world & all that, eh?

p.s. Soundmonkey… $14.49? FFFFemo (jk, lucky!) 😉