memories. english audio ?

bum · Post by **bum** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 12:49 pm

i havent seen it yet. ive got a 3 hour physics test on thursday, had a maths test today. and ive gota watch now and then, and do a vid on it for and english assigment. and again with jin-roh for a religios studies assigment. so i havent realy had time to see it. only reason i get time on the net is because im too tired to watch anime or do anything productive.

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 1:16 pm

bum wrote:so i gues im the only one pissed of about buying an anime dvd which one would asume has english dub but for some fucking stupid and realy anoying raeson didnt ?

You should never assume that something is dubbed. I know of a number of sub-only anime DVDs, usually from companies that don't work with anime frequently. Memories and Tokyo Godfathers from Columbia Tri-Star, Millenium Actress from Dreamworks, and Miyuki-chan in Wonderland from ADV are the first few that jumped to mind, though I'm certain I'm forgetting many.

Foreign-language films from major distributors are very rarely dubbed, and are presented subtitled with audio only in their native language. Read the packaging before you buy it if you want to be sure of getting an English language track.

bum · Post by **bum** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 1:31 pm

ive bought over $500 of anime dvd's from the same place i bought this ( EB ) and never did i check to make sure that the dvd had an english dub. i just asumed they did and well, they did. but why the hell have german, italian and spanish dub's ?

Org Profile · Post by **LantisEscudo** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 2:07 pm

bum wrote:ive bought over $500 of anime dvd's from the same place i bought this ( EB ) and never did i check to make sure that the dvd had an english dub. i just asumed they did and well, they did. but why the hell have german, italian and spanish dub's ?

Because when it was licensed for release in Germany, Italy, and Spain (soon after its intial release in 1995, IIRC), the companies that licensed them recorded a language track for their area.

When it finally came to the US, Sony, CTS's parent company, apparently decided against adding a fifth language to the DVD for a movie nearly ten years old, also keeping in their policy on Dimension Line films of providing the movie in only its original format unless there extenuating circumstances. The already existing three dubs of the film could be considered those circumstances, and included for completeness.

Harlock7876 · Post by **Harlock7876** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:48 pm

You also have to consider that maybe Sony didn't want to pay the money for English speaking voice actors. I believe this movie made a run in theaters, but that's always few and far between. These things only make small amounts of money running in art-house theaters here and there. How do you make a profit off films like this? Cut costs, like voice actors and everything else involved in making a dub.
When I bought this I too thought it was dubbed. I assumed. Never assume, it makes an ASS out of U and ME. Since I'm flexible I didn't bitch and whine that it was only subbed. I had seen it before it was released and was really curious about the English voice actors, but low and behold no English track.

Kajino Rei · Post by **Kajino Rei** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:27 pm

I’m actually sorry to hear you have so much work bum. College, right? Don’t worry in two days I’ll join you in the “I have no life but this and that class” mode of living.

Love the ASSUME joke I actually wrote about it in my journal earlier.
Besides loss of profit like Harlock7876 said another reason why some anime DVDs have Spanish dubs is the huge market range. You do one dubbing that reaches over 20 countries and billions of people.
Money talks as we all know.
For the German and Italian dubs...you got me.

bum · Post by **bum** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:28 am

yes but still if spanish can reach millions of people then how many more could english reach ?

oh and, im still in high school. colege is next year.

Kajino Rei · Post by **Kajino Rei** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:29 pm

bum

yes but still if spanish can reach millions of people then how many more could english reach ?

Only a handful of countries (and I do mean handful) have the English language as their main one whereas Spanish has over 21+. Yes, English may be one of the principal languages right along with Spanish and Chinese but it's not big of a deal. Most people learn English primarily for business purposes.
That said other languages have a wider marketing/business range.

Damn that was a long explanation, oh well, had to learn something in business school.

oh and, im still in high school. colege is next year.

Then you don't know real pain yet.

*laughs maniacally*

Wheee_It's_Me! · Post by **Wheee_It's_Me!** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:44 pm

I think the point is that English is the biggest money maker if you can market your stuff just right. As you said, English is the primary spoken language in the business world because we are one of the richest nations in the world. The almighty dollar reigns supreme and with it the English language. Last I checked Americans were spending about $8 or $9 bucks per person to go see a movie in the theaters (not inlcuding snacks), I doubt any country in the world comes anywhere even fucking close to spending that much.

The bottom line is that there might be more Spanish speaking people on the planet, but they don't have near as much MONEY as all the English speaking people do.

Kajino Rei · Post by **Kajino Rei** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:59 pm

Wheee_It's_Me! wrote:

As you said, English is the primary spoken language in the business world because we are one of the richest nations in the world.

I didn't say THAT!!
I said it's one of the primary languages, since the are five of them but I always forget the other two. Yes the USA is one of the richest , as for the USA being the richest nation. Not so, Japan is at number one.
*Please check recent business periodicals*
That is of course taking into account the national debt versus the national budget.
The US dollar isn't what it used to be and will probably never be again.

Plus the buying power of places with other primary speaking languages is still a lot, a whole lot.
It's a World Economy after all.