The first Gundam series I've ever seen, and the first Gundam dub I've ever heard, was at the time of its airing, lauded as being one of the best for anime. Some shows don't hold up as well as you might remember them. Principals: Mark Hildreth, Scott McNeil, Brad Swaile, Ted Cole, Kirby Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (TV), Endless Waltz (OVA) I like to think Animaze was too busy working on Cowboy Bebop to care about this show. Kirk Thorton tries his best to bring color to Anaval Gato, though, and there are a lot of great performances from VAs doing secondary characters, usually the old men in the show. Dorothy Elias-Fahn is a decent voice actress, but her Nina is unbearable, with her constant faltering in emotional moments. It's no wonder Paul Stephan has had so few roles since playing main character Kou Uraki, because his "acting", if you can call it that, accentuates the worst qualities of an already hard-to-like character.
It's not terrible by any means, but a few of the characters are entirely ruined by terrible dub VA performances. Unfortunately, as good as Animaze is, their dub of this particularly weak OVA is equally weak. Principals: Paul Stephan, Dorothy Elias-Fahn, Kirk Thornton, Richard Barnes My only concern is with the awful forced accents given to characters Garcia and Mischa and some of the wooden voice acting from extras. Wendee Lee fills in well for Megumi Hayashibara as Chris, sounding extremely breezy and soft. David Hayter of Metal Gear Solid fame plays Bernie with a frankness to him. She's perhaps not nearly as cutely endearing as the Japanese voice actor is in the role, but hardly falters. Brianne Siddall's Al is appropriate, and handles the most delicate and poignant moments in the show decently. While not nearly as good, their work on this short but sweet OVA about a little boy, a young man, and the tragedy of circumstances was quite good. Principals: Brianne Siddall, David Hayter, Wendee LeeĪnimaze is one of the best anime dubbing studios, and this was produced in the same year that their excellent Cowboy Bebop dub. With the bad voices and the script that takes too many liberties, this is a dub that's only good for a few chuckles, which pass quickly. SHAA), but it's hard to believe that in the same year he performed as Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop he put out this awkward performance. The only real charm of this particular dub is Steven Blum as Char Aznable (oh, sorry. While it may seem interesting to have Bright Noa speak with a British accent, it loses its novelty sometime during the first installment.
It sounds a lot more like an English dub that was made in the time the show first came out. It doesn't help that most of the voices are poorly cast and even more poorly performed. That is just one of the many annoying eccentricities of the English version of the trilogy of compilation movies for the first series. I sure do love GUN-DAM, don't you? I wish I could pilot GUN-DAM. Principals: Michael Lindsay, Steven Blum, Lia Sargent, Wheat St.
Getting burned a little isn't as bad as getting burned a lot, but it's still getting burned, isn't it? So let's take a look at some of the English dubs of Gundam, past and present. Still, at some point it doesn't matter the degree of bad, a bad dub is bad, and you want to avoid it like a blazing inferno. There are some stinkers, to be sure, but even the worst Gundam dub isn't the worst English dub I've ever heard. Most of them are at the least, tolerable. To be fair, I don't have a big problem with Gundam dubs. Whenever available, I've heard the English dub for every Gundam anime I've ever seen. I want to be sure that the voice actors who portray these roles, many of them iconic anime characters, do at least some justice and show the proper respect for them. Maybe because I'm the breed who, perhaps foolishly, watch Gundam for the plot(s), for the characters and themes, the presentation of the English versions of these show are important to me. I'll save that honor for the guys who can give you the exact specs of the engines of a Zaku II. And I'm not even the biggest Gundam geek. He doesn't know.) What are essentially elaborate (some more than others) robot toy commercials have so my anime fandom that I've forgotten what life was like before Gundam. Did I dream? Did I breathe? Now I have several DVDs of Gundam material and a mind filled with useless trivia. Don't even ask Yoshiyuki Tomino about that one. There isn't a group of animated programs that dominate the world of entertainment for me quite as much as the Gundam franchise. What started as a passing interest in Gundam Wing's hamfisted philosophical debates and cool mecha evolved into an obsession, much as man is meant to evolve into the Newtype.
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With the Audio:English series, PenguinTruth takes a critical look at the Englishĭubs which grace some of anime's most defining series in North America.