[thechat] MPG on VCD Player

[Ben Dyer]

On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 15:07 US/Central, William Anderson wrote:

> Luther, Ron wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> (2) Ben had a blues tune from 'Cowboy Bebop' up on his site a few 
>> weeks
>> ago - nice tune ... all the lyrics _in_ Japanese.  Very nice. [The TV
>> show gives the English translation as subtitles ... it's the closing
>> theme for the show.]
>
> /me hugs his 5 CDs worth of Cowboy Bebop mp3s ... ;)

5 CDs??  I mean I know there's a lot of music...  Are they at 230 Kbps 
or something?  I have about four and half ripped CDs worth of Bebop 
music and they don't quite fill up 1 CD (but I encode at a low rate).

Or do you have that all the music from that $100 music box set or 
something? :)

> Watch most anime on TV and you'll find that with few exceptions, the 
> title
> (and usually credits) music are subtitled - easier to throw some 
> captions
> onto the screen than hire musicians to sing over a
> probably-impossible-to-find clean version of the music ...

In most DVDs (especially ones put out by Bandai, ADV and Pioneer), the 
episodes alternate between the English translation ("I only want to 
know what true sadness is") and the Japanese Romaji Karaoke version 
("Honto no kanashimi ga shiritai dake").  For TV broadcast, they 
usually just pick the translated version and run it each time.

Occasionally, companies will hire musicians to rework the opening and 
ending themes into English.  Pioneer did this for years (Tenchi Muyo! 
and El-Hazard) and FUNimation does this now (Blue Gender and Yu Yu 
Hakusho).

--Ben

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