[thechat] MPG on VCD Player

[Ben Dyer]

On Tuesday, Aug 12, 2003, at 17:17 US/Central, William Anderson wrote:
>> Or do you have that all the music from that $100 music box set or
>> something? :)
>
> how did I know that Ben would pipe up at this point?  :)

Maybe because I'm not really knowledgable in anything else ever 
discussed here, it seems... :)  Discussions about vodka?  Toilets?  
Beer Nuts?  Guitars?  VCDs?  Sorry, don't know crap.

> Yes, box set, baby - no way could I fill 5 CDs with *actual* mp3s from 
> Bebop, I did of course mean 5CDs ripped to mp3 :)

Aha.  Then we're probably about equal in that regard (I have about half 
of the other CDs and the rest in MP3 only format).  I wish I had that 
box set, though.

>> 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).
>
> Yeah, it's nice when they cba spending the time/money to do it, but i
> suspect there's deep resentment of such a process by true otaku :)

Indeed there is.  I generally don't have a problem if it sounds okay, 
but Pioneer was the only company that ever bothered to really make it 
sound right.  There are still *still* (after eleven years) complaints 
in the anime community about Pioneer redubbing the second opening theme 
to Tenchi Muyo!, Boku wa Motto Pioneer (I am a Pioneer), even though 
the dubbed version is actually superior to the original.  However, 
that's the only dubbed song where I feel that's the case.

Pioneer did a good job with redubbing songs, FUNimation did not.  None 
of the other companies usually even try.

What's even weirder are shows with lots of in-show music like Chance 
Pop Sessions or Nadesico.  Most companies don't bother with the effort 
of dubbing them, so suddenly the English-language track carries the 
Japanese-language song.  It's kind of jolting to switch like that.

--Ben

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