/a/ - Animu & Mango

By utilizing an IP nobody cared for in the first place.

>>752134

If I recall it did bad in Japan so they really didn’t care who dubbed it

>>752134

Wasn't this one of those situations where the publisher sells a portfolio of distributions rights and the buyer is obliged to distribute all the material? So like they get whatever the hotcakes franchise is and dump all the money into it and the leftovers get done by some guys paid on a salary of beer and sandwiches.

Or was that something else entirely?

>>752134

Is it fun enough to watch both versions?

>>752147

Not really.

>>752147

The original is such a pathetic sack of boring shit that they gag-dubbed it because they couldn't find anyone that wanted to dedicate the time and/money to actually making the real story.

I remember the Brazilian dub being actually really good.

>>752159

It was an excellent decision in every way. Had some average dubbing company tackled it, Ghost Stories would have be long since forgotten. As it is? The show endures, even if it has nothing to do with the original creators.

>>752162

>The year 2000

I watched the original subtitled and I really liked it as a kid. Some parts were legitimately spooky, and the opening was very catchy. Years later found out about the dub. It's full of normalfag humor, but then every abridged series is.

I decided once to give it a go based on how the compilations from it were, but almost everything worth seeing from that dub could be found in the 10-ish minute compilations. Most of the rest of the 'comedy' moments were pop culture references that aged like milk along with (mostly mediocre) gags forced into the available speaking time, with basically no regard for timing or anything else. Most of the rest isn't even ad-lib gags or anything like that, they just vaguely follow what seems like the actual narrative at around the usual level of dubbing quality at the time (so, shit). I haven't particularly felt like watching the original (and I assume most people who care about the dub have just written off the original), but it'd be hard to imagine that it'd be bad enough to fail to a dub that only justifies its existence with 10-15 minutes of footage.

>>752180

>Actually watched the original way back in the day as a teenager with no standards and liked it. I liked pretty much everything (and just watched random shit for no reason), though, unless it was ridiculously dull. Maybe I should watch it again and see if it's really that bad.

If I remember correctly, it was just dull. Not so much "bad" as just failing to be interesting in anyway. But if you're a weeaboo faggot, the sheer fact that you're getting to view another culture's views on hauntings and what not would probably carry it for you.

>>752166

>>752147

The original was reasonable, if somewhat bland. If you have a preference towards ghosts and the like it's enjoyable, it's definitely not a pure-trash kind of mediocrity but it really isn't anything more than 'ok' either.

If it weren't for the pure novelty of the dubbing work making it stand out based on the uncommon nature of the combination of the particular gag humour and the animation, (i.e. if there were more competition in the field of western 'adult' humour anime to compare it with) I would rate the original better, but with the sheer amount of played-straight anime that exists it's hard to say that the original has a higher entertainment value.

>>752185

>But if you're a weeaboo faggot, the sheer fact that you're getting to view another culture's views on hauntings and what not would probably carry it for you.

Probably the reason why it looked neat at the time. It was just weird enough for me to enjoy it.

Never watched the American dub other than a few scenes, but it doesn't seem to be my kind of thing.

>>752134

There's a comprehensive breakdown of it floating around on youtube. I think Censored Gaming? I don't know.

But basically: Ghost Stories was attempting to capitalize on a popular children's fad (Spooky Scary Japanese Folk Tales), however by the time it came out that fad had already become passe, and the show was a flop.

So when they brought it over to the west, the had such low expectations that they just told the localization writers and voice actors to just do whatever the fuck they wanted. Burn everything, and if you're lucky you might be able to scrap up a profit.

>>752147

Watch the dub with official subtitles. That way you can read the actual dialogue while hearing the dub.

>>752198

Doing that ruined Outlaw Star for me. At least, I think it did. I'll never know now if I just didn't like it or not.

>>752134

>How did they get away with it?

They didn't at first and got shat on by the usual crowd.

They got away with is because they were explicity told to do whatever they want because nobody gave a shit about the show

>>752223

I remember a bill or something that was floating around at one point showing that they sold it to the American studio for like $10,000 with all rights on an English dub. Maybe I'm crazy, but you don't do that if a show is successful, and most of the older dubs were a result of Japan passing off their shit that didn't sell well (or subs that did well enough that they thought they could milk it for money in the west via dubs), hence why the dub industry has always been shitty.

>>752166

In terms of Abridged Series I think its superior to a majority of them

>>752264

Maybe it isn't as funny overall, but abridged series have the bonus of being able to edit out shit that sin't useful for jokes.

>>752134

Because it was an anime no one cared about or was asking for. The dub company was only contracted to dub it and told before hand it would sell like hot garbage so the quality of the dub didn't matter to any parties involved. The VAs were then given a bare bones script and told to ad lib quiet often.

This was also a time where anime was still incredibly niche so "if you made a gag dub and no one watched it did it ever happen" was probably their idea. Let's be honest we only care about it now because of the gag dub so in a way it was a success.

>>752245

But it did give us Dan Green voicing the MC in Bible Black.

>>752292

Cluck like a chicken.

I remember kids liking anime as early as 1994, but it was just seen as any other kind of cartoon, just generally liked a little more because it had fighting and shit that was better than western stuff.

>>752223

Yeah from what I've heard it got reruns in japan so there's limits to how crappy it could have been. Anyone happen to have a bunch of decades old translated japanese tv schedules lyng around?