Dubbing already?

Jugatsu · Post by **Jugatsu** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:04 am

Eh, well I won't say much, but this site I would torrent Roots on stops distribution when an anime gets liscense in the US. I checked earlier and it said that the series was taken down because it was licsensed. Does this mean that they're making a dubbed version of Roots already? If anyone has any information, please share. ._.

Umbra · Post by **Umbra** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:25 am

It was announced that Bandai will be dubbing the series, which was pretty inevitable really. As for whether or not they've actually started remains to be seen, though I hope they have as it means there's a smaller waiting period before the dubbed version comes out.

Jugatsu · Post by **Jugatsu** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 8:15 am

Ah, I guess I'll scrounge around the Bandai site and see if I can find anything, thanks. If I see anything about them actually dubbing Roots I'll post it here.

Edit:Yeah I did some searching around, it's just as you said they've bought the rights to it and junk. I guess this means a dubbed version will be getting released pretty soon after all.

iuliathe3rd · Post by **iuliathe3rd** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:59 am

I saw the news about it on theOtaku.com; yeah, of course Bandai would get it, but I wouldn't worry too much about a bad dubbing. It's been getting better and better over the years. I just hope they don't take too long on it. XP

Mellow Grunty · Post by **Mellow Grunty** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:09 am

Aww, just when Shino got pwned. </3 I wanted to see Haseo go psycho, guess I have to wait till it's dubbed.

Light Kagutsuchi · Post by **Light Kagutsuchi** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:04 pm

The dub probably won't be out for a while, assuming they've even started on it yet. Although I'm sure it will still be subbed by someone until the series is completed.

Cruel Ruin · Post by **Cruel Ruin** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:22 pm

The subbing won't stop completely and if they did you can always get the raws somehow. Anyways I just hope the voice actors are good or else they will kill the series. ;_;

Jugatsu · Post by **Jugatsu** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:40 pm

Yeah, considering the Japanese voices match the characters very well, I'm hoping it doesn't get butchered when englishes voices are done. But I learned the reason most animes have girls with high pitched voices is because it's considered attractive in Japanese culture, or something along those lines. Because I learned that the high pitched voices are at least understandable. Hopefully they don't go over board much with it.

Anyways I hope it's at least done to the quality of Sign's voice acting. It wasn't as good as the japanese voice acting, but it wasn't bad either. In a worst case scenario I hope it's just something like that.

ajiko · Post by **ajiko** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:23 pm

I was reading through the panel reivews on ANN and ran across this little piece of information:

Next up was new news on the .hack series. Bandai has acquired the license to the 26-episode anime series .hack//Roots. This animation ties into the three upcoming .hack//G.U. Playstation 2 games. The series is being pushed for TV at the end of 2006 and DVD in 2007.

From http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/convention.php?id=331

I better remember that, I can't wait to see how things go for the English version. I always worry about the voices, but they'll probably do the best they can do. As Jugatsu said, I hope it will be of at least the same quality as Sign.

Kouen · Post by **Kouen** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:43 pm

The voice actor for Haseo did a good job in the japanese version(note: he also did Cloud in FF:AC and the games)Let's just hope they don't kill the series with horrible dubbing

Jugatsu · Post by **Jugatsu** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:23 pm

Kouen wrote:The voice actor for Haseo did a good job in the japanese version(note: he also did Cloud in FF:AC and the games)Let's just hope they don't kill the series with horrible dubbing

o.o I think both Haseo's and Cloud's Japanese voices were good. So yeah, it'll hard to top ._.;