Dub lines

Umino · Post by **Umino** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:49 pm

Sorry if this sounds rude, but have you ever watched a ADV dub? They add ALOT of swearing. And Steel Angel Kurumi itself had tons of cursing. They even said 'Pus-y' in the first episode.

EDIT:

Sorry about the double post.

Post by **Tiff** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 8:14 pm

Umino wrote:Sorry if this sounds rude, but have you ever watched a ADV dub? They add ALOT of swearing. And Steel Angel Kurumi itself had tons of cursing. They even said 'Pus-y' in the first episode.

EDIT:

Sorry about the double post.

Yes, I have, and i've never heard words like that. Especially "dyke" and "fucking". Ah, well, if you say they're in there, then whatever. I'm not going to get into a huge thing abuot it.

Dinozore · Post by **Dinozore** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 3:12 am

I could definitely see the f-word being used. It popped up at least two or three times that I can recall in the Excel Saga dub.

Post by **Tiff** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 4:40 pm

Dinozore wrote:I could definitely see the f-word being used. It popped up at least two or three times that I can recall in the Excel Saga dub.

*shrug* I guess I just wouldn't know becuase I don't want a whole lot of dubs; rather, I don't really watch them at all anymore unless i have to, which isn't often.

EmperorBrandon · Post by **EmperorBrandon** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 7:27 pm

Steel Angel Kurumi is a dub directed and written by Steven Foster, who's known for massive script changes from the original and added profanity (even more than with other ADV dubs). I've heard Saiyuki (another dub that was written by him), and it definitely sticks out.

Parallax · Post by **Parallax** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 1:30 pm

One of my favorite lines is from "The Transformers: The Movie" "One shall stand, one shall fall." Another is the one I'm using for my tagline. "Oh yeah. Someone is definitely tired of breating." Another good one is "You can go back and play with your toy rocket. Me? I'm gonna stick around and feed this geek all 31 different flavors of pain!" (Superman ep "The Main Man", Part Two.)

Post by **Tiff** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 7:51 pm

Parallax wrote:One of my favorite lines is from "The Transformers: The Movie" "One shall stand, one shall fall." Another is the one I'm using for my tagline. "Oh yeah. Someone is definitely tired of breating." Another good one is "You can go back and play with your toy rocket. Me? I'm gonna stick around and feed this geek all 31 different flavors of pain!" (Superman ep "The Main Man", Part Two.)

I don't believe Superman is an anime, is it?

Sailor Sapphire · Post by **Sailor Sapphire** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:11 pm

May I also contribute Team Rocket's 'to protect the world from devestation' routine from Pokemon?

Not to mention the OTHER famous Team Rocket dub line: "Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off AGAAAAAAAINNN!!!!....*ping*"

DuoTheShinigami02 · Post by **DuoTheShinigami02** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:29 pm

While we're on the topic of Pokemon, here's one from the Advanced Generation:

May: Torchic, amber!

(A mushroom zooms across the screen)

Max: Don't you mean Ember?

May: Sorry. Torchic, Ember!

And who could ever forget the immortal "Look, I can see their parachutes! They're okay!" line that Tien said in DBZ?

yoshmaster5 · Post by **yoshmaster5** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:32 pm

oh god, the DBZ dub...

"I'll help you go... to another dimension!"

dear god... can't they just say DEATH IN THIS???

Vagabond · Post by **Vagabond** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 3:13 am

oh god, the DBZ dub...

"I'll help you go... to another dimension!"

dear god... can't they just say DEATH IN THIS???

Oh man, that's almost as bad as the Yu-go-oh dub's "Shadow Realm" crap. They use it even when it defies all logic.

"These 'psychic saw blades' will go through you... and send you to the shadow realm if you lose!"
"If you lose the floor below you open up and you will fall... to the shadow realm!"

Honestly though, almost all of the talk right before (and many times during) a duel is total nonsense. I don't know if this is the case in the original Japanese version, but about two-thirds of the talk in the dub is just the characters repeating themselves.

"I shall fight you!"
"And fight you I shall!"
"We shall fight in my stadium."
"Is that your stadium?"
"Yes that is my stadium."

...And on and on for 10 more goddamn minutes before they make their first freakin' move.

Rinse and repeat for 3 more episodes and you basically have the entire dialogue for the duel.

DistantMemory · Post by **DistantMemory** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:13 pm

Once again, I shall contribute:

Shut your hole! ~Ferio speaking to Fuu, Magic Knight Rayearth (again, that was an outtake XD)

Neo Dead Moon · Post by **Neo Dead Moon** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 9:08 pm

DistantMemory wrote:Once again, I shall contribute:

Shut your hole! ~Ferio speaking to Fuu, Magic Knight Rayearth (again, that was an outtake XD)

Another humorous line from dub Ferio: "You've got to believe.....IN YOURSELF!!" It's somewhere in episode four. Man, did I get strong PaRappa the Rappa vibes from that.

Post by **Tiff** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 10:50 pm

Vagabond wrote: Honestly though, almost all of the talk right before (and many times during) a duel is total nonsense. I don't know if this is the case in the original Japanese version, but about two-thirds of the talk in the dub is just the characters repeating themselves.

"I shall fight you!"
"And fight you I shall!"
"We shall fight in my stadium."
"Is that your stadium?"
"Yes that is my stadium."

...

same with DBZ:
"Now I shall show you my ultimate power!"
"No! I shall show YOU my ultimate power!"
"Your power is not as strong as mine!"
"Ah, but what you don't know is that i've been training, so my power is superior to yours!"
"GASP"
"GASP"
*1/2 hour later*
"Now I shall send you to another dimension!"
"No! I will not let you send me to another dimension!"
"*GLARE*"
"*GLARE*"
Narrator: What will happent o Goku?! Will he be sent to another dimension? FIND OUT NEXT TIME.

Me: *ripping hair out*

Vagabond · Post by **Vagabond** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 1:19 am

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Vagabond wrote:

Honestly though, almost all of the talk right before (and many times during) a duel is total nonsense. I don't know if this is the case in the original Japanese version, but about two-thirds of the talk in the dub is just the characters repeating themselves.

"I shall fight you!"
"And fight you I shall!"
"We shall fight in my stadium."
"Is that your stadium?"
"Yes that is my stadium."

...

same with DBZ:
"Now I shall show you my ultimate power!"
"No! I shall show YOU my ultimate power!"
"Your power is not as strong as mine!"
"Ah, but what you don't know is that i've been training, so my power is superior to yours!"
"GASP"
"GASP"
*1/2 hour later*
"Now I shall send you to another dimension!"
"No! I will not let you send me to another dimension!"
"*GLARE*"
"*GLARE*"
Narrator: What will happent o Goku?! Will he be sent to another dimension? FIND OUT NEXT TIME.

Me: *ripping hair out*

Ahhh... memories. I used to love DBZ. I would make bets with my friends on how long a fight between two guys can take. 4, 10, 20 episodes? Thats why I preferred the movies, at least the attacks land within the same minute.

I don't know if this counts, but the dubbed attack names for Digimon really cracked me up. They seemed to slap together an attack with some random attribute to the characters.

"Harpoon Torpedo of Reliability!"
"Drill of Knowledge!"
"Vine Whip of Sincerity!"

I imagine those would rank as some of the lamest attack names ever...

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:04 am

I thought of two for Ranma 1/2. In the episode about the little girl who battles using toys, the guys at the beginning are trying to get kids interested in playing again. On the original, the kids say they have to leave for cram school. In the dub, the kids say that they're going to watch Pokemon. I thought it was interesting (and appropriate) that the show they mentioned on the dub was a JAPANESE show...even if it was a slight Americanization, at least they didn't say something like "The Simpsons."

The other is small. In the dub, at one point (the first Ling-Ling and Lung-Lung episode) Shampoo calls Ranma a "sexy pig" instead of "sexist pig." I don't think she says something like that in the original...but I thought it was funny that she accidentally sort of COMPLIMENTED Ranma!

Cardcaptor Takato · Post by **Cardcaptor Takato** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:08 am

Here's some suggestive dialog from Robotech courtesy of Harmony Gold USA:

Rick: Look, it's Minmay and her cousin Lynn Kyle going into a hotel TOGETHER.

Lisa: Well, he is her cousin and she probably cares deeply for him. It's natural for cousins to show affection for each other and be close.

Rick: Yeah, but it almost seems like they're TOO close.

And this is supposed to be an edited dub...