Dubbed MUSIC
Sep. 13th, 2010 03:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spottoUsually if an anime is translated over to the Western world to be dubbed and they drop the original music, I will hate it. Hate it hard.
Beyblade is an awesome exception. I don't know any anime that replaces the instrumental music with awesome rock/metal/pop/etc. music from actual and different bands! That's what the JAPANESE DO FOR THEIR OPs! (Unless they make the voice actors in the anime itself sing it :P) Seriously, stuff like Underdog, Switchblade, Swing Low, etc. are REALLY catchy and really fit what's going on during the action. Unless the dubbing cut nine million things out of the original (I'm looking at you, Sailor Moon!) I will usually like the dub. If they remove the music? Who cares if the dub has amazing voices, YOU REMOVED THE MUSIC FOR AWFUL SHIT.
Unless you can do what Beyblade did. (Digimon for example replaced its epic music with CRAP. UTTER CRAP. Replacing Brave Heart!? PUTTING CHIPPER MUSIC DURING THE LAST EPISODE OF ADVENTURE WHEN THE KIDS HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE TO THEIR DIGIMON!?
I remember an edited special version of "Butterfly" playing then, and I really did cry during the original...the dub, not so much. Also Butterfly, Target, and Biggest Dreamer >>>>>>>>>> DIGIMON DIGITAL MONSTERS DIGIMON ARE THE CHAMPIONS DIDIDIDIDIGIMON x3!!! (despite being somewhat catchy) )
I thought I'd give the PPGZ dub a chance...people were already saying the original Powerpuff Girls was ruined when turned into an anime...isn't it ironic when translated back to its original language it's even worse? I'm not saying the voices are that bad (numerous grate on my ears though) or even what they decided to cut or change or anything! IT'S THE MUSIC! The PPGZ dub OP is SO bad a person using WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER for the VERY first time could do better than that! And the music is so uninspiring and just plain crap. Blah. That's what ruined that dub for me.
Luckily there are some anime retaining its music, particularly anything licensed by Funimation (but what do I know, I only watched like, Negima from it) unfortunately there are still dubbing companies out there (IS 4KIDS DEAD? I THOUGHT IT WAS. Yet I saw this 4kids block on Saturday Morning TV!? WHY ISN'T THIS HORRIBLE ATROCIOUS DUBBING COMPANY FROM THE DEVIL GONE!?) that are willing to do ridiculous things like kill the music. The company that dubbed PPGZ was the same one that did Inuyasha, which I thought wasn't bad, but they did not live up to expectations like Inuyasha, sigh.
I think that's pretty much why Beyblade actually did get popular during its time, besides the whole spinning toy gimmick. It had pretty awesome music, you had to admit. Maybe not the opening (which was still catchy anyway) but the music during episodes especially rocked. I would definitely buy an English OST CD of it if it exists. And no that doesn't mean the original music was bad either, the original music was pretty intense instrumentals composed by the same person who did the Death Note OST, and you can't beat that! But if they had to change it, they changed it right and I had catchy, amazing music in my childhood TV shows.
EXAMPLE!
Yes I did choose Underdog because Rei's picture is on it. :D
Beyblade is an awesome exception. I don't know any anime that replaces the instrumental music with awesome rock/metal/pop/etc. music from actual and different bands! That's what the JAPANESE DO FOR THEIR OPs! (Unless they make the voice actors in the anime itself sing it :P) Seriously, stuff like Underdog, Switchblade, Swing Low, etc. are REALLY catchy and really fit what's going on during the action. Unless the dubbing cut nine million things out of the original (I'm looking at you, Sailor Moon!) I will usually like the dub. If they remove the music? Who cares if the dub has amazing voices, YOU REMOVED THE MUSIC FOR AWFUL SHIT.
Unless you can do what Beyblade did. (Digimon for example replaced its epic music with CRAP. UTTER CRAP. Replacing Brave Heart!? PUTTING CHIPPER MUSIC DURING THE LAST EPISODE OF ADVENTURE WHEN THE KIDS HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE TO THEIR DIGIMON!?
I remember an edited special version of "Butterfly" playing then, and I really did cry during the original...the dub, not so much. Also Butterfly, Target, and Biggest Dreamer >>>>>>>>>> DIGIMON DIGITAL MONSTERS DIGIMON ARE THE CHAMPIONS DIDIDIDIDIGIMON x3!!! (despite being somewhat catchy) )
I thought I'd give the PPGZ dub a chance...people were already saying the original Powerpuff Girls was ruined when turned into an anime...isn't it ironic when translated back to its original language it's even worse? I'm not saying the voices are that bad (numerous grate on my ears though) or even what they decided to cut or change or anything! IT'S THE MUSIC! The PPGZ dub OP is SO bad a person using WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER for the VERY first time could do better than that! And the music is so uninspiring and just plain crap. Blah. That's what ruined that dub for me.
Luckily there are some anime retaining its music, particularly anything licensed by Funimation (but what do I know, I only watched like, Negima from it) unfortunately there are still dubbing companies out there (IS 4KIDS DEAD? I THOUGHT IT WAS. Yet I saw this 4kids block on Saturday Morning TV!? WHY ISN'T THIS HORRIBLE ATROCIOUS DUBBING COMPANY FROM THE DEVIL GONE!?) that are willing to do ridiculous things like kill the music. The company that dubbed PPGZ was the same one that did Inuyasha, which I thought wasn't bad, but they did not live up to expectations like Inuyasha, sigh.
I think that's pretty much why Beyblade actually did get popular during its time, besides the whole spinning toy gimmick. It had pretty awesome music, you had to admit. Maybe not the opening (which was still catchy anyway) but the music during episodes especially rocked. I would definitely buy an English OST CD of it if it exists. And no that doesn't mean the original music was bad either, the original music was pretty intense instrumentals composed by the same person who did the Death Note OST, and you can't beat that! But if they had to change it, they changed it right and I had catchy, amazing music in my childhood TV shows.
EXAMPLE!
Yes I did choose Underdog because Rei's picture is on it. :D
