Apparently that’s the word on the “street”. Sony, who has had a live-action Masters Of The Universe movie in development hell for as long as they’ve had the license, may be in talks to go straight to streaming by partnering with Netflix. Netflix, through their agreement with Dreamworks, already has the re-imagined She-Ra cartoon and will have the Kevin Smith run alleged continuation of the classic cartoon. Dreamworks doesn’t have the live-action movie, Sony does. To have a trifecta of sorts might be good for Netflix.
However, this does come with some questions. Why would Sony not want to bring this to theaters? Would Mattel, who has been putting together their own studio like Hasbro has for their properties, be okay with this? Andre over at Midnight’s Edge goes over all these questions and explains what would and wouldn’t be beneficial for all parties concerned.
Are English Dubs Censoring Anime?
Japanese animation has come a long way from the days of Gigantor and Speed Racer when it comes to localization. And yet there will always be a debate as to how it should be localized. That’s why I’ve been posting videos from the Cartoon Cypher discussing this topic. While they have discussed this to great detail to post tonight’s video I first wanted to go into their perspectives of a few particular dubs that got brought up in it. Namely the dubs for Cowboy Bebop, Ghost Stories, and FLCL. None of these, nor the videos on translating to English or altering animation for the sake of getting dialog correct should be taken as some slight on subtitles or those who prefer them. I own subtitled anime and live-action productions from Japan, from Super Beastial Machine God Dancougar to Godzilla. I prefer dubbed but I have no animosity to subs or sub preferers. However, some of the criticisms about dubs are either outdated or come from misunderstanding the effort that goes into any translation, subtitled or dubbed.
In the final video I’ll be posting on this series, barring future filler postings, the Cartoon Cypher crew looks at the overall discussion about dubs and their criticisms. Note that this has a lot of F-Bombs dropping like a game of Missile Command and that it leads to an actual article (or I’m thinking V-Log) I plan to make on the topic myself of one particular comment.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 15, 2019 in Animation Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged anime, commentary, dub vs. sub.
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