Villianous English Dub Review
The plot of the episode was already perfect so I’m just gonna talk about the voice acting and how the English dub handled.
All and all, pretty dang good for a pilot!
Black Hat had a bit of an accent and was as menacing, as always.
Flug had a cute little lisp and showed good emotion and panic.
Demencia was a bit high voiced, but I liked it a lot and she was still very funny.
5.0.5 was perfect (as usual).
Penumbra’s voice grew on me after awhile, but she’s still amazing.
Sunblast... it was rough at first and wasn’t too emotion filled at the end (but the actor did his best and it’s not like we’ll ever see him again)
Golden Heart sounds like a decent human being and like a brotherly type of person....hmmm....
Sadly, they did miss quite a few good jokes such as, (and bear with me, I don’t remember the ACTUAL quotes), “you can’t just bend the rules like... MY BACK” or “the suns going DOWN” or “Team Black Hat is defeated again!” or “What’s for breakfast?” or “Oh, he’s sleeping”. I mean I get it! Things get lost in translation, the line was so small they missed it, etc. etc. They also cleaned up the cuss words, but hey. What’cha gonna do? (Edit: I was just informed that some of the jokes were not in the original script. They were ablibbed mostly by Flug’s Spanish VA, therefore they would not be in the English dub).
But hey! It’s the first full length English dub for the pilot episode. Non-animated pilots have been even worse, leading to complete character, name, plot, and/or actor change, and yet the shows turn out to be a hit! They just need to find their footing and delve deeper into the characters, and they’ve got it! And the translation could be better, but I was worried that more things would be lost so I’m very pleased.
So please, Please, PLEASE stop shitting on the English dub! So it wasn’t perfect? Big fucking whoop! Nothing and nobody is perfect! Complaining isn’t going to make it any better. It’s just gonna make the studios and actors involved feel bad about themselves and you seem to be shitty human being.
Focus on the good stuff like the cute lisp! Build this dub up, not down. Be proud of the people who made this possible. We’re fortunate that they even made an English version in the first place!
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
