What do you think of Bleach - English Version.

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:28 am

SarahtheBoring wrote:As a manga reader, my only real reaction was "Cone???!!" - since they hadn't spelled it with the long-O diacritical mark or "ou" in the US manga release, I'd always thought it was Kon with a short O, like "con." Uh, whoops.

It isn't quite Cone, either - the Japanese spelling is 「コン」, which puts it somewhere between the 'o' in Cone and the 'o' in 'con' (which is usually pronounced KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN--- err, 'ah').

Take it with a grain of salt, though - Kon's VA is horrid, IMHO.

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:33 pm

Ohhh, that makes sense then. Thanks. (Well, it may have sounded less weird in English by erring toward the short version of the vowel, but it makes sense.)

I didn't recognize the actor from that short clip, and hitting up ANN, I don't remember him from anything else either. Oh well.

aesling · Post by **aesling** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:11 pm

I was pretty impressed with Johnny's performance as Ichigo. I was afraid he would sound exactly like Vash, which I thought would be totally off. However, he pulled it off well, IMO, sounding more like I thought Ichigo would sound. I liked Michelle Ruff as Rukia well enough. My only complaint with her was she went a little overboard on the snottyness. I didn't catch the preview with Kon though. I hope he doesn't turn out to be as bad as you guys are saying he sounded in that.

TATEJE · Post by **TATEJE** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:25 am

aesling wrote:I liked Michelle Ruff as Rukia well enough. My only complaint with her was she went a little overboard on the snottyness.

Incase you've forgotten, she was snotty as all hell in the first episode with her Japanese counterpart filling the role. The only difference is that you now have something else to blame it on. The same thing happened in the Hellsing dubs with Integra. It appears that Integra is far more of a snobby bitch in the English dub only because it's easier to understand what's going on with her tone of voice(for most of us here at the .org, at least).

Nejiisthecoolest · Post by **Nejiisthecoolest** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:40 am

i thought the first episode was cool, especially because ive never watched it before, but my brother always told me about it. So i think im gonna watch it more often

aesling · Post by **aesling** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:59 pm

TATEJE wrote:
aesling wrote:I liked Michelle Ruff as Rukia well enough. My only complaint with her was she went a little overboard on the snottyness.
Incase you've forgotten, she was snotty as all hell in the first episode with her Japanese counterpart filling the role. The only difference is that you now have something else to blame it on. The same thing happened in the Hellsing dubs with Integra. It appears that Integra is far more of a snobby bitch in the English dub only because it's easier to understand what's going on with her tone of voice(for most of us here at the .org, at least).

Whoops, totally forgot I posted on here. And I do remember she was snotty in the first ep. You have somewhat of a point, but you also assumed I meant she was snooty in comparison to the Japanese voice actor. I just meant that I thought she was a little over the top with it. To me, that was slightly irritating, but that was just my impression of it. Don't jump on my case just because you assumed that I was saying that Japanese voice-acting is always superior to English dubbs. But yeah, I agree that it's far easier to pick up on tone when its in a language you know.

KagomeSakuraMoon · Post by **KagomeSakuraMoon** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 1:49 am

I must agree,they did do well,But I've notice that if Adult swim gets an anime the don't mess it up as bad as toonami does! I like that they showed the opening and closing!! ^_^ Its follows the manga which is kool as well!

Cornwiggle · Post by **Cornwiggle** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:44 am

Wasn't impressed.

The dub was okay, but man that show was....lacking in originality x1000.

Everyone says it gets better, but to have a first episode that predictable is just a huge turn off for me...

Radical_Yue · Post by **Radical_Yue** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:42 am

KagomeSakuraMoon wrote:I must agree,they did do well,But I've notice that if Adult swim gets an anime the don't mess it up as bad as toonami does! I like that they showed the opening and closing!! ^_^ Its follows the manga which is kool as well!

Adult swim is for an older crowd (hence the name Adult Swim) therefore they don't have...well, I guess you could say, as many restrictions. They're not always having to change things like "shit" to "crap." So, yay for staying truer to the original Jap, and keeping more violence and swear words!

Toonami on the other hand, is more for the younger ones, and that's why the series shown on it just about always have a terrible dub.

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=145

That one get's me everytime ^^