: PokéWank, Part II!
This is a followup to the PokéWank I posted a while ago.
As expected, efforts to try and convince The Pokémon Company to keep the English dub's voice actors (who were replaced when 4Kids lost their rights to produce the dub) have failed. Today a 10th anniversary special, "Master of the Mirage Pokémon", was aired on Kids WB, showcasing the new VAs.
Of course, Pokéfen are mad as hell about it! There's a bitty wank on the pokemaniacs community here, but the spooge has been flying fastest on Serebii.net's forums. Here's the thread discussing it, and a sampling of comments can be found below.
( POKEMON IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. )
And those were just from the first 7 pages of the 27-page (at the moment) thread. *g*
If anybody's curious as to the sound of some of the new voices, a clip's been put up on YouTube.
ETA: I just stumbled across a Save the VAs LJ community. According to a post in it, the new VAs have been contracted for season 10, so there's not much that can be done about that. Also, apparently a big reason the VAs were changed in the first place is because The Pokémon Company et al got the mistaken impression that it was what the fans wanted, because 4Kids is so wildly unpopular with so many people. However, fen just wanted the stupid dialogue/editing to be done away with, not the VAs.
I know a lot of y'all in the comments are sympathizing with the wankers, and I totally understand, but the new voices aren't _that_ bad. The old VAs sucked when they first had the roles, too.
ETA 2: Another clip from YouTube; this one has Brock, May, and Max in it. OK, I'm really starting to sympathize with the wankers a little. Brock's voice is just... *shudder* His is hands down the worst of the lot.
This is a followup to the PokéWank I posted a while ago.
As expected, efforts to try and convince The Pokémon Company to keep the English dub's voice actors (who were replaced when 4Kids lost their rights to produce the dub) have failed. Today a 10th anniversary special, "Master of the Mirage Pokémon", was aired on Kids WB, showcasing the new VAs.
Of course, Pokéfen are mad as hell about it! There's a bitty wank on the pokemaniacs community here, but the spooge has been flying fastest on Serebii.net's forums. Here's the thread discussing it, and a sampling of comments can be found below.
( POKEMON IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. )
And those were just from the first 7 pages of the 27-page (at the moment) thread. *g*
If anybody's curious as to the sound of some of the new voices, a clip's been put up on YouTube.
ETA: I just stumbled across a Save the VAs LJ community. According to a post in it, the new VAs have been contracted for season 10, so there's not much that can be done about that. Also, apparently a big reason the VAs were changed in the first place is because The Pokémon Company et al got the mistaken impression that it was what the fans wanted, because 4Kids is so wildly unpopular with so many people. However, fen just wanted the stupid dialogue/editing to be done away with, not the VAs.
I know a lot of y'all in the comments are sympathizing with the wankers, and I totally understand, but the new voices aren't _that_ bad. The old VAs sucked when they first had the roles, too.
ETA 2: Another clip from YouTube; this one has Brock, May, and Max in it. OK, I'm really starting to sympathize with the wankers a little. Brock's voice is just... *shudder* His is hands down the worst of the lot.
Current Mood: *drool*