#digimon; digital monsters

[alphagodith]

varied language digimon dub thoughts

watching the german dub of digimon (trying to anyway, i'm not exactly fluent and i couldn't find it with subtitles) and WOW wizardmon in this is kind of an asshole??? the general voices are pretty damn close to the english versions and the words they are saying are very close to the japanese, but the characterization in wizardmon's voice is like... very cold and dismissive, and when he gets hurt he whines like a baby XD

in the japanese version he sounds much younger and more sweet and optimistic, eager to please and putting on a brave face when hurt.

i also checked out finnish and portugeuse and oh boy. we shall not speak of the european portuguese dub. just don't. brazillian portuguese was much more passable, i just personally didn't care for gatomon's voice, tho the technical aspects of it seemed fitting. finnish was eh, they seemed really flat.

all this has made me like the english dub even more actually. at least for wizardmon, his voice and characterization are a really good balance of the traits shown in the other dubs, and the emotion is some of the most intense. of course i am biased since this is the first one i watched as a kid and i'm only really fluent in english, but i can still hear the tone of the other voice actors when they speak. (for example when german gatomon tells german wizardmon to go back to looking for the eighth child, you can absolutely hear him rolling his eyes at her as he accepts the order, whereas the english and japanese versions are more eager to do as she says/fearful of her wrath)

as an aside, i've also read the various mangas and novel wizardmon appears in, so i use that to back up my interpretation of his personality. they all match the english dub version quite well, with him being polite, mature, somewhat cheerful and confident but not boastful, while the japanese makes him seem a bit naive and the german a bit cruel, neither of which fit the other materials.

[bittybatarts]

need the monhun digivices SO BAD waauuuuuuuuugh

[dclaret-blog]

Seadramon

[gearoxbutabox]

LITTLE STUPID KIDS THAT LIKE COLLECTING LITTLE STUPID MONSTERS (AND GHOSTS)

[taffydragonblog]

[rusty-lights]

i love digimon

[arcadechan]

hark THIS

[ridgeone1]

Zino Garurumon 🐺

[mistray-art]

Fly!

[loyaldis]

Just a small little guy

[loppy-darii]

Even giants gotta sleep too

[dragonwolf360]

SHSHSHHH he's got his e y e on y o u

[kryonsite]

wizardmon is rent-free in my head

[dclaret-blog]

My digimons sticker

[leobeedeo]

fuck you * terriers your mon *

[kosmicpowers]

I love Pokemon and Digimon and Yokai Watch equally and I think the fan bases should stop fighting and we should all run into the sunset together because we're all united by the dream of collecting little freaks.