#funimation films

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Veronica Taylor | Monday, 12.04.2023

Same voice actress, different characters - featuring Veronica Taylor.

1995

Setsuna Meioh/Sailor Pluto - Sailor Moon R (anime)

1996

Amelia Wil Tesla Saillune - The Slayers (anime)/Slayers Evolution (2010)

2003

May - Pokemon (anime; 2003-2006)

2019

Berryblue - Dragon Ball Super: Broly (anime movie)

[marshmallowgoop]

And I'm just a little messed up I'm a little out of my head

[Song link] [YouTube link]

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KOS-MOS in Xenosaga: The Animation shares a voice actress with Ochaco Uraraka aka Uravity from My Hero Academia.

Voiced by Luci Christian

[emayuku]

Wolfwalkers

@dragonballz-goku

@wolfwalkersfilmeonline

@wolfwalkersau

@wolfwalkersqueen2007

@sleepy-edits

@like-fairy-tales

@laurenillustrated

@charlottecors

@ur-daily-inspiration

@dbz

@dbz-club

@dbz-manga

@dragonballzforlife

@dragonball

@dragonballg

@gtgokufan

@wonderboysongoku

@akiratoribot

@akira-toriyama-blog

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For well over a decade- or when streaming and digital game storefronts started to catch on- I've been saying how moving media like films and video games over to digital only purchases/services sounds like a bad idea. Whenever some person went on about how wonderful streaming was, and how they think it makes physical media "outdated" and antiquated, I asked them what are they gonna do when a streaming service yanks their favorite movie or show off the platform, or what are they going to do with their digital purchases if/when a digital storefront shuts down and have no means to back up your purchases. Of course, the answers I would typically get would range from that I should quit clinging to old shit, or that something like that would never ever happen any time soon.

Now here we are, seeing the consequences of relying only on streaming services and digital only purchases. People are only now starting to wake up and realize that maybe we shouldn't let money hungry media conglomerates have full control and ownership over the products you paid for, unlike if you were to own a tangible physical copy- or if you pirate it.

Sorry, people who are very likely not reading a single word of this, but:

I warned you! I told you so!

[toonabby]

Happy quadruple birthdays to Megan Shipman, Amanda "AmaLee/Monarch" Lee (Both 32), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (62), and Joey Sourlis!

[matt0044]

Wendy as Mio from Ghost Stories

Seriously, Britney Karbowski voices both characters and it sends me to hear her lean into her Wendy voice with the most demented kind of snark.

Like AU where Wendy tries to resurrect a dead Carla but they come back wrong.

[carocineasta]

Prime Video Channels Agora Oferece a Crunchyroll, Maior Streaming de Anime do Mundo

O Prime Video anunciou uma emocionante novidade para os amantes de anime no Brasil, Alemanha e México: a Crunchyroll, o maior streaming de anime do mundo, agora está disponível como uma assinatura adicional via Prime Video Channels.

Isso significa que os membros Amazon Prime nestes países têm a oportunidade de mergulhar no vasto mundo da Crunchyroll diretamente pelo aplicativo do Prime Video.

[roy-dcm2]

One Piece FILM RED Reaction

I wanted to review this movie, but like a lot of the recent One Piece films, the movie is so unique that I find it hard to organize my thoughts into a coherent review. So, I'm just going to string together some random thoughts I have about the movie.

Spoiler warning, if you still haven't seen the movie.

I heard someone call this the BEST One Piece movie. I don't know if I agree. What certainly makes it different than the other adventures is that, for once, this is a very personal story for Luffy. They're not helping some random girl on some random island, this is one of Luffy's friends, and the "daughter" of Shanks.

But, I don't think they film itself really conveys an (authentic) close friendship between them. "Oh, we used to eat chicken wings together" feels kinda random.

"Oh, I've known Uta forever, and we've always been friends," comes off somewhat like a Mary Sue. (Uta is NOT a Mary Sue, but we'll get into that later.)

Frankly, I don't think this movie works nearly as well without the tie-in episodes from the anime. (Episodes 1029 - 1030). The Anime gives us more time between the characters, as well as a peak at the relationship between Uta and Shanks, and Luffy and Shanks, which is important much later.

And YET - should those episodes count at all when looking at the Film itself? That's where I'm torn.

Uta is a Japanese style idol singer, but also like youtuber. The big twist is that she's gone quite mad, and has drawn all her fans into a death cult. She crosses over into unsympathetic villainy. (That's why she's not a Mary Sue.)

Basically, she used to have a channel, where she sang for people. She was a little bit of light in the dark world of One Piece. But as they say, when you look into the Abyss, the Abyss looks into you. So, she cracked.

At several points in the movie, events are punctuated by Uta singing. But that's another one of my problems - I don't speak Japanese. I can either look at the animation, or I can try to read the lyrics, but I can't do both at the same time. This is another reason I can't review this movie, because the songs just lose me.

Tot Musica makes no sense. Oh, sure, he's really contrived explanation. But I gotta take Toei to task for not having the courage to just make it part of Uta's powers. Uta makes a dream world, and it is a nightmare demon. It would make sense that you have to beat the demon to dispel the dream world.

But, no, if you did that, it makes Uta a complete villain actively trying to kill her friends, and it makes it look like Luffy killed her.

You know what they say, review the movie you got, not the movie you wanted. So, it's a random demon, that happens to have music as a theme. The action is so frenetic and its powers so vaguely defined that it feels like the final battle is just a bunch of stuff happening on screen. It is pretty though.

Then there's the ending. Credit where it's due - Toei killed her. But that's not the ballsy part, from a certain point of view --- Shanks killed her. She wouldn't have gone mad, if Shanks hadn't shipped her off to boarding school. And just with that, it was an okay ending.

But what makes things truly next level is when you consider those tie-in anime episode. At the end of Episode 1030, Ben Beckman tells little Luffy to stop asking about Uta - "There are some things men don't talk about."

Shanks and Luffy have an understanding, they don't talk about Uta. That's why he never mentioned her before, and that's why no one will talk about Uta ever again.

It's practically META. We always complain that these movies never have an effect on the main series, but now there's a good reason why this will not be brought up again. I'd almost call it groundbreaking.

So, there it is, all my rambling thoughts about the movie. Like I said, all the One Piece movies are Unique, and this is the most unique one by far. It is really hard for me to score, but it is a really great piece of One Piece media.

There is no score. Just judge it for yourself.

[richdadpoor]

Netflix Manga Adaptation Drops Aug 31

Image: Netflix At turns action-packed and emotional, One Piece is really working hard to convince fans that it’s going to do right by the manga. With some epic lines and Luffy’s non-stop positive attitude, the newest trailer—released less than a day before the series goes wide on Netflix—shows the Straw Hats fighting Vice-Admiral Garp and the various rogues’ gallery of the Grand Line. The…

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ABOUT NEW 50% OFF CONTENT

Hey sorry to get your attention like that, kind of a scummy move but bare with me a few moments. I’m the other person who made 50% Off, Sparky the Android, I also voiced Haru and Rin and some other small things. People usually just call me PJ now cause I don’t really make content anymore. Speaking of content Alex, Octopimp, decided he was going to make some new 50% Off content this past week and I would just like to explain some things as to why this is a real legitimate slap in the face to me personally. I want to stress that I was not sexually abused, physically abused, or in any major danger in my long creative partnership with Alex, he was just a scumbag who acted like an asshole and treated me really poorly over the course of the show forcing me to eventually quit. I was willing to just walk away from this stuff. Close the door, yknow? Get some closure but Alex seems intent on opening it by posting new 50% off content without talking to me about it first in any capacity. I have not spoken to Alex in several years but I was and always have been an equal creative factor in 50% Off, so him releasing new content without me feels especially insulting.   Alex came to me ten years ago asking if I would be interested in making an abridged series at the time because I had a background writing comedy and went to school for film. This was under the pretense of an equal partnership. We’re both funny, I’m a good writer and a decent voice actor, Alex is a decent writer and a good voice actor. He bought me my first voice acting microphone and we set to work developing the show with me refining a lot of our ideas into actual scripts to read from. As the series progressed I started taking on the larger writing work and Alex the larger editing work. Episodes went from 4 minute goofs (the original concept) to more longform almost 20 minute episodes at a time where characters had their own throughlines and stories progressing. It was a large task for the two of us, especially the difficulty of editing for Alex specifically. I don’t want any of this to seem like I did all the work, or that I never fought with or insulted Alex because that’s far from my point. Both of us were supposed to be partners but Alex consistently treated the show as SOLELY his in increasing amounts. I had to ask him to stop saying things like “I sign your paychecks.” or to stop insulting me in videos when he would add in insults against me without talking to me about it first. I can take an insult! I wrote some content insults about Alex too! But I was always up front and he would slip his insults in, or little jokes that were not in my scripts, without ever talking to me about them I would see them in the video premiers. He consistently minimized my involvement, I had to argue with him to get my name on the end slate, I wrote the theme rap, I wrote 90% of the material, I wrote our dumb tshirt commercials, the show is unequivocally so much of MY VOICE and I was begging to get a little more limelight or recognition. Alex took guest appearances at cons without talking to me. We did a panel at anime expo where HE was the guest and when I asked him about a badge to get into the con he informed me that he was giving the other pass to his girlfriend at the time. And while he did end up purchasing me a new badge to try and make good, just the act of not thinking that that badge should have been mine was so insulting. When we went to funimation he consistently bore it down on me that i was LUCKY that he flew me out so we could go to Funimation even though he would not be going in the first place without my scripts and voice. He made content without talking to me. He kept me at arms length in an arrangement that was supposed to be equal and I never spoke about it publicly because even a small amount of internet fame warped my little idiot brain and I wanted to keep being famous and cool on the internet. 

I never saw our official earnings numbers or even had access to the channel and took it on blind faith that I was being fair. When I quit the show because it was seriously becoming a real detriment to my mental health I walked away from any earnings the show would make after. 

It sucked. It sucked because I wanted to make more of the show. I wanted to finish season one. I promised people I would. It sucked because for some of it I was having fun! I was going to voice actor parties and people were paying attention to me. Selfishly I thought I could right the ship and turn it into a real career but I know that was never really an option. And it sucked because Alex and I WERE friends. I did some of my best material with him. Times hanging out with him where he was a genuine person were great. And I tried so many things! I realized arguing with him wasn't working so I figured it must be my fault. I tried being more supportive of him, supporting his streams, cheering him on at game tournaments, etc. But he just kept using me and the people around him to further his career. I just couldn’t take it anymore and I took the only ownership I really could and I walked away. The show stopped and, I’m sorry to the people who loved it, I think it should have stayed stopped. Nagisa is a fuckin racist caricature, one I actively contributed too regardless of the actions I took to make Nagisa smarter, more artistic, less of a one note joke about drugs and crime. Hell his final speech about how he felt about fetishizing MLM content at the time was feelings I WAS HAVING as a person coming to real terms with their queer identity. Alex is not a queer person! I am! I gave that speech to Alex to perform. I gave him MY VOICE. But it's still a racist caricature rooted in the past that is my fault for perpetuating.  

And again I’m not an angel. I argued with Alex a lot and said a lot of mean things to his face. Some stuff I regret because I’ve spent the time after the show specifically not shoving myself down another pipeline of making online content. The attention makes me stupid and I act like a jerk! I made mistakes while doing 50% Off and I’m sure I’ve hurt people too. I’m sorry to anyone who crossed my path when I was hopped up on stupid internet fame. You met one of the worst versions of me and it was my own doing. I’m sorry to Alex even for some of the stuff I said. But Alex leveraged his position of power over me as an excuse to treat me like shit. I’m in a good place in my life and I just wanted to shut the door on all this but Alex is intent on opening it after all these years and STILL minimizing my contributions. Saying things like “I just don't have the time/resources to make full episodes anymore.” He can’t make full episodes anymore because he would have to replace my voice in them but more than that replace my entire writing style. I was willing to let him upload a short like w/e its 2023 like whatever right? Tell your joke dude I don’t care. Then he posted another acting like he was going to do even more new 50% Off stuff and a close friend spoke with him saying it wasn't a good idea and he agreed. Then he posted them on youtube! And is saying stuff like this to people in the comments.

Like implying that the only reason he can't continue to produce 50% Off in full is because he doesn’t have the energy or schedule. He can’t continue because it would be continuing without me and I know deep down he KNOWS he shouldn’t. I don’t want any fucking clout or want you to watch any of my content because I don’t MAKE any. I wasn't sexually assaulted or physically abused. Alex was just a huge dick to me and a lot of my friends and we all just let it slide for all of our own personal reasons. Hell I was content just walking away the way I did, making the split seem amicable so there wasn’t a bunch of drama, letting the show stay up, and still field questions for people curious about it. I took my gdrive with every script i ever wrote for the show and just closed the door. I’m just tired after all these years of this guy actively ignoring my involvement in the show that is partially responsible for his internet fame. Tired of him pulling this bullshit “uwu i would love to make more but i just can't!” attitude to lie about why he can't actually make more. Tired of him opening that fucking door. 

A few years ago Alex got in contact with me through a friend with an apology. At the time he sent it many streamers were facing backlash for how they treated people in the past, ones closer to Alex, so this seemed suspiciously timed. The apology I got sounded like every other apology Alex had given me over the years. A lot of avoiding his own culpability in his actions. I told him that if we were to resume being friends it would take a lot. I think anyone who makes the effort deserves the chance to be redeemed, but I had absolutely zero trust in him and thought it was unlikely that he really wanted to make an effort to be a real friend to me. After that we resumed not speaking and when people asked me about him I still tried to make our split seem at least somewhat amicable and I try to generally avoid projects he is involved in. 

Imagine my surprise when he walked out on that Jerma stream. 

I want to thank everybody who watched 50% Off honestly and truly. I think some of it still shines as some of my best work. I got to do a lot of cool things like have my voice in a real anime, and I met tons of people who cared about me and my role in the show specifically. Those people were like life preservers while I felt like I was sinking in Alex’s shadow. It’s undeniably cool to have people respond to your work so well and I know I wouldn't have seen that happen without Alex’s skills as an entertainer and producer. Alex has hurt me personally as a friend, as a business partner, and has hurt several of my other friends in various ways with his behavior. The way I felt on 50% Off became truly harmful to my mental state. I struggle personally with imposter syndrome and RSD and at the time of making the show I had gone through very little therapy to help me develop healthy coping mechanisms for those things. It was just like pouring gasoline into a fire. And I really wanted to put it all behind me for the sake of my own mental health and life because all things considered I’m happy where I am now. I’ve worked really hard on myself personally and have been so lucky to have emotionally intelligent friends help me and give me so many chances I should not have deserved. I’m fortunate to be able to support myself and my cat, and I get to make personal art I love without having to push myself into the internet game because if I’m being honest I had a bad addiction to social media. I apologize I don’t have a nice resolution for you, I’m not asking you to stop watching 50% Off, or watch anything I make, or hell even stop watching Alex’s personal content. I just felt like I had this intense pit in my stomach seeing him parade around in the other half of our two person horse costume and insist he’s wearing the whole thing. Yknow? After all these years I just wanted to say SOMETHING about the way I was really treated so I could finally get some closure for myself. Thank you for your time and again to all the people who DID support the show thank you sincerely. 

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Michael Sinterniklaas | Sunday, 08.13.2023

Let's give a round of applause (with a huge happy birthday shout-out) to Michael Sinterniklaas, a prominent voice actor known for voicing multiple characters across lots of anime and video games, including his roles as:

Leonardo - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)

Mikey Simon - Kappa Mikey (2006)

Kenji Koiso - Summer Wars (2010)

Taki Tachibana - Your Name (2017)

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Leone from Akame ga Kill shares a voice actress with Misato Katsuragi from Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Voiced by Allison Keith

[animenostalgia]

News - Gkids has announced they've acquired the theatrical screening rights to Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Mamoru Oshii's 2004 sequel to his original 90s film. According to their press release, their new 4k restoration will premiere at the 2024 Chicago Critic's Film Festival, with a more wide release to come later. No news yet if this means they'll be releasing a new physical edition after, but hopefully we'll get an update on that later as well. Previously, the film had been released by Go Fish Pictures, Manga Entertainment, Bandai, as well as Funimation.

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I've been seeing a micro-controversy on Twitter with regards to a someone pointing out that the current masters for the Sailor Moon anime aren't properly color corrected when compared to the animation cels. The controversy is over the fact that the pinkish tint on the current masters (top video, versus the color correct bottom video) is considered by a lot of people to be the "true" version of the series, on account of the fact that's the version most people would be used to seeing. Plus, it just makes sense, ~*~aesthetically~*~, that Sailor Moon would have that pinkish tint, because it's shoujo. For girls, ya see.

Most of the people I follow who've chimed in on this think the pink tint is better, which is perfectly fine, but I'm also with the original poster when they say that this should not be the case for the masters. For the sake of preservation, masters should be color corrected to match the animation cels as closely as possible, because the cels are what the original images literally are.

The problem here is that Toei is dogshit at doing this themselves. Nearly every Dragon Ball home video release has some kind of coloring problem: check out this post I did comparing Seed of Might's Color Corrected release of Dragon Ball to the Funimation Blue Bricks (which were made using scraps Toei sent them) and the home video releases of the Dragon Ball Super movies (including Broly and Super Hero), which have a green tint as opposed to pink, and is even more obnoxious an error since these films were produced digitally.

These things are not the end of the world- it's not like the footage itself has been butchered, and the Seed of Might release and even the video kicking off this post are proof that proper color correction can be done after the fact, but it shouldn't be up to fans to fix this stuff. Especially since it leads to this exact current micro-controversy, where the people doing the proper color correction are attacked because people have come to prefer the wrong image.

And, the cool thing is, if you prefer a more stylized aesthetic, that's super easy to do yourself! Here's something I was able to do by gently nudging a single slider in VLC media player's default "Effects and Filters" on Sailor Moon S The Movie:

We Vaporwave Now! We can even get more creative and crop the second image to 4:3 and run it through a VHS filter for from real ~*~90's anime aesthetics~*~ type looks:

Now, you may look and that and think "but wait, that's cool!", and I'm inclined to agree. It's neat! But the point is that I was able to do all that in like 2 minutes with minimal effort to create a specific looking variation on the original product. If someone was so inclined, they could probably find a VHS effects package to run over the entire movie and combine that with a color filter to get a version of the movie that suits their personal aesthetic takes, and that's cool as hell. But the original source they're using (that should be available to everyone, especially if they're buying physical discs) is what it was actually intended by the animators to look like.

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In Funimation's old dub of Detective Conan ("Case Closed"), they localized everything to fit a generic American setting, from the names of people and places, to cultural references.

When Shinichi's (Jimmy's) rival, Heiji (Harley) appears, they localize his Osakan background, but don't really stay consistent. The first few times, they mention he's from a fictional city on the West Coast. Then, by the episode where the main characters visit his hometown, they settle on Alberta, Canada, making him Canadian.

This is of course, despite the fact that the visuals very clearly show Osaka, and they don't even bother to name any specific Albertan landmarks. One could argue that it's just some random city named "Alberta," but according to the dub's ADR director, Caitlin Glass, they intended to use Canada for his background.

Recalls Caitlin Glass, “Case Closed was also the first show I did any ADR directing for. Somewhere around episode 120 I did a handful of episodes, mostly revolving around the character we called Harley Hartwell (originally Heiji Hattori), Jimmy Kudo's rival. He's supposed to be from Osaka, so there's the rivalry between Tokyo and Osaka as well in the original version. Because of the localizing, our Harley was placed in Canada! I didn't have the actors give the incidental characters accents or anything, but an 'eh' or two might have made their way into the dub, just saying.” — "The One Truth, And Nothing But the One Truth: An Oral History of Case Closed"

Given the absurdity of trying to take, what is shown to us, as a distinctly Japanese city, and saying it's America, let alone Canada, I've made a compilation of the few times they localized Osaka/Kansai in the TV anime.

As an addendum, when Funimation dubbed the first six movies, they stuck to a more accurate script, keeping the changed names, but the setting and cultural references mostly Japanese. The third film, "The Last Wizard of the Century," partially takes place in Osaka, and Heiji and Kazuha (Kirsten) are part of the group. However, in the film, Osaka is just Osaka, not Alberta or anything else. For more information, see this blog on dub changes.