bleach...is so good

[JBranded]

who else likes bleach???

 

[AufFeuer]

I like it when I don't drink it.

 

[SandCrab]

who else likes bleach???

i do!! One of the best anime series around!!!!!!!!!

 

[shirono]

one of my favorite anime actually, I'm up to episode uhh, well whatever the latest one databayo put out is.

 

[Super Gnat]

Yiss. Wish they'd hurry up and scanlate the latest chapter, though *bites nails*

 

[Dracil]

Less filler, although Bleach filler is much better than Naruto filler.

 

[AzazelTheDestroyer]

I hate Bleach. :o

 

[Qyöt27]

I watched through the first 89 episodes and two OVAs in about a two-three week period (the said part is, I got most of those back in January). I'm currently waiting for 91-whatever to come out since I refuse to put up with the crappy quality sound & video in DB's releases, not to mention that I stay away from speedsubbers whenever possible.

 

[-Kuro]

spetember 9 is going to be a good day for die hard bleach fans then...
i just enjoy reading it..i might watch it now and then...
Sep 9-anime series goes to some channel..

 

[Qyöt27]

spetember 9 is going to be a good day for die hard bleach fans then...

Or collectively gather to mourn.

 

[Warrior Frog]

I mourned it. Did you hear Kon at the end? They slaughtered him...

 

[Qyöt27]

I mourned it. Did you hear Kon at the end? They slaughtered him...

I'd say that it ranged from pretty on-cue to really mediocre in places, although it's far from the worst that I've heard. Kon's voice would probably be the one really terrible element that I've seen - er, heard - sofar.

On a side-note, however, at least now I can watch all of Trinity Blood - I only got the first 8 episodes back during its fansub run, and I've got no money for when it comes out on DVD here (unless I'm miraculously able to get a job in the meantime), so at least I can see it.

 

[BloomingRose413]

Or collectively gather to mourn.

Agreed

I love Bleach but hate the dubs of nearly anything. But this dub isn't all together to bad, they butchered saying "Kurosaki" though.

I'm currently up to date on both the anime and the manga, but I find the manga more interesting that the filler

 

[BloomingRose413]

I mourned it. Did you hear Kon at the end? They slaughtered him...

Yes, they did, he doesn't sound...umm I dunno, annoying enough, no, he doesn't sound Kon-ish. I dunno, they did a horrible job with that voice actor.

 

[shirono]

Darnnit darnnit darnnit, I don't have cartoon network. I'm sure I can get a rip of it though, did they keep Asterick as the opening song, or did they butcher it again by having no opening song at all?

 

[Qyöt27]

Both the OP and ED were left alone, although it was rather jarring to see all the text transliterated into Latin lettering.

 

[Qyöt27]

they butchered saying "Kurosaki" though.

It's just said slower, which is to be expected when using English. The dub retained the Japanese 'ro' syllable rather than replacing it with the English 'ro', so I'm wondering just what it is that you mean by them 'butchering' it, since all the other syllables in 'Kurosaki' pose no problem for English speakers and were said correctly. Like I said, the only real difference is that it was said slower (and any honorifics were dropped, but that's normal and also expected in English).

What got to me was the fact that many of the original Japanese terms that have key importance - 'kidou', 'zanpakutou' and the like - were retained rather than translating them, but 'shinigami' was converted to 'Soul Reaper' for some inane reason. Either translate them all, or none of them.

 

[BloomingRose413]

It's just said slower, which is to be expected when using English. The dub retained the Japanese 'ro' syllable rather than replacing it with the English 'ro', so I'm wondering just what it is that you mean by them 'butchering' it, since all the other syllables in 'Kurosaki' pose no problem for English speakers and were said correctly. Like I said, the only real difference is that it was said slower (and any honorifics were dropped, but that's normal and also expected in English).

What got to me was the fact that many of the original Japanese terms that have key importance - 'kidou', 'zanpakutou' and the like - were retained rather than translating them, but 'shinigami' was converted to 'Soul Reaper' for some inane reason. Either translate them all, or none of them.

It sounded to me as if he was trying to pronounce it the japanese way by saying "Kulosaki" but ended up an odd combination of what sounded like "Kurlosaki"

Okay so maybe they didn't butcher it but it could have sounded a bit better.

And yea, I was wondering about the shinigami thing, they should have left it because I also noticed that they kept kidou, if they were going to translate they should have put demon arts, but oh well.

Haven't heard them say zanpakutou yet, but I'm most certainly looking forward to it

 

[Qyöt27]

It sounded to me as if he was trying to pronounce it the japanese way by saying "Kulosaki" but ended up an odd combination of what sounded like "Kurlosaki"

The Japanese way of pronouncing it isn't 'Kulo' - it is a hybrid of r and l in Japanese, because there aren't distinct r or l sounds in that language (depending on context it gets assigned one of the two when transliterated, although I've noticed it almost always gets treated as an 'r'). It's a somewhat-trilled noise that sounds like both r and l at the same time. During the recap section that occurs before the opening in the episode 60 range (I gave that as an example because I've got a couple of those eps laying on my hard drive at the moment), you can hear it if you pay close attention when the name is said.

That particular noise is actually one of the harder things about Japanese pronunciation to get right, especially for someone coming from an English-speaking background. Other sounds, like tsu, are far easier or even second-nature if the person knows both English and German (as the ts sound is approximately the same as the German z - coincedently, I wonder whether the 'zeige dich' command and the rest of the German phrases used in the Bount arc will stay in German or get translated to 'show yourself' and the other appropriate English phrases).

Haven't heard them say zanpakutou yet, but I'm most certainly looking forward to it

Rukia said it when giving the instructions on transferring her power into Ichigo, and again in the following thought process about not having seen one that large.