Guys I'm eating some chilli from Wendy's and just wanna get this episode over as I'm taking my car to be serviced first thing in the morning. Also basis of this was a REAL early manga chapter!
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"It doesn't matter how Eggman stands, he'll always look terrible."
My angry Agent Stone senses are tingling...
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I still find it so amusing that Lisa did Lina both before and after this was dubbed so in the 2000s SLAYERS seasons you could hear her trying to pitch her voice back down for Lina in the early episodes!
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...also this in not to insult Jason as a VA. I still feel the same way about Richard Ian Cox's Ranma who then graduated to be the DEFINITIVE voice for Inuyasha!
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"We have all afternoon to duke it out buddy boy!"
Yeah, it took Jason Griffith a minute to find his Sonic voice. All his other VAs kinda got it on the first go, it took him a moment.
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I've kinda been noticing this on this dub rewatch but certain shots looks like they came out of WB Kids-era shows that had TMS do some of their episodes!
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I do NOT know how Andrew Rannells pitched his voice so high to play Bokkun. Yes, THIS Andrew Rannells!
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Yes, Ella is voiced by Mike Pollack (Robotnik/Eggman) in this version...which makes THIS waaaay more awkward.
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"I'm sick and tired of Sonic turning everything into a game."
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Okay, we're doing #SonicX all over again only this time it's the 4Kids dub! This version I'm mainly gonna focus on commentary on the 4Kids actors and the script!
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Ataru's Mom may not get as much screen time as she did in the Oshii era but I love how she takes whatever she is given and RUNS with it!
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So yeah...BOTH chapters that were the basis for this episode were so early in the manga's run that Viz published them before the manga went on that looooooooooong hiatus before our modern release.
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Sometimes it's VERY clear this is proto-Ranma and proto-Akane right down to sharing the same braincell and if folks didn't ship Ryuu with Benten then Shinobu was the "other" option!
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What's even funnier is the 2008 30th Anniversary OVA adapted parts of this volume too, so they were STILL making new animation from this volume!
(I know I haven't talked about tonight's episode but it's Ten so I DO NOT CARE!)
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BTW, @digiranma.bsky.social if you happen upon any bookstore that happens to carry Urusei Yatsura Vol. 14 when you flip through it you'll probably go "Wow, they pretty much adapted the ENTIRE season from this volume!"
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It is funny how both the UY and Ranma reboots gave Ten and Happosai MUCH less screentime which is very telling on both the OG animes.
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So while this is manga based we've reached the part of the series where they're adapting the "current" chapters more conservatively and either doing filler or adapting stuff from WAY earlier in the run!
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"Good meeting you, Christopher."
Is it weird the 4Kids dub just UPS the Stranger Danger vibes?
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"We have to bring him back, right away!"
Is it just me or is the dub kinda upping Chris' attachment to Sonic already? I feel like it was more of a slow burn in the Japanese version.
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It also doesn't help that Lisa voiced Lina Inverse and I like it when she voiced short tempered characters with a hair trigger for violence!
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