Naruto On Toonami

Timestones · Net Battler Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 84

Rumors are rumors, and many of them are based on narutards freaking out about worst case scenarios and "what ifs". Regardless of how "bad" the dub turns out, we're still getting uncut DVDs with subtitles on them, which instantly puts how Naruto is going to be handled by Viz Media leaps and bounds beyond what 4-Kids is doing with One Piece.

Come on guys, I know Naruto is a good series, and at times even a great series, and seeing it butchered would be bad, but the level of paranoia I've seen amongst Narutards is ridiculous. If you're seriously THAT worked up about an English TV dub that nobody will ever FORCE you to watch, particularly when it's been confirmed that uncut, subtitled DVDs are indeed in the works, then maybe you're a little too big of a fan.
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Kirbopher15 · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 4:30 pm Post subject:

Timestones got it perfectly. Shopro knows that Naruto is an extremely popular series, and if you had only seen some of the articles from Shonen Jump about behind the scenes for the production so far, you'd be convinced that this time they KNOW what they're doing. As far as 'rumors' go, I think I need to quote from a certain intelligent webmaster known as VegettoEX:

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Timestones · Net Battler Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 84

I wanted to avoid bringing up 4-Kids directly, but yes, this is pretty much exactly my point.
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Kirbopher15 · Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject:

Speaking of that, lately I've been hearing a lot of complaining on the Snafu forum specifically about how english dubs tend to pronounce the character names incorrectly, like in Inuyasha, and they're afraid of that happening in Naruto.

As far as that goes, I don't really are. I pronounce Naruto "NaRUto" rather than the correct "NAruto" like the Japanese version, and many people who like the series do that too. They're KEEPING all of the character names aren't they? Most of which are sometime hard to remember (for Americans at least) traditional Japanese names, that would seem like easy openings for another dubbing agency to transform into something more americanized, like many of the one-shot EXE series characters. Although this is something more related to another forum, still seems appropriate.

Plus, one of the things that assured me of enjoyment on this dub from the interviews on SJ was that Shopro kept mentioning how they wanted to stay as true to the spirit of the original japanese version as possible. For instance, keeping the OST.

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Kirbopher15 · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:37 am Post subject:

CONT, HA, MANI CAH!?

-Brightman

:D

Also, 5 cast members of the english version of Naruto have been offically confirmed!

Yuri Lowenthal as Sasuke (Haru Glory from Rave Master, Prince of Persia, Cory from Zatch Bell)
Stephanie Sheh as Hinata Hyugga (Shion from Zatch Bell, Harmonia from Rave Master)
Steven Blum as Kakashi (Tom, Shishio from Kenshin, Mugen from Champloo)
Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Ino Yamanaka (Tsuzi from Zatch Bell, Sora from Digimon)
Steven Kramer as the Hokage (Cyborg 006, Kikuzou from Champloo)

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I wonder...how they're gonna handle Sasori....because you know..is whole body being a weapon..<_<

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Kirbopher15 · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:58 pm Post subject:

No, I mean what part of the name you put accent on. The japanese pronounces his name "NAruto" with the "na" being what you say slightly longer, and "ruto" going faster. Meanwhile, a lot of people in America are used to pronouncing them with the middle symbol being accented. Cases like: KaGOme, SaKUra and NaRUto. Like that.

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Timestones · Net Battler Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 84

Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I felt it would be better to post this here rather than create a new thread for it.

Anyway, Viz has FINALLY released an official dub cast list for Naruto. There are a few surprises, actually.

NARUTO UZUMAKI: Maile Flanagan
SASUKE UCHIHA: Yuri Lowenthal
SAKURA HAURNO: Kate Higgins
KAKASHI HATAKE: Dave Whittenberg
THIRD HOKAGE: Steve Kramer
IRUKA: Quinton Flynn
SHIKAMARU: Tom Gibbas
ZABUZA: Steven Blum
INO YAMANAKA: Colleen O'Shaughnessey
HINATA HYUUGA: Stephenie Sheh
SARUTOBI ASUMA: Doug Erholtz
TAZUNA: Kirk Thornton

Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1825
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Kirbopher15 · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:00 pm Post subject:

Already seen em. Seems that Naruto is being voiced by a girl in an attempt to make him sound like his Japanese counterpart. Sasuke is being playing by Haru from Rave Masters, and Kakashi by Sora from .hack// rather than Steven Blum, who's now playing Zabuza one of the early villains. I'm still getting used to the character names, so the only ones I know off hand are the three main characters, Kakashi, Iruka, Zabuza and Haku. Also www.narutofan.net has the cast list with a few other characters listed as well.

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Don't worry, thread necromancy's allowed if it's for something useful like that, to avoid posting a new topic.

Hmm, quite a lot of voices I don't recognize there... They got the guy who did Cielo from DDS though, so I think that one at least will probably be good.

Anime Master ZERO · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject:

Naruto is also coming to YTV. It'll probably take Gundam SEED's time slot.

I recognize Dave Whittenberg, Steven Blum, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, & Doug Erholtz.
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SaitoRockman · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:30 pm Post subject:

To tell you all the truth, hearing this is the worst thing to ever know.

Now people in my school are gonna find out about this show, watch the english one (Which WILL most likely not turn out as good as the Japan one.) and they will be like, "YOU WATCH NARUTOOO!??!??!?!?!?!?!?!???!??!?!???!" and I'll never haer the end of the insults and the teasing they'll give me.....

Same thing happened with DBZ, same thing happened with Rockman EXE....