Silver Wolf
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In my occasional searches for West-East translations (and interpretations), mainly out of curiosity's sake, I decided to see how Star Trek has faired over there. Obviously it's a hit.
And if Trek characters speaking in Japanese wasn't interesting in enough (as well as the "translation choices," such as Robert Picardo's opera performances being kept as is, with other songs being dubbed), it turns out a great majority of the voice actors have worked in popular Anime and Toku productions as well, some of them being very familiar.
For example Data is played by...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9TnmLUJboQ"]Ōtsuka Hōchū[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeTB2YmHlqs"]Or "Deneb"[/ame]
Wesley Crusher is played by...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4cQ8pppTg"]Ishida Akira or "Tatsulot/Bae"[/ame]
For a proper sample of the TNG dub, here's "Data's Day", and "Frame of Mind""
Also Harry Kim is played by Madono Mitsuaki (Kitaneidas from Go-Onger), and Neelix, is played by "Chō" (Shitari from Shinkenger). Here's "Bride of Chaotica" as a sample of that.
Any thoughts?
And if Trek characters speaking in Japanese wasn't interesting in enough (as well as the "translation choices," such as Robert Picardo's opera performances being kept as is, with other songs being dubbed), it turns out a great majority of the voice actors have worked in popular Anime and Toku productions as well, some of them being very familiar.
For example Data is played by...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9TnmLUJboQ"]Ōtsuka Hōchū[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeTB2YmHlqs"]Or "Deneb"[/ame]
Wesley Crusher is played by...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4cQ8pppTg"]Ishida Akira or "Tatsulot/Bae"[/ame]
For a proper sample of the TNG dub, here's "Data's Day", and "Frame of Mind""
Also Harry Kim is played by Madono Mitsuaki (Kitaneidas from Go-Onger), and Neelix, is played by "Chō" (Shitari from Shinkenger). Here's "Bride of Chaotica" as a sample of that.
Any thoughts?
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