Bodysuit 23 #351 (Patreon)
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In other news:
Got my bluray of season one of Aria in the mail today. Aria is one of my all time favorite slice of life/healing anime. I watched fansubs of it back in high school and later bought the deluxe boxsets on DVD. As much as I love it, I always wanted it dubbed so it could be a show I can slap on when I'm sick, or something easy to zone out to and fall asleep with. Over a decade later it finally is! And I got it!
The dub is run of the mill in terms of quality. It's a New York production, so you got Veronica Taylor (Ash Ketchum - Pokemon, Amelia Seyruun - Slayers), Lisa Ortiz (Lina Inverse - Slayers, Deedlit - Record of Lodoss War), and Carol Jacobanis (Saki Kasukabe - Genshiken, Maho Isawa - His and Her Circumstance), but it also seems to have Texas VAs like Marissa Lenti (Atsuko Yoshida - Keijo!!!!!!!!, Madoka Kushitori - Chio's School Road) and Jessica Calvello who has a mixture of New York/Texas dubs (Excel - Excel Saga, Tsukino Miyazawa - His and Her Circumstance). So I figure they did some dubbing in Texas, because I can't picture it being cost effective to fly them out to New York. Then again, what with the ease of creating a small recording studio in one's house and doing everything over the internet, maybe it's not that big a deal these days.
But yeah, overall it's an okay dub. I don't hate it, but it's also nothing to write home about. Overall I'm satisfied with it. Of course your mileage may vary as I'm a bit more forgiving when it comes to dubs (though I still find difficulty listening to anything done by Sentai Filmworks for years now).
Now if only Right Stuf would license the soundtrack I'd be in heaven.
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