That's interesting because the new Shaman King series (dubbed by Netflix) got back as much of the 4Kids cast as were seemingly willing to come back, including Megan Hollingshead, and you can kind of tell the difference between the returning 4Kids cast and the new cast members based on who's doing overacting cartoon voices versus taking a more natural approach. Still, the 4Kids actors are a lot more subdued than they were in the actual 4Kids dub, and having more mature dialogue probably helps a lot there too.
What you said is kinda ironic, isn't it?
Not really no. Unless you mean the Alanis Morrisette definition of "Ironic"
I feel the same way.Dogasu said:
The epic twenty year wait was worth it though!
That would just make the short even more noticeable, they probably just want to pretend it never existed. The day it will be publicly available again is probably only once the copyright expires one century from now.
Fair point.
I don't see why they can't just replace the narrator for the short and then re-release it, that's what SEGA did for that Yakuza spin-off "Judgement" when the lead VA got busted for drugs, Sega didn't pretend the game didn't exist or ban it, they just recalled it from store shelves and brought in a new VA to voice the main character and then re-released it(thankfully that didn't affect the games release in the west).
That same VA also originally voiced Olaf in the Japanese dub of Frozen and in Kingdom Hearts III. Frozen also got pulled off of store shelves temporarily in Japan because of this but was later reissued with a redubbed Olaf voice, and said Olaf voice was also patched into later versions of Kingdom Hearts III.
Wow that's interesting! I guess Sho-Pro figured since it's a short it's not worth the hassle to hire someone else to re-record all of her dialogue. Honestly I think that short plays out better without narration anyways, it was nice to see a piece of Pokemon media where we just focus on the Pokemon without any human voices for once.
What can Dogasu do? Yes, he is an influential figure, but only in the Fandom, he doesn't work for TPC. If Japanese copyright laws work this way, I can't see how anyone can do anything about it without changing the law itself.
Even just raising awareness of what was going on would be helpful, maybe through an update post on the website.
I don't think what would be (at most) few hundred western fans making a fuss would sway a huge Japanese corporation like ShoPro. Especially since as far as their home country is concerned, they're completely in the right legally.
Even if they are in the right legally that still does not mean we should take this lying down and let them get away with it, if they do this who knows how far they'll go? Maybe they'll even start targeting Pokemon fansites like Dogasu's Backpack next? Sho-Pro are greedy and malicious bastards and I wouldn't put anything past them at this point.
