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REVIEW: Prison School BD+DVD

The one major awkward point is Andre's voice - instead of the simpering but still generally human tone of the original, Sonny Strait plays him as if his nose is pinched and has a mouth full of food, garbling basically all of his lines.

but the question is, did the dub keep the gamer gate reference/insult ?

maximilianjenus wrote:

but the question is, did the dub keep the gamer gate reference/insult ?

Nope. It was changed to a line similar to the original translation.

^That's right, here's a comparison I posted in another thread a few weeks ago.

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Dub should've got a D score. I prefer dubs most of the time but this was vastly inferior and less enjoyable than the sub. TPTB spared no expense on the best seiyuu; something I think any fan can appreciate for their favorite adaptation. Dubs only seem to take that cue when it's a high profile shonen title

Guess karma does exist though since almost every cast member of the dub has indirectly had a slightly less successful career a year later. Funimation on some level must be aware their dub isn't liked like majority of viewers; even amazon reviews specifically point out the dub's disappointment. Usually the week of release they announce it on social media or have an 'Available Now' trailer on youtube; not the case for this title (just a couple clips a week before). Also on Monday at midnight/Tuesday mornings is when they release new or updated videos on their site (even for prior simuldubs). Again not the case. Guess they wanted to attract as little attention as possible (pre-orders that low?)

Shame one of their worst dubs in recent memory has affected an otherwise great show. I know several people who chose not to buy because they don't want a single dollar to support the dub. Some actually imported Japanese blu-rays and were willing to spend more money just to avoid rewarding the middleman for horrible decision making for its English version (casting, acting, writing, etc)

Wouldn't mind if it sold underwhelming numbers for Funimation. Then hopefully they'd never botch a dub ever again and maybe some other company can rescue it when the license expires; do a kickstarter and fund a re-dub it deserves,

The dub is fine, the preferences are fine, the cast members are all still being cast. People who don't buy this just to not support the dub are just being petty, I doubt they ever expected a huge amount of sales from Prision School because it's a very, very specific brand of comedy that's more likely to gross out a casual viewer than get them to spend 50 bucks on it. This show doesn't need a re-dub, it's fine as it is. The only thing wrong with it was the one line that they changed for the home release so it's not even important.

Snakebit1995 wrote:

The dub is fine, the preferences are fine, the cast members are all still being cast. People who don't buy this just to not support the dub are just being petty, I doubt they ever expected a huge amount of sales from Prision School because it's a very, very specific brand of comedy that's more likely to gross out a casual viewer than get them to spend 50 bucks on it. This show doesn't need a re-dub, it's fine as it is. The only thing wrong with it was the one line that they changed for the home release so it's not even important.

So numerous people who say the dub isn't fine are wrong because your opinion is more valuable? Got it!

I never said the cast members weren't still being cast; but most have less work compared to the year prior, there's a difference.

Prison School's manga is popular. The sub is popular. There are even memes of the chairman which attracts new potential fans when they want to learn its origin. Prison School could've sold very good numbers (DxD, Sekirei level or even Freezing which many label as torture porn) 'Grossing out' viewers isn't an issue for this title; it has a big fanbase, Funimation failed to appeal to them. They've botched dubs and marketing before; IIRC they actually apologized at a con for how they handled the first D.Gray-man series years ago. Kind of a miracle they ended up getting the 2nd half of it and Hallow

At no point did I ever say people's opinions were invalid, I only countered with my own.

PS was never gonna sell huge numbers, it's just piss jokes. There's no point in funneling thousands into advertising for a series that will never come close to recouping it. The issues with D-Gray man wasn't the advertising it was the constantly changing cast that turned people off.

I never said this was the dub to change all dubs, and i don't know why people expected it to be. Prison School is not a magnum opus, it only appealed to a specific form of comedy and fanservice. I'd rather them spend the money they might spend advertising this on something that doesn't have multiple scenes about people getting peed on!