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ultimatemegax
Feb 20, 2006

Damn Kiva symbols....

Srice posted:

Going by blu-ray/dvd sales, it's definitely one of the more successful things they've had in years.

Especially since they own the light novel rights.

Considering how dire their last few shows have been (Chuu S2 was a big disappointment and Beyond the Boundary's writing was just terrible), I'm glad that they haven't screwed up Free S2 yet, at least.
Guess what those shows have in common. (series composer Jukki Hanada) This series has a different director (Hiroko Utsumi) and series composer (Masuhiro Yokotani) so there's big reason to believe the two would be different. Utsumi swam on her high school's swimming team, so it amuses me to see some outrage over "they don't know how to swim!" She was the one who consciously decided to use caps that didn't cover all the hair for ease of identification.

Regarding the whole studio/profit things, it's more than just light novel rights. As the original publisher and part original creator, they get a piece of literally every piece of merch/airing/etc. They also fronted the most money to produce the show, therefore getting the most in return for a lot of things. Additionally they produce their own merch which they get a large share of (royalties have to go to other committee members). The final big point is that they were in charge of designing the video discs for sale, therefore they recouped the majority of proceeds instead of the video publisher (who usually gets that). There's very little out there that could be a comparison (even a lot of the other original series from various creators/studios don't have that much revenue sources going to it). It's a seriously big amount of yen heading into KyoAni from this and Chu2koi. (Kyoukai was good and Tamako not as big as the others, but not as bad as people assume based on disc sales alone).

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ultimatemegax
Feb 20, 2006

Damn Kiva symbols....

The Devil Tesla posted:

I think they just grabbed whatever Australians they could to do the voices so feels like a serviceable dub more than anything. They obviously weren't pros but it's not like the dialog was great or anything. Successfully captured the pleasant awkwardness that exists between exchange students and host families.

Still, it was a good episode. I liked how they way you knew something was wrong with Haru was that he wasn't taking his clothes off to jump into every fountain and ocean.

The English voices were actually recorded by an American studio/director. The director for those voices was William Winckler, who worked on the English dubs for a lot of older Toei shows like Fist of the North Star. Voices were found by Atomic Monkey Entertainment, a talent agency linked with others in Japan (thus easy to find people in the US).

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