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October 11, 2004
anime to make kimono by
One reason I like dubs: I can watch them while making cosplay costumes. So while making my Rukia kimono top, I watched ROD The TV 2 and Ghost in the Shell SAC 1. Both very good dubs. I also turned on the commentary track on ROD, and learned from there that the actress playing Anita really was 12 years old at the time! (probably a little older by now.) She does a really good job, though - as long as she has a script. Other than that, she is 12 years old and all that that implies, and the rest of the commentary (with the 3 Sisters' voice actresses plus dub director Taliesen Jaffe) was pretty banal. The one on the first disc was much better, at least they talked about the danged episode. An odd thing they did was to stick all the episode previews in one block, in the Extras section.
GITS: SAC was also quite well done, though the performances are starting off a bit stiff - to be expected from any first disc. Some are settling into their roles more quickly than others.It's one of the anime that requires me to pay just as much attention visually as aurally, though, so it doesn't really work as kimono-making music.
I also popped in my new Aladdin DVD. As expected it has the PC "Arabian Nights" - with "where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face" replaced by "where the deserts are hot [and something or other]." I'll always have my original offensive soundtrack. Ahhh, Aladdin - the last of the great "new wave" Disney movies, and the first to be subjected to the massive sequelization that afflicts every Disney movie made since then.
Posted by Innocent Sidekick of Evil at October 11, 2004 04:48 PM | Posted to Anime, American Style
