Before I saw the Death Note dub, I thought there's no way that D.Gray-Man could ever be dubbed. Now I've rethought it, but I'm still dubious, because D.Gray-Man has darker undertones than Death Note, not to mention a lot more religious stuff. I shudder to think that they might butcher the Black Order's name. And they might try to not mention God and apostles. If a dub were to come out, I'd be a little scared.
I don't know much about english voice actors, because I don't much care for english voice acting. But that Vic guy that people keep mentioning? Absolutely not. I really don't like him as Edward Elric.
I thought that Death Note was much, much darker than D.Gray-man, it being a psychological thriller with much more graphic and rampant death and all that kinda messes with your head while DGM is still obviously in a sort of fantasy realm. Besides that, other things that have much heavier dark and religious tones have already been dubbed and not really censored... like Hellsing comes to mind.
I don't see why they'd remove or change much at all, or decide not to do DGM because of it's themes when there's already much worse. It's not like DGM is targeted to children.
Death itself is not very scary or impressive; it's more the means of death that will determine whether a series is particularly dark, I think. I was drawn to Death Note because of Light and L's personalities and intelligence, not because of its theme of death. Fantasy or not, I found Suman's death a lot more disturbing than any death in Death Note. It's specifically because Death Note is a thriller that you don't feel much for those who end up dying.
Well, all I know is that whenever there's mention of God (or gods), and anything else religious, they tend to go heavy on the editing. Have you ever seen Yugioh? They never referred to Ra, Obelisk and Osiris as gods in the dub. And a more prominent example is in the .hack games. I have never been able to find an image of the original, but in Infection, Skeith's wand was a Celtic cross, and it was instead changed to the shape of a Q, essentially. Basically, if they were to show it on TV, I think there'd be a better chance of heavy editing than if it were to be released directly on DVD.
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I don't know much about english voice actors, because I don't much care for english voice acting. But that Vic guy that people keep mentioning? Absolutely not. I really don't like him as Edward Elric.
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I don't see why they'd remove or change much at all, or decide not to do DGM because of it's themes when there's already much worse. It's not like DGM is targeted to children.
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Well, all I know is that whenever there's mention of God (or gods), and anything else religious, they tend to go heavy on the editing. Have you ever seen Yugioh? They never referred to Ra, Obelisk and Osiris as gods in the dub. And a more prominent example is in the .hack games. I have never been able to find an image of the original, but in Infection, Skeith's wand was a Celtic cross, and it was instead changed to the shape of a Q, essentially. Basically, if they were to show it on TV, I think there'd be a better chance of heavy editing than if it were to be released directly on DVD.