COVER STORY: Royal Crackers
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- Single Core Studios Releases “With You” Teaser
- Crunchyroll Announces Spring 2024 English Dub Slate
Reviews
- English Dub Review: Delicious in Dungeon “Red Dragon III/Good Medicine”
- Review: Family Guy “Lifeguard Meg”
- English Dub Review: Shangri-La Frontier “The Walking Air Purifier”
- English Dub Review: TSUKIMICHI -Moonlit Fantasy “Watch As I Improve the World”
- English Dub Review: Banished From The Hero’s Party, I Decided To Live A Quiet Life In The Countryside “The Hero and the Guide”
Interviews
- Exclusive Interview: Royal Crackers’ Jason Ruiz, Seth Cohen, and Evan Mann on Perfecting the Secret Ingredients For Season 2’s Recipe
- Cowabunga Dude: Nouns Fest Co-founders Chris Waters And Eric Towner Discuss Their Radical Experiment
- Exclusive Interview: Luis Grané on the Haunting Melancholy Of Technology and Analysis Paralysis in ‘Nowhere Stream’
- [Exclusive Interview] Martin Villeneuve on Finding the Right Ingredients For ‘Red Ketchup’s’ Gonzo Recipe
- [Interview] ‘In The Know’ Takes Aim At Talk Radio
Insight
- Insight: MAX’s Anime Streaming Focus Is Going The Wrong Way
- Report: Adult Animation Makes For Majority Of Top Searches Of Sitcom Stars
- Insight: The Legacy Of Akira Toriyama
- Insight: How Major Brands Like Toyota And McDonald’s Are Embracing Anime Fandom In The United States
- Report: South Park: Is The Most Popular TV Merch, Study Finds
You’ve Been Heard
INSIGHT: MAX’S ANIME STREAMING FOCUS IS GOING THE WRONG WAY
It would be surprising if there was any info about a dub for Suicide Squad Isekai yet; that kind of info is pretty much never available until close to the release if not even being after it. And it would be even more surprising if they don't dub it; I highly doubt there's anything to worry about there.
The Rick and Morty anime not being dubbed is obviously a creative decision because its entire reason for existence is to BE "Rick and Morty: The Anime." If it was dubbed, it would seem from a general audience perspective like it's just regular Rick and Morty with a weird art style. It also seems strange to simultaneously bemoan it not having a dub and bemoan the main show changing its voice actors; like, what do you expect the dub would be like if there was one? (On a related note, setting aside whether they needed to replace Roiland or not, the new voice actors for the main show did a good job, and the vast majority of opinions I've seen online agree.)
And I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure Max already meets ADA requirements by having subtitles; I don't think there's any requirement that they dub everything, and if anything, trying to make them do that would be counterproductive since the extra expense would reduce the amount of content in general available for anyone.
INSIGHT: MAX’S ANIME STREAMING FOCUS IS GOING THE WRONG WAY
The Rick and Morty ratings being so far down (upwards of 30% year over year) would tell you that there is clearly a dissent as a result of Roiland's absence from the series. That said, I'd rather have some sort of English dubbed adaptation than no English dub at all and if it means it has to be with the new actors from the show then so be it. As for subtitles, those only meet ADA requirements for people hard of hearing, but what about people that are hard of sight like blindness, dyslexia, etc? Netflix and MAX cost the same amount of money per month and Netflix features WAY more content for the dollar than MAX does (look at the graphs above), and they 9 times out of 10 dub their international productions regardless if it's from Japan, France, or other other non-native speaking countries. They have a few acquisitions that don't have dubs, but it appears that's going to be a thing of the past as well.