I'm testing my luck here since I am posting this 10 years after your post. But
I am desperately looking for the AIKO version of Sailor Moon. I can't seem to
be able to find it anywhere anymore. I particularly want to watch Sailor Moon
S. Do you know
where I'll be able to purchase it?
Cheers
On Sunday, July 7, 1996 at 5:00:00 PM UTC+10, The Evil Professor Chronos wrote:
> Tsui Wai Man wrote:
>
> >The Evil Professor Chronos (crs1822@inforamp.net) wrote:
> >
> >> I have the worst luck in the world. The very next day after I
> >> finished writing the most recent FSC story, I saw for the first
> >> time Sailor Moon S episode 31. (Um, I think that's episode 120, for
> >> those of you on the single series numbering system.)
> >
> >> I cried for hours afterwards.
>
> > Is it the episode in which Mimet got ...(well, you know)?
>
> Well, switched off, anyway. I'm probably just in denial, but I
> somehow feel it's not entirely impossible that she survived. Of
> course, these are probably just delusions created by my Mimet-loving
> mind to prevent me from going insane.
>
> > (but I'd never forgive her for killing Eudial, my favourite Witch)
>
> I have similar delusions about Eudial surviving ... I mean, going
> over a cliff in a car shouldn't present much of a problem to someone
> who can TELEPORT, right?! (I theorized that Kaolinite survived the
> Tokyo Tower incident for this reason, and turned out to be right ...
> so I figure it's quite possible that Eudial is still alive out there
> somewhere ... might write a fanfic about it one of these days. Maybe
> she can return, and team up with Jadeite. :)
>
> >> On a lighter note:
> >
> >> You know you watch too much Cantonese Sailor Moon when ...
> >
> > Are you watching the Cantonese dub from Aiko(sp?) ? Do the senshi
> >shouts out "Make up!" instead of "bin-sun! (Chinese)" during transformation?
> >If so, this is the one I'm talking about. I've watched a little of this dub
> >myself, but I think it is quite poorly done. The biggest problem is that it
> >suffers from a lack of competant voice actors/actresses.
>
> Yeah, I watch the Aiko one. Really? You didn't like the voices? It's
> peculiar, but I actually like most of them better than the Japanese
> ones (BIG exception - Mamoru/Darien/Wai ... who definitely needs some
> nasal decongestant ...)
>
> Y'know, I've always theorized that all these people who keep on
> going on about how lousy English anime dub acting is compared to the
> original Japanese is only because THEY DON'T SPEAK JAPANESE ... since
> they're used to how people speak in English, they can spot when an
> English voice is being overdramatic, wooden, or generally acting badly
> ... but not a Japanese voice.
>
> I understand both English and Japanese, but NOT Cantonese ... and so
> I can spot in both the English and Japanese versions of Sailor Moon if
> a voice doesn't quite fit the dialogue, but not the Cantonese one. So
> maybe that's why I have such an attachment to the Aiko dub, if it's
> really so bad ... (that and the fact that I'm used to the voices.)
>
> Anyway, from my point of view, I think the actresses in the Aiko dub
> sound pretty darn good in most cases ... it's just that there aren't
> enough of them. (Luna and Sailor Venus sound EXACTLY alike ... :)
>
> > I'd recommend anyone who can watch Sailor Moon in Cantonese to get
> >another Cantonese dub, dubbed by TVB, a HK local TV station. IMHO, it's a
> >fairly good dub, which means it is quite accurate and has a fairly good cast
> >for the voices (more on this below). But you have to get someone in HK to
> >tape it for you, as it is not available commerically.
>
> The main reason I've been watching the Aiko dub is because it's the
> easiest way to get Sailor Moon around here. You can easily pick up the
> Aiko LDs, or bootleg tapes made from them, in Chinatown of Toronto. I
> really would like to see the "other" Cantonese dub, which I've heard
> good things about, one of these days ...
>
> >> - Even though you can't read or write something as simple as "hello"
> >> or "book" in Chinese, you can effortlessly recognize and even
> >> write down "Moon", "Rabbit", "Evil Spirits Begone", and "Beautiful
> >> Young Female Warriors". (Okay, that's more a manga thing ...)
> >
> > A good way to learn Chinese, isn't it?
>
> Well, it's a good way to learn Chinese CHARACTERS ... I've still got
> no idea about the sentence structure or how they fit together, but I
> CAN now understand large portions of the Chinese translated manga that
> I own because of knowing the characters ... (like, I can recognize if
> Chibi-Usa is yelling "HOTARU-CHAAAAN!" :)
>
> >> I'll punish you!" (O hai yueh hun to, gen mon sen ka! Or at least
> >> that's what it sounds like. :)
> >
> > I believe in the Cantonese dub, Usagi says the following:
> > (Sorry for my confusing romanization)
> >
> > "Wo yiu tai yueh heng dao, gen o tsang kan!"
> > which can be loosely translated to "I'll carry out the duties of the
> >Moon, and punish the evil guys!"
>
> Well, your confusing romanization is better than mine. That's
> exactly the phrase I was trying to write above. :)
>
> > This Cantonese phase is not an exact translation of the Japanese phase,
> >but nonetheless quite imaginative in its own way. If you know Chinese,
> >you'll know waht I mean. I prefer it to a literal translation.
>
> Yeah, it's pretty good. And it has the extra bonus of fitting her
> lips, unlike "on behalf of the moon ..."
>
> When working on the Sailor Moon S fandubs, I had a hell of a time
> getting "On behalf of the Moon, I'll punish you" to fit the lip
> movements:
>
> "On ... behaaaalf ... oofff ...theeee ... mooooon ..."
>
> and then a really quick "Illpunishyou!" :)
>
> Speaking of accuracy, can you comment about how faithful the Aiko
> dub is to the original Japanese version? The English translation I'm
> doing for the S series is based on the Aiko version.
>
> >> Oh, and I was really disappointed when I went back to the Japanese
> >> version (S movie) and saw the Japanese version of Uranus ... partly
> >> because of how "ordinary" her voice sounded compared to the Chinese,
> >> but mostly because she couldn't pronounce the word "Uranus"! :)
> >
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