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Wasted $80 on a Blu-ray box set that had dubtitles instead of a real translation

Last year I picked up a collector's edition of a mecha show I love for $80 because the regular streaming version had weird translation choices. When I popped in the discs, the subtitles matched the English dub almost word for word instead of the original Japanese script. So characters were saying stuff that didn't match their lip flaps or the actual scene context. Has anyone else run into this "dubtitle" problem with physical releases?

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piper_reed•13d ago

Checked the trivia section for Hellsing Ultimate and found out Alucard's voice actor recorded all his lines in one 8 hour session

I was just browsing the wiki while eating lunch and stumbled on this fact. Apparently Crispin Freeman locked himself in the booth and knocked out every single line for the english dub in one go. The article said he drank like 4 Red Bulls and barely took breaks. It made me rethink how intense that performance actually was since he kept the same growl the whole time. Has anyone else run into wild production trivia that changed how you watch a show?

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