At 02:15 PM 6/7/97 -0400, Joshua Seames wrote:

As if being in Anime was bad enough, being trapped in a dub? ;)  

Admittedly, there are some dub series I don't find so bad.
But, they shall remain anonymous, since I can only take being
a laughingstock for so long. ;)

I rather liked this bit from the BGC 'fic "Crossover Blues" (a major-comic
crossover), by Inn-pchan:
*****
     The Sabers landed a few feet away from two young boys in what appeared
to be tiny Imperial Japanese Navy uniforms, a small robot, and a very scary
looking little girl in a sailor suit smoking a large stogie.
     "Hello, my name is Gen," said the smaller of the two boys, looking very
relieved indeed to see the Sabers, or anyone else.  "This is my old friend
Seito," he indicated the other boy, "and these are my new... friends,
Seven-Zark-Seven and Sailor BallZy."
     "Lovely," commented Linna.
     "A pleasure," said the squared-off little CPU in an irritatingly happy
lilt.
     "Pleezed ta' meetcha," smiled the little girl menacingly.
     "We just got dubbed," Gen continued, "and Mr. Sobbin says we've got to
film new footage with these two, then pose for the new marketing tie-ins."
     "Tie-ins?"
     "Yeah, you know, Halloween costumes, candy tins, diet plans..."
     Seito muttered something about "...better off in the train station..."
     "Can you speak english?" asked Gen.
     Sylia hesitated.  "We'd rather not," she explained ashamedly, "The last
time we tried, we all felt emotionless and incapable of proper inflection."
     "Not to mention my musical ability going COMPLETELY to hell," Priss added.
     Seito nodded.  "Always a problem.  My dad was on the Yamato.  Look what
happened to them."
     "Torpedo attack off Okinawa?"
     "Worse.  Small-market syndication."
     "It happens to the best of us, kid," the stogie-chomping little dyke
offered.
     "And the worst," commented Linna, pointedly.



(Crossover Blues can be found in the RAAC archive)



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