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Mar. 10th, 2008 10:31 pm
candyland: (zuko flaming)
[personal profile] candyland
Double post, but it's worth it. So I got into a chat with [livejournal.com profile] clover_magic, and we wound up going off on a tangent about the dub-names in DC/MK. And the results...well, it's long, but they were just too much fun to NOT share.



[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:04:35 PM): I've always thought Jimmy to be more of a nickname. So maybe it's not his *real* first name, but merely a nickname.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:04:48 PM): Which leaves the possibilities open as to what, exactly, his real first name is.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:04:57 PM): ...dear lord...maybe they named him after his FATHER T_T
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:04:59 PM): Jimmy is usually short for James
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:05:08 PM): "James Kudo"
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:05:15 PM): .....ahahahhahaahaaaaa rofl
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:05:15 PM): ...s'far as I'm concerned, anything is better than Booker.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:05:22 PM): God, I know.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:05:49 PM): ...somehow, it seems less bad with James. I don't know why. Still hurts me in my heart, but...not so much a stabby pain as a dull ache and a "whyyyy?" feeling.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:05:56 PM): Though Harley comes close.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:06:03 PM): And what they did to Nakamori. That was just CRUEL.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:06:28 PM): No, no--I can live with Harley and Richard and Rachel and all the others because compared to what they did to poor Nakamori-keibu, they all got the best names in the world.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:06:34 PM): XD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:06:41 PM): What *did* they name Nakamori?
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:06:50 PM): ...are you ready for this? Are you sitting down?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:06:54 PM): Yep.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:06:56 PM): ...
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:06:59 PM): Mace Fuller.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:07:04 PM): .........
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:07:09 PM): Oh my god, that's so bad it's awesome.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:07:12 PM): ...I bet it was a dare.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:07:28 PM): It's sounds like a name for a bad cop in a porno
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:07:31 PM): "I dare you to pick the worst name ever for this character! It's a cameo--the fans won't care!"
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:07:53 PM): God, it doesn't even sound like his original name
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:08:11 PM): We were trying to think of what Aoko's dub name would be. Some of the names have been sticking to something remotely similar to their Japanese counterparts (Megure = Meguire, Ran = Rachel, ALL of the Shounen Tantei, etc.)
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:08:22 PM): Humn....
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:08:25 PM): So we were actually guessing that Nakamori would be Nelson...
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:08:34 PM): If they name her Sapphire, I might have to shoot them.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:08:41 PM): But anyway, we were trying to think of the least painful one possible for Aoko. Best we came up with was Ashley.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:08:47 PM): Ashley....
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:08:52 PM): Ashley Fuller. It's not...TOO painful.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:09:05 PM): Anna, Anne, Ann...
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:09:10 PM): Amber
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:09:23 PM): ...and we couldn't come up with ANYTHING good for Kaito. Kevin was the best we could think of, and it's...not that good >_>;;
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:09:29 PM): XDDD
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:09:43 PM): Yeah, we ran through an entire list of girls' names beginning with A while putting them with the last name Fuller *shudder*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:09:54 PM): Kane! LOL
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:10:01 PM): And Ashley was the one that just rolled off the tongue the easiest.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:10:03 PM): ...no.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:10:19 PM): Actually, my friend Kelly had the best response EVER to Nakamori's dub name. And she doesn't even know the series.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:10:23 PM): Her response:
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:10:45 PM): "Mace? MACE? Like...the spiky thing you swing over your head to decapitate the other person? MACE? Like...the stuff you spray in someone's eyes so you can run away? MACE??"
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:10:52 PM): XDDD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:11:02 PM): I still say it sounds like a bad-cop!porno name
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:11:08 PM): Then she hyperventilated, and we watched some Eddie Izzard to de-tox.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:11:46 PM): I can deal with a lot of bad dub names--I'm not a subbie purist by any means. But that one...I swear, it had to be a dare or something. They could not have actually thought it was a good idea.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:12:01 PM): I....really don't want to know how they'll butcher poor Kaito's last name
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:12:22 PM): ...Carlson? *shot*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:12:28 PM): With our lukc, he'll end up Kevin Black or something
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:12:38 PM): ... *weeps* YOU HURT ME.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:12:42 PM): WHY DO YOU HURT ME?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:12:48 PM): BECAUSE I LOVES YOU BABY
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:13:00 PM): LIIIIIIIIIIES~ *WEEPS IN CAPS*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:13:15 PM): AWWW COME HERE I'LL MAKE IT BETTER *BADTOUCHES IN CAPS*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:13:34 PM): But yeah
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:14:01 PM): Kuroba isn't...exactly...a name that has a common English name that sounds alike
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:14:37 PM): ...........
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:14:39 PM): Hakuba.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:14:47 PM): OH GOD HAKUBA, YOU'RE IN DC
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:14:56 PM): ...I wanted his name to be Steve.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:15:00 PM): 8D
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:15:04 PM): XDDDD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:15:12 PM): SIMON
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:15:20 PM): SIMON WHITE LOL
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:16:07 PM): ...Steve White sounds more porn-ish to me *ponders*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:16:13 PM): Though it might end up Samuel as well.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:16:23 PM): ...yuck.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:16:42 PM): ...although it would be funny to watch Kaito (...Kevin?) calling him "Sammy."
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:16:44 PM): Sage hahaha
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:16:56 PM): And how would they handle the foreign thing? Because Harley doesn't have an accent.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:17:13 PM): They didn't give him the Western one?
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:17:21 PM): Nope.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:17:24 PM): Whoa
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:17:38 PM): For once someone doesn't dub an Osaka accent as coming from Texas
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:17:53 PM): He actually had a decent dub voice--I rather liked the guy's voice. And he played...well, an Americanized Heiji quite well.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:17:59 PM): But...no accent.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:18:05 PM): Well, since Hakuba comes from Britain, that would be an easy accent, if they gave him one
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:18:08 PM): Read somewhere that Heiji's actually from Canada. No idea how that works.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:18:15 PM): ...wheeeeee, bad British accent ahoy!
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:18:20 PM): \o/
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:18:33 PM): ...oh lord...what about Akai Shuichi?
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:18:40 PM): ...Bob Smith.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:18:45 PM): XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:18:49 PM): Totally needs to be Mr. Smith.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:18:50 PM): JOHN DOE
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:18:55 PM): XDDD
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:19:11 PM): Must not laugh out loud. Hurts throat and rebellious lungs... *is dying over here*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:19:26 PM): ...No, I further the Smith, actually
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:19:30 PM): SO HE CAN BE AGENT SMITH
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:19:35 PM): YES!
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:19:42 PM): And then Jodie would be...well, Jodie.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:19:51 PM): Yeah, her name is already English
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:19:53 PM): Dude! We'd have Agent Smith and Agent Black!
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:20:02 PM): As well as Vermouth's and the....other FBI guy.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:20:04 PM): \o/
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:20:14 PM): ...Agent Camel doesn't fit quite as well D:
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:20:21 PM): No, it doesn't. XD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:20:29 PM): Oh yeah, that dude's name was James Black
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:20:34 PM): And then Caspar and Melkior--err, Gin and Vodka.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:20:43 PM): He's always just "The Old One" when I think about him
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:20:53 PM): ...Jii would have to get a crazy name.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:20:58 PM): XDDDD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:21:02 PM): Graham
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:21:04 PM): Just for fun~ *is trying to think of other characters*
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:21:07 PM): *laugh*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:21:19 PM): So Kevin can call him Graham-ps!
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:21:24 PM): For Toyama Kazuha, we were sort of pegging Katie Thompson...
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:21:26 PM): .......
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:21:37 PM): *takes out a very large gun*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:21:46 PM): *grins unashamedly*
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:21:56 PM): You're not allowed to make puns anymore, missie.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:22:09 PM): Hey, his name IS a pun, blame Gosho
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:22:17 PM): *plots to ninja at least part of this discussion over to LJ*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:22:37 PM): Dooo eeeet
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:22:44 PM): All the talk about names is A++++++
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:23:04 PM): ...oh! What about Satou?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:23:17 PM): Huh
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:23:27 PM): Takagi is Wilder (*weeps*) and Shiratori is Santos (...hate him, dun really care)...but Satou hasn't gotten a dub-name.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:23:29 PM): First name is Miriam, definitely
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:23:35 PM): ...
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:23:51 PM): Well, what other names in English start with Mi?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:23:58 PM): Her name is Miwako, after all....
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:24:25 PM): (I vote Takagi's first name being William too 8D)
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:24:32 PM): ...I was going to say Melissa or Megan or Might-Kick-Your-Ass...
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:24:41 PM): Let the name suit the woman!
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:24:47 PM): *gg*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:25:13 PM): Though, with our lukc, she'll probably end up as...Maureen or something.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:25:14 PM): William...unless his first name will start with a T?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:25:19 PM): XD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:25:29 PM): Well, since they changed it, maybe....
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:25:47 PM): Trent Wilder lol
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:25:51 PM): ...Thomas? Terry? Tony (hey, he could be Italian)?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:26:03 PM): Humn.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:26:14 PM): ...Timothy! *is shot*
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:26:30 PM): ...why don't we just give Shiratori ammo against him? XDD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:26:43 PM): Okay! XD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:26:52 PM): TYLER
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:27:17 PM): ...I could deal with Tyler. Maybe. Sort of. Ish.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:27:29 PM): "Tyler Wilder". Say it out loud.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:28:37 PM): ...Trent was better >_>;;
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:28:46 PM): He would never have lived through elementary school XD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:28:51 PM): But yeah, Trent was okay
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:29:14 PM): ...have we forgotten anyone?
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:29:21 PM): Oh--Heizo was Martin. Which...yeah.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:29:24 PM): Satou's last name
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:29:25 PM): What about Shizuka?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:29:30 PM): Martin Hartwell. Uh.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:29:34 PM): Hmm....
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:29:53 PM): ...
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:29:55 PM): Susan? Serenity? XD
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:30:06 PM): ...Susan Hartwell.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:30:11 PM): \o/
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:30:14 PM): XD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:30:17 PM): XD
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:30:18 PM): And Toyama...
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:30:33 PM): Will continue to be He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:30:36 PM): Thomason?
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:30:42 PM): And Ootaki...can be Olsen.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:30:59 PM): OLSEN LOL YES
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:31:19 PM): We thought Thompson for Toyama? Because ya know--Moore, Meguire, Wilder, etc. Wouldn't want to be creative or anything.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:31:28 PM): XD
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:31:41 PM): ...have we got everybody?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:31:46 PM): I...think so?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:31:48 PM): OH OH
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:31:50 PM): EISUKE
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:31:53 PM): HA HA
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:31:56 PM): ...Eli *deadpans*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:32:00 PM): XDDDD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:32:08 PM): Eli Horton!
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:32:11 PM): XDD
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:32:15 PM): ...does he hear a Who?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:32:26 PM): XDDDDD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:32:42 PM): I think Eli would hit a Who instead
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:32:52 PM): or at least run into one
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:33:12 PM): SQUISH IT DEAD!
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:33:18 PM): XDDDD
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:33:28 PM): ...that feels sacriligeous, somehow.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:33:32 PM): ...Yeah.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:33:41 PM): ...Rena could be Rebecca?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:33:47 PM): *nods*
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:33:52 PM): Or Rini! Piss of all those ol' Sailor Moon fans 8D
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:33:53 PM): Mizunashi is....
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:34:01 PM): *piss off, even
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:34:11 PM): ...Mizunashi is...
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:34:15 PM): ...Miller?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:34:24 PM): Hmn.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:34:27 PM): Meyers?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:34:40 PM): McMillan?
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:34:46 PM): ...McDonald?
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:34:47 PM): *SHOT*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:34:50 PM): XD
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:35:00 PM): If we're going to go for bad, let's go for broke!
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:35:06 PM): MERRYWEATHER
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:35:16 PM): TOP THAT
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:35:33 PM): ...AGAIN WITH THE HURTING.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:35:38 PM): ;o;
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:35:42 PM): I TOP
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:35:48 PM): ONLY WHEN I LET YOU.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:35:59 PM): WHICH IS ALWAYS
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:35:59 PM): *flounces off to molest Jeva some more*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:36:02 PM): *gg*
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:36:04 PM): EXCEPT NOT.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:36:20 PM): YEAH, OKAY, ONLY ON DAYS ENDING WITH A Y
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:36:21 PM): Jeva is my ho ^_~ I even have icons of it! *luffles mah Jeva*
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:36:38 PM): (...she's gonna keel me ded.)
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:36:43 PM): Heehee
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:36:54 PM): Rebecca Merryweather hahahaha
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:36:56 PM): YES
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:37:05 PM): ...anyone else?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:37:10 PM): Umn....
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:37:16 PM): Okiya is pretty new
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:37:20 PM): ...or Akako!
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:37:27 PM): Let me look at the keyholes--oh yeah Akako!
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:37:31 PM): Toichi!
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:38:21 PM): Toichi's name needs to be uber-retarded to match Yuusaku's
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:38:32 PM): ...that makes me sad ;o;
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:38:47 PM): ...Me too D:
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:39:01 PM): *sigh* Okay...what for Toichi, Akako, and Okiya...
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:39:18 PM): Toichi Kuroba
Akako Koizumi
Subaru Okiya....
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:39:33 PM): Do we want to stick with the idea of Kuroba = Black?
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:39:39 PM): ...HIS FIRST NAME SHALL BE SIRIUS!
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:39:42 PM): *SHOT*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:39:45 PM): ROFL
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:39:56 PM): *bleeds and dies*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:39:56 PM): WIN
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:40:10 PM): Troy
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:40:12 PM): Okay, so Toichi is Sirius Black...and now we know exactly how he died, too.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:40:19 PM): Turner
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:40:20 PM): A fandom mystery solved!
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:40:23 PM): XDDD
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:40:26 PM): *smack me, I'm stuck*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:40:30 PM): *smack*
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:40:34 PM): *wobbles*
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:40:42 PM): ...Todd?
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:40:45 PM): TUCKER!
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:40:52 PM): YES
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:40:56 PM): TUCKER OMFG
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:41:00 PM): Tucker Black vs. Booker Kudo!
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:41:06 PM): kl;h fklh dsjkl fs
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:41:09 PM): AHAHAHAHAHA
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:41:25 PM): The only person I've seen in fiction who carries the name Tucker is Tucker Foley from Danny Phantom. No offense to any Tuckers I haven't met *gg*
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:41:30 PM): Okay, so Tucker Black.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:41:34 PM): \o/
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:41:37 PM): ...Subaru Okiya?
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:41:42 PM): Sheldon
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:41:45 PM): XDDD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:41:53 PM): Sheldon O'Conner
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:41:58 PM): BINGO! \o/
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:42:09 PM): Which leaves us with a last name for Jii and a name for Akako.
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:42:16 PM): *nods*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:42:25 PM): Jii's original last name was.....was...
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:42:35 PM): Konouske, wasn't it?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:42:42 PM): Something long and retarded....
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:42:52 PM): Konousuke sounds familar....
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:43:09 PM): ...what goes badly with Graham?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:43:26 PM): Graham....Kelly?
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:43:47 PM): ...sounds like a musical star from the fifties XD PERFECT!
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:43:52 PM): XDDDD
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:43:56 PM): Okay, so what's left for Akako?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:44:01 PM): Umn
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:44:15 PM): A-names....Anna, Ann, Allison, Alyssa...
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:44:18 PM): Angelina~
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:44:24 PM): Hee!
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:44:25 PM): ANGIE
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:44:29 PM): XD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:44:35 PM): XDDDD
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:44:45 PM): And for Koizumi?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:44:49 PM): Umn.
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:45:05 PM): ...Kinkaid?
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:45:16 PM): *y halo thar, straws--I grasp at you!*
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:45:21 PM): XDDD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:45:31 PM): Kermier?
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:45:41 PM): KOSONOBICH SHE'S RUSSIAN
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:45:45 PM): vich
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:46:07 PM): XDDD
[livejournal.com profile] clover_magic (10:46:39 PM): Angelina Kosonovich, that's my contribution to Akako's naming
[livejournal.com profile] candy__chan (10:46:50 PM): Okay! Time to LJ-ify this! XD

(LJ-ify your IMs before pasting!)




And for those who find this all teal-deer, here's our condensed list of Bad Dub Names.



Kudo Shinichi = James "Jimmy" Kudo
Nakamori Ginzo = Mace Fuller (This one just had to be mentioned again for sheer awful)
Nakamori Aoko = Ashley Fuller
Kuroba Kaito = Kevin Black
Hakuba Saguru = Samuel White (Bonus: "Kevin" can tease the uptight detective by calling him Sammy)
Akai Shuichi = Bob Smith
Konosuke Jii = Graham Kelly
Toyama Kazuha = Kat(i)e Thompson
Toyama-papa = He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Thompson
Satou Miwako = Maureen Sanders
Takagi Wataru = Trent Wilder
Hattori Shizuka = Susan Hartwell
Hondou Eisuke = Eli Horton (who crashes into a Who and squishes it dead)
Mizunashi Rena = Rebecca Merryweather
Subaru Okiya = Sheldon O'Conner
Koizumi Akako = Angelina Kosonovich
Kuroba Toichi = Sirius Tucker Black



Why yes, we did have a very long discussion about this. WE ARE COMMITTED TO TALKING ABOUT THESE THINGS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO! \o/ Or something...

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 04:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] articulation.livejournal.com
All I can manage is : ...... wow.

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 04:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
Forty minutes of discussion produced THIS! :D

I have a life...really, I do *gg*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 04:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meimi.livejournal.com
You have the makings of a fine, fine porno on your hands there. Just add a 70s soundtrack and you've got it made.

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 04:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clover-magic.livejournal.com
I think the original Conan background music fills that job fairly efficiently. 8D

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 04:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
... ♫Secret of my heart--♪ *CANDY IS SHOT DEAD*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 04:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clover-magic.livejournal.com
*snerk*

Nono, the original background music, form like episode 1. With all the saxophones and trombones...yeah.

The earlier BGM for Conan is, effectively, a porno track. orz

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 01:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
...nah, not techno enough ^_~ *laugh*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 04:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
Why thank ya kindly! \o/ *begins perusing music selections for the right beat*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 04:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlquinn.livejournal.com
Haha, dude.

I'm not a sub-purist or anything (I watch dubs when I'm too lazy to really pay attention. Big O was my fave dub) but some dubs are just... ergh. I know they change names to suit the audience but some changes are just unnecessary. Like in Shaman King: they made the Chinese boy have a British accent (a crappy, ear-splitting one at that) and the British guy with an American one. So, I agree, I'm grateful they didn't give Heiji a typical dubbed-he's-from-Osaka-therefore-hick-accent.

I still think they should give Hakuba a snooty last name like Hollingsworth or Wentworth. Anything "-worth". I dunno. Just something stereotypically British. Unless they pull a fast one on us and make him not British but something else... like French?? Or Russian?

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 01:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
Some dubs are quite good (Furuba, FMA, Azumanga Daioh, etc.) Some need to die (CARDCAPTORS). Some have fairly decent voices, but the editing/script/changes made are annoying (Sailor Moon, CC/DC) It depends on the company. Funimation's done some good stuff lately~

To be fair, the character Osaka from Azumanga Daioh was from Osaka and so they gave her a really light Western accent, and that worked really well. Kira Vincent-Davis is a god for that character. And it wasn't that Osaka was a hick--she was actually quite polite. She was that much of an airhead in the original Japanese, too. It was her character ♥

That only works if they were planning to actually, ya know...make him British to begin with. I dunno. Given that Harley hails from some mystical place called Ocean View (rumored to be in Canada), I wouldn't hold out much hope ^^;;

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 05:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fyliwionvilyaer.livejournal.com
*tries to stop laughing and fails* XDXDXDXDXD

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 02:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
*giggles and luffs on you*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 06:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ayaia-moon.livejournal.com
Ooh! two things:

A: Haibara was dubbed 'Anita Hailey' for teh manga when she debuted in vol. 18

2: Kazuha's name...is Kazuha! for her debut in teh manga vol. 19.

so...yay for manga translators? (nay for Haibara tho...)

:)

~Ayaia

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 12:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
*holds up manga volumes* I know that--I'm collecting the manga ^^ But it's much more fun to come up with crappy dub names for all of 'em anyway \o/

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 10:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alena_s_anigor.livejournal.com
Well, if I remember correctly, I think I almost shot myself in the head when I heard Shinichi was Jimmy in the dub... But, dude...MACE????

*brain bleeds*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 03:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
*pats* I know. Compared to Mace Fuller, all the rest of the dub names seem positively brilliant, don't they?

o.o *puts lots and lots of Band-Aids on your brain*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 11:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nezure.livejournal.com
The dub names alternately make me cry and roll around in mad fits of laughter.

... MACE.

MACE FULLER.

XD XD **dead**

I know somebody who had to come up with an alternate, dub sounding name for Kaito once. She used 'Kyle Crowe'.

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 03:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
I know! I really have nothing against dubs--without some of those much-panned dubs, like Pokemon and Sailor Moon (I do think SM had good voice talent--just bad editing), many of us never would have become the raging anime fans we are today *laugh*

...but Mace Fuller is something I more would have expected to hear in the Cardcaptors dub than anything Funimation put out (considering their recent quality has been fairly good lately).

Ya know...Kyle Crowe really isn't terrible. Not as bad as it could be. But if it actually appeared on the show, we'd all raise holy hell XD

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 03:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nezure.livejournal.com
I know. XD I got into anime because of Yugioh, though before that I had watched the Cardcaptors and Pokemon dubs. The Cardcaptors dub was abysmal, though. D:

Mace Fuller is one of the worst dub names I've ever heard. **dead** I keep imagining one of the arguments he and Kogoro seem to get into sometime, dub style. **dead dead DEAD** And it kills me.

Kyle Crowe would be pretty decent, I think... In comparison to some of the others, of course. XD

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
Sailor Moon was my first anime, back before I knew what it was. After that, I did a stint with Pokemon (still love the games, to be honest), but it was ultimately Dragonball Z on Cartoon Network that got me into fanfiction and, consequently, fandom. And now it's my favorite hobby ^___^

I would hold that it's a draw. The contest for the worst dub name ever, to me, would have to be between Yukito from CCS and Nakamori from MK. Julian Star versus Mace Fuller. This almost seems to call for an LJ poll, doesn't it? *plots to make one*

...well, it's certainly better than Kevin Black *laugh*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 03:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nezure.livejournal.com
I've never seen any of the Dragonball thingies. :O I've heard a lot about them, though, and naturally I've been infected by "It's over 9000!" at various times. ♥

Make a poll! Make a poll! .... It totally makes me think of some kind of Pokemon battle.

Yeah, that's for sure. **snerk** I think my brain would break if he were named Kevin.

Maybe he'll be named Carl Clover? :D **SHOT**

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 04:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
Dragonball is actually a really fun series. There's enough humor to balance out the actions, and it doesn't try to take itself too seriously. Dragonball Z...I can see why it's addictive, but at the same time, it loses a lot of the charm of Dragonball. And I haven't seen GT >_>;; And the 9000 thing is just funny XD

I think I will! \o/ JULIAN, I CHOOSE YOU! *shot*

... *picks up a large gun* You will never joke about that again. EVER. *adds you to the list of people who are not allowed to make puns*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 04:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nezure.livejournal.com
I've heard something about fight scenes that go on for about... five episodes when there's a time limit of about thirty seconds? XD One dub I don't mind is the Inuyasha dub, though I do prefer the sub.

"MACE, TACKLE ATTACK!" **kicked**

B-b-but-- Toichi could be called Tommy Clover--!! **cowers**

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 04:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
Yup~ That's really DBZ for ya. Oh, and there's always THE NEXT LEVEL OF POWAAAAAH. Which usually involves their hair getting longer. Draw your own conclusions.

Poll posted!

... *cocks the hammer and takes aim*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nezure.livejournal.com
Maybe all the DBZ characters secretly want to get closer to their inner!Gin? :D **is. killed**

Whoo! **votes!**

And Mrs. Kuroba (the nameless wonder) could be... Moira Clover! **backs away**

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
...see this? This is my I HATE YOU face >_>;;

As I type this comment, the votes are completely tied. It's...sort of funny XD

... *decides shooting is too good and prepares to beat you instead*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nezure.livejournal.com
Uwa, I know you don't really hate me. ♥

It wins. **cackles** Both names are absolutely atrocious.

Oh oh oh! And your Kuroba OC, Aya-chan? She can be Anne Clover! **looks for something to hide behind**

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
...that's it *readies the bazooka* NO ONE MESSES WITH MY ADORABLE LITTLE PLOT DEVICE! CHAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!! *attacks you liek whoa*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nezure.livejournal.com
AND THEN AOKO WILL BECOME ASHLEY CLOVER AND THEY'LL ALL BE A HAPPY FAAAAAAMILYYYY~~ --- **run away!**

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 12:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keikeiaznqueen.livejournal.com
Bob Smith... omg... *wanders off in a daze*

(no subject)

Date: 2008-03-11 03:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candy--chan.livejournal.com
Yup! I think it fits our dear Shuu~ ^_~

Not being an academic discussion at all...

Date: 2008-03-12 10:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] samcurt.livejournal.com
I played with westernization of DC names for a long time (and there are still names coming out too!); I would post that if I can find that 2000 list XD.

But for now:

  • I made the Kurobas "Clover." Canonical; the clover charm on Kid's monocle. Kaito is "Theo" to make it sound like "thief."

  • Eisuke: my very newly westernized form is Aesop Hondoria.

  • Samuel Curtis, actually, was my original westernization for Shinichi.

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