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Lemon-Lime posted:International distribution is only in Japanese (since it's Nitroplus handling this everywhere outside of Taiwan), and this is a Taiwanese show, so it wouldn't be in Mandarin even if you found it. Plus, the Taiwanese version doesn't have a voice cast the way it does in Japanese (it's voiced the traditional way, with one man doing all the male voices and one woman doing all the female voices). I have to clarify this, since it's close but not quite and this is literally my mom's childhood here. Thunderbolt Fantasy is based on the traditional puppets of southern Fujian, China, the closest approach to Taiwan. This area is rife with tiny dialects that are often mutually unintelligible- a saying about the area is "Go 20 kilometers, learn a new language." Both of my parents are from the area and they spoke two mutually unintelligible dialects as well as Mandarin, which could lead to some comical arguing when they got too heated and lost track of what language they were in. Many of the people who fled to Taiwan during the split were from the area, and from them spread what is inaccurately referred to as "Taiwanese" but is more properly either "Hokkien" or "Minnan Proper" since it is still spoken by millions of mainlanders.The original dub for all glove puppet shows (and there are a lot of them) is always in Hokkien, as it has been since it was a bunch of dipshits in a cart in Fujian going street to street performing for tips. Also traditionally there is only one voice actor because it's supposed to be a puppet show- one guy moving his hands and doing his own voices and narration. Obviously that's not what it is any more but tradition is tradition. This voice actor is always male. The one thing they kept undubbed in the Japanese version are the little poems that introduce each character. If you want to get a sense of how the original sounds, listen to those- including the funny high pitched voice he does to portray the women. K Prime fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Oct 4, 2018 |
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Weed Wolf posted:he realized that he'd never be "the very best" -- there'd always be someone better at swordplay than him due to luck of the draw / innate ability -- and that striving to be the very best would end up turning him into an rear end in a top hat like mie tian hai, whereas hed prefer just to be a clever rear end in a top hat instead Additionally, he finds the traditional wuxia standards of how to be the very best- e.g. becoming Mie Tian Hai or Screaming Phoenix Killer, and picking fights and training and picking more fights - extremely loving boring. As usual for Urobuchi there's a bit of metacommentary on the genre he's making mixed in there. He's not here to win every fight with his superior cultivation and gongfu. He's here because that's a dull and repetitive loop of plot he doesn't want to deal with, and would rather make everyone miserable in new and creative ways.
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Oct 5, 2018 21:59
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He's definitely fooling around that whole fight too. Watch what he does with his sword- he regularly throws it around for little flourishes and uses it off-handed just to emphasize how ridiculously superior he is.
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Oct 5, 2018 22:54
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Transcending history and the world, a tale of souls and swords, eternally retold.
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Oct 8, 2018 16:25
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Làng Wū Yáo seeing right through Lin is the best. Too straightforward to fool.
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Elephant Ambush posted:It frightens me a tiny bit knowing how much Lin enjoyed using Night of Mourning. I don't think he will turn evil or anything but that was kinda unsettling. Night of Mourning is pure Lin crack. He's a control freak who wants to watch his puppets dance to his whim and gets super upset when they don't follow the path he laid out for them to suffer. Of course he'd love a sword that literally lets him turn people into his obedient puppets.
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