Am I the only one who has seen the re-dubbed Akira? It seems that way with all the positive things i'm hearing. Yes, the picture was great, but the new voices on this film almost ruined it for me. What exactly was so bad about the orignal dubbing? In my opinion it had a lot more character to it. The guy that supplies Kanaeda's new voice for the film was just awful. You might say it was a bit crisper and more realistic, but thats just it. It sounds like they just picked some random guy off the street. There is nothing unique about his voice that provides for a good character. It's believeable, but boring. Other problems were the lab-rat children who were redubbed to sound like actual children. Sounds like the right thing to do in theory, but it dosen't for a fan of the original. The children's voices sound too cliche and don't have that eerie tone to it which helped create much of the atmosphere of the original. And trying to match the words with the mouths only works when they're saying something that sounds right. Not enough effort went into the dubbing, plain and simple. If I could do it again, i would have rented it first instead of just rushing out to buy it.

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