WTF, Bandai Entertainment?
When I sat in on the Bandai Entertainment panel at New York Comic Con, not too terribly after Bandai announced that it would be producing Kadokawa’s Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu (a.k.a. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya), one of the questions I asked was whether they planned to keep the songs in episode 12 in Japanese, or if they’d re-do them in English.
Now, I distinctly remember being told that they’d probably stay in Japanese, but judging from the preview video posted at the ASOS Brigade today, it looks like they went the English adaptation route for the dub.
I’m impressed with how much Wendee Lee actually sounds like Aya Hirano while singing, but am still utterly disappointed that they changed the lyrics to English, especially because the new lyrics heard in the preview are kinda dumb.
I’d like to hear the full version of that, and see how it compares to this fanmade version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2sW9kFc3a4
OHES NOES!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOT ADJUSTING THINGS SO THEY LOOK GOOD WITH LIP FLAPS!!!!!!!!!!!
Who said anything about how it looked?
I think the new lyrics SOUND retarded, at least the small smattering you can hear in the preview @_@
They announced at Otakon that they were going to do this.
Personally I had trouble actually making out half of the English lyrics, and found the performance a bit shouty. I’m not a dub fan so probably am not the best person to comment anyway, but I think it could have been a lot worse. Points for effort at least. And of course there’s always the Japanese track if you want to hear Aya Hirano instead.
While true they said at the NY Comic-Con that the song would remain Japanese, they announced at Otakon that Wendee Lee would be singing it. You covered this news yourself, Gia: =b
http://giapet.net/?p=127
@Nebs: I DID say that Wendee Lee would sing the song, but not that it would be an English-language version (I even said ” Will she sing the song in Japanese, perhaps?”)
…But I’d be lying if I said I remembered that before you linked to it. XD C’mon, do I actually have to remember every tiny scrap I post? Especially since I was all depressed that my Otakon trip (and job) were yanked out from under me! ;)
sounds like crap, can barely understand what shes saying
and i hate her in the dub anyway, old lady trying too hard to be young