Comment on The Latin American dub of 'Ghost In The Shell' was censored and all country names were removed
hitagi@ani.social 18 hours ago
There was a thread related to this some time ago.
Other than Japan, the only other country mentioned by name was Korea (韓国) I assume the reason why the names are changed is to conform to international pressure especially with the state of the world today.
If that were the case, then in my opinion, whoever came up with the names showed some resistance. The names for US and Israel seem to reflect something about the politics today. I think it’s a lot more meaningful if you think of it that way.
It also kind of shows the consequences of anime/manga as it increasingly becomes globalized. I hope international pressure doesn’t continue to restrict creative freedom…
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
I was the one who posted the original post, there was a development a few days ago. Originally all but the latin dub had the made up names, but a few days ago the latin dub was changed from the real names to the made up names. I suspect that the production company changed the dub without Amazon knowing, since it went viral Amazon realized that the dub had real country names and chnaged it.
Not really? Dubs can change between the original airing and the physical release, for example when a VA is on vocal rest and they need a backup. Clifford Chapin voiced for the broadcast, as heard in this video, and Aaron Dismuke re-recorded his lines for the Blu Ray later.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Animedubs/comments/16272b7/kaguyasama_love_is_war_s3_has_been_reuploaded_on/
In this instance, if I had to guess, the latin dubbers made a mistake and needed to redo those lines to match the rest of the international versions. Maybe they were using the manga as their source for some lines, but I doubt it was some principled stand.
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
I did more research it appears the latin dub producer Daniel Lacy asked the Japanese producers for permission to change it. I can’t find the original tweet it appears to have been deleted, unfortunately these are the only sources I could find:
x.com/CartoonsOTMoon/status/2095700349457695139
x.com/animeupdates/status/2095897781193887948
www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10839928543…
I believe this is a reply to the original tweet and you can see the producer in the replays: x.com/SoyCzyha/status/2095691887579418644
So it does apear that Amazon deleted it and that the Dub producer changed it on purpose