English dub

Geneon owns the US rights to Black Lagoon and has ceased to exist since Pioneer gave up on importing media. Funimation has aquired the marketing rights and will possibly use different voice actors for season 3. Hopefully Pioneer still retains the US voice actors for the 3rd season.

This would suck with different voice actors.

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You know what, that'd be a real *beep* shame if they did that. I've come to love the black lagoon cast so much, considering I've watched both seasons 4 times now. You'd think I get bored eventually but I don't. something this atrocious will never happen(knock on wood)

Meh, I find the dub to be mediocre to moderately above average at best. I don't see why 4chan can honestly say "The Black Lagoon English dub is so good it caused the Japanese dub to cease existing."

The Yakuza arc was not so great. Ginji and Yukio's voice actors were pretty darn bad. Plus, the English dialogue ended up changing the script from the Japanese version:

1. The biggest offender was making Ginji fluent in English. In the Japanese dub, whenever Revy spoke to Ginji, her voice actor had to actually speak English. To American ears, this "Engrish" sounds hilarious and stupid, but it's a crucial part of characterization that Revy and Ginji DON'T UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER'S LANGUAGES. Unless they're about to get into a fight, which is a language anyone understands.

2. The Chinese dialogue was removed. Sometimes Shenhua will start talking in Mandarin when she's really getting into a fight, but the English translators couldn't be bothered to follow the script like this, and instead opted to turn everything into English.

3. The Russian dialogue was removed. In the initial episode when Balalaika is negotiating with the yakuza thugs, she calls up her subordinates and tells them to detonate a bomb. In the Japanese dub, she speaks to them in Russian. In the English dub, they couldn't bother to translate two lines into Russian and give it to Patricia Drake to read.

It happens again when the KGB loser running the Russian Mafiya's operations is killed by Ginji. When Ginji corners the guy in the restaurant, he starts begging for his life in Russian, which leads Ginji to comment something like, "You don't even speak Japanese. How pitiful." Unfortunately in the English version, all lines are changed to English and everyone magically understands each other.

There is really only one English voice I like. Mr. Chang, mainly because I feel his Japanese actor is too old for his character.

Roberta is a borderline case: she sounds more emotionally unstable in Japanese (particularly in Roberta's Blood Trail, for obvious reasons), but I also liked Tabitha St. Germain's portrayal as an emotionless girl.

(I disagree about Revy, I think her voice is great) I love it a lot more than the subs. The dub was perfect, IMO. Right up there with Cowboy Bebop and FLCL for some of the best dubs ever!

I still can't believe this is the same studio that dubbed Higurashi. Now, THAT is a dub that I CAN'T STAND.

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Geneon seems to have some impressive English dubs on their record... though I don't think I've seen many from them. Only other one I can think of is Hellsing Ultimate. I'm glad this show got the dub it deserves, even IF Rock is a bit cheesy than he should be. He sounds too much like Light Yagami (LOLOLOLOLOLOL).
I actually dislike Revy's Japanese dub but to each his own.

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"Rock is a bit hammier than the character needs, and it starts to get grating after awhile."

I'll take a little hammy over the boring monotone drone of the original. It was more hilarious for him to scream "Yea!, You got f#@Ked!" than it was to read him dully yell "I f#@Ked you."

"Also, the original Revy sounds harder, sexier, and more believable as a seriously damaged woman and a lifelong smoker."

Much as I hate to be confrontational I have to ask, are you high?! If there was one thing wrong with the original Revy it was her voice wasn't hard enough. She sounded dull and uninterested throughout the series and that didn't match her animation at all. The only time she really shines in the sub was the scene in the submarine with rock. This was the only time she sounded like the "Seriously damaged woman" you claim.

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It is a great dub. I do agree Rock can get a bit loud (my friends were getting annoyed by his voice so I had to switch to sub). But the performances are all great, especially Balalaika. Her English VA knew exactly what she was doing.

I'm glad someone appreciates Revy's Japanese voice. I'm surprised people don't get the performance her VA was going for. Revy is damaged goods. She's supposed to sound rugged and low key, she gets hoarse and screams when she needs to. Her voice always matched her emotions.

I love the dub

Brad Swaile was a good choice for Rock,at times he kinda sounded like the Japanese voice actor which is not a requirement,but it worked.
Brad also voiced Qutre in Gundam Wing,Light Yagami in Death Note,Nightcrawler in X Men Evolution, Gohan in the Ocean Dub of DBZ(one of the only voice actors that fitted the character in that dub). Hes got a good range of roles

I Thought Revy s voice actresd did a great job,I liked it more than the Japanese voice actress not that she did a bad job,but I liked that in English Revy sounded more aggressive


Dutch sounded awesome,He is laid back but can kick ass,his actor captured that perfectly



Brian Drummond was good a Benny,Most people know as Vegeta which is not his best role Imo,Ryuk in Death Note is my favorite and I liked him as Benny











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