Re: "Full Metal Panic" dub (disc 1).

D B Malmquist wrote:
> Finally got 'round to watching this disc.  Any thoughts on the dub?
>
> My $0.02 -
>
> Chidori's name is pronounced like "Chicory", or even "Chittery".
> This is quite distracting because "Chittery" doesn't sound like a
> Japanese word - it sounds more like some obscure English term.
> ("The sound of fingernails on a blackboard makes my teeth feel
> chittery.")
>
> Chris Patton as Sagara sounds wrong - he's a too even-tempered and
> comfortable.  Sagara should come across as tightly wound and
> hopelessly stiff, substituting military protocol and discipline for
> social
> skill.

That's kind of funny.  Sagara was the only one I could tolerate in the dub.
His interpretation of the character may be off from what you were expecting,
but he's fairly well acted.  Plus, I didn't find his comfortable demenor to
be that inappropriate.  When Sagara is in his element (and even when he's
not, he usually doesn't quite catch that fact), he's comfortable and
confident.  That's important to display since that's probably what drew
Chidori to him in the first place (I've only seen the first to DVDs, so I
may be off).  Even in the subbed version, I didn't get the idea of him being
tightly wound our hopelessly stiff.  Rather, there's a hint of Sgt. Joe
Friday - just the facts, ma'am - in his personality.  That, and someone
who's never known anything but the life he lives... naive to the rest of the
world.