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2005 6 September :: 7.29 pm
:: Mood: uncomfortable
Naruto Dub!
Just as a warning, the following contains ramblings about VAs and name pronounciation and will probably be really boring to anyone who isn't a Naruto fan.
So yeah, I just saw a clip from the Naruto dub. To be fair, it wasn't as bad as I had previously imagined, and it could have been a lot worse, but it was hardly the best dub I've ever seen. I thought the VA for Iruka was pretty good, but Naruto's VA was just annoying and far too high-pitched. Mizuki's name was pronounced wrong (it was said as 'mi-zoo-ki' when really, all the syllables should be short, and if they have to emphasize part of the word, it should be the first syllable, not the middle one.) I was pleased to see that Naruto's name was pronounced sort of correctly, without the emphasis on the middle syllable that dubs often seem to insist on using.
(And just to be really picky, their mini-synopsis wasn't even accurate:
"...but when he steals a forbidden scroll, he unleashes a rare and dangerous power.'
They make it sound like he received a mysterious power from the scroll or something, when really, Mizuki uses Naruto's theft of the scroll to tell Naruto he had the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox into him at birth, making Naruto angry enough for a little of the fox's chakra to seep through and make him unusually powerful. The only thing he got from that scroll was how to perform Kage Bunshin No Jutsu ('Shadow Replication Technique,') which I wouldn't call a 'rare and dangerous power', no matter unusual it is for a low-ranking ninja to be able to use it.)
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2005 25 August :: 10.44 am
:: Mood: excited
GCSE Results!
Ok, GCSE results time!
Statistics: A
Graphics: A
Spanish: B
Biology: B
Chemistry: A
English: A*
English Literature: A
Physics: B
Religious Studies: A (Take that, Mrs Davies!)
Maths: A
Geography: A
A/S Level Art: D (oops.... Is this bad at A/S? I have no idea...)
Plus the fast track GCSE Art from last year, which was a B!
So yeah, more than enough to get my full scholarship for Sion Sixth Form, plus hopefully enough to inspire my parents to buy me a new phone to replace my old, broken one!
X-posted to all of my journals on various sites!
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2005 24 August :: 6.56 pm
:: Mood: lazy
Been back from Cornwall for a few days now, but I forgot to update...
Eeep... Results day tomorrow.
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2005 12 August :: 9.54 pm
:: Music: Tiamat - Teonanacatl
I'm getting signed postcards from Darren Shan as part of the runner-up prize in a competition! I must refrain from acting like a complete fangirl!
Anyway, no updates for at least a week, because I'm off to Cornwall tomorrow, until the 20th.
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2005 30 July :: 7.47 pm
:: Music: Silver Ash - Sleep
Well... I haven't updated in a while. Not that I've got much to say at the moment, so I'll make it short.
Anyway, my sister's broken up from school for the summer, so she's doing most of the work at my dad's office now. I'm going to have to look for a Saturday job, think, because I still want a source of income, even if it's not much.
I love this song... it's really odd, but it's beautiful.
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2005 21 July :: 4.53 pm
:: Mood: infuriated
:: Music: Utada Hikaru - Tokyo NIGHTS
Fucking terrorists. It looks now as though I won't be going to the Artists and Illustrators' Expo tomorrow, after there were a bunch of incidents involving detonators on the tube today. It's good that there weren't injuries this time (as far as I know) but the tubes will probably be closed off tomorrow, so we won't be able to get to Islington very easily. My mum's all worried about going, and there's no way Emily will be allowed. I'm just hoping I'll be able to go, at least. I hate this. Why should we be made to change our plans just because they've got some sort of grudge against our country? What gives them the right to mess about with our lives? It's not as though the British people have had a choice about which wars we've been involved in, if that's the excuse the terrorists are using to try and blow up our capital. This is just so infuriating, and I feel so helpless because we can't do anything about it.
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2005 18 July :: 10.02 pm
:: Music: Blind Guardian ~ Precious Jerusalem
I've been inexplicably agitated of late. I suspect it may be to do with the fact that the Artists and Illustrators' Expo is on Friday, and that I still have one free day, and two days of work before I go -_- Of course, it might be for no reason whatsoever. I should go and use my time constructively by working on RSOM or Bloodline (I still haven't done anything with that damn first chapter. I must post it somewhere, and finish chapter two.)
Actually, I want to go work on my digital painting of Abel Nightroad (Trinity Blood anime) but it's probably a bit late for that now. If I start on that again, I'll want to be on the computer for hours.
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2005 18 July :: 11.13 am
:: Mood: blah
It must be licensing season or something. Funimation have picked up the Trinity Blood anime (that was fast, it's only been around for a month or two) and hopefully they'll do as good a job with it as they did with Full Metal Alchemist (which is pretty good as far as dubs go.) Viz Media have got D.Gray-Man, so I'm really hoping they'll at least try and give this a decent translation (especially attack names - they mutilated the ones in Naruto.)
Some not so good news is that Viz Media won't be releasing the uncut Naruto episodes in America until July 2006. Hell knows when we'll get it over here in the UK. They better release the uncut episodes, otherwise I'll end up importing the region 1 DVDs.
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