"Rave Master" on Ani-Monday Talkback (Spoilers!)

Okay, I want to clarify something regarding Elie... This is the first time I have ever seen Rave Master. I have never seen Groove Advenure Rave. That being said, Elie is probably one of the worst dubbed characters in Anime history, right up there with 4KiRAB Ussop & Joe from the Digimon dub. The reason I rip into her is for the constant of bad jokes like...

"The farthest I've ever been is west, which isn't very far north!"
"It's not like Muzica is a common name like Black or Smith. Blacksmith? See what I did?"

And the immortal...
"Haru, give him a doggie biscuit or better yet, one of those rawhide chews!"

They're not funny and really kill any mood the scene had at that point. Of course, I don't blame her but the guy writing this, Bob Buchholz. He may be good as Gene Starwind but was probably one of the worst dub writers in history. The only good dub he did was Bobobo and that's because his jokes actually fit the mood of the series.

The reason I keep comparing to Orihime is that's a good example of a female character in a shonen that's funny.

But I'm only bashing dub Elie since she has the worst jokes AND is a main character so the pain doesn't seem to end until the series. I'm pretty sure the japanese version doesn't have her think Kari The Digger is a mole or try to play a rhyming game while she's held captive but I'm dealing with the dub. And if I say something like...





It's all in good humor a la MST3K and shouldn't be taken seriously. I come to these threaRAB as a comedian and making jokes is what I do.

Thank you, good night, and may God bless.

[Don_East]​
 
DepenRAB on the situation. For all the Starz/Manga-Ent stuff, that probably comes free, I doubt that CPM can afford to pay SciFi, so that was either gotten on the cheap or free, but for Rave Master, I doubt that the rights holders would pay to put it on air, so I'd guess at worst it was cheap, and at best free.
 
Starz/ Manga Ent has to have the broadcast rights in order for it to air on Ani-Monday. As it is, they dont get their stuff on their free either considering they help Sci Fi pay for the Ani-Monday block with the advertisors.
 
Ellie: "Tell me the truth or I'll use these non-lethal blasters!"

Well Ellie, your father was a long purple tube, and your mother was the Positron Scanner in Lab A4....



That was a Digital Swimsuit?! Wow, I would have never known.

Then agian, considering how annoying Ellie is, I don't want to see her nude.
 
No, being your mentor, I give rewarRAB for things for when you do smart things and punish you when you do durab things. Only an idiot would actually like Rave Master and I KNOW YOU'RE SMARTER THAN THAT, BOY!


Well, thanks for the warning, now I know what we're up against.


So that's her name. So tell me, does she say have bad dialogue or has something durab like hypnotic dance music? This show has already burned me twice in liking any female characters and I don't like to be burned for a third time.
 
I wouldn't say she's quite as bad as Ussop, but since Bucholz worked on Digimon too, there's an erie similarilty to how obnoxious Elie and Joe are. How does Bucholz chose which character to give the most annoying lines to, anyway?



No, the Japanese version has those. They're just scripted differently and thus are less painful. (particularly the word game.)



That's cause her funny moments are actually written as funny by the dub writers. That dub is faithful to the core material and characters, unlike butcheries such as Rave Master or One Piece or Cardcaptors. Hell, I bet the dub writers treat Orihime better than the actual creator. (For the record, I do quite like Orihime's character but she's handled so ridiculously alot of the time that I can't help liking to mock her. As much as we all like mocking Elie and the others for their painfully unfunny dub lines. )
 
Has anyone else noticed that on every twenty-fifth page in this thread we discuss a really stupid episode?

Think about it: page twenty-five--the movie star idiot. Page fifty--the Big Butt Bandits. Go back in this thread and look if you don't believe me.

Seeing as we're about to hit the big seven-five, I though I'd just mention that.
 
This is some kind of joke right? Is that it Sci-Fi? Some bizarre joke that is sick and twisted.


Hey, I'm just trying to liven up this thread. That's how I roll.
 
Well the Oracion Six and whoever becomes the new King of the Demon CarRAB, put all these villains to shame. And if we run into them again, the Butt Bandits better not be around.

When the anime is over, is it okay to disucess manga spoilers?
 
Well, I can stick around for the first episode, but I got work in the morning.

Man, I disappear for a week and I miss a ton of stuff.

Wait, I must screencap Reina!
 
Sadly, I will not be able to join you guys for the weekly torture that is Rave Master. I'm going home for a few days for some R&R.

Wait, why am I sad?! I should be celebrating!
 
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