Random Musings - Shadow Warrior Chronicles and HanTsuki Drama August 5
Having said that, the growing consensus seems to be that either ADV or ANN screwed up and that the English titles for Utawarerumono and the other ADV license Shin Angyo Onshi - supposedly re-titled “Blade of the Phantom Mask” - got mixed up. This would make a ton of sense, since Shin Angyo Onshi actually has “phantom soldiers” (aka. shadow warriors) and Utawarerumono actually features someone with a mask. “Blade of the Phantom Mask” still isn’t a fantastic title, but it’s not bad either. And it certainly doesn’t make me crack up like “Shadow Warrior Chronicles” does (at least in relation to Utawarerumono).
Source: Yahoo News
sinistral at 10:45 pm on August 5th, 2006
Live Action HanTsuki! I’m looking forward to that.
Zelath at 11:15 pm on August 5th, 2006
What kind of name is “Shadow Warrior Chronicles” … that has got to be the most stupid name I have ever heard. I hope Yesy will continue to sub it.
sh4dowreaper at 11:40 pm on August 5th, 2006
…i just hope that Omni’s right and that they screwed the names up by accident… Blade of the Phantom Mask fits Utawarerumono more then “Shadow Warrior Chronicles”
jj at 11:47 pm on August 5th, 2006
that name is just horrible….but it’s better than nothing, right?
whee-ness at 11:48 pm on August 5th, 2006
ADV is ****ed up man.. like seriously…
Fuhrer at 11:49 pm on August 5th, 2006
I do hope that there was a mix up in the name department. Blade of the Phantom Mask still isnt great but like you said it fits a hellaofalot better than Shadow Warriors.
tunemeisater at 12:02 am on August 6th, 2006
hantsuki as a live action sounds to be a great hope they don’t dissapoint like honey and clover
XeroFayt at 12:04 am on August 6th, 2006
Buaaha I am totally looking forward to the HanTsuki release. Any chance you will be blogging it?
Omni at 12:04 am on August 6th, 2006
We’ll see…
Eld at 12:08 am on August 6th, 2006
wow yesy might not sub -_-
but staticsubs is breaking all the rulez ^_^
new name sux “Shadow Warrior Chronicles” sounds like some washed up show in a kids tele show
r3dking at 12:30 am on August 6th, 2006
Shouldn’t that be “Fan of the Masked Phantom”?
AnimeFan159 at 12:35 am on August 6th, 2006
Who exactly is the shadow warrior, y woudl they giv eit a name when there isnt any shadow warriors in it, they should have left the name jap.
I’m really looking forward to the live action show, i wonder if it will follow the manga this time rather then make many different endings, not that that’s bad.
AnimeFan159 at 12:36 am on August 6th, 2006
woops, sry, i was thinking of teh wrong anime, i was thinking Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, dunno y that got into my head.
Zanarky at 12:46 am on August 6th, 2006
This was quite surprising, but a good series such as Utawarerumono will be licesnsed soon anyways. Here was an interesting find:
“Wolverine Princess” from ANN forums said this; “They should have renamed it I Pick My Nose and Eat the Boogers. It’s about as relevant to the series as “Shadow Warrior Chronicles”, and if I was a casual anime fan browsing the DVDs at Suncoast I’d be much more likely to buy a series with a title like that without hearing anything about it than something like Final Demon Shadow Warrior Vampire Fighting Evil Fantasy Chronicles.”
Oh man, that cracked me up =] I am unhappy with the title too.
Shinji103 at 1:16 am on August 6th, 2006
Dude, that had better be right about a mix-up. “Shadow Warrior Chronicles”?
I still think that the US anime companies should ask the Japanese production companies what they want /their/ anime to be named in English if the name is ever changed. The US companies may be doing the Stateside release, but the /Japanese/ companies are the ones who made the show and did all the real hard work, including getting the show distributed in their own country.
7th at 1:22 am on August 6th, 2006
Ya know, Im fine with the name change, I really am. People are acting like there gonna change everything aobut the story and show.
I mean really, tranlating it as “THat wich is sung” (Wich isnt even really all that acurate either FYI) will not only turn people away from it (Imagine your in a dude in a store and you see a DVD with cute little Aruru on the cover and it’s called That wich is sung, your not gonna think super violent awesome as hell war story” youll think some cutesy music related girl fest)
Shadow Warrior Chronicles at least is somewhat true to the seem of the show, we have a group of warriors (Some with Shadowy pasts OMG!) and this is somewaht of a chronicle.
Really now as long as teh content stays the same who cares that it;s not Utawarerumono (Wich is not easy to pronounce nor will you bother to remeber how to spell it so you look at info later)
IT’s not the best choice of names by any means, but peopel are acting liekt he show will suddenly stop beeing good.
ADV is a pretty good company to overall. THey did a great job on Bubblegum 2040 they did great with Godannar, AzuDai is done good as was Full MEtla Panic.
I mean really it’s not that big a deal.
vexx at 1:28 am on August 6th, 2006
we’ll hope its “news release stupidity” in the name mixup. Well…. not fond of ADV but as long as they handle the video quality decently and we have a quality japanese soundtrack with subtitles, they can hire out the Simpsons as the VAs on the English dub for all I care. I’ve pretty much given up on any US anime distributor hiring actual “A/B-list” voice actors. Bland line reading and pathetic casting for the most part…
Actually Homer voicing the Mr. Mask (the english name) and Marge voicing Eruffruff (her english name) might have some comedy value.
I like this series but I’d pay an extra few dollars a disk for some decent dialog acting.
Gil at 2:12 am on August 6th, 2006
dumb
moonglum at 2:59 am on August 6th, 2006
Omni i hope you are right and mabey there was a name mix up by somebody about these two shows.It seems they are both from the animation production company oriential light and magic.So there is hope of a mix-up.PS they are both great anime under any name.
Baka Hentai at 3:24 am on August 6th, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Warrior is probably not what they meant.