So I watched the Japanese RWBY dub. It was well done, and they definitely didn’t have the really awkward deliveries that the original very occasionally had. Overall it was more normal, which I almost think is a bad thing; RWBY is dorky as fuck, and the somewhat unnatural voices of the original actually fit pretty well. And Jaune’s suave voice is fucking great. EDIT: And his vomiting. And his random screams of surprise and pain, his scream in the cave...

The rest of it I can’t really critique with my paltry knowledge of Japanese. It seemed like there were a lot of jokes where the delivery wasn’t as good as it was in English, but that just makes me wonder at all the shit I’m missing by watching anime without knowing Japanese.

Also, for some reason, they don’t seem to have released the trailers and the first season was done as 10 episodes rather than a movie.

P.S. Yang punching an ursa to death while yelling “ora ora ORA ORA ORA!” is something I’m very glad I got to hear.

You may have already figured it out, but I decided to quit Tumblr. A few reasons, mainly because I decided I didn't need to tell the Internet everything humorous that popped into my head and because my experience with Tumblr had gotten a little uncomfortable for personal reasons. I came back to grace all you RWBY fans with my hard-earned weeb knowledge, but now I'm probably leaving again.

I don't think I'm going to do a video compilation of other roles the Japaneese RWBY VAs have done. They've managed to snag some popular VAs who have done very fitting roles, so I doubt that there will be any problems. If someone still wants me to do a video, though, I'll probably do it if you ask. I probably won't be on Tumblr, though, so you'll have to find a different way to ask.

I heard that someone licensed RWBY for a Japanese dub, so I was curious about the voice actresses. As far as I can tell, they’ve only announced team RWBY.

Ruby: Hayami, Saori

Seems to have done quite a few childish and/or weird characters. Occasionally does nonhuman ones as well.

Was Tsuyu from Noragami, Shinoa from Seraph of the End.

Here she is being a childish, weird, nonhuman character.

Weiss: Hikasa, Yoko

There’s a word in anime for Weiss-like characters: ojou-sama. Essentially it’s a fancy, well bred young woman. I’m pretty sure Hikasa Yoko has voiced every possible variation on this character.

She had two very minor roles in Seraph of the End (Yoichi’s sister and some vampire noble), Mio from K-On!, Seraphim from Is this a Zombie?, and apparently the kid version of  Rei "Speedo Glasses" Ryuugazaki from Free!.

She’s the tall, black-haired one in this.

Blake: Shimamura, Yuu

By far the least prolific of the four, I only know her from three things but she seems to fit. She was Annie from Attack on Titan and the main character of Seraph of the End (as a kid). 

She’s the one who can’t get a date.

Yang: Koshimizu, Ami

Possibly the most prolific of the four, and yet the only one not in Seraph of the End. Okay, maybe she isn’t the most prolific, I’m just biased because no matter what she’s in she’s always best girl. Ryuuko from Kill la Kill, Holo from Spice and Wolf, Kallen from Code Geass. Hell, Kawasaki Saki from Oregairu had twenty-ish lines over 2 seasons and she was still pretty kickass. Also apparently Naegleria "Nene" Nebiros from Is that a Zombie?. 

She’s the one with the funny ears. Except pretend that it’s in Japanese. Also pretend that it’s being voiced by Koshimizu Ami rather than the English voice actress Brina Palencia. 

In case you were wondering, all of my choices for videos were horrendous. None of the voices matched the voices they’ll probably use for RWBY characters. Even if I’d managed to find a Japanese Holo, Holo speaks much more formally than Yang does (even if the personality is nearly spot-on). I don’t know why I chose shit videos. I might make my own compilation of videos soon, if I’m bored.

(Come to think of it, I concentrated on Seraph of the End because I know one of you watches it, but I just realized that the person specifically watches the English dub...)

I’m out.

3.5 is just lame

I think I just spent an hour in the hot tub with a group of people who don’t realize that your hands prune when wet but then get smooth again as they dry.

I really need to get a 3′ x 4′ print of this, frame it in a fancy golden frame, and hang it above my computer.

Out of all the popular, established sequels recently, High School DxD BorN is the one they give a simuldub to? I wonder if it’s just easier to license, or ecchi is actually more popular than wonderful shit like Nisekoi:

I wonder how people would react at a highschool grad party if you made sure they already had the answers to the common questions upon arrival. It seems like so much of the small talk started out with (or consisted of) “Where are you going?”, “What will be your major?”, and “What will you do as a career?”. So if you had a giant sign at the entrance answering these, or maybe pamphlets, what would people do? Pretend not to have noticed? Try really hard to think of other conversation with a kid they barely know? Legitimately forget because they probably didn’t care much?

Typical conversation with Ramith

Apparently I’m so unlikely to remember my own birthday that Google Calendar decided to tell me in three different ways when it is.

I probably shouldn’t be this excited by the new web interface at my college/workplace.

Apparently this is the UofM’s view of their average part-time employee compared to their average full-time employee.