...what??? Did they compress the audio so it would fit on a 4GB Switch cart???

Steam reviews have been coming in, and quell surprise my issues with the audio quality weren't just a nitpick but a genuine problem others have been noting too

ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN launches February 11, 2026 "Ultra-violent science-fiction" action game ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam on February 10, 2026 for $49.99, developer Grasshopper Manufacture announced. It will be self-published by Grasshopper…

While this article goes very rightly into the disrespect actors have faced in dubbing, underneath that is an entire ecosystem of abused and rushed freelancers doing the timecoding, adapting, directing, engineering, and mixing who Amazon also attempted to cut. www.avclub.com/amazon-ai-an...

every time amazon get caught doing this, they should have to immediately dub the series in question with real actors, engineers, staff, etc. as an act of contrition. build that shit in the contracts

Not terribly surprised they did it without permission, but lmaoooooo I hope this gets them snubbed for future licensing deals.

Kadokawa stated that it did not approve of an AI dub, and Sentai stated that it wasn't aware of the dub beforehand.

"Parable of the Man Who Invented Death" Sonny Boy (2021), Episode 11 "The Young Man and the Sea" Rajdhani - Siddhartha Minhas Nagara - Derrick Snow Director: Alexis Tipton Writer: Tyler Walker #WeWantRealDubs

BANANA FISH no longer has an English dub on Amazon

They might've OK'ed MAKING it, but there's no way anybody approved POSTING it. This is an industry that makes us revise the blurb on the back of a box multiple times before giving up and making us translate the Japanese one.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA I remain convinced that Amazon did not get permission to do this and as soon as the licensor got back into the office, some strongly worded emails were SENT

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right on cue, in the ~week since this post, the majority of CR shows I watch have partially reverted. signs exist and are showing up on screen again, but generally unstyled and just sitting on the top or bottom (why put full effort in if you know it's going to be thrown out)

Here's the good news: though the workers 'making' these AI locs can't do much to stop them, WE, THE CONSUMERS, CAN. Email them. Cancel your subscription. Call them and complain. Be a Karen. Tell them they have lost your dollar. Workers secretly want this. They want consumers to riot.

I know a few managers who told Upper Management that this was a bad deal. It's not saving time, it's not saving money, and it could hurt our brand if it damages the quality too much. But they wanted to stay the course, and they gave us a lot of different reasons why:

My manager grimaced and shrugged. "Yeahhhh, I know it's not ideal, and that doing it the way we always have would be better all around... but the CEO reeeeally wants us to start using more AI. Can we just do it for this project and... see how it goes?"

In private messages, we all agreed: this was bad for the shows, bad for consumers, and bad for our translation teams. No one was benefiting from this, except for the company's bottom line... and honestly, even that was all speculation. But complaining to our management didn't do much.

Then came the push to start using AI as part of our subtitling flows. "It'll save time and money, because translators can just post-edit!" Never mind the fact that we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on purchasing AI licenses, it didn't lead to much improvement in translation speed.

"Well, you can also use it to write client emails!" Emails are not the hard, time-consuming part of our job. Any person in the industry who's been here a while knows how to write an email. So literally none of us in the department were using AI.

We were encouraged to start using AI in our day-to-day work. Our direct department head did a 'tutorial' with us to show us how to use it... to automatically schedule weekly meetings for a project. Except we already could do that by hand, like, super easily.

At least two years ago, we got word from upper management that they want us to "start using more AI". Why? Because "they want to save time and money".

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely. They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things. Only you have the power to kill it.

Amazon has rolled out AI dubbed anime and I’m truly appalled. Like it or loathe it, the medium has a rich, incredible history of English performances. There’s already a million reasons to hate Amazon, but fuck me. I wanna hear about your fav dub. Your fav VA. Let’s celebrate these folks. 💜

AI dubs aren't just an attempt to replace voice actors. Engineering, mixing, writing, directing, and QC are also cut, narrowed down to a single prompter. When I write dub scripts, it is an exercise in musicality, translation, and personal life experience. A prompter understands none of that.

Let's be honest, here. This is a company that can easily pay a decent wage for human actors, but it's also a company that - when tasked with growing, decided that having drivers piss in bottles and warehouse workers stress-cry in closets was an acceptable tradeoff. They're a fucking trash corpo.

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Reject AI. Embrace humanity. youtu.be/jFZ5QyLiGLc?...

So infuriating as it is that Amazon is dabbling in AI dubs, we've got to make sure that the response here is to emphasize the value of the proper dubs they've been doing rather than just the rejection of AI.

As someone who loves to watch so-bad-its-good content PLEASE understand you can't give shit like this the time of day The only way to convince these companies to not use AI dubbing is to show it's not profitable, STAY AWAY from hate-watching and instead spend that time watching dubs you love

The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.

Hey just so you know Amazon decided to give us an AI ENGLISH DUB of Banana Fish instead of actually hiring real voice actors it is fucking hot garbage #bananafish #anime

It's here. Now what do we do?

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After publishing this article, I've heard from many that CR seems to be using AI to produce dub CCs. Now, thanks to a slip-up CR had with episode 6 dub of The Banished Court Magician, we can say that with 100% certainty: Crunchyroll is using the AI service Ollang.com for its dub closed captions!

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A completely inscrutable anime OVA from 1985 was in the US box office top 5 for a couple of days, congrats angels egg www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0208...

Ask yourself this: Do you want this to be the future of your anime watching experience, forever? If your answer is no, then act on it! If you are a journalist or anyone with a platform, talk about this! If you know such people, urge them to do so! Use my article as base! Now, before it's too late!

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

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Lost dub acquired!

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Here's your first look at the English dub of LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN. 🌱 In select theatres October 31 Nationwide November 7 brnw.ch/21wWGoo