Digimon Adventure: English Dub is out! All of it. On Microsoft Movies & TV- Production, Cast, & Dub Details

[MarcFBR]

It's been a wait of a bit over a year, but the English dub for Digimon Adventure: is out! All of it!

It appears Toei is mirroring the release they've done for a few other recent shows, releasing it via Microsoft Movies & TV in multiple parts as purchase to own digital:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

Single episodes are $2.99 to purchase in HD, $1.99 in SD.
Parts 1, 2, and 3 each have 13 episodes and can be purchased in a bundle for $33.99 in HD and $22.49 in SD.
Parts 4 and 5 each have 14 episodes and can be purchased in a bundle for $36.99 in HD and $23.49 in SD.

If the pattern holds from a few prior shows where Toei did this, showing up some other places around the world shortly won't be unexpected.

hoopla seems a decent guess at the moment, and is free with a library card. So hopefully it ends up there. (The prior time they did this, with Dragon Quest, it also appeared in the UK via iPlayer, so we'll see...)




Onto dub details! Watched a few episodes (1st and last) to get a general idea.


The dub was done at Studiopolis, which as a long history with Digimon.

Ryan Johnston directed, who was the recording engineer for Fusion & Kizuna, along with directing all of the tri. dub.

Rita Majkut produced, another one with a long history with Digimon. She's produced all of the Digimon dubs at Studiopolis, and produced the original Digimon Adventure dub at Saban.

The English dub cast for the 8 kids and the Digimon:
Tai- Zeno Robinson
Matt- AJ Beckles
Sora- Cherami Leigh
Izzy- Anne Yatco
Mimi- Suzie Yeung
Joe- Daman Mills
TK- Corina Boettger
Kari Kamiya- Ryan Bartley
Agumon- Ben Diskin
Gabumon- Dave B. Mitchell
Biyomon- Tara Sands
Tentomon- Christopher Swindle
Palmon- Corina Boettger
Gomamon- Alex Cazares
Patamon- Lizzie Freeman
Gatomon- Erine Yvette

In general there isn't an attempt to match prior voices, which largely lines up with what we had from the one clip.

Some are somewhat close in cadence and tone to old voices (Matt), while Robinson's Tai actually skews closer to a more classic Tai voice than I expected based on the initial clip.

A number of the Digimon feel a bit more high pitched than you'd expect (Diskin is doing a good attempt to skew to a more Japanese style Agumon, but it has a very scratch sound to it that I'm not sure how I'll feel about it long term as I have time to watch more), likely taking into account voices going deeper as they evolve.

I expected to dislike most of the voices honestly, with some of them being so wildly different voice wise, but most are largey pleasant, with the main difference being getting used to different voices.


The dub appears to be uncut but sweetened, about in line with expectations.
It uses the standard English Digimon terms (Kamiya, digivolve, in-training, etc.), but does have the characters say Taichi, Koushiro, etc. along with a 'just call me Tai' setup, not wildly unlikely the signs in the dub of the original Adventure.

The production quality seems reasonably good, and it appears Toei went through and swapped out Japanese titling for English (the Adventure: logo, episode title, elements in the encyclopedia entries), along with translated and English credits in both the OP and ED.

While I only watched two episodes, at least one prodigious popped up in dialogue from Izzy, and in a comical moment, Tentomon mentions Sheboygan. Both worked well with the framing given.


The bigger surprise, they used newly dubbed versions of the existing OP and ED.


The English version of the OP, Mikakunin Hikousen (Unidentified Airship) was sung by Hans Hessberg. It appears this is one of the vocalists from the punk rock band Dragged Under.

The English version of ED1, Kuyashisawa Tane (Regrets Bring Fruit) was sung by Cristina Vee, who was Meiko in tri. & Himari in Next Order.


When the final episode played there was a bit of a half surprise...
Dreamers by Ateez was not the ending.
Since it was a licensed song, it appears that one isn't being used in the English version (at least in the final episode.)

Instead Overseas Highway, ED4, continued to be used, sung by Jenny Karr. If it's the one that popped up in a check, she's a decently well known songwriter and EDM/pop singer.


The final episode version of Break the Chain in the episode was undubbed, with the vocals from Takayoshi Tanimoto.



Overall it's a nice dub from what little I watched so far, but it needs better distribution. Toei has done this sort of distribution a few times, so it's apparently working for them, but it doesn't go wide enough to make it easy for people to watch, even for purchase to own, where there is simply far better known stores.


Thanks to quadarius Moore for the heads up.

 

[TheImpster]

This should have been on Netflix or something like that, it would really be much more effective and potentially even reach a new young audience

 

[PCmon]

Man, they really did want to distance themselves from the OG English Adventure dub cast. I think only three members of the cast have ever even been in a Digimon dub before. Interesting.

So cool that the songs are dubbed in English too. They didn't have to do that (and many dubs don't), but it's a nice added touch. Much more enjoyable being able to hear a song in my native tongue.

Reeeaaaallllllly feels like a bad business move not to have it on streaming services, though. I really can't picture it doing very well the way it's being distributed.

 

[transformers03]

Cherami Leigh upgraded from Piyomon in Tri to Sora in this new dub.

This is a good cast with talented voice actors, but it's going to be really difficult for me to watch this new dub, especially if they are not going with the original voices or cadences as the original dub actors.

I think recasting for the 2020 Digimon anime makes sense, and I don't begrudge Toei's decision for doing it. It's just difficult to imagine some of these characters with these different voices.

I'm sure I'll get used to it, but it will be a difficult transition.

 

[Muur]

And all 67 episodes at once, nice

 

[transformers03]

Man, they really did want to distance themselves from the OG English Adventure dub cast. I think only three members of the cast have ever even been in a Digimon dub before. Interesting..

I don't think that's true.

They've kept a lot of the dub-ism from the initial series and even kept prodigious in the first two episodes.

I just think since it was a reboot, they wanted a mostly new cast to play these characters. I don't think it was done as disrespect for the previous production.

 

[BlankShell]

Dragged Under member singing the theme? Everything just got way better! I only finally started the OG Adventure dub remaster recently so I’ll let this one sit for a bit, but I’m looking forward to it.

 

[taz111]

Do these play on a Mac/apple device? don't want to purchase and they don't play.

 

[Santaskid]

Do these play on a Mac/apple device? don't want to purchase and they don't play.

i would assume not since its the microsoft (so windows) store
Generally speaking for the most part stuff with windows in mind tend to not be apple compatible

I would say this is just the first of several places i'd assume. Like i dont think anything has ever been exclusive to the microsoft store because while a lot of people may have PCs that is still limiting your reach because a LOT of people straight up prefer mac's for one reason or another

Not to mention Cromebooks exist, as does Linix OS which i little experience with linux so no clue how well tux gets along with the microsoft logo.

While a 5 part release makes a conventional physical release less likely i wouldnt rule it out in a few months as a "complete collection" But again I fully expect to see stuff pop up other places just because I personally have never heard of any microsoft store exclusvive shows (there totally could be some i just am not aware of any)

I could also see them do a Set 1 /Set 2 release with set 1 being part 1,2,3 for 35-40 with set 2 being parts 4 and 5.
Either way Hopefully we get a physical release at some point, but i also feel we'll probably see it pop up other palces as well

 

[Golden_Fate]

Not a super exciting cast list....but I'm sure they're all doing a totally suitable job.

 

[Cardcaptor Takato]

I expected it to be released like this as this is how Toei has been releasing the Dragon Quest and One Piece dubs but will they eventually put this on Crunchyroll? I think there's going to be a lot of confusion when casual anime fans hear there's a dub out and they go to Crunchyroll to look for it where the sub is easily at but don't find the dub there.

 

[DigitalCorp]

I recognize about five or six names here. Robinson, Leigh, Diskin, Sands, Cazares, possibly Freeman.

Would it have been that hard to have moved Tara over to Kari's role?

 

[Muur]

Do they really think people are going to pay 116 dollars for one show

 

[CloneWarrior]

Do they really think people are going to pay 116 dollars for one show

Wow, what? I initially misread it as there being two bundles (1, 2 & 3 and 4 & 5) that would together cost about $71, but that's a pretty insane price for it all.

 

[Muur]

Do they really think people are going to pay 116 dollars for one show

Wow, what? I initially misread it as there being two bundles (1, 2 & 3 and 4 & 5) that would together cost about $71, but that's a pretty insane price for it all.

71 in HD and 45 in SD wouldn't be too bad tbf, but 176 for HD and 116 for SD is wild

but yeah, I can see what you mean the way it's worded in the opening post is confusing.

At least the opening and ending song in dub sounds lit af, I was literally thinking earlier today whilst watching a show on Crunchyroll about why do they not dub over songs these days and then ADV20 comes in a few hours later and goes I got you fam

I couldn't pay 176 dollars even if I wanted to since it's not on the UK MS store anyway...

 

[D O R U g o r a m o n]

Really weird they arent putting this on streaming or TV considering the reboot is more targeted at a younger audience to draw in new fans.

Putting the dub up on windows movies (Which I never even knew existed) without any fan-fare is a very questionable marketing decision.

 

[Vice]

I hope one day this comes to other streaming services. I knew Toei was going to pull this after what they did to the Adventures of Dai English dub. Oh well. At least every episode is available to watch at some point.

 

[Muur]

I hope one day this comes to other streaming services. I knew Toei was going to pull this after what they did to the Adventures of Dai English dub. Oh well. At least every episode is available to watch at some point.

Is that Dai show in other places e.g. netflix would give an idea what to expcet here

if the op is true that other toei shows were on the iplayer in the uk thatd be wild since iplayer is free if you have a tv licence

 

[DigiPokeMon]

I was right that Toei will simply dump it on to the microsoft store. Wonder why they cant put it on Netflix as well?

 

[Lilimonblooms]

Is Xtreme fight dubbed?