James is not kidding. Someone on Twitter put together a clip compilation and Kenshiro's actor sounds like someone doing a parody of bad old anime dubs. I am SPEECHLESS. I am DUMBFOUNDED.

He can't even do the fight noises right!

Also no one can pronounce "Hokuto."

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Still better than any dub related to Dragon Ball in the past 22 years
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This is like one of those dubs where the "voice director" just gets a bunch of their family members to show up, god damn.
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This dub is so bad that I only just noticed how bad and flappy the mouth movements are, holy shit.
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Is this another Amazon Ai Dub job?
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hawk tuah no ken
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I kinda had a bad feeling about it to begin with since it reminded me of Berserk 2016 and Guts sliding across the screen like he was being pulled by the Paint lasso tool.
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Oh dear, now if I ever beg @teamfourstar.bsky.social to do "Fist of the North Star", they will simply point at this and say "it's been done"
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MY BOY! LOOK HOW THEY MASSACRED MY BOY!
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those bastards! 😠 im gonna slaughter them, ALL! 🤬😡🤬
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The choice to say "the year 199X" as "One hundred ninety-nine X" is bizarre.
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Funnily enough, the AI-powered TTS stuff out there ALL does that exact thing.

Not saying this is, but I wouldn't rule it out until given concrete proof.
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I wonder if that part is AI. For real, a computer wouldn't know to say "Nineteen Ninety X", so it says it literally as "One hundred ninety-nine x"
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we really need a fucking w sometime soon what the fuck is going on
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“So you understand what asshole means!”
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What is this? An abridged episode?
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No, Dub of the North Star was actually good www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXR3QW7F59Y
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Oh my god.
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Even the knuckle-cracking sound is weirdly fucked up.
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why did they decide this art style was the way to go after it got so panned in the newer Berserk
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Watch it come out that this shit was made with AI voices like the Banana Fish dub.
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Hokuto no Ken is one of my top 10 favorite anime for life and I'll take it to the grave with me...but there isn't one thing about these clips that I don't hate.

This is the heart of madness.
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Wow. It almost looks better than Berserk 2016.
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THIS IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE HOLY SHIT HOW DO YOU FUCK UP THE YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD DROP WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUUUUCK
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Holy shit. Dubs today generally range from "pretty good" to "some of the best damn voice acting I've ever heard", and Amazon's supposed to have a ton of money, there's no excuse here.
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Shit this is worse than some 90's dubs. Berserk's dub wasn't that bad. Shit 4Kids worst dubs at the very least had voice actors who were trying to preform
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Amazon has a ton of money and they want to keep it that way
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Rich companies and ppl tend to have lots of money cos they hoard it like dragons and spend as little as possible as they suck up more income.
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They're deep into the "cannibalize business quality to push earnings" level of enshittification.
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Yeah, when they pony up for American union dubs the results are usually pretty good. It's when they cheap out and go to South Africa (or experiment with AI) that shit gets BAD.
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youtu.be/bVpwJbLLivU?si=c-xqK8JZemFNyDyu
Vibes
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......

Are we SURE this isn't another AI dub?
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no this sounds bad in the way a human would do it
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No doubt, a MTL script with South African VAs to be ever so slightly more expensive than a purely AI dub
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Those are humans, robots would be more dynamic compared to these performances
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“Oh, it’s the banana fish style”
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this is what my sibling who hates dubs thinks most dubs sound like 😭
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It's like I'm playing Final Zone 2 for the Turbo Grafx again
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This sounds like something from an abridged series circa 2011.
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Is this one of those AI dubs I’ve heard about?
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See... Works like these make me really appreciate how thin the line between official work and parodies can be.
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This is just how early Rwby sounds
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I think this might be a value add
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Okay, that many different VAs getting "Hokuto" wrong the same way can only lead me to believe that they were *told* to say it like that.
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That's the least enthusiastic yeehaw I've heard in a while.
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I'M SORRY DID THEY JUST FUCKING SAY ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE X
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Such an EarthBound year.
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Bad
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Did this dude step right off the set of Girl-Chan in Paradise?

"Jagi manipulated me? Thaaaaaaaaat explains everything!"
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I don't know which is worse, this or the Finnish dub for Silver Fang-anime 😄
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that was a painful 2 minutes, what did they do to... everything

BUT

but

it felt like coming home. Very nostalgic.

on the other Other hand though, I got 3 hands I'm a mutant, if I wanted an intentionally cheesy "good" bad dub we already have Ninja Slayer, which I swear also has better animation
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this is more like a dub hater's idea of what dubs sound like. WTF? even the worst 80's/90's dubs wasn't this bad.
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Voice acting aside, what is this animation? Who approved this?
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Clearly wasn't enough to cop out with the ever-so-often awful 10fps cel-shaded 3D crap. If they're trying to outdo Berserk '16 it's working
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I'm gonna puke 🤢🤮🤮
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Wow. Its such a sedate bad. I was going to say the 90s are back but the 90s were way more into uppers
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"Thank You." -_- "I Feel Alive Again" -_-
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Fuckin’…….WAT
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......I don't want to say it sounds like AI, even though Amazon was guilty of doing that last year, but Kenshiro sounds AI generated.
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are you sure this isn't some Abridged dub by an up and coming aspiring VAs? cause holy shit this is hillarious.
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Legitimately the guy he kicks off the motorcycle sounds like he's doing a worse version of a joke voice Weeklytubeshow did for Dub of the North Star like a decade ago.
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this is worse than ai
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This dub is so bad, it would have settled the dubs vs subs fight in the 90s.
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This has to be AI voice acting, right? I haven’t heard dubbing this bad in decades. Why does he sound like Nic Cage playing Keanu Reeves?
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someone posted credits and evidently it's some no-name outfit out of South Africa
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Hawktuah Shin Ken
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“hakuto hundred blows rushing fist”
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It makes me feel alive again knowing people can still make genuine bad dubs in 2026 without using AI.
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Shout-whispering and unconvincing deep voices. Sounds like every [CONTENT CREATOR] with a cringe rantsona/vtuber avatar.
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How is this real? This sounds like something from the early 90s, not a modern dub.
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The dub is awful but the animation is also awful. It looks and sounds like 5 hobos in an abandoned boxcar with a microphone and a laptop made this entire production, anime, dub and all. I really can't believe what I am seeing. Absolutely fly by night anime.
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Ain’t no way The Amazing World of Gumball managed to pronounce Hokuto correctly and the series’s own dub can’t!
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I can't believe they released a dub of this quality in the year 2026. Amazon really just paid as little money as possible for a dub.
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WOW this is awful

also hock-uh-toe 😂
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kenshiro sounds like nerrel doing the bad dub bit.
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I am in trouble for waking up my wife laughing at the "yeeeeeehawwww"
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This sounds and looks like an Adult Swim parody of anime.
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"One-hundred and ninety nine x" is so fucking funny I am in disbelief
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This legitimately sounds like an amateur abridged parody.
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“In the year one hundred ninety nine X.” Yeowch. I get the feeling this was dubbed with AI.
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this was painful to watch
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Yyyyyyeesh
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I felt like I was actively losing braincells watching this compilation.

How the hell did they treat one of the most influential manga series in the world like THIS?
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@takesbyscott.bsky.social
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Oh my god
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LOL.😂
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"in the year one hundred and ninety-nine ex"
oh so they just did not give a fraction of a fuck, huh
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Because "nineteen ninety X" would sound dated.
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Is this the same animation studio that did Berserk? It looks nearly identical, from stiltedness to color grading
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hokutuah
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I wonder if @mothersbasement.bsky.social will be making a roast episode out of this particular adaptation.
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I want to see Vargskelethor do the same thing during one of his streams myself.
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Plot twist: the reason the Fatal Fury teaser didn't have an English voice for Kenshiro was because this is gonna be his English VA
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I actually hope that's the case because I'd find it very funny
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How many times are they gonna fuck up a new fist of the north star series, good lord...

If you're not gonna do even a half assed attempt at a dub then just.. don't.
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Ah, getting the Berserk treatment. Never gets old.
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hakutto
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People love hyperbole, but man... anyone calling this "the single worst performance I have ever heard in an anime" feels like such a sign of how far the industry has progressed since "199X".

My sweet summer children, this is the worst you've heard? Darling friends, you don't even know.
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ONE-HUNDRED-AND-NINETY-NINE-EQUIS

Pretty sure this is AI, right?
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I'll have only two
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Nope! Real South Africans, just directed poorly (and possibly AI assisted). The same studio did the dubs for Ninja Vs. Gokudo and Dinner Table Detective.
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A mix of LittleKuriboh parody dubbing and Critikal/Jacksepticeye using their normal voices in Dispatch
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Holy shit. Garzey's Wing has a competitor for biggest trainwreck.
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This is a clown car pileup!
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The irony is the lead in Garzey's Wing is probably the *best* performance in that dub!
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Whoever greenlit this cow diarrhea
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so they made a third season of berserk 3d huh
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"Yeah man just do like your worst Metalocalypse impressions, it'll be fine."
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It's so crusty.
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And not even in the good way!
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@discofashion.bsky.social
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The animation is also awful

Also what's with this guy? He looks like he's wearing a fake beard... badly.
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welcome to most 3d anime. they tend to always look like uncanny shit.
i think the only full 3d anime i've seen that doesnt look terrible is that one bang dream spin off
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I decided to check what he looked like in the manga just to see if this was based on something. Verdict: no.
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did kenshiro's va down a bottle of xanax before recording or what
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This animation style... are these the same fucks that butchered Berserk?
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“thank you.

i f e e l a l i v e a g a i n.”
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They pronounce Hokuto like its gonna become the number one ninja, believe it
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Oh my gawd, @greboguru.bsky.social, @spiff.geek.org get in here. It’s the 80’s anime room all over again.
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I just watched the first episode of the new show tonight. Then I rewatch the first episode of the original series. The new series has more detailed art, and uncensored, Gore, but everything else about it is inferior. I never watch dubs, of course.
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I'm sorry for this but
Hokuto-ah, bad english dub on that thing
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Why?! WHY do they keep doing this to our brutal legends!

Fucking Berserk got ruined recently... and now my man Kenshiro?!
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Recently? Berserk 2016 was ten years ago 👴
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you could tell me the actors phoned it in to fuck over amazon and I would wholeheartedly believe u
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The animation is so stiff
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Laugh in french dub
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were half of them in a public toilet to record their audio?
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Kenshiro asking Rin for water like she's his mommy and he just had that bad dream about Jagi again
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It literally sounds like VA work from a 2005 Newgrounds game

How did this casting get approved?
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I kept waiting for Kenshiro to tell me his love for me is like a truck
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Jesus christ this makes the '86 movie dubbers sound like 12 Angry Men in comparison.
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i feel they had fun though!
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sounds like their second attempt to us an ai dub without disclosure
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Sounds like a completely acceptable level of voice acting for a fandub (what do you mean this is official)
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Holy shit, that is the stuff of legends.
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Watch compilations on YouTube when they come out, don't give them the views.
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Was Neil Breen involved with that dub?
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It sounds almost like an "Abridged" dub. Like it's deliberately bad.
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they keep saying "Hakutou" like it's a character's name and not a fighting style!!! xD

Like if Roronoa Zoro's dub actor said Oni Giri as "uno gyro" the vowels are THAT far off!!!
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Wow we're back in the days of "holy shit this is stupid bad". Its like William Winckler never left.

Somehow its only just above that one Banana Fish dub they did by virtue of NOT being genAI as far as I can tell.
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There's dubbing credits, so it's real people. Apparently they outsourced it to a South African company
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It does kinda go with how awful the show looks anyways tbh.
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I fear that screenings of this are going to become a con favorite...
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oh my god
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At least the manga and it's entirety is available in english, and you can imagine the characters with the voices from Dub of the North Star.
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This isn't even charming bad where you can tell everyone involved put their heart into it and was having fun, this is just awful
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who the HELL greenlit this

oh my god
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