HardcoreHunter wrote:
Sketchor wrote:
That doesn't even make sense dude.
The comedy wouldn't be behind any amount of episodes because they are made for Adult Swim.
Bleach is behind because Viz only dubs 1 episode a week at most. They can't go any faster than 1 per week. The process takes time but just like in Japan, Bleach airs weekly with very few breaks at this point. They could air them faster for a while but that would mean more breaks from premieres like before.
I would like to see a regular rerun slot for Bleach though.
I have never heard of any anime company dubbing an anime 1 episode at a time. Voice actors get paid by the hour so usually they do a whole season in one session. According to Tiffany Grant the average pay is around $36 an hour. So a person who has maybe one line an episode is going to read all his lines at once which will probably not even be a full hour of work.
They do some of that if it's a character who doesn't have a lot of lines per episode but the rate in which episodes are finished mixing comes to be about one per week.
Unless they do a show all at once which they can't do with an anime like Bleach.
Some companies dub long shows in batches but Viz dubs Bleach and Naruto at the rate of roughly one episode a week. That's what I hear from Kyle Hebert who works on both shows. With a long show they either have to dub in pieces by batches or dub a single episode at a time letting people who only have a few lines per episode dub batches of their lines in a session but the process for putting that work together typically goes in order so they finish episodes in order and can get them ready for broadcast if they're keeping to a "no breaks" schedule.
Regardless of the method Viz still has to take time to dub Bleach and if Adult Swim is getting the show in batches then they can only air what they have and if they catch up to Viz it means breaks.
Or do you really think Viz dubs more than around 50 or so episodes of Bleach in a year? Do you think they dub considerably more than that? Enough for Adult Swim to double premiere Bleach uninterrupted for over a year? That's around 100 episodes a year to dub. Both Naruto and Bleach are dubbed at Studiopolis in LA which Viz sub-contracts to do the work but Stuiopolis has other shows including American productions which pay more. So 50 episodes a year seems plenty reasonable to me.
But they're going to have to air quite a bit more than 50 in a year to ever catch up with Japan as long as Bleach is still running in Japan.
They did have a time when they had 2 Bleach premieres every week but that was because there was a long break between batches back then. So if you want another long break then by all means tell them to run Bleach faster. Ultimately we're still gonna be behind Japan. If you don't want to be behind Japan then just watch the subs on Hulu. It's as simple as that. Otherwise you have to wait for Viz to dub the episodes.
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