WTF was the same shockin' feeling for me at 5 pm, when after I got my TV fixed today (had color issues for a couple of months now) and was anxious to watch Pokemon back in high color today. I was going to post the same, but instead waited for the 8pm version.. which alas.. too was shown in English.
NEVER has it happened that Pokemon was aired in English at my place. For a moment I thought maybe my cable operator switched the CN version, just like South India and some other regions prefer the Engish dub due to less usage of Hindi over there... but in Mumbai!!!??! And yet again WTF!!, I then realise all the rest of the shows as well as the ads are in Hindi, EXCEPT Pokemon!!
That goes to show that something is up with the dubbing process for Pokemon now in CNIndia, is it that they think the English version is preferred over the localized version ? I don't think so, because ofcourse some of the urban viewers wud think so, but American English is NOT suitable for the most of the rural India that watches Cartoon Network. It may also occur that this particular episode wasn't dubbed or some related issue, for which we wil get answer to it on Monday, on the next episode.
And FYI, I don't know why you both are dragging PUSA in here, it has nothing to do with the dubbing, this is PAC, not PBF. AFAIK Pokemon is still being dubbed in other countries in languages like Spanish, French, German, etc.
[offtopic]This has nothing to do with the dubbing issue, but something I'd like to note that today's episode was when the 2nd intro or 2nd season (well not exactly) of the Advanced Generation in Japan began.
AG 70 [346] - Petalburg Gym Battle Five Badges
Really got nothing to do with the dub, but in my collection, the Japanese raws have been categorised under Season 7 from this episode onwards due to a new intro.[/offtopic]
I just hope they don't stop dubbing Pokemon in Hindi from now on, oh God.. pretty please don't.. that will be terrible
Let's all pray for this..
Posted: December 9th, 2006, 5:22 pm