Talk:Winter Wrap Up (song)/International versions/@comment-125801-20130610224048/@comment-4531340-20130612204049

Umm... Japan, I guess? I mostly watch native English stuff/English dubbed anime, and there seem to be four big areas where the voice casts for those come from. Los Angeles, Texas (in FUNimation's case), New York (though there has been a lot less of that ever since 4Kids went into bankruptcy and emerged totally different), and Vancouver (which, coincidentally, is where FiM's voice work is recorded). I do always love those multilanguage comparisons on YouTube, though (I think my favorite one is comparing Kira's laugh from multiple dubs of Death Note, including the original Japanese).

Sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Take FUNimation's dub of One Piece, for example; they started off with episode 144 (the last episode 4Kids dubbed was 143, though with all the episodes they had cut out/combined, it was episode 104 of the dub) and they had to scramble to get it ready to air on Toonami (they only had a few months, apparently, to get all the voice work, digital painting, cutting, etc done). About 9 episodes in, the first theme song for the series plays in the background. Now FUNimation usually dubs their series' theme songs into English (unlike most companies which just run the theme in Japanese, with or without subtitles), but apparently they didn't have enough time to completely accurately dub the theme, so they just dubbed it with a different singer and a much looser translation than the final version that they would later release with the uncut DVD sets (starting with episode one this time). Now to be fair, One Piece has a continuing storyline from episode to episode, while FiM doesn't, but I'm guessing the Japanese dubbers just wanted to remain consistent with the English releases, and not air episodes out of order (though there would be less of a consequence for that for FiM, to be fair).