Lucky Star official English dub trailer released
 

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And as expected, the whole subs vs dubs debate is back on. Disregard that, if that's how "bad" the American dubs are... Then I say they can keep them coming.

EDIT: Guess I should post this (may be a bit outdated):

Cast:
Konata Izumi - Wendee Lee
Tsukasa Hiiragi - Michelle Ruff
Kagami Hiiragi - Kari Wahlgren
Miyuki Takara - Karen Strassman
Akira - Stephanie Sheh
Minoru - Sam Regal
Kuroi-sensei - Kate Higgins

Release info:
- 6 volume release
- Special Editions with goodies like with Haruhi Suzumiya. No details on OST/music yet.
- No set street date at this time.
- DVD Liner notes to be included for explanations of inside jokes and references in the series.
- Original Japanese EDs will be kept

Lucky star is now dubbed? Oh wow that will be interesting when it comes out ot see how popular it is.

Lucky star is now dubbed? Oh wow that will be interesting when it comes out to see how popular it is.

Yeah, one of the Haruhi DVDs had a teaser that announced the dub, and a pannel at a con announced the cast. And now the dub has a trailer.

Hence the DVD liners. Then again, Lucky Star has always been aimed towards the Otaku population, so...

I agree with kadrias.. there are a lot of Japanese jokes that will be pretty hard to translate. :/

I quite like Kagami's voice actor. Konata's I'm still undecided, she had good points and bad points and I didn't quite forgove her for that wierd pronunciation of manga at the start. Miyuki's made me wince.

Shiraishi Minoru should still be Shiraishi Minoru. It defeats the point otherwise XD

I probably won't watch the dub even if I do buy the DVDs (which I will do if I have the money to, I did love lucky star). I just hope they don't do what they did with pani poni dash, that was another show with obscure refrences and they decided the best way to deal with translators notes wasn't a booklet nice non-obtrusive notes at the top of the screen but pop-ups. It's awful. Oh well, I'll just have to hope for the best.

Apparently, the DVD films format only allows them to do so much, and notes at the top of the screen and subtitles at the bottom of the screen at the same time isn't something they can really do.

That's fair enough, but there has to be a less obtrusice way. The pop-ups appeared in the middle of the screen, with a sound effect, with a large border. You couldn't watch the show if you had the refrences. I mean, it's hard enough to do with pani poni dash anyway as it's full of the things but lucky star you can more or less keep track of both. Though, yeah, maybe they'll do something better for that. I should stop presuming the worst before we get there XD

I heard that some DVDs just had the explanations on the extra features. I suppose they could do like Viz did on the Evangelion Manga on the sounds, and have a small book with the list of references and the explanation, but that could make being spoiled too easy.

I like the idea of a book, so you can have it in your hand as you watch. On poni poni dash it is an extra subtitles track, so you can have the subtites without the notes, but that's annoying in itself if you think you spotted a refrence and you have to flick between subtitle tracks to check. I guess there isn't an idea way of doing it, I'm just spoiled by fansubs where it's convenient and unobtrusive.

xD Figures that I was just about to start this series and now the dub is coming out.

In regards to the jokes: dub companies are getting much better at regionalizing anime so that the humor remains. Sometimes it means different pop culture references are used, but it stays in the spirit of the original.

Wow. I saw the video, and I am very satisfied. :D.
I think this might be one of the animes that I actually might buy. ^_^.

The merchandise included in the special edition DVDs has been confirmed:

Now for 48.75$ at rightstuf.

I... don't really like the english voices. The Japanese voice actresses sound funnier-- especially for Konata.