While I’m very satisfied with Geneon/Funimation’s recent Nanoha DVD release for all the elements I care about, an irrelevant bit highly assumes me. For the five minutes I checked out the dub, as I do typically for a new release out of slight curiosity, why are the previously English-speaking Intelligent Devices redubbed with new English voices?

Raging Heart goes from cheesy awesome Donna Burke to, well, possibly more bland and boring than a text-to-speech program. I love my “I CAN BE SHOT”. Doesn’t everyone? It is quite mind boggling and funny in a terrible missing-the-point sense, unless they couldn’t license the original acting. Otherwise, it was a very poor decision on their part.