sueb > wrote:
> On Aug 30, 4:17 pm, Hackmatack > wrote:
>> Cheryl > wrote:
>>> On 8/30/2011 1:12 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
>>>> On Aug 30, 9:37 am, > wrote:
>>
>>>>> Despite trying really hard, the American version just can't seem to find
>>>>> the same brainless ditzy starlet types that enlivened the Japanese show.
>>
>>>> I totally agree. It doesn't translate into 'american' at all. The
>>>> US show's chairman is a cartoon character who is neither funny
>>>> nor ditzy enough to be anything more than annoying. IMHO
>>
>>> I think the original chairman was funny. I assume the fact that his
>>> voice wasn't dubbed was either a gimmick or a request. Of course this is
>>> based on just one viewing. And to Hack, the voice-over of the Japanese
>>> actress judge was hysterical! High voice, little giggles.
>>
>> I did wonder whether the female English voice-overs (squeals, swoons,
>> giggles, Marilyn-Monroe-like come-hither whispers) wasn't a complete
>> misrepresentation of what was actually going on. But you have to admit that
>> no female judge on that show, as opposed to the male judges, was anything
>> but ornamental in intention.
>
> You must not have watched very many episodes. There's a female judge
> named Kishi Asako who has been referred to as the East German judge.
> She's a middle aged woman, definitely not a bimbo, and not there for
> girly ornamentation.
>
> A TV station in Hawaii paid to have some of these episodes subtitled,
> and they played on a local Japanese language station in the Bay Area
> many years before FNC or The Cooking Channel started running the
> dubbed versions. It's a lot more interesting to hear people speak -
> the dubbing only uses two or three people to do everyone.
>
> What would be really great would be to show the entire episode.
> They're really 90 minutes, not 60.
>
> Susan B.

I'm glad to stand corrected. I watched most of the first run of these shows
on FNC when first broadcast, but certainly not all of them, and from what
you say it seems likely -- but hardly a surprise! -- that FNC cherry-picked
what aspects of the original they wanted to show.