"So class, have you decided on what you want to discuss?" The students each raised their hands. Megaman had rigged the desks so that a misbehaving student would get a good jolt. It seemed really effective. "How about you, Rainbow?" This girl had proved to Megaman that she was the brightest student (no pun intended).
"I wouldn't mind learning about battlechips and how to use them."
"That's so lame. I want to know why Megaman actually sounds like his real gender and not like a girl!" This was from the same kid who assaulted Megaman before.
"What the hell's that supposed to mean!? I'm a guy! I should sound like a guy!"
The kid snickered. "But you had a girl voice actor in Japan. If I remember correctly, so did your net-op."
"Oh, that. You can blame the American dubbing for that. Actually… you can blame everything that went wrong with this show on the company that produced us. Look at our fan base. Almost every online forum has people complaining about how horrible the dub was. I'm still pissed about the voice actor changes between season one and Axess."
Another kid jumped out of his seat. "How in the hell were Americans able to know that you got a vacation around the world? Almost two episodes after the N1 Grand Prix, Maylu runs into Lan's room complaining that he just got back and slept too late."
"I'd have to agree with you there. I don't understand why my name had to become Megaman. What was so wrong about Rockman?"
"America's too serious when it comes to anime. They probably changed you name because you weren't a rock. Though, they could've used a rock pun somewhere in between the other ten thousand puns in the first episode."
Megaman was silent and suddenly dropped to the ground and started screaming, "The puns! I hated those damn puns. The author of this story nearly had a brain aneurism after the first ten episodes. Just mentioning the puns probably have her curled up in a fetal position holding her plushie of me tight."
Rainbow stood up seeing as how nobody was being shocked at the moment.
"Speaking of bad dubbing, how can a blurred cyber sword even cut your enemy? Does it work?"
Megaman did his best to recover. "Honestly, the battles in America have been degraded so much that anyone who watches those fights has their I.Q. dropped by at least forty points. The cyber sword… Protoman's favorite weapon… couldn't cut a block of frickin' cheese!"
"Why is Protoman's name in Japanese Blues?"
"Did any of you ever read the manga!? It's the only part of our franchise that wasn't destroyed! In volume seven, Ryo Takamisaki states that every character was designed with a musical milieu in mind. The only people not included in this were our net-ops and those who weren't main characters."
"Aaaaaahhhhhh!"
"Did anyone just hear that? It sounded like a dying human."
"Don't worry. That's just the author having a heart attack. She'll get over it soon."
"How can she still be typing this when she's dying? It's inconceivable!"
"First of all, stop watching The Princess Bride. Second, she's watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail so she's probably just using movie quotes to entertain our audience. Third, this is a fan fiction. Anything happens. Can't you see that!? Not every male character in anime can be put in yaoi, but with fan fiction, it happens!"
The class stared at Megaman for a bit and sat down in their desks. Megaman relaxed and regained composure. He looked out at the rest of the class. The all jumped as they got an unexpected shock.
"I didn't say you could stand up."
Wow. That. Was. So. Random. This chapter was to be funny, but to also voice my disapproval for the American dub. I don't have a grudge against any American voice actors. In fact, I salute you Andrew Francis. You are a great voice actor. I love your voice!
Sorry. I highly advise anyone to go out and search for the original episodes. They are much better.
Feel free to review and discuss what you think of the dub versus original. I'd like to see your opinion. Next chapter will be more substantial. I just felt this was right.
