View Full Version : Well, Captain Jack Sparrow pays a visit to the Doraemon world....
Space Cadet
06-16-2007, 02:44 PM
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-06-16/johnny-depp-to-guest-voice-on-doraemon-pirates-special
Wow, this certainly caught me off-guard. I think it's cool that Johnny Depp is lending his voice to the special. I wonder if he will speak English or maybe even Japanese? I also wonder if Johnny Depp likes anime?
I wonder if the Japanese company blew most of their budget for this episode in order to get him to voice in the special. Johnny Depp might be the only way this special would come to America. It would be a nice feature on the Pirates 3 DVD.
Umino
06-16-2007, 02:53 PM
Uh.. Toei has nothing to do with Doreamon. Last time I checked anyway.
Space Cadet
06-16-2007, 02:57 PM
Uh.. Toei has nothing to do with Doreamon. Last time I checked anyway.
Oh, I was just going by the article. I'll edit it out of my post.
Captain Highwind
06-16-2007, 03:10 PM
http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/494/jubilationsno4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
That always sums it up perfectly.
Dudley
06-16-2007, 04:02 PM
Wow. As the biggest Doraemon fan here, I find this really weird.
Pictures or not to prove otherwise, mentioning Toei Animation who's not involve with the production of Doraemon at all, makes this look really fishy.
Gokou Ruri
06-16-2007, 04:06 PM
This reminds me when Keifer Sutherland and Carlos Bernard were hired to appear on a Japanese TV sketch show as their roles on 24. Japan eats up American actors.
Though the thing with Toei is odd... maybe it's all a trap so Toei can kidnap Johnny Depp and hold him hostage.
This is hillarious in all the right way.
Andrew T. Hingson
06-16-2007, 04:31 PM
Doraemon? What part of Toei + Jack Sparrow doesn't = One Piece special? But yeah Toei doesn't do Doraemon so that's especially fishy. I mean jeez they didn't even get Depp to voice his character on Kingdom Hearts II.
Depp agreed because of Doreamon's presence in France (he lives there most of the year).
AstroNerdBoy
06-16-2007, 04:54 PM
Do the Japanese source sites mention Toei or was this just a brain fart on ANN's part when they wrote their article?
Neo Ultra Mike
06-16-2007, 05:04 PM
Originally posted by Sketch
I mean jeez they didn't even get Depp to voice his character on Kingdom Hearts II.
I heard that Johnny was busy doing work for Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest and At World's End at the time and wasn't avilable to do any VA work for the game but would of if he could (I mean he did voice Captain Jack in the Pirates video game series so I doubt he'd be against the idea VAing jack in another video game).
If this does turn out to be true it'd be a pretty weird crossover. Not to mention it'd bring about other weird anime/movie tie in ideas, like say the Fantastic Four in the Naruto world. Which yeah sounds ridicolous but so does this. (Then again the ideas for Kingdom Hearts first sounded ridiculous like 6 years ago but they sure don't now).
straw_hat
06-16-2007, 06:57 PM
Citing Toei was a mistake on ANN's part so I doubt this is fake news.
bigddan11
06-16-2007, 07:04 PM
They have changed it from saying Toei to saying TV Asashi now, and with teh pictures they have up it looks like it'll be accurate.
Captain Highwind
06-16-2007, 07:17 PM
Doraemon? What part of Toei + Jack Sparrow doesn't = One Piece special? But yeah Toei doesn't do Doraemon so that's especially fishy. I mean jeez they didn't even get Depp to voice his character on Kingdom Hearts II.
Depp agreed because of Doreamon's presence in France (he lives there most of the year).
Plus, Doraemon has more mileage than KHII.
FlyByNite77
06-16-2007, 07:41 PM
Isn't just like an actor doing a voice on the Simpsons? Although I'm interested to see if he does speak Japanese or English in it.
I saw a video on youtube of Depp on a Japanese talkshow and they had little kids dressed up as pirates and stuff, it was pretty funny.
Space Cadet
06-16-2007, 07:42 PM
Isn't just like an actor doing a voice on the Simpsons?
Yeah, but it's not every day a famous American actor does a voice in an anime, especially on the Japanese side.
Doraemon? What part of Toei + Jack Sparrow doesn't = One Piece special?
Seriously!
That has One Piece Filler with a Jack Sparrow-Esque character written all over it.
Simpler Simon
06-16-2007, 09:43 PM
Wow.
Johnny Depp and Doraemon....never would've imagined seeing those two cross over.
Heck, I wasn't even sure doraemon was still going.
Space Cadet
06-16-2007, 09:54 PM
Wow.
Johnny Depp and Doraemon....never would've imagined seeing those two cross over.
Heck, I wasn't even sure doraemon was still going.
Well, Doraemon started up a new series last year, so yeah it's still going.
veemonjosh
06-16-2007, 09:58 PM
Heck, I wasn't even sure doraemon was still going.
:lol:
It's been going on for over 25 years, and I don't see it stopping anytime soon. :p
Dark Fact
06-16-2007, 11:50 PM
34 years if you count the original 1973 series.
Honestly, how much more can they pump out of this series? I'm just amazed that the second series lasted for over 1,000 episodes! Are the writers that creative with this show or do people just have an unbreakable loyalty to Doraemon?
Honestly, how much more can they pump out of this series? I'm just amazed that the second series lasted for over 1,000 episodes! Are the writers that creative with this show or do people just have an unbreakable loyalty to Doraemon?
Considering it still gets high ratings, they must be doing something right.
Cap'n Jack in an anime. Cap'n Jack knowing what Doraemon is is awesomeness in and of itself, but doing a voice over? They GOTTA bring that to America.
Conan-san
06-17-2007, 04:57 AM
Though the thing with Toei is odd... maybe it's all a trap so Toei can kidnap Johnny Depp and hold him hostage. I dunno, they get most of thier Piss America Off LOLs with the whole Sailor Moon Situation but I guess the LOLs died down somewhat after the one piece debarticle.
Dudley
06-17-2007, 11:42 AM
Cap'n Jack in an anime. Cap'n Jack knowing what Doraemon is is awesomeness in and of itself, but doing a voice over? They GOTTA bring that to America.
That what makes this even more wierd. Of all the anime, why something that never aired in America? For a publicity stunt, it's pretty, well, one-sided.
I wonder if they'll air the Doraemon: Adventure at the South Seas movie, that movie was the first one(?) to have English speaking characters in it.
That what makes this even more wierd. Of all the anime, why something that never aired in America? For a publicity stunt, it's pretty, well, one-sided.
I don't think Disney has anything to do with it. It seems like it was Depp's decision and his decision alone.
The Overlord
06-17-2007, 10:27 PM
That what makes this even more wierd. Of all the anime, why something that never aired in America? For a publicity stunt, it's pretty, well, one-sided.
I wonder if they'll air the Doraemon: Adventure at the South Seas movie, that movie was the first one(?) to have English speaking characters in it.
I believe it airs in France and Depp spends most of his time in that country now.
Gokou Ruri
06-17-2007, 11:08 PM
That what makes this even more wierd. Of all the anime, why something that never aired in America? For a publicity stunt, it's pretty, well, one-sided. Eh.. how is it a publicity stunt? It's just another role he's hired to play.
KuwabaraTheMan
06-17-2007, 11:21 PM
Eh.. how is it a publicity stunt? It's just another role he's hired to play.
I doubt that. Japanese anime aren't really in the process of hiring popular, foreign actors to voice in them.
I'd guess this was some decision made by Depp seeking this out, or something along those lines.
Gokou Ruri
06-18-2007, 01:09 AM
I doubt that. Japanese anime aren't really in the process of hiring popular, foreign actors to voice in them.
I'd guess this was some decision made by Depp seeking this out, or something along those lines. Maybe it's not the norm, but a good number of Japanese games/shows/commercials have hired American people to perform in them. It's not as unlikely as one would think. Pirates 3 is the #1 movie in Japan while Doraemon is one of the top cartoons in Japan, makes sense they'd want to combine the two.
Weatherman
06-18-2007, 01:33 AM
That what makes this even more wierd. Of all the anime, why something that never aired in America? For a publicity stunt, it's pretty, well, one-sided.
It's still one of the most popular shows in Japan, and Japan is the seccodn biggest economy in the world after the USA. Makes sense to me. Doraemon is also really popular elsewhere in the world, just not here.
Vidfreak
06-19-2007, 01:07 AM
Why haven't they attempted to bring this show to the U.S. yet? It seems like it would do well here.
Why haven't they attempted to bring this show to the U.S. yet? It seems like it would do well here.
I believe they've tried, but the various deals fizzled out for one reason or another.
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