I watched the first episode of Cyberverse in Japanese while working because I saw a post mentioning the dub had some fun differences, and now that I’ve seen Episode 1 I can confirm the dub does have some fun additions and the dub itself is downright ADORABLE. Some examples:
- The entire opening where Bee’s driving through the canyon has the voiceover narrating his stunts, which is fun.
- When Bumblebee asks Windblade “Who are you?” his voice is so cute! The voice samples he uses are really great.
- When Windblade says Bee's memory is kinda broken, Bee sings "壊れてる？どうする？僕の頭が, こわれちゃたんが” (Broken? What should I do? My head was broken) and Windblade responds by singing "何が問題が調べてみましょ” (Let’s find out what the problem is) which totally sounds like something a parent / older sister would say to a little kid or sibling AND IT’S! JUST! SO! CUTE!!!!
- The Intro and Outro both have a voice-over narrator essentially saying things like "Oh no, what's going to happen?" and talking with Bee, which I think is a cute touch. I don’t watch a lot of Japanese kids shows but I think that’s a common theme in most of their kids cartoons
- Whenever they Transform they say “Windblade, Transform!” or “Bumblebee, Transform!” and they yell out the names of their special moves which is cute (especially when Thundercracker said “Thundercracker, Punch!” lmao)
- The fight scene with Windblade and Thundercracker had a LOT more dialogue, which was fun because when Thundercracker took Windblade’s sword he was like “Ohh, what’s this?” and Windblade was like “Hey, that’s mine! >:O” which was funny. I’m interested in watching more of the Japanese dub, it seems like a lot of fun!
#i talk#I'm watching Cyberverse#primordial robot hell#some of this feels much more like slapstick I love it#Cyberverse is already weird but the dub makes it a little more weird that's so fun#ALSO I love that they label everyone's names when they're first introduced#even if their names aren't said#Like Perceptor and Thundercracker#EDIT: theY FRICKIN HAVE *SOUNDWAVE* SINGING WHEN HE DOES HIS VOLUME ATTACK#OFFICIALLY THE BEST DUB#EDIT: OPTIMUS PRIME IS VOICED BY DIO