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The half an hour long documentary deals at length with the painstaking creation
of the soundtrack so I find quite disapointing that the Japanese version on
this DVD has such a poor Dolby surround sound that sounds almost flat. The
English dubbing on the other hand sounds wonderfull in Dolby Digital 5.1. But
you will loose a lot from the original voices. The English voices often sound
like the dialogs are read, there is no life in them. During the scene on the
boat when Motoko and Batou talk about hope they sound like machines. Going back
to the Japanese version is a relief: yes they are human!. And there is a lot of
differences between the subtitles and the dubbed version (unfortunately my
Japanese is much too basic for me to understand the original dialogs). I
encourage you to watch it first in Japanese to fully understand the story and
then once in English for the quality of the sound. Also I could swear that
when I saw the film in the cinema the theme song was played during the closing
credits, I can't understand why they replaced it!
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