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If it wasn't for '''Bang Zoom! Entertainment''', then the anime dubbing industry would have been dead. And judging by the [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
Bang Zoom! Entertainment is a dubbing studio in [[California]] well known for dubbing anime series for (formerly) [[Geneon]] and Bandai Entertainment. Some of the well-known anime dub works include ''[[
[[Love It or Hate It]], most of the anime dubs have varying quality ranging from [[So Bad It's Good]] (particularly ''[[Heat Guy J]]'') to [[Superlative Dubbing]] (''[[Samurai Champloo]]'', ''[[
Oh yeah, they made a documentary called "Adventures in Voice Acting" where they interview many anime voice acting regulars like [[Steve Blum]], [[Johnny Yong Bosch]], and [[Wendee Lee]] who give advice to newbies to the voice acting industry. They hold a series of voice acting courses under the same name, taught primarily by [[Tony Oliver]], who also has a hand in directing many of their dubs. The documentary was supposed to be a continuing series on DVD with the later volumes focusing on different areas of the field, but the second DVD was never made.
Perhaps their [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Awesome]] was when they brought in [[
Recently{{when}}, Eric P. Sherman, the CEO of Bang Zoom! Entertainment, has sparked an [[Internet Backdraft]] by stating that Bang Zoom! Entertainment would stop dubbing anime by 2011 if fans keep watching and downloading [[Fan Sub|fansubs]] instead of obtaining and watching anime by legal means. He blamed the fans completely for this due to the downloading of fansubs and even outright said "'''Anime is going to die.'''" Needless to say, this did not sit well with the fans, and Bang Zoom! Entertainment along with Bandai Entertainment fanned the flames of ''two'' existing [[Internet Backdraft
However, with the downfall of [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
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* [[Viewers are Morons|Fans Are Morons]]: How Eric P. Sherman felt about the fandom downloading and watching fansubs illegally and not obtaining anime by legal means in his recent comments.
* [[Viewers Are Geniuses|Fans Are Geniuses]]: The casting of ''[[
* [[Unions in Hollywood]]: Bang Zoom! is one of the few unionized studios that mostly focuses on anime dubbing.
** Mostly subverted though. The individual project, not the studio itself, determines what's contracted to unions or not. And that's kinda the same for other studios in LA. So Bang Zoom does have a few share of union and non-union anime dubs in the past.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Inverted. Many fans feel that Bang Zoom! failed them after Sherman's comments about them stopping dubbing anime by next year, but some of them are frantically trying to save Bang Zoom! Entertainment so they can continue to dub anime.
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