I'm Maria Menounos and you're tuned in to AfterBuzz TV the ESPN app TV talk now let the buzz. What's up? My name is Carrie Lane and we are going to be talking all about Sword Art Online Alice ization for of Underworld. Yes, that is quite a mouthful. I know and I have a very special guest here. I've Alex on David and I'm going to let you explain what you do with FAO because it's a lot of things. Yeah, so I adapt the English dialect scripts and then I Act the actors the voiceover actors in a nutshell a nutshell. Nice. Nice. Well the Latin the first episode of this Arc just aired on Toonami over the weekend. What kind of feedback are you getting online? What are you seeing from? The fan? Well, I think everybody's excited to have it back and stuff and they're like you can see the characters again and catching up with with how everyone's doing. Unfortunately for Katie toe. He's not doing so well, but Yeah, Alice seems to be like you were saying outside. She's living that domestic life. Yeah air quotes on that domestic because it's like a more simple life for her that she hasn't had in quite some time. So I'm so done we start with her and it's been about six months six months ago. Kyoto's totally comatose pretty much that we can eat. I'm glad he can eat and you can sleep and basic functions. Yeah. He just he just doesn't walking he can't ya know he can hold the sword. So because he does have that like she just profitable it. She's pressed him up and he puts his arm around it, but it's not much now. Yeah, it's could just kind of leaning against his shoulder and stuff. So yeah, it's so sad to see him in that state to because we left him where it's essentially he gets. What would you would you describe it by the it's a system of like he got short-circuited. There we go. Yeah, that's the best way to describe it. I'd say it's like we get that flashback where she's kind of remembering Alice's remembering that moment and I'm where I worry for him and priced. It's such a Job of that system of I'm just joking. Nice Levi, because I'm like, how is it also directing? Somebody be like, so you're in this scene but your comatose. Well Bryce has been following along with the show as it's been airing on Crunchyroll and and so he was actually really excited to come in and do his 15 minute session of going and I mean it was you know, I just I just told him it's more breath than than voice. And and and you're just trying to communicate that you want the swords. So, you know, we preview the Japanese always and and he took it from there like a couple of takes and stuff. That's about it. And then I think I think after we were done with the kitty toe stuff, he played a couple of goblins getting slashed in a couple of nights getting slashed or something a little more action to do well just to fill up his time. Yeah, it's kind of yeah, it's You know braces up for everything pretty much when he comes in. And so if he's only got like, you know, ten Loops of his main character he's down to you know, go and help out on some of the incidental characters too. Cool. We do have a live chat here. So if you are watching this live, thank you so much for joining us, please if you have any questions about the show, we're not going to do spoilers. So don't try but you know, everybody dies in The Next Episode everybody. I mean, come on it. It's the Japanese versions been out so you know that but I mean like if you have questions about the process Process or the actors or the particular scenes, please war or in the adaptation. So in this first episode I would say not a ton happens all things considered but were there any particular moments in this first one for translating it from the Japanese to doing the English dub that stood out to you or anything or was interesting in this particular episode. I mean later on we have at we have Alice doing her life. We have the tree seen getting cut down. We also have Elder Elder. Algeria thank you. And also we have the broccoli. Thank you. Yes, I think that I think probably the most the most challenging one about this episode if I'm remembering correctly was the last conversation between Algeria and Alice when he struggled to get her to come back. Yes. I've noticed in this show in this batch of Sword Art. The performances are actually with the underworld Ian's their performances are done in such a way that the there's a lot of pauses in the sentences here. They're sort of fact, they're their conversations are a little bit more measured not all the underworld. He owns. Yeah, but like Alice and then a few of the nights some of which are coming up. Yeah, and so it's been kind of challenging trying to adapt the dialogue in a way where those pauses are actually natural pauses in a sentence. Then it doesn't sound to translate to your awkward or you know, hi. My name is Alex. You know that kind of try to avoid that as much as possible. No, I really actually I I'll be honest. I generally watch more sub than the dubbed but something I enjoyed watching this version or sorry watching the demo of this is LGA. I liked that scene a lot because there's a lot of emotion and it when he's trying to get Alice to come back. She's his mentor. Or and little bit of a crush to and it's complicated but I really liked how that turned out good. Thanks for saying that. Yeah, everybody worked really hard on that on that scene as it was great. And of course Kaylee was going a hundred percent as usual and then you know at the end there was this little breath that LGA does is he turns away from her? I remember we spent yeah. Yes. Yeah. I wouldn't call it a scarf but it was like it was like Because like disappointment in there. No, he's just disappointed in her. How do you direct the side? Well, you know Ezra Ezra also directs dubs to as you know, you know him so, you know, all I have to do is is treated like any other actor but a little different with him as I can always say this is the result I'm going for and he'll go. Oh God it. Okay, so I gotta just do it a little bit louder so that you guys can Don't get so you guys will be able to hear it after it's mixed those kinds of things. Yeah, a lot of the actors are understand that if I say if I give them like a result I say I need I need this to be louder because but we can't lose the sort of tremble that you're putting on the read of the line or the effort or the whatever. Yeah, and but yeah, no. Yeah that scene was my favorite. It was a it was a little it was it was tricky to adapt but not the trickiest the trickiest one. How was tricky to adapt? Um, well since since I'm giving the translation that's worded one way. Okay, and then when you watch the characters speaking if their mouth is on camera, it flaps a little bit then stops and Flash little bit more sometimes like on some shows like there's a show that I worked on called Kona Suba and that animation is The style is very sort of. It's not it's a it's not as finessed assort art. So mouthwash just go go go go go and so you can get away with a lot more with that but with sword art if you know characters on camera and there's a really dramatic scene and they flap a couple times stop flap a little bit more. I got to figure out how to make that that beat where they stop flapping, you know work logically in an English sentence. Yeah, the difference is You're watching subtitles you reading but you know, yes really makes a difference of when the sound occurs. I was going to ask then are there moments when you don't see their face and you're the actor or you were like, oh good. Oh, yeah. No, especially over their shoulder, you know any of the any of the off camera or over the shoulder things are like paradise for me on this show. They don't come enough. And so there was a couple times on the first 24 episodes of the season. We're keep Wonka and he go where explaining stuff about the soul translator and I was just like thank God this is off camera because there would have been it would have been sitting on that script for like four. I would still be writing that script probably because it's very complicated. But so it's like how do you make that easier to digest? Yeah, there's well. There's that there's the kitty and good way interesting. Well, there's the yeah, there's the logic of what's going on and the concepts and all that kind of stuff and luckily. Reading the books. So I have the books there. And if I ever get hung up or if ever there was a thing, I remembered from watching it when it was streaming. I made a note of it and stuff. And of course when I get the script in front of me to work on it same problem. I don't understand really what's going on. I'll crack the book open and usually the book I'll have like extra paragraphs of like, you know, the thoughts of the characters and stuff as they're explaining something and that usually I can usually work some of that. Into the script to help the audience understand more. So because I figure that if if I get to if if I'm watching the subtitle version of Sword Art and something doesn't make sense for me. It's probably not going to make sense for the audience either. So I try and with the clients permission. Of course, I try to add anything that would help explain some of the some of the bigger. Sci-fi or philosophical Concepts because the show has quite a bit of all of that. Yeah. Definitely. I'm one of the questions from the chat which you did kind of cover was what was your favorite moment from Natsu drag no drug meal. Hopefully I said that right for you. It was your favorite moment during the first episode which you did kind of cover. Oh, yeah, I mean no more. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, there's well. There's little bits of every episode that I that I kind of really like little Charming moments and stuff and it's when Alice gets to the lake with Quito and sulci and she sees it. I liked how the director handled that moment the walk through the woods on the path was really there was something about it with the sound design, especially when we were working on the mix and stuff. We're hearing it much louder than you do at home. And there are all these wonderful little little sounds forced sounds going on around the characters are walking through the all Alice conversation I liked seeing Allison AMA Yuri her Dragon their relationship he sleeps in the hollow of the tree and you know like it's really cool dog yeah exactly then something else kind of related to that Kindle and the chat says only handle unique I know hallenge has to directing more of the underworld are compared add to the rest of Sao I mean you've kind of touched on that little bit of just how they are speaking the underworld but are there any challenges the technical challenges of just with the animation of the mouth flaps is definitely more challenging than any of the other sword Arts the the soul translator the idea of the soul and will power in the Underworld and how will power incarnate skills how magic works I mean those were all Really really tough to make clear with those mouth flaps for sure for sure. We also have a renji in the chat system of the Japanese words are more one or more syllables than English words are more than so. You have to see you have to see it matches with the lip movement best. That's true of like if a word like if how many times a mouth moves like if how many syllables something has I think that would be a later problem of how somebody says something. Yeah. So there's There's a couple different thoughts with people who adopt anime and some people some folks. Try to match the syllable count with the English. Hmm, and I don't do that syllable count is fine. But then you have characters all speaking very rapidly in moments when they should be a little bit more thoughtful. Yeah, and I don't care how good the actor is if they're trying to jam, you know, twenty six syllables into Into a it's just not going to sound very heartfelt or anything. It's just going to sound rushed. We actually had an issue in one of our view Downs of one of the episodes where one character I under wrote on purpose so they could slow down there read and unfortunately, it actually affected their performance. So we actually had to go back and redo that all that characters stuff. It's an incidental characters. So it's nobody no none of the big characters, but still it's yeah, you know, it's one of those things where it's kind of like, you know, if we had an actor who knew how to take better beats during a performance more experienced actor perhaps it would have gone as I would have hoped instead of sounding listless, which is what we ended up with unfortunately, so But you never know. Who knows I may end up jamming it with 26 syllable words and next time it's just be talking really fast. Yeah, actually quite something you measure early those kind of curious about is do the English voice directors ever really get to chat with the Japanese voice directors. Like do you all ever go? Hey, I saw your stuff for nothing. Nope. I met I got to hang out with the director of tomohiko Ito of He was the one who directed all the sword Arts before this except for Gun Gale Online the sort out alternative thing. Yeah with the little lens and girl so I got to hang out with Tim. He could eat all and and we had dinner and stuff thanks to hear way our producer at Anna Plex and he sat he came to one of our recording sessions for ordinal scale and got to watch Cher Ami do awesome stuff, and he really loved that he was We you know, we pretty much just talked to movies eat Osan because he directs the whole show, you know, he's involved with every aspect of shot selection and sound design and and the performances as well and one of his thing's was he he liked how he we were handling we were taking it seriously. So he like the respect that we were putting into it and I thought oh when I was really that's why the cops said that yeah. That's good. That's cool. So because that is interesting like you think would I mean there's not necessary reason for you all to interact but I would be curious and you know at the last Anime Expo last summer and heat away at Anna Plex asked me to be on the panel with the director of this batch of Sword Art and the producer and the writer and characters enter. Yeah, we didn't get to talk at all. You're like, I think I think she was very shy. By and and yeah, I think I think maybe he's felt uncomfortable with his English skills or something. I don't know we had enough people speaking Japanese there who could help but it would have been nice to ask him a little bit about the show and and sort of what his his ultimate goals were with it. Yeah, that might have helped me a little bit more with my stuff. So Kindle has another question says this part of Sao has a Action, how has it been like directing that? Oh, so yeah, it gets pretty bloody because it's there's going to be a war. It's been fun. Everybody's been yelling. Yeah. I mean lot of yelling a lot of I'm dying hurdling deaths and but everyone's been up to the challenge thankfully and we're not we're not killing anybody. I don't think in the booth. For the first time in ever, I've been I've been doing this for about 15 years. Now for the first time ever. I one of the episodes had so much action in it. When I started adapting the script to when I finished adapting the script I think took about five or six hours which is it was so little dialogue. There was all the dialogues really short. Yeah, and there was tons of action in it, and it was one of those things. Where I sat down I worked on it and like five hours later it was done and I was like, oh my God, I wish everything was like this. How long does it take for a typical episode to adapt or does it depend on the episode? I mean clearly ones with more action, but on average, how long would you say from you getting the Japanese script to making it to what viewers are seen I guess on average an average it takes me about four full days. So when I'm when I'm when when I get offered a show, that's one of the first things I'm kind of like will I have enough time to write. Yeah four full days usually is is good for me because that allows me to get some sleep and and not go too crazy. Some people have been doing recently to day turnarounds on some scripts and it seems quick. Yeah, and they also they also have you no other jobs and so Spending they're just they're just not given enough time and it's it's kind of shocking that clients are okay with this and what's even more shocking your fans are okay with this. I was going to ask that how much do you feel that affects the quality of what well for those particular jobs? I mean, I'm not a voice actor. I work with voice actors. I'm not a voice actor, but almost every voice actor I work with They're disappointed that that a lot of the stuff they work on is has this rushed attitude towards it and they can't and they can't go that one extra take oh, you know or they or are they looking at the lines and thinking yeah, I have no idea what this is saying and the directors like, you know, I don't I can't help you. It's everything doing a good ad adaptation takes time. Yeah. And unfortunately in this age of got to have it now got to get it out right away time is the first thing to go. So everyone's everyone's seeing the result of that and a lot of folks aren't happy about it. Unfortunately, so luckily for me for now. Anyway, I'm kind of insulated against that I'm I'm still able to thankfully with Anna plexus support. And bang Zoom support. I'm given four days to work on a script and then we're given time in the studio to work with the actors. Not just one take moving on. Thanks a lot. Get out. Next actor scary. Well, no, I mean yeah, everybody wants to do a good job. I mean, yeah, I know you all the time of like wait, can I do that over and actually sorry real quick to of speak of the voice actors and the environment Ryan in the chat says what kind of atmosphere do you create like to create for your voice actors and does it very Do you ever change it up / performer or if you know them versus someone who's new working with you? Oh, um, I mean I try to I try to let everybody know that I'm on their side and that it's okay to mess up. And it's okay to speak up if you have like a question about something or if I'm not being clear in my direction or are you just need a break, you know, just speak up. It's not it I try to keep it as not tense as possible which helps a lot of people but some people just come in automatically tense because they're thinking oh my God, I got this i got this part and it's a lead and oh my God, you know, it's some people Newer actors tend to freak out about that stuff a lot more. So you have to just kind of just say hey, yeah breath. It's okay. Is it better than to have the opportunity for making a mistake? Because then maybe that get they the actor is more likely to take a chance on something that works out. Well versus like I don't want even try absolutely absolutely the more More relaxed of voice act or any actor is the better. Everything's going to be mhm. So we were just talking about the speed of how quickly shows our turnaround got a good question. The cartoon Cipher says given that there seems to be a push for dubs to come out faster and faster. Are you worried at all about the direction that the industry as a whole is headed Industries already there cartoon Cipher. Everybody's folks are not Copy and it's only a matter of time before I'm going to eventually get caught up in it. So I I'm I don't know how much longer I can keep adapting the shows that direct that also helps me as a director having adapted the scripts because I understand why I'm making why this character is speaking this way why that hitches why that space is there that break in the line. I understand what this breath means because later on we're going to you know, it's going to pay off later or what this joke is I've already done all that homework and and I try to be diligent about all of that stuff to the point that when I do get into the studio with the actors, I have pretty much most of the answers that they need to any other questions and if we do get stuck I've already I can help. Them get unstuck. Yeah, or I can help in the case of say like a line. That's maybe too short or too long. I know what words to put in there to fix it or it's a little easier for me to figure out how to fix it. It doesn't it doesn't happen like, you know like that. Sometimes I'll sit there for 10 15 minutes trying to figure out how to unscramble whatever our issue was with the line whether it was too short or too long, but eventually Really? I'll figure it and usually make the right choice well with the writing and how much DirecTV feels like it can not let you have much free time. But what are some favorite animated shows you're watching right now none. Oh, no, no. No, actually. No, I literally I think we were the last time you had me on we were talking about Monica. Yeah, I think I told you or I think if you ask the question then to and I think I said I have like these stacks of Blu-rays in front of my TV your DVDs and yeah, so those are it's a it's like not animated if you're watching anything else. Well, I mean, you know what? I took a break a couple weeks ago because I've been I've been getting sick over and over and over again since the beginning of December. I would you know be writing a couple weeks. I mean, I hope I'm okay. Yeah, I'd write for a couple of weeks then go into the studio and then get something cash something and then go home and then write for two weeks and then go into the studio and record what we just wrote or what I just wrote and then get sick again. N and so it's just been like I'm on like cold number three now or something. So so one day I said, fuck it. I'm gonna go I'm gonna I'm gonna watch something on TV and I watched motherfuckers. Oh, yeah, which is on Netflix. Yeah. So Stephanie Shane Michael is worked on that. I remember then promoting. Yeah. It's a really cool. They did a great job on it, too. But I love the animation style or not. It was just it was amazing. Yeah. And so that was I guess that's the most current animation that I've that I've that I've seen and probably the most current thing I've seen in the last like month just because if I'm if I'm at home like I am right now working on the scripts typing away. Yeah, it's I'll be typing away, you know make something to eat or go get something to eat. Come back. Oh, I I know that where I got stuck on that line. I'm going to try this idea and then I have to write it down and it's it's just kind of like you get kind of OCD about it or I could get it OCD about it so that I don't want to like I want to keep at it keep at it keep at it until I'm so exhausted. I can't keep my eyes open. Is it better than to take a break and then come back to it or do you like what happens with and like what happened to me today? There was a couple of instances in episode 10, which is the really Taki episode. We're all items on one looking in 10. Yeah. So on episode 10, there's a To talk and a lot of those moments where you know characters flapping away and I'll stop and it's all closed up there a couple times a day where I got so tired of trying to figure out what these three lines were how to make these how to make the intention of these three lines fit in the mouth flaps that by the time I figured out this one chunk. I was completely wiped out and I went and just took a nap half hour later. I got back up and started hitting the script again. Again, and got to another chunk and then took a nap again. I literally I took a nap right before I came here because I got to this chunk and it was like, oh my God, Alice, why can't you just talk, you know at one speed but of course, she's Alice. So yeah, it was I finished this one thing. I'm like great. I'm out of that scene now and he'll after this thing. I'm probably just gonna go home and take another nap. I don't know. Well speaking of are pretty much at the end of this thing. So well, that's pretty much the big in a nutshell of all the stuff that goes down to make up sewed one. I loved hearing the behind-the-scenes about it. I'm excited to see where it goes. I mean, yes, I know if you want to watch it you could but the English dub of it is turning out really well. Glad you like I'm liking how it's going. I really like Alice's voice. Yeah Kelly student. I think she did a great job. I like the deeper tone to it. So I'm excited to see where she'll go and the other Hers as well any other final words before we finish up for viewers? Oh, um, no, thanks for supporting the show and for and for watching this and you for your questions and stuff. Sorry, we couldn't get to all of them. I find you on social media. Maybe we'll have you back again. Oh just on Twitter. It's my name lowercase Alex Van David, and and I don't I'm not on that much. I'm certainly not a not as active as a lot of the voice actors, but I mean I'll be I'll be on just to promote. Sort out on Toonami and stuff now that it's back. So thanks again for supporting the show and supporting all of us. Well, thank you so much. Thanks for having me know this is a blast about the show and thank you for everybody who watched live. Don't worry. If you watch this later, please leave comments about what we talked about. I know there's a lot more that also happens in the episode even those small and up again in a nutshell, but there's a lot more to come for sure and I'm super excited to talk about we're going to have a lot more voice actor guests over the season. So make sure to back Every week and my name is Carrie Lane. You can find me online at carry dealing that's Kar. Idla. Any thank you so much for watching. And again, thank you Alex. Yeah, thank you. See y'all next time see ya our founder Keven undergaro and me Maria Menounos would like to thank you for tuning in to AfterBuzz TV. 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Inside an unknown VR environment, Kirito spends his days as a child with his friends Eugeo and Alice. One day the three explore a cave in the outskirts of the Human Territory and get lost, ending up at the boundary of the Dark Territory. Alice trips and falls with her hand accidentally touching the Dark Territory. For this violation, she is sentenced to execution by the Integrity Knights. Kirito attempts to stop Alice from being taken away, while Eugeo stands motionless despite Kirito's pleas. Soon after, Kirito awakens in the real world with no memory of what happened. Later in Gun Gale Online, Sinon, Kirito, Asuna, Silica, Lisbeth, and Klein confront a mysterious squad that flees after one of them is taken down. After the battle, Sinon thanks the others for joining her against them, and back in the real world at Agil's café, she invites Kirito and Asuna to join her in the upcoming edition of the BoB tournament. They agree, and Kirito reveals that he is working part-time for the Rath Company as a tester for a new Full-Dive technology known as "Soul Translator", or STL. On their way home, Kirito and Asuna are attacked by Johnny Black, the final survivor of the Death Gun incident, who succeeds in injecting Kirito with a poison syringe. *Via WikiPedia Be sure to check out the After Show hosted by: Kari Lane as she interviews Alice Von David! Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV "Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTV For more After Shows for your favorite TV shows and the latest news in TV, Film, and exclusive celebrity interviews, visit http://www.AfterBuzzTV.com 