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A look at the alternative English NT Warrior dub

As most fans probably already know, a Rockman EXE anime series was running from 2002–2006, when the series was still in its prime. The anime was later brought stateside by Viz Media as MegaMan NT Warrior, with a heavily revised English script and dub. But did you know there was a second English dub for the Rockman EXE anime? An alternative version of the anime, simply titled Rockman EXE, was independently edited and dubbed into English by Voiceovers Unlimited for the South-East Asian market, and saw limited distribution in that region.

The SEA dub was thought to be lost for a while, but one of our writers MidniteW recently found a Malaysian VCD of the first 29 episodes! Unlike the Viz Media version, the Voiceovers Unlimited dub is far more faithful to the Japanese script, and retains the original Japanese soundtrack that got replaced in NT Warrior. It even uses the Japanese names of the characters, such as Netto instead of Lan!

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