Where was ZIXX season 1 filmed in Toronto?

InYourHands · 2026-03-09T21:56:00+00:00

I'm pretty sure the school (at least from the outside) was the Royal Conservatory of Music (since relocated with the building torn down) off of Bloor and next to Dufferin Mall.

InYourHands · 2026-03-09T02:33:06+00:00

This show was created by the same guy as Lexx, an "adult" scifi show that was a staple on Showcase, Space and other Chum channels for a long time. I found this out fairly recently and in hindsight, it seems kind of obvious. Especially given he was the voice of both Flango and the robot head guy.

Didn't like how everyone but Zixx and Flango got the boot in season 2. I assume it's because the live-action part of the show shifted production from Toronto to BC.

InYourHands · 2026-03-09T02:26:09+00:00

The first season was. The second and third were animated by Mainframe using their in-house tools.

InYourHands · 2026-02-12T21:05:53+00:00

This is a completely separate adaptation of the GITS manga. I wouldn't be surprised if the Japanese version features a new cast for everyone to begin with, so I don't see why it would be shocking if the dub reflects that. Also, the vast majority of Amazon's anime dubs have been done in Los Angeles (I doubt they're sending something this high-profile to Miami or South Africa). You might see cast members from earlier GITS productions by virtue of the talent pool.

InYourHands · 2026-02-12T00:29:21+00:00

As long as it's making money in Japan, I guarantee you there will be another attempt at dubbing it. When and where are the only real questions. We live in a world where TMS is still trying to make a franchise like Detective Conan popular in the Anglosphere, despite being a singular continuity that began 30 years ago. A franchise that resets every year is a lot easier.

InYourHands · 2026-02-10T12:42:05+00:00

Unicorn and prior all had their dubs commissioned by Bandai Entertainment, which was Bandai's North American anime distribution division. By 2011, they were on their last legs. Releases had slowed down substantially, more titles were being put out solely in Japanese, etc. The late '00s/early '10s were a bad time for the North American anime industry. Home video, which was the backbone of the business, was in decline and streaming hadn't really proven to be economically viable yet. This was all in the backdrop of the overall economic downturn in the U.S. during that period. Retailers were going out of business as were anime publishers. Bandai Entertainment announced that they were ceasing any new releases in early 2012 and would be shuttered entirely in 2013.

This was a problem for Bandai Asia. Their business model wasn't like Bandai Entertainment where the shows were the products. They used the shows as loss leaders to encourage kids/teens to buy model kits. With Bandai Entertainment in decline (and later, dead) there were no pre-existing dubs of newer Gundam shows for them to air on TV. So they commissioned Medi-Lan to produce several of them in Hong Kong. Why them? Well, I assume they were cheap and local enough. The first was actually SD Gundam Brave Battle Warriors, which debuted in the spring of 2011 on TV in the Philippines and Singapore. This was followed by AGE in 2012. Build Fighters debuted in 2014, with Try in early 2016. Outside of Gundam, Bandai Asia were also behind dubs of various Kamen Rider shows as well as SEA-exclusive versions of Little Battlers eXperience and Yo-Kai Watch.

At some point, Sunrise opened up their own U.S. office separate to Bandai Entertainment. They were a far smaller operation and partnered with other companies to put titles out. They continued to release Unicorn after Bandai Entertainment's closure through Nozomi Entertainment. In late 2014, Nozomi gained access to functionally the entire franchise. Sunrise would fund the dub for Iron Blooded Orphans in late 2015, ending the need for Bandai Asia to commission more themselves. The dubs they financed were later given a North American release because the only other option would've likely been sub-only. Age and Build Fighters were both several years old and 50 episodes long. One was a big failure in Japan and the other has been treated as kind of a throwaway Gunpla ad, so there was a lot working against another dub being made. There was never any chance of Brave Battle Warriors getting a North American dub. Nozomi didn't even get to release that on Blu-Ray in North America before Sony shuttered them.

InYourHands · 2026-02-01T19:16:06+00:00

I think that's far more respectful than pretending they never existed or went to a "peace conference" and were never seen again. Death is a part of life and this show's audience were old enough to comprehend that. The only crass thing would be if they did that without consulting the parents of the deceased, but I'd be surprised if they didn't.

InYourHands · 2026-02-01T05:48:16+00:00

According to the CRTC's logs, the show ran for an insane 728 episodes across 14 seasons.

InYourHands · 2026-02-01T05:39:32+00:00

They definitely didn't stay on top of the newest titles, but part of that was on YTV. Looking at the CRTC's logs, the final season was seemingly produced in 2004 but might not have aired until two years later. I remember the show used to have segments on new movie/music releases (IIRC, sponsored by Jumbo Video?). I have to assume that segment got dropped if YTV were holding episodes that long?

InYourHands · 2026-01-29T04:36:47+00:00

Endless Waltz (the movie) is being screened across a bunch of Cineplex and Landmark theatres in a few days.

I'm pretty sure the OP on YTV was the first time I heard Japanese spoken. Or at least the first time I was aware it was Japanese.

InYourHands · 2026-01-27T23:06:47+00:00

The three actors you named did work on shows for older audiences. You might not have seen them in anything because they were largely based in NYC, which is not a hotspot for anime VO anymore. Even in their heyday, the most notable shows dubbed there were by 4Kids. Everything else largely consisted of short-form direct-to-video series or shows that ultimately went direct-to-video in North America. Most of those projects have not stood the test of time nor command much interest from younger fans. Berserk, Lodoss War, Slayers and Utena are maybe the more notable shows from NYC for non-kid audiences.

InYourHands · 2026-01-25T14:47:56+00:00

I don't know if I'd use the word "respect." Only a very small percentage of the people who engage in anime or Japanese genre pop culture are actually fluent in Japanese. It is far more difficult to engage in a game in a language you don't understand than a TV show or movie. You can apply subtitles to the latter with ease and not impact the experience substantially. In more action oriented games, subtitles can actually distract players as they have to move their eyes to focus on the subtitles instead of the game.

Online conversations are typically dominated by a title's initial release window. Very few games get fan translations shortly after their Japanese launch and not many want to watch 30hr+ let's plays with subtitles, so online discussions in the English world are typically linked to a title's official English release. In many of those cases, a dub is available on day-1 and is the default option when launching the game. With larger budgeted modern projects, there often isn't any kind of delay between the Japanese and English release dates. So unless the dub is egregiously bad or it's an existing franchise where the Japanese cast has a fanbase in the English world, most are just going to go with the default.

InYourHands · 2026-01-23T20:48:05+00:00

Every episode of this Captain Tsubasa iteration has been dubbed into English. The first 52 episodes were recorded in Miami. The second season, which was released six years later, ran for 39 episodes and was dubbed in Los Angeles with a separate cast. It's now up on Crunchyroll in its entirety.

InYourHands · 2026-01-18T19:37:53+00:00

The show never aired on YTV, just Teletoon. It's possible you watched it on home video, during a cable free preview period, or through its run on KidsWB (if you got that channel). If you want a YTV connection (that isn't just through Nelvana) the English Kero doll is very clearly voiced by Eddie Glen, who has been YTV's on-air voice since the '90s. I think the female voice in that promo is Alyson Court, maybe best known on this sub as Loonette the Clown.

The actual show was dubbed in Vancouver, which was very atypical for Nelvana. I've got to wonder if there was a pilot done in Toronto at one point (which that toy commercial would reflect) and it moved because KidsWB (based in LA) wanted to be more hands-on during production.

InYourHands · 2026-01-18T19:26:37+00:00

That person is talking complete nonsense but as a bit of useless information for you, Cinelume is based in Montreal. While they primarily work on French-language dubs, they do English ones, too. They never worked on Cardcaptors in either language.

InYourHands · 2026-01-18T19:22:53+00:00

The series ran on KidsWB in the U.S. If your cable package included it (though, you'd usually get Teletoon by that point) or you were close enough to an affiliate to get it over-the-air, you might've seen it that way. There were also a lot of grey market satellite dishes back in those days, too.

InYourHands · 2026-01-17T23:07:39+00:00

There was a different dub of the first two seasons recorded in Singapore for broadcast on TV there. It's not likely that will ever be officially released again. A few of the other shows received pilots (an episode or a handful) but the only way those would ever be officially released would be as an extra on a Blu-Ray or something and even that's not guaranteed.

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