I completely forgot this is how they are in the anime, it just feels so strange without gangster Nagisa, Haru’s multiple versions of himself and just everything else. God I love 50% it’s just so good.
Someone actually did it. This is hilarious. I like how Rei in the original just normally dying as he is drowning. 50% I AM SORRY OCEAN GOBLIN!! God I love the random ways of 50% off.
The original dialogue so sounds so fucking weird compared to the abridged. Like in the abridged series they sound more like actual teenagers but with absurdist humor thrown in
I did not realize that my brain had completely accepted the 50% voices as the official ones. Like I watched the dub and love the original but man 50% Off is just too perfect.
Imagine if everything from Free! was kept the same except for Haru. You'd have this normal [in my opinion] friendship-is-magic show, and Haru is in the middle of it constantly spouting insane shit. And no one comments on it, not even the show itself.
It’s so jarring seeing people who have only seen the 50% off version be surprised at the voices in the original dub since I saw the original dub first. For me it was jarring (and hilarious) to hear Nagisa randomly having a deep voice and a totally different personality
It's kinda funny to think how 50% Off is kinda the popular abridged dub bc of Nagisa and ironically Nagisa's VA in this is from the Ghost Stories anime, another popular "abridged" dub of an anime. 😅
Now I had to look up where I heard Nagisa's original voice from before, because this is my first hearing it. Leo in the Ghost Stories dub, which is basically just an official abridged series.
i've watched the subbed version od free and the english dub is such a whiplash lmao also the 50% voices (except nagisa's obviously) are closer to the jp ones, than the actual eng dub is, which i think is interesting!
I have watched both versions so many times, at this point I confuse the two of them. Are you telling me Nagisa isn't constantly hitting on Rei in the original version? XD
honestly I think the 50% off voice for haru unironically fits him better than in the official english dub, it sounds more asshole than the offical voice which fits better
I grew up with the original Free! anime. Watched both the sub and dub around fourteen or thirteen, then watched the abridged not too long after. To this day, I still love the abridged ten times more. While I was a decent fan of the original Free back then, I now think it's... fine. Despite the fanservice, fujoshi bait, and empty characters. Abridged will forever have my soul; again, it's genuinely better in every way to me. For a script filled with actual hilarious writing, great voice acting that feels natural, and the more "lets be real for a second/heartfelt" scenes that actually packed a punch. I was also lucky enough to watch the Cosplay Con Q&A a group of cosplayers released on UA-cam, all acting as the abridged characters. So, I was there when it was in its prime/big, especially in the anime community.
As an A3 fan who never watched the Free Dub, only subbed.... the visceral reaction i had to hearing Sakuya's English VA also be Nagisa. I feel like I've been long conned...
funny enough i actually like the dialogue of the first clip better abridged than the original (like the convo with the old lady vs basically "good morning" "take this bread" "you're welcome")
the free dub genuinley is jarring because like a majority of the ohshc dub is also there. nagisa is kaoru, haru is hikaru, rin is tamaki, rei is kyoya, and the teacher is haruhi. it's like in mha as well. i hear them everywhere. literally every show I watch at least one of the hitachiin twins is there
I watched Free! With english subtitles, hearing the english VAs threw me off 😭 I barley rememebr the original plot but I remember nearly everything from 50% off 🤣
The amount of people I have heard say oh yeah I've seen 50% off but what's free! Is like a huge slap to my face. And like you know what at this point I'm not surprised you can't be a weeb without watching 50% off like that's a right of passage right there
XDD i mean free! just isnt as popular as it used to be, i mean its been like 10 years since it first released. Plus, in my opinion, its pretty boring and there are much better sport animes and animes for shipping
I forgot that Nagisa isn't an escaped convict with a deep ass voice and hearing his real voice made me double take
Same
This is my first time ever hearing the original audio, this is SO wild
Me too! I am FLOORED
Right?! Like omg!
Same
i was shocked to find out nagisa isn’t actually a thug
I barely watched dub, it's soooo weird
i watched 50% off so much the original voices don't sound right lmao
Honestly Free! feels like an abridged version of 50% off at this point
I fully agree.
As someone who watched 50% off before Free!, I fully agree
Free! Is the censored radio version of a better show (50% Off)
The official dub came second, so I suspect the existence of 50% Off might’ve been playing on their minds when making it.
2:41 is way too smooth of a transition
Nagisa's real voice felt like a slap in the face
The juxtaposition between Free Rei struggling in the water and 50% off Rei yelling apologises to the ocean goblin was classic lol
I have only ever seen the anime and honestly the abridged version caught me off guard. I can’t stop laughing.
oh thats amazing. I'm happy to have exposed you to 50% off XD
Sameee
Omg what I'd give to watch 50% off for the first time 😂
Honestly after seeing 50% off you can’t go back! This version is actually so much more interesting and funnier than the real deal.
I’ve only watched 50% off, and was likewise caught off guard
"Shut up. why are you naked."
"i'm naked?"
I completely forgot this is how they are in the anime, it just feels so strange without gangster Nagisa, Haru’s multiple versions of himself and just everything else.
God I love 50% it’s just so good.
I wasn't expecting haru in both orginal and abridged to be convinced to go to a place by a pool
The pool fetish wasn’t a joke
As someone who has seen neither, the contrast is JARRING. Every time the thug/twink speaks i fucking die hoooly cow
“why are you naked?” - purple twink
“im naked?” - bottom/blonde
plus the edited tats on the 50% im DYING
LMAOO thats hilarioussss. Genuinely tho 50% is really funny, you should watch the full series, link in the description
Tbh, the blond is a twink top. Even fan artists in Japan believe that. @@comfybox
The Nagisa introduction scene feels… wrong without Thagisa
His dub voice feels so OFF I need my thugisa
I need my drug dealer back T-T
... ... ... So Free! is basically just a reunion of the main cast of Ouron High School Host Club, plus Johnny Yong Bosch. Got it.
Yes absolutely
Live laugh love Johnny Yong Bosch
Someone actually did it. This is hilarious. I like how Rei in the original just normally dying as he is drowning. 50% I AM SORRY OCEAN GOBLIN!! God I love the random ways of 50% off.
The original dialogue so sounds so fucking weird compared to the abridged. Like in the abridged series they sound more like actual teenagers but with absurdist humor thrown in
the switch from "oh wow, thank you :D!!" to "i am going to give him such a tongue lashing" is so dbfhjsbhjfbhesh
I have never watched a single second of Free!, hearing their real voices hurts me -the abridged series is my life blood
SAME
Same here.
Same 😭
then you remember that the person who voiced nagisa also voiced leo from ghost stories
real
Yeah, his name is Greg Ayres. He also voiced Kaoru in Ouran High School Host Club, and Azusa in Diabolik Lovers
@@sloanewalker42 Oh no a reminder of Diabolik lovers😭😭😭
And ko's va was junko enoshima
LEO LEO GAWD DAMNIT
the "hu..hu.. you can't catch me, gay thoughts!! yES WE CAN!!!" absolutely killed me lmao somehow I forgot about that scene
Seeing the serious scenes of Ron talking about his dead father spliced the abridged Rin trying to pinch his grave but failing was too much, man
Yeah yeah Nagisa vs Thugisa, but oh my god original Haru is such an asshole. I 100% prefer mildly sociopathic Haru with the multiple Haru’s.
Wait what? I haven’t watched much of the original, how was Haru an asshole?
@@cureidolsmile9820 In this, he seems kind of rude and dismissive of everybody.
Mildly sociopathic haru with multiple harus LMAOOOOOO
@@Yue_yunn am I wrong
@@cureidolsmile9820 he's not lol😭😭😭😭
Just bad at showing emotions
He becomes better
I did not realize that my brain had completely accepted the 50% voices as the official ones. Like I watched the dub and love the original but man 50% Off is just too perfect.
The juxtaposition of Haru’s chill meditation in the pool in the OG to the maniacal self praise in 50 off killed me.
Imagine if everything from Free! was kept the same except for Haru. You'd have this normal [in my opinion] friendship-is-magic show, and Haru is in the middle of it constantly spouting insane shit. And no one comments on it, not even the show itself.
I can't watch the free dub, it genuinely fucks with me. Nagisa will always be a gangster in my mind.
Thugisa
I had no idea the original eng dub was this bad… 50% actually seems more like real conversation despite how insane it is.
Ikr 😭
something about the understated delivery of "fisherman are bad people" gets me every fucking time
broo ur ro real for that, it so good
Ooooh it was salt! I had no clue what it originally was, I half thought it was edited in
50% off added so much more character and charm to these boys.
Even though they're saying absurd shit the 50% off dub sounds more natural and casual. The original dub feels more stilted and scripted
So the original Nagisa is a human version of *Tails?*
Honestly the abridged dub voices (other than nagisa 💀) are spot on in my head, the normal voices are just so off now.
Just 50% tho
"All hail Decision Cube! The cube guides out hands and hearts!" 😂
50% off is what actual teenagers sound like xD
Wait so Rin bringing up "how they do it in Australia" wasn't out of pocket-
I forgot how annoying the original nagisa voice is
the way nagisa and haru are the hitachiin twins is crazyyy
reallll
I never really picked up on the shipping stuff in Free!, but lowkey 50% off had some hilariously great gay dialogue in retrospect.
Why do the characters in 50% just generally across the board have better motivation? Except Haru his motivation is still pool
Ive never seen the original or any of the og voices this is wild wtf
The minute official Nagisa opens his mouth during his introduction, I’m like “WHO THE F IS THAT”
WAITWAITWAIT... _THATS_ NAGISA'S VOICE??? I mean I wasn't expecting 50% off's voice to be in the OG but like.. that is a very tiny child.
I simply CANNOT hear Vic Mignogna's voice without hearing Edward Elric, that ain't Shark Week, it's Short Stack
His voice really does not suit Rin, if I'm being honest.
Nagisa's abridged voice will always be the canon one in my head. It's so iconic
never watched free but ive watched 50% off and hearing nagisa's actual voice for the first time was wild
THAT'S NAGISA"S VOICE!?!?! I have only ever heard 50% off 😭
It’s so jarring seeing people who have only seen the 50% off version be surprised at the voices in the original dub since I saw the original dub first. For me it was jarring (and hilarious) to hear Nagisa randomly having a deep voice and a totally different personality
The differences in the scripts is the country where the writer was brought up in.
NOBODY SOUNDS LIKE THEMSELVES IN THE OFFICIAL DUB… Haru doesn’t even sound like Haru 😭😭😭
It's kinda funny to think how 50% Off is kinda the popular abridged dub bc of Nagisa and ironically Nagisa's VA in this is from the Ghost Stories anime, another popular "abridged" dub of an anime. 😅
Now I had to look up where I heard Nagisa's original voice from before, because this is my first hearing it.
Leo in the Ghost Stories dub, which is basically just an official abridged series.
Jeez, hearing Nagisa in his original voice is soooooooo weird, actually, the original dub doesnt feel right 😅
He sounds so annoying
Hearing Johnny Yong Bosch, Greg Ayres, and Todd Habekorn after listening to 50% Off is really jarring.
ive watched the abridged version so much that hearing the real dub sounds weird
it’s so funny how the abridged version isn’t even that abridged
it’s just free! but cussing
the original feels more like an abridged version at this point tbh
i've watched the subbed version od free and the english dub is such a whiplash lmao
also the 50% voices (except nagisa's obviously) are closer to the jp ones, than the actual eng dub is, which i think is interesting!
Thugisa is too normal to me i cant do this rn
I have watched both versions so many times, at this point I confuse the two of them. Are you telling me Nagisa isn't constantly hitting on Rei in the original version? XD
I watched 50% off first and then Free! And I was so disappointed that Nagisa wasn’t a convicted felon
honestly I think the 50% off voice for haru unironically fits him better than in the official english dub, it sounds more asshole than the offical voice which fits better
TFW you realize nagisa is the same VA as the Jewish kid from the Ghost Stories dub
WOW YOU ARE SO RIGHT
50% literally made these characters so much better. Free just has a bunch of annoying people with no chemistry that like water
your so right
I’ve barely watched Free, yet I can safely say I prefer Kira Buckland as Gou.
Kou
@@AutumnWoodham"Yo’ ass just got Looney Toon’ed"
god kira bucklands resume never fails to impress me, like wym she was in 50% off?? 😭
@@who8967 She's been in a few abridged series. Hellsing abridged, Final Fantasy abridged, etc.
Yeah, her voice just seems right
Had never heard the official dub until this video but if anything it highlights how funny the 50% off team is
50% OFF is the official dub......??? idk where that other one comes from... that's scary
Its impressive how similar and different Kou’s voice is between the two
I grew up with the original Free! anime. Watched both the sub and dub around fourteen or thirteen, then watched the abridged not too long after. To this day, I still love the abridged ten times more.
While I was a decent fan of the original Free back then, I now think it's... fine. Despite the fanservice, fujoshi bait, and empty characters.
Abridged will forever have my soul; again, it's genuinely better in every way to me. For a script filled with actual hilarious writing, great voice acting that feels natural, and the more "lets be real for a second/heartfelt" scenes that actually packed a punch. I was also lucky enough to watch the Cosplay Con Q&A a group of cosplayers released on UA-cam, all acting as the abridged characters. So, I was there when it was in its prime/big, especially in the anime community.
11:50 I AM SORRY OCEAN GOBLIN !!!
The Switch from
"Have i ever told you how my Dad died?"
To
"Most Babys need 9 months to be born, i came out at 7!"
Is such a whiplash😂
oh man in all these years ive never heard the original lmao its so jarring
Honestly, nagisa and thugisa's personalities aren't even that different. If you red the normal nagisa lines in the thug voice, I wouldn't bat an eye
As an A3 fan who never watched the Free Dub, only subbed.... the visceral reaction i had to hearing Sakuya's English VA also be Nagisa. I feel like I've been long conned...
This is so jaring thugisa all the way just as the anime god intended
I love the juxtaposition 😂 in the original scenes were so harmless compared to 50%. Nagisa's softer voice throws me for a spin too ! 😭
I love how no matter what Nagisa just makes me laugh uncontrollably
No joke this is the first time I'm watching/ hearing free. I only know 50% 😂
the cube guides our hands and hearts
I haven't watched 50% off in years, it brings back memories.
This is the first time I’ve heard the official dub. I remember the sub being good until I realized how much better 50% off is
Yall talking about Nagisa's voice but what about Nitori? I absolutely forgot what he originally sounded like 😂
I just binge watched 50% off, what do you mean Nagisa isnt canonically a thug
Why is 50% off… better??? 😭
Its the music that throws me off between the scenes, makes the quiet so noticeable
never seen this anime not sure why this was recommended to me A+ 100/10
funny enough i actually like the dialogue of the first clip better abridged than the original (like the convo with the old lady vs basically "good morning" "take this bread" "you're welcome")
the free dub genuinley is jarring because like a majority of the ohshc dub is also there. nagisa is kaoru, haru is hikaru, rin is tamaki, rei is kyoya, and the teacher is haruhi. it's like in mha as well. i hear them everywhere. literally every show I watch at least one of the hitachiin twins is there
Okay, but why is the voice acting quality on the unofficial dub so much better than the official dub? 😂
Insane how similar the Gou voice is
I only recently noticed that 50% is a joke on free...the abridged is more expensive
I watched Free! With english subtitles, hearing the english VAs threw me off 😭
I barley rememebr the original plot but I remember nearly everything from 50% off 🤣
ngl, comparing the trophy to a dildo is far more accurate teenage dialogue than the actual show, ESP from someone like rin lol
The amount of people I have heard say oh yeah I've seen 50% off but what's free! Is like a huge slap to my face. And like you know what at this point I'm not surprised you can't be a weeb without watching 50% off like that's a right of passage right there
XDD i mean free! just isnt as popular as it used to be, i mean its been like 10 years since it first released. Plus, in my opinion, its pretty boring and there are much better sport animes and animes for shipping
Why does the actual anime feel like a prank… 50% off is my canon ig lol
Nagisa's voice is so high pitched, I never expected that since I watched Thugisa before 😭😭
As ex-competitive swimmer, haru is so real
NO 6:12 HES A DEMON HES A DEMON THE ORIGINAL IS FAKE THATS FALSE- HARU WOULD NEVER SOUND SO CHILL
I've never watched both of them so this is an experience.
Do you guys want to know a fun fact: So background voices of the actual show are the main voices in 50% off!!!!
Thugisa is the only real one lmao
I've never seen the original free! So hearing their actual voices feels so wrong lmao