"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."

theabcsofjustice:

Alright, so they’re still talking about basically the same thing here but for some reason the dub decided to leave out the rather crucial information that there’s a purpose behind Ed’s vigilante jaunts. So it comes across more like Aster is just going out and beating people up for no particular reason.

I dunno, maybe they’ll mention it later in the scene instead but this was a perfectly fine time to do so. We don’t yet know all the information in the original but it gives us more insight about Ed’s character, that he’s very angry about something and feels the need to take action on that anger.

Also while Saiou doesn’t particularly like this habit of Ed’s in either version, he at least acknowledges in the original that he understands why Ed does this and that he does need some sort of outlet for his pain. Of course, the most painful thing watching this again is knowing that Saiou knows that Ed isn’t going to find his card that way because Saiou has already seen where it is. I wish they would have told us the reason later on in the show why Saiou didn’t say anything about it to him. I can certainly reasonably guess at why he’d have reasons to hide it based on canon, but it would have been nice to be able to hear it from Saiou himself. :(

I do have to give the dub credit for one thing though. They actually keep the way that Sartorius talks pretty similar to Saiou’s speech patterns. They’re both always very formal and calm.