Things I Find Funny And/or Appreciate About The Serbian Helluva Boss Dub By Paradajzcity Dubs

Things I find funny and/or appreciate about the Serbian Helluva Boss dub by Paradajzcity Dubs

The show itself is given the title "Đavola Rabota", roughly meaning "Devil's Racket" or "Hellish Racket"

Blitz is renamed to "Žark", which makes his original name "Žarko", not only is Žarko an actual Serbian name, but it's also an adjective to describe a bright light, like that of a fire.

Blitz is voiced by Željko Popović, who's basically the Serbian equivalent of the Angry Video Game Nerd, the same actor (who co-founded the dubbing team in the first place) also voices Loopty, just like how Brandon voices both Blitz and Loopty in the original series.

Loona and Millie share the same VA, so Loona is given a different Balkan accent to help make the voices further distinct.

Several episodes are given new titles referencing well known Serbian literature.

Stolas is renamed "Buljina" which is the Serbian name for a type of owl known for wandering into urban areas and annoying people, very fitting.

The band Via listens to is renamed from Fuck You Dad to Go Fuck Yourself Dad.

The contract Robofizz holds up (the one with Mammon's signature) is fully translated and contains even more and harsher profanity than the original.

When Blitz throws Millie the van keys in Spring Broken her jump is accompanied by a Mario sound effect.

In line with the last one, the monster fish uses Bowser's roar from Mario 64.

Before we get the doodle sequence explaining the plan in episode 3 you can see writing on the whiteboard which reads "Don't look at this text, it moves" which it indeed does, likely due to issues with the sinking of it's movement to the camera movement in the original episode.

During Wally's commercial at the start of episode 4 instead of saying "where you make the things and I make the money" he says (translated, of course) "where you'll fare worse than Tesla with Edison" which is extra funny given that Tesla was Serbian.

The dub's versions of the cherubs share the first names of their VAs.

Dearie is even more condescending than her English counterpart.

Since they've only done the first 4 proper episodes this is all for now, but those folks have done one of the best dubbing jobs I've seen in indie animation.

Bee is really the most evil, when you think about it - written by a Mammon kinnie

Now, I know this is gonna read like me being a Mammon apologist (because I am) but this is something I've been meaning to bring to light for a while now. I believe that Beelzebub is the most evil Sin, at least of the ones we've seen so far.

Bee might seem very approachable and friendly, but this is exactly what makes that much worse than she otherwise would be.

The main thing here is the hellhound pound system, which is, at least in my eyes, the most horrific piece of worldbuilding we've gotten in the series. An entire sentient species being treated like pets and kept in squalled conditions within a framework created and overseen by their ruler and likely creator, someone who is for all intents and purposes, their god.

Thought not confirmed, it's implied hounds that age out of the system are just straight up euthanized. Again, this has yet to be confirmed, but it definitely doesn't help Beelze's case.

And what exactly becomes of Gluttony-born hellhounds who survive the pounds and get adopted? Why their love bombed with parties where their "benevolent" mistress uses their positive emotions to make a substance that can form dependency in demons the way alcohol can in humans just so she's even better off. Either that or they end up adopted by someone who just uses them as expendable muscle.

At this point I'm sure someone is saying that Mammon is still worse, and they'll likely point to the general state of Greed, being a polluted over-industrialized mess. But this just raises another point in my favor.

Unlike Mammon, who's upfront about only caring about his citizens' money, Bee puts on the persona of being a ruler of the people, not above them. She makes Gluttony seem so idyllic while also basing a contender for Hell's most deplorable enterprise out of it.

Beelzebub is such an adept manipulator that she gets Loona to come out of her shell, when Loona's closed of nature was spawned from her trauma that Bee's pounds are responsible for in the first place! For all we know, this also applies to Vortex, I mean, something had to blind him in one eye, perhaps a fight with a former cellmate?

And worst of all, she herself doesn't seem consciously aware of it, she may genuinely see nothing wrong with the conditions her subjects live in, likely because she judges their quality of life based on their "vibes" at her parties.

I just want to end this saying that I don't hate Bee, nor do I think Vivienne intended for people to infer these things, knowing her, it's likely she just didn't fully consider the implications while writing. But it is still a valid interpretation of Beelzebub's character based on what we presently know about her.

The Stellon uprising will shortly begin!

You'd better give him what he wants.

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He's basically a god. I

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You know, I was looking at the Halloween drawing and comparing it to the new one when I had a horrifying realization.

In both images Roy seems uncomfortable with being in a proper costume, but has no issue "making" a generic (and non horror adjacent) costume in Tender Treats.

I tried to figure out why when I remembered that specific costumes, usually with some morbid/horror twist, are sometimes used in roleplay which coupled with Roy's trauma would explain his aversion to traditional Halloween costumes and for the holiday in general, which could be a great parallel between him and the spookies.

(Also the ghost on the right in this year's image is meant to represent Dexter, you can tell by the mis-matchd eyes)

Yeah :[

Tbh Carmen and Richard interest me in general BECAUSE of the implication of them being cultists, since they're the first cult couple we see (assuming Lila wasn't part of it herself at one point), which just brings the question of HOW that happened, if one or both were born into it or if it was something that happened later

And I still think about this one drawing of them looking lovingly at a newborn Roy

Like if they don't care anymore they did at some point, and I feel that's worse than them never caring at all

Now I'm just sad... Though, luckily, I think the most likely option is that they new Richard's brother was in the cult but not what "activities" he was engaging in outside of that.

If any currently established cultists will get redeemed, it's thankfully likely to be them.

...Or maybe I'm just overdosing on copium.