The radio show had more crack, but they weren't really being in character there, it was just the voice actors yukking it up... though, many of the segments were very funny. A few of the DVDs came with CD extras where Sunako's seiyuu remained completely in character for an entire segment while giving quizzes and such to the other voice actors (not in character). That might be more along the lines of what you were expecting. Maybe I'll sub some of the better bits from those when I get finished with or just stuck on the novel.
I've never seen the dub and consider it better for my blood pressure to avoid dubs when possible; I'll will spend more money to import a series than I will to buy it domestically (where I would still have the Japanese track *and* subtitles to watch with others who can't just go with it raw), because I don't want to support dubs. That said, I do wonder how they'd handle so many of the aggressively Japanese aspects of this show, such as, say, Sunako hating to be called -chan, or the fortune telling aspect of the days. I've read on some sites it's "Miss" which makes so little sense it really is good that the dub isn't so pervasive in the fandom as to be unavoidable. Miss Sunako would only offend her if she found it overly polite (just the opposite of the reason she'd dislike the diminutive -chan, thus more than just a bad translation, would be an outright subversive one) or if she was some kind of pre-op FTM whose body tragically keeps reverting to its genetically female default after every attempted gender reassignment surgery, forcing her to continue to live in a form identified as female when deep down inside, she's more than man enough for our stock-homo monk's in-explicit proclivities.
The thing about FLCL is I thought I hated it after watching it the first time, even though I must have liked it as I eagerly went through it all in about two shots. Then I watched it again, thought "I'm enjoying this and enjoyed it a lot last time too" then, when it was over, somehow thought I hated it again. When I ended up watching it for the third time in club, realizing, again, I'm enjoying it, I could only concede that I must in fact like it, never quite sure why I'm always convinced I don't after the fact. I'd think it was just me, but somebody else in the club made the exact same comment on their love-hate relationship with it.
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I've never seen the dub and consider it better for my blood pressure to avoid dubs when possible; I'll will spend more money to import a series than I will to buy it domestically (where I would still have the Japanese track *and* subtitles to watch with others who can't just go with it raw), because I don't want to support dubs. That said, I do wonder how they'd handle so many of the aggressively Japanese aspects of this show, such as, say, Sunako hating to be called -chan, or the fortune telling aspect of the days. I've read on some sites it's "Miss" which makes so little sense it really is good that the dub isn't so pervasive in the fandom as to be unavoidable. Miss Sunako would only offend her if she found it overly polite (just the opposite of the reason she'd dislike the diminutive -chan, thus more than just a bad translation, would be an outright subversive one) or if she was some kind of pre-op FTM whose body tragically keeps reverting to its genetically female default after every attempted gender reassignment surgery, forcing her to continue to live in a form identified as female when deep down inside, she's more than man enough for our stock-homo monk's in-explicit proclivities.
The thing about FLCL is I thought I hated it after watching it the first time, even though I must have liked it as I eagerly went through it all in about two shots. Then I watched it again, thought "I'm enjoying this and enjoyed it a lot last time too" then, when it was over, somehow thought I hated it again. When I ended up watching it for the third time in club, realizing, again, I'm enjoying it, I could only concede that I must in fact like it, never quite sure why I'm always convinced I don't after the fact. I'd think it was just me, but somebody else in the club made the exact same comment on their love-hate relationship with it.