My solution: Get rid of Wil, Una & the Chancefolk and replace them with Tyler, Cy-Fi, & the foundation so they serve more than just a setting for 2 scenes. Hell even let Cy-Fi marry Cam! (Pan Cam is my headcanon let me dream)

Replacing Wil also means having Tyler as Cam's hands. Rewrite Tyler as a punk-rock guitarist & be unwound on the black market to save Lev & the rest of his band

To win a baking sale

Forgers go on vacation

Swallow states secrets

Yes, someone shared it over on /r/Baccano. I meant to share it here in turn, but life’s been a bit demanding lately and I hadn’t gotten around to it yet.

For those wondering, here’s the interview in question. It’s an hour long.

I listened to it last Friday so it’s not entirely fresh in my mind, but I’ll note that the interview invokes/draws upon some of the same points Tyler makes in the DVD dub commentaries. For those who don’t have access to the English dub commentaries, I transcribed all four episode commentaries here if you’d like to have that context.

Although much of the interview does retread familiar ground (for me, having already listened to the commentaries), I was definitely interested in the parts where the interviewer and Walker discuss how different dubbing anime is today compared to the era in which Baccano! was dubbed. Most interested, I suppose one could say, because...

...Well, in October of last year, I wrote a short post expressing doubt/concern that a simuldub of a hypothetical Baccano! ‘reboot’ or ‘new season’ in this day and age would not live up to the high standard the 2007 anime’s dub had set. My reasoning--which I expanded on in this follow-up post--included tighter time restrictions (less time for period research, retakes, script revising) and most of all production material access: assuming that FUNimation would receive new Baccano! material on an episode-by-episode/week-by-week basis, I worried such conditions would be to the dub’s detriment. For a dense, non-linear show like Baccano!, you’d surely want more materials in advance so as ensure you understand what’s going on.

This interview...somewhat validates my concerns, I think. I’m not happy about it, mind you, but look at what Walker says when Cartoon Cipher asks him what the 2007 Baccano! anime would be like if it were produced today:

"I think it would definitely be more challenging [to produce today]..”

"It'd be very challenging. I think maybe the nature of doing things so quickly perhaps may have led to, you know, these days may lead to some more, like, safe choices."

"Not being able to look at the whole picture is just a, especially on something like this, it would be a challenge."

Yikes! I thought so, but yikes! This is what I was worried about! The ‘safe choices’ point included; just as I would want the English dubbing team to have enough time and enough materials to understand what’s going on and punch up the script, I’d want them to have enough leeway for trying out creative ideas. I’d want that collaborative process to have breathing room.

* Do Not Attempt These Miraculous Stunts At Home.