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Still not understanding how Naruto's dub can seriously even considered as bad as everything else in that list. It didn't receive some piss-poor chopped up release like 4kids One Piece and Sailor Moon, and was certainly more faithful than that dub. Yet the dub isn't awkwardly scripted and acted like Tekken, and Green Green. I've watched plenty of Naruto dubbed (Toonami and dvd versions) and subbed, and still consider it to be a fairly solid dub especially for such a long running series. Not saying it's one of the absolute best dubs but there's just way too much effort and competency from to even consider it remotely bad. I dunno maybe that's just like my opinion man.

I've recently been going through my backlog and I have to say Bubblegum Crisis/Crash OVA 's dubs are just plain bad. Scripting is actually well adapted and the male characters all sound fine, but all the female VAs either sound too old for their characters, too over the top, too bored, and the dubbed songs are horrible at worst and mediocre at best.

For the most part, I think Naruto is a fairly average dub. Some of the acting early on is pretty stiff, and Naruto's voice actress just plain gives a lousy performance in my opinion. I recently watched the Zabuza arc, as Naruto was in tears about the nature of death, and the English voice actress was using the same confident, scream-y tone as any other scene--you could barely tell he was distressed, much less in tears, on audio alone.

I also think they didn't put much bother into directing the extras in Naruto. But then, Brotherhood and Bleach have the same problem.