The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (light novel)
| I agree with Hirano>Lee However Freeman>>>>>>>>>Sugita Besides, I never cared much for Haruhi. She had some funny moments but Kyon was what really made fall in love with the series. Crispin Freeman's natural monotone and quirky narration is what made the character for me. In comparison, Sugita makes him sound like a nerd who's trying too hard to deadpan. He's not a bad seiyuu but he's way too monotone and boring as Kyon. He lacks pretty much all of Freeman's charm. Wendee Lee didn't capture Hirano's amazing pycho bitch Haruhi. But she still got the gist of her character. After all, as Johnny Yong Bosch said once, they're voice 'actors' not 'imitators'. Without the comparison to the sub, Wendee Lee did an amazing job. She's even a pretty good singer. Shame about the lyrics |
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| I agree with Roar_said_Jesus. Original jap voice of Haruhi is so damn cute, if not Kyon I would rewatch this serie just to listen her ;D |
| I personally believed the Japanese was much better. Haruhi is way worse in English. I am a fan of his work but Mr. Freeman was horribly miscast as Kyon, he sounds way too old. Mikuru isn't quite there either but she can be difficult to replicate. Nagato is okay. Itsuki's English dub is the only one I'd say is on par with his Japanese counterpart. |
| lol i'm literally chocking. |
| I prefer the dub. Tbh I managed to complete the entire series, including the tiresome Endless Eight arc, in the English dub. Back when I tried watching this in its original language years ago, I couldn't stay interested and subsequently dropped it after 2-3 episodes. I think I understand why people tend to prefer the subs to the dub, even though I feel the way people degrade the dub is a bit over the top. A lot of people become accustomed to watching in its original language so when they tried watching it in English version, they find the dub horrible. Cos I find it the similar way. After being too used to watching this show in English dub, when I watch some of its clips in Japanese, I instantly stopped watching them, preferring the English version. At the end of the day, it's up to your personal preference. But I feel it's completely unnecessary to over-criticize whichever version you don't prefer. |
| Both are really good, though I personally prefer the dub. Can't go wrong with voice actors like Wendee Lee, Crispin Freeman, Johnny Yong Bosch, and Michelle Ruff if you ask me. |
| And I mean that in the most sexually painful way possible. |
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