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My Top 10 Favorite English Dubs (In no Particular Order):

1.) Naruto (Viz Media).
2.) Rurouni Kenshin (Media Blasters?).
3.) Case Closed (FUNimation Entertainment).
4.) One Piece (FUNimation Entertainment).
5.) Bleach (Viz Media).
6.) Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion R1 (Bandai Entertainment).
7.) Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (Bandai Entertainment).
8.) Dragon Ball Z (Original) (FUNimation Entertainment).
9.) Fullmetal Alchemist (FUNimation Entertainment).
10.) Dragon Ball GT (FUNimation Entertainment).

rank - title - dub studio
1. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Ocean)
2. Black Lagoon / Black Lagoon The Second Barrage (Ocean)
3. Shakugan no Shana (Ocean)
4. Hellsing Ultimate (New Generation)
5. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Bang Zoom)
6. Full Metal Panic / Full Metal Panic Fumoffu / Full Metal Panic The Second Raid (ADV)
7. GunxSword (New Generation)
8. Giant Robo (NYAV)
9. Le Chevalier D'Eon (ADV)
10. Kanon 2006 (ADV)

RANK - TITLE - DUB STUDIO
1. Castle in the Sky / My Neighbor Totoro / Princess Mononoke / Kiki's Delivery Service / Nausicaa (Disney)
2. Fullmetal Alchemist (FuniMation)
3. Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (ADV Films)
4. Record of Lodoss War OVA (National Sound)
5. The Slayers NEXT (TAJ Studios)
6. The World of Narue / Night on a Galactic Railroad (CPM)
7. His and Her Circumstances / Gokudo (Headline Sound)
8. Akira 2001 / Metropolis / Outlaw Star / The Castle of Cagliostro (AniMaze, inc.)
9. Jungle Emperor Leo / Magic User's Club / The Phoenix (NYAV Post)
10. The Wings of Honneamise (AniMaze inc.)

Top dubs huh? Let's see:

ROD the TV
Kaleido Star
Big O
Kiki's Delivery Service
Full Metal Panic
Appleseed (can't decide which one though)
His and Her Circumstances
Scrapped Princess
Super Gals
Tenchi Muyo (original cast)

hmmm... I really like the dubs on:

Speed Grapher (Funimation)
Fullmetal Alchemist (Funimation)
Pani Poni Dash (???)
Crayon Shin-chan (???)
Fruits Basket (Funimation?)

Also, the live action Death Note movies, while not technically anime, were also dubbed really well. I don't know the studio that dubbed them though...

Cowboy Bebop
Black Lagoon
Full Metal Panic! (all)
Hellsing (both)
Trigun

1. Death Note [Viz Media]
2. Spirited Away [Disney]
3. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion [Bandai Entertainment]
4. Fruits Basket [Funimation]
5. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time [Bandai Entertainment]
6. Genshiken [Media Blasters]
7. Pani Poni Dash [ADV Films]
8. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya [Bandai Entertainment]
9. Chobits [Media Blasters]
10. Naruto [Viz Media]

1-4 are in my opinion the best dubs and need to be purchased before seen. Definitely hardr to tell which one is better.

It's kind of hard to decide but I personally think these are the best dubs around.

1. Welcome to the NHK [funimation]
2. Golden Boy [ADV films]
3. Kino's Journey [ADV films]
4. Death Note [Viz Media]
5. Claymore [Funimation]
6. Princess Mononoke [Miramax films]
7. Darker Than Black [funimation]
8. Great Teacher onizuka[TokyoPop]
9. Jigoku Shoujo [Funimation]
10. Gantz [Dark Horse]

1. Bleach (Viz)
2. One Piece (Funimation)
3. Lucky Star (Bandai)
4. Full metal Alchemist (Funimation)
5. Naruto (viz)
6. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Bandai)
7. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Bandai)
8. Eureka 7 (Bandai)
9. Death Note (Viz)
10. Black cat (viz)

---see my other post ---

10. One Piece (Funimation)
9. Bleach
8. Neon Genesis Evangelion
7. Cowboy Bebop
6. Full Metal Alchemist
5. Dragonball Z
4. Full Metal Panic
3. Black Lagoon
2. Samurai Champloo
1. Yuu Yuu Hakusho

I don't have a top 5-list yet,but this is mine so far:

1. Lucky Star
2. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
3. Samurai Champloo

Heres a few of mine:

• Dragonball Z (funimation)
  
• Bleach (viz media)
  
• DN Angel (???)
  
• Death Note (viz media)
  
• Yu Yu Hakusho (funimation)
  

It was done by ADV ^_^

This is a Geneon title, not Media Blasters.It was dubbed by Bang Zoom.

I hate the show with an undieing passion, so of course I know this stuff...

Why do you hate Chobits? I LOVED IT ^_^.

Well, the manga anyways.....still need to watch Episodes 3 and up of the anime lol.

1-naruto (viz)

2-bleach (viz)

3-full metal alchemist (funimation)

4-gurren laggan (bandai)

5-lucky star (bangzoom)

6-Pokemon (4kids)

7-YuGiOh (4kids)

8-Haruhi. S (bangzoom)

9-slayers (Central Park Media)

10-Rurouni Kenshin (Anime works)

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How did you get a Rurouni Kenshin gif file avatar? O_o

I'll say my top 10 cuz it's easier:

1. Code Geass. Not only are the animations good, Johnny Yong Bosch, Yuri Lowenthal, Karen Strassman, Michael Lindsay, Kim Mai Guest, Liam O' Brien and all the other actors nail at bringing out the various moments of all the characters and their well-rounded emotions.
2. Death Note Brad Swaile got me at Light's laugh. He made Light sound like he went permantly on the deep end. And for a bunch of Ocean Group voice actors who I was unfamiliar with, their application to the characters were very believable.
3. Lucky Star Wendee Lee, Kari Walhgren and all the actors at Bangzoom REALLY improvised with the dialogue to a point where it was funnier than ANY subtitles I've seen! XD
4. Fullmetal Alchemist Uh..... Vic Mignogna? I mean same as lucky Star, all the dialogue and scenes were very funny and well-rounded for the actors to cast as their characters. And not bad for Aaron's first gig before puberty.
5. Inuyasha Same thing, original dialogue. Even though I didn't understand some of the dialogue, most of it was just plain fun to hear ouf of the character individually.
6. Rurouni Kenshin For all of these people to pronounce all the japnese names of people, places, swords and techniques while still maintaining their acting,... it's pure talent! All the more to be convinced of the story's setting being in Meiji era, Japan. I feel like the characters are more of Japanese folk that speak english fluently.
7. Eureka Seven I had NO idea that was Johnny Yong Bosch playing as Renton until a while after I saw Bleach! Incredible!
8. Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya I think after that show, Crispin sympathizes with Kyon's inconvience and Wendee may have become more crazy like Haruhi! lol
9. Yuyu Hakusho the main actors let out the noticable types of voices for character like Hiei, Kuwabara, and Yusuke.
10. One Piece The characters and their personalities felt WAY more believeable than in the 4kids dub (not that I despise 4kids for it, they had their reasons).

Bleach and Naruto just fall under 11 and 12. And I would say Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, but I don't know if that counts since it's a video game.

1. Yu Yu Hakusho/Cowboy Bebop- Its a tie between these 2, as they are among the most amazing dubs that I have ever seen. Both anime were already great in their own respective genres before their dubs, but when they were dubbed, the English voice acting for both actually happened to be so good that it made those series just that much more enjoyable for me. ;)

2. Full Metal Panic!- Chris Patton as Sousuke Sagara alone is good enough to sell this dub for me, but it also helps that every other role is cast spot on perfectly in this dub. Gauron's voice is nothing short of epic, and Kaname's voice actress completely captures her persoanlity down to the last detail. Also, as someone who actually is not a fan of Vic Mignogna, I have to say that he does a great job as Kurz. Overall, its an amazing dub.

3. Outlaw Star

4. One Piece

5. Black Lagoon

6. Full Metal Alchemist- Aside from Ed's voice, everyone else is awesome, in this dub. As I said, I'm not a fan of Vic. That's not to say that I think his voice acting is actually bad, but he makes Ed sound like he's in his mid-20's, ors omething like that, and that just feels really odd knowing that he's only 15 years old.

7. Death Note

8. Rurouni Kenshin

9. Hellsing (TV series + OVAs)- Even though I'm not a big fan of Hellsing anymore (that includes the manga, as well), I can still appreciate its fantastic dub. ;)

10. The Big O

There are some other honorable mentions that I could make, like Blue Gender and Lupin III, but those 10 are among my favorites. ^_^