King_Kenshiro said: KyuuA4 said: Mikerdupes said: Worst dubs ive heard were the Azumanga dubs, TEXAN ACCENT OSAKA ISNT RIGHT. That's just to emphasize the fact that she HAS an accent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhZ2lyKq8xs There's nothing wrong about that. True, but I agree with the other guy who said a Texan accent was just wrong. They could've picked anything else, but Texan? This is just a guess: I'm assuming that the Kansai accent is relative to the Southern accent. I don't hear it as the Texan accent, but rather Southern - like Mississippi, Alabama, or Georgia. Since the voice acting is done in English -- there must be a similar and relative variant to the English language as far as accents go. In the case of Osaka, in the Japanese voice, they treated her accent as... "slow" or "aloof". We view the Southern accent in a similar fashion. Living here in the Midwest, I make it easy to make fun of Southerners. XD |
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| Unless it's Osaka I HATE Texan accents. I like both versions. I haven't seen any dubs that I dislike lately, but whatever is available. If I'm watching it on the net, it's subbed and I will like it. Otherwise, dub. |
KyuuA4 said: King_Kenshiro said: KyuuA4 said: Mikerdupes said: Worst dubs ive heard were the Azumanga dubs, TEXAN ACCENT OSAKA ISNT RIGHT. That's just to emphasize the fact that she HAS an accent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhZ2lyKq8xs There's nothing wrong about that. True, but I agree with the other guy who said a Texan accent was just wrong. They could've picked anything else, but Texan? This is just a guess: I'm assuming that the Kansai accent is relative to the Southern accent. I don't hear it as the Texan accent, but rather Southern - like Mississippi, Alabama, or Georgia. Since the voice acting is done in English -- there must be a similar and relative variant to the English language as far as accents go. In the case of Osaka, in the Japanese voice, they treated her accent as... "slow" or "aloof". We view the Southern accent in a similar fashion. Living here in the Midwest, I make it easy to make fun of Southerners. XD Most likely true and it's pretty clever now that I think about it. But it was still a bad idea. |
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| The original is always the best XD |
| ALWAYS better in Japanese, (the only exception being Dragon Ball Z) but I've no problem watching a well done dub (which is very very rare). |
Janssonn said: Spruce said: ALWAYS better in Japanese, (the only exception being Dragon Ball Z) but I've no problem watching a well done dub (which is very very rare). I acctually enjoyed JAP on DBZ more than DB... Once you gets used to the Jap voice instead of hearing everthing in the head ENGLISH, Japanese DBZ is so much better! HOLY SHIT, would you mind making your sig a bit smaller? ;_; |
| Always? No. Mostly? Yes. These days I always try the English dub of the unwatched series I own on DVD. If the dub is high quality, then I'm happy to watch the animation flow and not keep looking at the bottom of the screen. However, the Japanese track tends to be vastly superior to the English track, so I usually end up reading subtitles. I wouln't enjoy watching Naruto without hearing Chie as Sakura, or watching Death Note without hearing Mamoru(sp?) as Light. When the Japanese get it right, American voices cannot compete. |
CakeLander said: KyuuA4 said: King_Kenshiro said: KyuuA4 said: Mikerdupes said: Worst dubs ive heard were the Azumanga dubs, TEXAN ACCENT OSAKA ISNT RIGHT. That's just to emphasize the fact that she HAS an accent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhZ2lyKq8xs There's nothing wrong about that. True, but I agree with the other guy who said a Texan accent was just wrong. They could've picked anything else, but Texan? This is just a guess: I'm assuming that the Kansai accent is relative to the Southern accent. I don't hear it as the Texan accent, but rather Southern - like Mississippi, Alabama, or Georgia. Since the voice acting is done in English -- there must be a similar and relative variant to the English language as far as accents go. In the case of Osaka, in the Japanese voice, they treated her accent as... "slow" or "aloof". We view the Southern accent in a similar fashion. Living here in the Midwest, I make it easy to make fun of Southerners. XD Most likely true and it's pretty clever now that I think about it. But it was still a bad idea. Can you think of a better one? New York accent?! |
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| I prefer the Japanese version of an anime over the English version because sometimes the english version has changed or taken out words as well as scenes. One Piece is a perfect example of this. |
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| sub....of course!! |
| ALWAYS JAPANESE! English dub sucks! |
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| I personally find Elfen Lied & xxxHOLiC better in english dubs. I don't hate dubs..I just find that the VAs don't put in enough emotion. But even so I prefer Yuuko's english VA because the japanese seiyuu lacked that mysterious side of Yuuko...There was only the childish side >.< And Yuuko is more mysterious than childish. |
| for me, yes. |
| I pretty much always watch Japanese audio with english subs. That seems to pretty much always be the best bet. There are a few rare cases where the English dub is as good as the Japanese, but that does not happen too often. |
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| I haven't watched a lot of dubbed anime, but from the little I've seen, it's mostly bad. At least not nearly as good as the japanese voice acting. So I always stick to japanese audio while watching anime. There are some instances where I can't stand the japanese voice acting though; Dragon Ball. But I have seen neither the japanese or english version of it so I can't really compare them. |
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| I enjoy the dubbed and subbed versions of FLCL equally, but haven't found any other eng dub that sounded better than the original. |
| For me, anime is always better in Japanese. When it's dubbed into English things always change and I hate that. A good example of that is with Sailor Moon. |
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| I can probably count on one hand the amount of dubs that I would even think about watching. |
| I prefer the original and don't like to watch an anime with dub at all, I think the japaneese acctors is mutch mutch better and there voises fitts so mutch better to the carracter. |
| I only watch hentai anime, but I always prefer Japanese audio. Sex scenes in English are often awkward and just weird. The moaning in Japanese is much hotter and immersive =). |
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| haha bitterfish I agree on that one |
| Most of the time I prefer the Japanese voice actors. |
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| I watch all of my anime with subtitles cause it feels more authentic that way and I like reading subtitles in general. The only way I've ever watched it in dubs is if I can't find it subbed and I'm really interested in it. If I find an anime I wanted to watch that I can only find in dubs and I'm not overly fussed about it, I'll not watch it... Oh, that and the english voices are usually over the top and fake in my experience and it pisses me off. |
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| Jap sub are always the best, my only problem is somtimes they are not subbed properly. Dub get the translation right but can censor loads of stuff, also some of the really strong american accents can really ruin the mood (Not saying I dislike Americans just they choose really weird voice actors that ruin the mood) Only dub that beats sub is Dragonballl sagas, sub just sounds really gay. |
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| I enjoy watching it more if it's in its original unedited format - AKA the Japanese version. |
| Definitely original! When they dub series, it often sounds terrible because they just don't have the natural anime expressions as the Japanese voice actors/actresses do :S They end up sounding awful. But there are a few decent dubbed anime series though. |
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| I only watch it in English if the English cast is actually good. Otherwise I just try and find raws. Only if my back is against the wall will i watch a show with subs, they're distracting and usually wrong. |
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| Most of the time Japanese. |
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bitterfish said: I only watch hentai anime, but I always prefer Japanese audio. Sex scenes in English are often awkward and just weird. The moaning in Japanese is much hotter and immersive =). That's because no trained voice actors want to stamp their names on hentai. :p If you look hard enough, you might find some of the fan-dub projects of hentai that actually sound decent. As far as official dubs go though, I'm forced to agree with you in almost every case. Bible Black's English dub raped my mind. |
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| yeah! :D it seems so unnatural in english.. |
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| I like japanese they sound better most of the english actors sound stupid |
| I don't go either way, it's just whatever I watch first. However, some that I must go a certain way: Cowboy Bebop and Death Note: Dubbed. Bebop was like.. The best English dub I've ever heard. Evangelion: Subbed, but only for one character: Kensuke. God damn, his voice is horrid in the dub. |
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| Japenese, I dont think I even have anything in english except for FLCL. |
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bitterfish said: Sex scenes in English are often awkward and just weird. this. i like dubs, but hentai shouldn't be dubbed. |
| I prefer anime with japanese voices. I can't stand the english dubs xD |
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| ^ Same, it seems like the japanese voice actors are much more....dedicated? Or they at least try harder, I won't say all english dubs are bad...I think I remember Full Metal Panic and Chrono Crusade being pretty good....but for the most part it's japanese and subs for me. |
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| For me, whenever I see an animu dubbed first it's too weird to see it subbed. I had to force myself to watch the cowboy bebop dub, it just didn't seem natural. Plus Spike seemed way badass with his american voice vs. his japanese voice. |
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| It IS always better in Japanese. Anime is Japanese thing, isn't it? So why must I listen this... not very good english dub.? =) |
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| I usually like the voice actors in Japenese rather than the American voice actors. Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh are two animes I would rather hear from American voice actors. I think those are the only two animes where I like the American voice actors more than the Japenese voice actors. |
| Japanese is way better..Because its the original form...soo what if you have to read a bit subs |
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cyruz said: Watching anime in its original Japanese is the best. I can think of a number of series where the English is quite a bit better than the Japanese. This is usually the case because the English cast is really distinctive whereas the Japanese is pretty common. Some examples: Inuyasha Bleach Princess Mononoke Fullmetal Alchemist Cowboy Bebop There are also some cases where the Japanese cast is better than the English - Blood+ comes to mind. But if they're both pretty good, I usually watch it in Japanese so I can learn the language more and because it matches up with the mouths better. |
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| ... pretty much. Dubs can be decent or good even, but they are usually never better than the original version, though there may be a few exceptions out there I have encountered none thus far (partially because I don't watch dubs often). |
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