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whats the worst dub you've seen in anime
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May 13, 2020 1:53 PM
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Ghost stories

The lines are completely changed from the original BUT the dub is so bad it's actually good. It contains everything from sexual jokes to pop culture references. Definitely recommend it though.


May 13, 2020 2:02 PM
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Ghost stories

The lines are completely changed from the original BUT the dub is so bad it's actually good. It contains everything from sexual jokes to pop culture references. Definitely recommend it though.



I'd actually say it's on the level of it's so good it's great. The backstory for how the dub came to be is pretty interesting and hilarious.

For a proper so bad it's good dub I'd go for Garzey's Wing. It genuinely sounds like non of the english voice actors were given any direction or feedback and it sounds so stilted in every instance.
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xRedheadxx said:
Ghost stories

The lines are completely changed from the original BUT the dub is so bad it's actually good. It contains everything from sexual jokes to pop culture references. Definitely recommend it though.

Are you kidding me, that's one of the best. It was intentionally completely different from the original, the og show was trash, so they were given permission to do whatever the fuck they wanted, and so the first official "abridged" was born. There are so many lines from that shit that I quote everyday.

But to answer OP's original question, probably between Speed Racer and Bible Black. Garzey's Wing would be in there too. They're all so bad they're good, so I highly recommend them.
May 13, 2020 2:04 PM
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Some old greek dub like dragon ball which constantly changed voice actors and had some weird translations even though it was pretty faithful to the original. I've also heard some horror stories about the greek dub of one piece but I haven't watched that.
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May 13, 2020 2:11 PM
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The Higurashi dub was pretty bad. If someone had told me it was an amateur fandub after watching it, I would have believed them.

I didn't care for the Clannad dub either. They managed to get it right where it really matters (i.e. the emotional scenes) but otherwise it was mediocre. Not to mention the constant mispronunciation of names was cringe.

A more recent example would be the Oregairu dub. The voice acting itself wasn't that bad, and Adam Gibbs nailed it as Hachiman, but the way the script was translated ranges from average to god-awful in places. So much of the meaning is lost in translation that it almost seems contrived compared to the original, where there was an incredible amount of culturally-relevant subtext behind the dialogue. They basically turned it into another generic romcom show.

I haven't seen any dubs which were so horribly bad that would make me automatically stop watching. Most modern dubs are pretty good actually, and for older shows I almost exclusively watch them with subs.
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May 13, 2020 2:13 PM
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konosuba not like its trash on its own but compared to how good the sub is its complete trash
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Worst DUB ever: One Piece.
Second worst DUB ever: Any of the Naruto series.
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May 13, 2020 2:17 PM
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Angel Cop. All it has is people cursing at each other like it's a South Park extra.

May 13, 2020 2:20 PM

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Garzey's Wing is the absolute answer. It's not a meme in the same sense that Ghost Stories is, it's straight up amateur work.
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Dub of Digimons is a disgrace that shouldn't exist.
Than there are this gems.

May 13, 2020 4:15 PM

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Any Funimation lines that reference the "patriarchy" or "gamergate".
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Big green Dub. Let that child alone or I WANT THE MAGIC STIIIIICK!
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xRedheadxx said:
Ghost stories

The lines are completely changed from the original BUT the dub is so bad it's actually good. It contains everything from sexual jokes to pop culture references. Definitely recommend it though.


I bought it on DVD because of compilations like these; same for Sextra Credit.

May 13, 2020 4:36 PM

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Pretty much any of the new dubs by funimation. It's the same 3-4 voice actors for every single seasonal Anime, and man they are bad.

xRedheadxx said:
Ghost stories

The lines are completely changed from the original BUT the dub is so bad it's actually good. It contains everything from sexual jokes to pop culture references. Definitely recommend it though.


Ghost stories actually has a pretty good dub, they changed up the lines on purpose to make it funnier, when I'm watching it, I always keep the original subtitles on, so I know whats actually going on.
May 13, 2020 4:39 PM
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Parasyte the Maxim. Unbelievable that a dub of that quality was not only approved, but aired on national television.

The simuldub of Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi too.

Of course there's Garzey's Wing but it's so funny it actually makes the show better.
May 13, 2020 4:47 PM
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The original Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z (the one they did in-house, not the Ocean Studios one) is aural torture. All the actors (at the time, those who still work in the industry have gotten WAY better) sound mildly awkward at best and insufferably amateurish at worst, the scripting is corny as all hell which destroys characterization and reduces any maturity the show still had to a 90s Saturday morning cartoon (which was the point, I guess), and the fucking techno music blaring in the background at all times.

The worst part is that this dub has bred a fanbase of fucking morons who don't understand Dragon Ball in the slightest due to how unrecognizably fucked the dub left it. At least the other shoddier dubs from no-name studios (like the "Big Green" dub) were treated as the laughingstocks they truly are and not some damn Holy Grail because unlike the Funimation dub, they don't have nostalgic value. "Muh nostalgia" is the only reason people go to bat for this dub.

Every other submission on this thread that I've seen so far is just one of those really lousy cheesy "so bad it's good" dubs that everyone makes memes from, so I decided to go down this unprecedented path to ravage a well-known, (mostly) well-regarded dub just for the hell of it. Judge me all you like, I don't give a fuck what you think.
May 13, 2020 5:07 PM

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konosuba not like its trash on its own but compared to how good the sub is its complete trash

I get not liking dubs, but I honestly can't understand how anyone could legitimately have this opinion. Yes, the sub is overall better, but they did a damn good job with the Konosuba dub, and comparatively speaking they're very close in terms of quality. There are no awkward script translations, the voice actors play their characters extremely well, and it's just as funny as it is in the original. As far as valid criticisms go, the Konosuba dub has a very short list. I'm curious to know what exactly made it so unbearable for you.
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May 13, 2020 5:33 PM

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MadHobbit2 said:
Haunt-Me said:
konosuba not like its trash on its own but compared to how good the sub is its complete trash

I get not liking dubs, but I honestly can't understand how anyone could legitimately have this opinion. Yes, the sub is overall better, but they did a damn good job with the Konosuba dub, and comparatively speaking they're very close in terms of quality. There are no awkward script translations, the voice actors play their characters extremely well, and it's just as funny as it is in the original. As far as valid criticisms go, the Konosuba dub has a very short list. I'm curious to know what exactly made it so unbearable for you.



ehh its just so stiff for me, like i said its not terrible on its own, i just dont like it
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Ghost stories dub is iconic, the show did terrible so they basically told the english voice actors to do whatever the hell they wanted with the dub, it was totally different from the subs. I couldn't stop laughing from the experience.
May 13, 2020 5:48 PM

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Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo most likely....
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May 13, 2020 5:51 PM
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Gotta go with Higurashi. Those screams and laughs. Man, they need to leave those to the Japanese. Completely ruined it.
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xRedheadxx said:
Ghost stories

The lines are completely changed from the original BUT the dub is so bad it's actually good. It contains everything from sexual jokes to pop culture references. Definitely recommend it though.



How have I never heard of this, it's actually hilarious holy shit.

I'm adding this to my list, I definitely have to watch it.
May 13, 2020 5:57 PM

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lol people thinking only English dubbed anime is bad. xD
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Anything dubbed in the 80s or early 90s was usually pretty bad. 95-2005 is hit or miss. After that companies improved a lot and I don't usually have any issues with them.
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I've never been able to get past the introduction of Karin's dub because of how inconsistent the lead's voice is, so I'd like to think that would be my answer.
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May 13, 2020 6:32 PM

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Toss up between Garzey's Wing and Devilman...but they are gloriously terrible. :]



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Every single show that has a dub except for Pokemon
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Too be fair, I haven't listened to more than a few minutes of it, but I couldn't stand the clannad dub. Most subs I can tolerate, sometimes I even prefer them, but clannad's is just... Bad.
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The portuguese (not the brazilian one) db/dbz/dbgt dub is hilariously bad.
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Too be fair, I haven't listened to more than a few minutes of it, but I couldn't stand the clannad dub. Most subs I can tolerate, sometimes I even prefer them, but clannad's is just... Bad.


I feel like Moe shows and 'dubs' just should not mix together. xD Dubbing is BAD at being 'cute'...I haven't seen a decent dub of a moe show YET....it's weird....but the dub actresses just....they can't get it right lol



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lol people thinking only English dubbed anime is bad. xD

Lmao, It's like they have no emotions at all
May 13, 2020 7:12 PM

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Are you kidding me, that's one of the best. It was intentionally completely different from the original, the og show was trash, so they were given permission to do whatever the fuck they wanted, and so the first official "abridged" was born. There are so many lines from that shit that I quote everyday.

But to answer OP's original question, probably between Speed Racer and Bible Black. Garzey's Wing would be in there too. They're all so bad they're good, so I highly recommend them.
That was a fake rumor, murican, they just wanted to sell their dub and came up with a lie.
And I bet you didn't even watch the og, just kept repeating what you read on the internet, like a good murican.
I'm not even american you silly, and I watched a good number of episodes of the original show because it aired in my country (which again isn't the USA). After I watched the dub, I watched the first 3 episodes of the original version again to see how it was. So don't make assumptions about people ;)
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The dub for Tamako Market bothered me something fierce. I can’t put a finger on what exactly the problem was but something was just very, very wrong that made the whole thing completely unwatchable for me. I’ve yet to get back around to the sub.
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DuckSauceLord said:
Too be fair, I haven't listened to more than a few minutes of it, but I couldn't stand the clannad dub. Most subs I can tolerate, sometimes I even prefer them, but clannad's is just... Bad.


I feel like Moe shows and 'dubs' just should not mix together. xD Dubbing is BAD at being 'cute'...I haven't seen a decent dub of a moe show YET....it's weird....but the dub actresses just....they can't get it right lol


Now that I think about it, you're absolutely right. Moe dubs just don't work in general.
May 13, 2020 7:38 PM

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The Magi and Prison School dub were pretty bad. Also unpopular opinion the BNHA dub.
May 13, 2020 10:47 PM

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Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report(the one still owned by Madhouse Ent). That was brutal to watch. Also, Yu Yu Hakusho The Movie before Funimation bought the rights to it and redubbed it.
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The spanish dub of Made in Abyss is one of the trashiest things I have had the pleasure to experience. It was clearly done my very bad amateurs. Oh, and Nanachi didn't say his characteristic "naaahh" in this dub. Unforgivable!
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Speed Racer was pretty bad.

Not the worst by far but one that constantly kept taking me out of the show was the original MSG where they pronounce names differently from the later series. Aznaaaaable and Gundamn. Sounded strange and annoying.
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I'm only going to be talking from personal experience here, so, because i haven't watched a lot of dubs, i know that there's probably much worse out there.

For english dubs, i'd like to nominate the Karneval dub by Funimation, i literally cried internally whenever Yogi would open his mouth! :(

You see, in the original he is voiced by the one and only Mamoru Miyano, and his voice is super charming, funny, dramatic and eccentric!

Of course, i know it's hard to find anybody even remotely as talented as him, but still, the guy they cast for the dub sounded absolutely nothing like Mamoru Miyano at all, absolutely 0!!!!!!!!!

And not only that, but his voice was devoid of any of the charm, dramatism and excentricism that made the character in the original sooo unique!!!!! In the dub he just sounded like a african american or something and i couldn't stand listening to him at all!!!!!

They also really fucked up the voices of Gareki and Nai, the two other main characters as well, Gareki in the original was played by Hiroshi Kamiya and sounded cool, mature and badass, while in the dub, his voice is much higher and he sounds like a whiny little brat!!!!

Then Nai, in the original he sounds young, pure and innocent but in the dub he sounds like a guy in his 40's trying to play(and fail to sound believable) a little boy, you can probably imagine how weird and awkward that sounds like, yes?

The other characters sounded oddly much better, but when you botch up the voices of the, you know, three main characters, what point is there if the side characters sound good?!

Plus, they did a lot of unnecessary changes to the script, and inserted a lot of american slang, sayings and even adding insults to try and seem more "cool" and "hip" to a casual american teen viewers probably.

Like, at one point, Gareki is annoyed with Yogi and tells him to, and i quote: "Stop crying like a little bi*ch!" in the dub. There was absolutely no need to inject such a derogatory term in there, in the original Gareki did not insult Yogi like that at all, he just tells him to shut up because he's annoying, there's no mention of the "b" word at all!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will never forgive them for this, and i also saw that they later dubbed other of my favorite anime such as Servamp and Touken Ranbu Hanamaru, i certainly will never subject myself to watching them brutally murder and shit all over my favorite franchises like that ever again, which is why i also wanted Crunchyroll to get Bungou to Alchemist instead of them, but alas, the butchers have gotten another one of my favorite things to ruin!!!!!

As for other language dubs, the dubs of anime(and actually all cartoons, animated series and movies etc.) in my language from the 90's, early and mid 20', were soooo awful that they can't even be called proper dubs, because there was only one person doing the "voices" for all of the characters, or rather it was more like a completly flat and emotionless narrator trying to pretend to be the characters and reading the lines over the original voices, because, yes, they where soo amateurish that they couldn't even mute the original voices and sounds, you could still hear what the characters originally sounded like in the background, ugh. >_<

A little while later, they got like two voices for some series, like the original Yu-Gi-Oh! and Dragon Ball Z. There was one male and one female voice, again, them doing the voices for all the characters. While the male voice wasn't completly emotionless and was doing a little better job than his predecesors, but was awfully annoying and squeaky for some characters. The female one, on the other hand, was as flat and unbelivably lame as those from the 90's!!!!!!!!

The only decent anime dub we got was Pokemon(well, untill they changed the voices of James and Ash, starting somewhere in the Johto region, that is. They made James voice sound like an old man trying to be funny(which i suspect the actor probably was) and Ash sounded more girly and annoying, while previously his voice had the perfect amount of childishness and boyish attitude.)

Then, there's the FMA dub, the only actual anime that wasn't for kids to get a dub in my language, i thought the dub was pretty good and the voices were matching great for the most part, but apparently i was the only one thinking this, because the dub was never finished, starting from the arc where Wrath was originally introduced in the 2003 version, it reverted back to the sub version!!!!!! I was completely flabbergasted and disheartened, i really wanted to hear what Wrath would sound like!!!!!!!! There was no need for me to watch the sub, as i had already previously seen FMA, the only reason i was watching it on TV was BECAUSE i wanted to see the freaking dub!!!!!!!!!!!

I can only think that the studio/voice actors or maybe the channel got threats, insults and crap thrown at them by the die hard otaku in my country that probably felt insulted that their precious anime got a, oh NO! Decent dub, Heaven forbid!!!!!!!!

So they had to interupt the anime out of fear, because otheriwse i don't know why they would literally stop dubbing in the middle of the series!!!!!! I wish they had at least finished FMA, sigh, thank you very much for spoiling any chance of our country ever getting anymore dubs, guys, you know who you are!!!!!!

Actually, scratch that, there were actually people, "concerned parents" and "good samaritans" who tought all and every anime is demonic and corrupts young people's minds, maybe that's why the only anime channel we ever had in my country, started showing less and less anime over the years, being replaced by crappy american game shows, untill it one day completely y disappeared and was replaced by a freaking cooking channel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:(

I had dreams after that, still do, actually, about anime i like getting dubs in my language, like Katekyo Hitman Reborn(most often) and others such as Touken Ranbu Hanamaru, now all we have is fandubs, and even those are pretty rare, there isn't a dedicated community for fandubs in my language like there is for english ones.

Oh, yeah, forgot to say, dubs for animated series and especially movies(like those by Disney, Dreanworks, Illumination etc.) are now good quality, every character gets a different(and fitting!) voice now and there's no more original character voices in the background because they are actually done now by people who know what the hell they are doing!!! Often the characters are done by real actors, so of course the quality will be 1000000% times better than the lame attempts of the 90's!!!!!!!!!!

They thankfully have also re-dubbed all of the old Disney movies that had previously the embarrassing one narrator playing all the characters i mentioned earlier.

It's such a shame that now when we actually have good animation dubs, anime isn't shown here on TV anymore and hence why there won't be any possibility of new anime dubs being made! I wish anime was dubbed in my country now...... :(



Omg, i ended up writing a whole blog post, oooops, ahaha. ^-^;
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Angel Cop. All it has is people cursing at each other like it's a South Park extra.



What did I just watch? I might end up watching this with the same mindset I had for The Room.
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A couple of the most unintentionally hilarious "so-bad-it's-good" dubs I can think of are Akira (the 1988 Streamline Pictures dub) and the JoJo OVAs.



Some of you never watched Bakugan Battle Brawlers on TeleToon in 2008 and it shows.
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The Italian dub of Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail is god awful.
iirc they didn't even use Italian dubbers: they picked amateur, Italian-French dubbers. Revy's voice is very monotonous and deep, like an old man's voice. Dutch's voice is completely incoherent with his character.
Most people who bought the DVD felt robbed.
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As far as english dubs are concerned?All of them. Every single one sounds the exact damn same and all have the same piss-poor quality.
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Guilion said:
As far as english dubs are concerned?All of them. Every single one sounds the exact damn same and all have the same piss-poor quality.
You are very aware of what I just said.
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The dub of gundam wing was horrid. It was like they didn't care how it would turn out In the end. It's one of the reasons it's taken me like 4 years to finish the show.
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dusty22 said:
Roloko said:


lol people thinking only English dubbed anime is bad. xD

Lmao, It's like they have no emotions at all


To be fair, that's about as emotional as the average Finn gets.
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Guilion said:
As far as english dubs are concerned?All of them. Every single one sounds the exact damn same and all have the same piss-poor quality.


OH, OH, SOUND THE ALARMS BOYS

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Dark Cat's dub was so atrocious, I was laughing through the entire OVA.
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