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Feb 20, 2014 4:34 PM

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Ocean group ftw. Black Lagoon is awesome! Funimations comes second then Sentai.
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Feb 20, 2014 9:53 PM

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gamer2710 said:
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Sentai
...writes the laziest piece of shit weeaboo dub scripts of them all. They will remain on the bottom of my list of US licensing companies as long as they continue to have incompetent writers and directors on their team.
Except they don't even write them, as they just recycle the subtitle scripts (which in turn are usually recycled from CR and such) with a few minor changes. Sadly their writers and directors have done competent work in the past, but they're limited by time and budget constraints.

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Feb 21, 2014 12:21 AM

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For me, I'd have to say FUNimation since they put a lot of effort into their dubs compared to other companies in the English dubbing field.
Feb 21, 2014 1:27 AM

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i guess aniplex is really good if you ignore the fact that their blueray sets are $90 apiece (not that it matters to someone who doesn't buy them). i loved the sword art online and puella magi madoka magica dubs and hope they might do bakemonogatari.
Feb 21, 2014 2:49 AM

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FUNimation. Best dubs, best licenses, best prices on their NA releases. They just get everything right.
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Feb 21, 2014 4:08 AM

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The Bang Zoom dubs for Aniplex licensed shows are usually the best nowadays with the fantastic dubs for Madoka, Blue Exorcist, Durarara and Fate/Zero under their belt.

I'd put Funimation in second place. When they strike gold such as the case with Steins;Gate, Guilty Crown, Panty and Stocking and most recently Space Dandy they can really deliver. I'm actually kind of pissed off that a crap show like Highschool DxD got such a good dub. But once you got past the good ones it ranges from okay to occasionally even really bad. From what I've heard of the recent Psycho Pass dub it sounds a bit mediocre. Then you've got the dubs for shows like Railgun and Strike Witches which are downright awful. Still good overall though and dubbing aside their prices are unbeatable.


Ocean Productions are good. Don't like the Shana dub but they've got Death Note and Black Lagoon to their credit which are two of the best English dubs of all time. Gargantia got picked up by Viz and apparently has an English dub planned so I'd be more than happy to see them do it.

Sentai are shit. Not hit and miss, not a few bad ones every now and then. Even saying a majority of them are garbage is kind of an understatement considering how big said majority is. I'd equate it to be around 90% complete shit with the rest being mostly sub par to passable and an even smaller minority that are actually good. Clannad, Angel Beats, Penguindrum, Medaka Box, every reverse harem show they've done, Nyan Koi, Little Busters, I could go on for absolutely fucking ages.
Feb 21, 2014 4:35 AM

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My all time favorite is Geneon before they went under. I'm sad they went under, as they produced some really good anime dubs, My other favorites are FUNimation, and Aniplex USA (despite their high prices). Sentai may not have the best track record, but they've churned out some good dubs (Tsuritama being a great example. God, listen to it! The English dub they gave it is awesome, and it's NOT directed by Stephen Foster or Chris Ayres!).
Feb 24, 2014 1:29 PM

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Funimation is my favorite and so is Sentai Filmworks. Aniplex is pretty good too.
Feb 24, 2014 1:34 PM

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JD2411 said:
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Disney does a better job than the japanese voice actors do in studio ghibli films.
You're wrong

subs>dubs

every single time
Go away.
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slice of life = slice of waste my fucking time

brb grown ass men getting a hard on watching little pubescent girls playing music al instrument or doing random shit in school

wtf is this shit

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Feb 24, 2014 2:33 PM

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Kirishiro-chan said:
Funimation is my favorite and so is Sentai Filmworks. Aniplex is pretty good too.


Aniplex is damn good. But they charge an arm and leg for their stuff. I'd fully support them if they had reasonable prices.
Dubs>subs.
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Feb 24, 2014 2:34 PM

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Just saw The Wind Rises DUBBED on Friday.

I'm not gay, but if I was, John Krasinski <3.

And Werner Herzog... This man rivals Morgan Freeman in most soothing voice of all time. I could listen to him talk about absolutely fucking nothing all day everyday.
Dubs>subs.
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Feb 24, 2014 4:40 PM

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Whoever did cowboy bebop and wolfs rain, they both did an amazing job. I would say Funimation because of their consistency but their dubs are either average or they suck and they use like the same female VA's all the time
Feb 24, 2014 4:42 PM

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FUNimation, 95% of the dubs I watched come from them.
Feb 24, 2014 8:00 PM

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mattbenz99 said:
Wow a thread about dubs on MAL and there is no sub vs dub debate I never thought I would see the day
NoSurrender1690 is still throwing his hussy fit in the corner about how they changed things, though.

Funimation because their voice actors know how to act, even if there are only twenty of them. Fullmetal Alchemist is a masterpiece.

Other than that, probably Geneon because Trigun.
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y'all need to shut the fuck up.
Feb 24, 2014 8:25 PM

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I remember enjoying FMA, Haruhi, and Evangelion (original and Rebuild) in English. So I guess I'm vouching for Bandi and FUNimation.

Feb 24, 2014 9:00 PM

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Funimation probably. Out of all of them they seem like the most professional in dubbing anime. I hope nobody put 4kids. They suck. It's like they randomly cast anybody to play character roles and they do the dubbing in there mom's closet.
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Mar 21, 2015 3:55 PM

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Defiantly Funimation and Bandai. Sentai is ok. NIS America is nifty. Aniplex is Great. Ocean is good. Animax is bad.
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Mar 21, 2015 4:06 PM

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Anyone not named 4kids, they destroyed one piece when they dubbed it.
Mar 21, 2015 4:09 PM

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Funimation, Bandai, some of Sentai's stuff....4kids I think the voices themselves for YuGiOh were fairly good, just how the butchered the show was bad.

Mar 21, 2015 6:51 PM

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Whoever did Haruhi and Kino.
Sep 24, 2015 9:39 PM
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Aylaine said:
mattbenz99 said:
Wow a thread about dubs on MAL and there is no sub vs dub debate I never thought I would see the day

Don't jinx it!

I don't know the specific companies that do the dub work for the most part, but I loved Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and Ghost in the Shell dubbed. FUNImation did a good job on the Dragon Ball Z dub in my honest opinion. I only had an issue with a few voices, but the rest were really spectacular.

Ocean did the DBZ dub, if I recall correctly.
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Funimation.
Sep 25, 2015 10:31 AM

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Aylaine said:

Ocean did the DBZ dub, if I recall correctly.
They started dubbing it, but Funimation later took it over and re-did the eps Ocean dubbed.

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Sep 25, 2015 10:36 AM

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SuperRed said:
FUNimation, 95% of the dubs I watched come from them.


I'm never disappointed with their works.
All credit goes to Sacred.
Sep 25, 2015 1:58 PM

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Necro'd retarded is necro'd

I'd say that Ocean productions and AniMaze are the best American dubbing companies (or in AniMaze's case, were) since they actually seem to know how to handle their voice actors and dubbing scripts

Disney are great – but then again, this is THE Disney we are talking about

Atlus are also solid (I've played both the official dub & undub crack versions of most of their games multiple times so I should know)

Aniplex + FUNimation are average-below average even if they manage to produce something good once in a while

Sentai is shit
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@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite
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Sep 25, 2015 3:21 PM
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Whoever made AoT because that's the only anime I watched with dub and I really liked it. I'll be watching it in subbed soon for AoT season 2 since I'm not going to wait a fucking year.
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Comic_Sans said:
Necro'd retarded is necro'd

I'd say that Ocean productions and AniMaze are the best American dubbing companies (or in AniMaze's case, were) since they actually seem to know how to handle their voice actors and dubbing scripts

Disney are great – but then again, this is THE Disney we are talking about

Atlus are also solid (I've played both the official dub & undub crack versions of most of their games multiple times so I should know)

Aniplex + FUNimation are average-below average even if they manage to produce something good once in a while

Sentai is shit

I actually like Aniplex quite a bit. They aren't as good as they used to be, but from my experience their dubs tend to be of higher quality than FUNimation. Bandai used to be the best but they're dead. Viz Media is mediocre at best, and Sentai is garbage.
Problem with dubbing companies is that they, especially with FUNimation, deal with a very very limited amount of VA's. And they aren't amazing VA's, especially the with the men, and it gets old hearing them all the time (like that guy who does basically all the boys with high pitched voices. He's an okay voice actor but I can't stand him personally). Disney makes BY FAR the best dubs, but I'm fairly certain that it's just because they have access to significantly more actors than the standard localization companies. Aniplex has more variety in their voice actors than the others, but even then you're still going to be seeing the same actors quite frequently, most are decent-to-great but some you encounter will be terrible or at best annoying.
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4kids of course. No matter how shitty people make them out to be, I still found the original Pokemon dub's jokes very funny.
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