Is the English dub good?

I watched episode 1 of it dubbed, and it's ok. as far as dubs go, it's the middle ground, and from what I heard in the trailer, the sub does sound better in this case.

But I have to say, I strongly disagree with your point in comedy. Like I actually have the exact opposite opinion. I think comedy is one of THE places where I always go with the dub, just because I think jokes are way funnier when you hear them.

I kaguya sama's case for example, I actually watched the sub first, and then rewatched the entire s1 and 2 in dub when s3 was coming out, and I enjoyed it SO MUCH more that I increased by an entire score. I laughed way more, got way more emotionally invested and just ended up enjoying myself far more in general.

from my experience, if the dub is good, it makes comedies far funnier. at least to me, but then again, comedy is extremely subjective, so it's not like I am trying to prove anything by saying all this.

all dubs are trash
can't believe all the "Yes" on the polls
the absolute state of modern anime fans. can't even appreciate the source material, everything has to be sanitized and converted to americanism

Just finished episode 6 and gotta say Chill Chuck's VA is very good. Hope he gets more projects; the elf and human seem have grown more comfortable in the roles too since episode 1.

@Stink_Bug Casey Mongillo is quite seasoned at this point. Casey's highest profiled role probably is the new voice of Shinji from Evangelion. They have done all type of roles, both male and female.

@banninghamma Can’t imagine them doing a female voice, but they’re certainly very skilled at young/teen male voice. Hope to hear more roles from them in the future.

No, but I mean, is there an anime where dub is good?

@Piromysl

Are you just saying that cause "ew dubs icky" or did you actually watch it?

The person asking is clearly ok with dubs to be considering it, so it would be pretty selfish to tell him it's terrible if you haven't heard it.

@APolygons2 Bro, after I've heard dubbed Freiren (out of morbid curiosity), it gave me real fight or flight response and people actually praising that, I've come to conclusion that problem is not on my side. Her voice does not fit her at all and that voice actress does such a pitiful performance, that Freiren seems to have completely different personality while dubbed. But this might be related to recent localizer drama and the fact, that localizers just piss on the source material.

I quite like the dub of Dungeon Meshi. Especially the voice actress of Marcille has a pretty unique voice which I like. I also like the narrator and senshi.

@APolygons2 I agree with you on the comedy part. They are almost always better in dub than in sub. There are usually a lot of word play jokes in comedies and as long as you are not a fluent japanese speaker you wont understand them (and having them explained to you in a subtitle is basically ruining the joke)... a good dub, like the one of Kaguya sama, will then add new jokes specifically for english speakers.

@APolygons2 Nah, bro. As I said, I'm way past of assuming it is subjective matter and people praising Freiren dub fully convinced me, that they are simply out of touch.


There is also of matter of English VA (especially anime) industry being completely filled with degenerates, hypocrites and Twitterans, which I absolutely refuse to support in any way. Not even pirate.