15 January 2006, 10:06 AM
(This post was last modified: 15 January 2006, 10:23 AM by Digital Dreamer.)
Digital Dreamer Wrote:I guess the only time that I see myself considing to watch a dub anime, it if the series is ubar long, not much brain matter in it, and I need some thing for some background noise while I am playing a MMORPG. Like Yu Yu Hakusho.And 20 episodes with 20 LVL on my WoW Character later, I am finding the dubbing quite painful to listen to.
I guess it would not be so bad if Kazuma Kuwabara did not sound like a complete retard.
Rebel Wrote:aside from being dubbed in the west, there's very little westernization to current animes. Heck there are puns, jokes and refrences to things Japanese in current anime's that just fly right over my head because well, they wernt changed for a different audience. While alot of animes say, 10 or 15 years ago got really revamped for the english audience, this really dosent happen as much, mostly due to anime fans like yourself who are now reaching ages and getting jobs to change those things.My main problem with Dubbing is that I find is the western voice acting.
You cant blame all the dubbing mistakes on the VAs either. There is some fault with the editors when they are unable to match up the mouths to the words. Due to the fact that maybe 1 out of ever 100 anime characters jaw moves when they speak, playing with the mough movements is not a hard thing to do.
I will confess that the western voice acting have improved a lot. Like they are re-dubbing MACROSS THE MOTION PICTURE as the orginal CLASH OF THE BIONOIDS was that bad.
However my complain is now is that a lot of the voice acting seems to be very generic or limited.
Lynk Former Wrote:The Japanese reuse their voice talent just as much as the English dubbing companies. I could get you a list of some seiyuu's who appear in almost every freakin anime it gets annoying XD
In fact, let's get one seiyuu listed here and see how many animes they've done... I pick... Houko Kuwashima. So let's see she's been in...
Angelic Layer (TV) as Sai Jounouchi
[SNIP]
Zone of the Enders (TV) as Dolores
and the best thing about that list is that I've only listed the most recognisable animes, the list is actually a lot longer than that.
However I seem to be less likely to pick this up. Like I watch some ADV dubs and I can pick just about all the english voice actors there.
It's even worst when they get a big name celebrity to dub an anime. Eg. Gillian Anderson is Princess Mononoke. I was just waiting for Moro to try link every thing up to an X-File.