Digital Dreamer Wrote:Subs titles all the way for me.
I guess it's because i got sick and tired of when anime first started getting westernised in the west that some of the people they were hiring could not act.
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.
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.
Not to mention alot of subs and Japanese translate into "correct" english. Which I'm sure you would find equally as strange as if it was dubbed into Eubonics. If you've ever compared the Trigun official sub to the official dub, you'll notice the subs are often words nobody uses in common speaking.
And if we're talking about westerinzation, it's a simple decision of wether or not to keep audiences. It's easier to win the audience when they get the jokes. Sure, we, the anime/Japan buffs may get the Japan jokes and get a laugh out of it, but there's no fun in watching the show if somebody dosent understand anything.
Shannon Wrote:I think a huge gripe I have is how young children in anime are usually given these scary adult voices when dubbed. It just doesn't make any sense... Like, why does "Ash Ketchum" in Pokemon sound like a chain smoker? The entire cast of Digimon sounded like 35-year-olds - the 8-year-old "Kari Kamiya" sounded like someone's mom. Y'know?? It just doesn't make any sense...
you should hear the voices for the little kids on Zeta Gundam. Now those are little kids. Got the "missing-front teeth" lisp too.
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