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And now the post I was trying to make but ended up over-writing Sugar's post with.



I actually disagree with you very strongly. Although I havn't seen it, in Japanese or English, this is a strong point I like to make with anything.

I believe you should always, always, always watch something first in the language it was originally made in. This gives you a better perspective on the creation of it... you can see that it was just dubbed over, and which was the original and which was the changed version.

I don't want to be the "OMG Japanese is better only watch sub" kind of person like a lot of people are. I look at it this way: If I was Japanese, and I wanted to watch American cartoons like Gargoyles, Spider-Man, Batman Beyond, etc... I'd want to watch them in English with Japanese subtitles.

Some people argue about particular shows. Cowboy Bebop, for instance. I've heard so many people say the dub is better. Here's all I have to say about it: It was created in Japan. Watch the sub first, then watch the dub. You'll have a much clearer idea of which is more natural. If you still like the dub, fine, but at least you have a sense that it was the altered version.

On that front, there are two things that seem to happen in a lot of dubs that bother me a lot. The first is the complete change of the sound of a character's voice. This happens most often with magical girl familiars. Compare the voices of Luna from Sailor Moon, sub and dub. She's supposed to sound cute, not motherly! Other series where this happens include Cardcaptor Sakura and Kiki's Delivery Service, just off the top of my head.

The other is the female lead who simply cannot act. The one strongest in my mind (simply because it was a videogame so I couldn't get a version with the original voice, so I actually had to sit through the whole thing dubbed) is Final Fantasy X. Yuna's dub actress sucks so much. I want to punch her in the face. Really, someone find her for me, I will give her a punch in the face. Almost every dub I watch, there's at least one character like this. Oh, and Spike Spencer... I f-ing hate Spike Spencer. He's the b*****d who did a terrible, terrible job with Shinji from Evangelion, among others. Just watch the End of Eva DVD... wait for that huge scream, rewind, switch language tracks. That's all you need to do to realize how much better the Japanese actor was. Everyone has all these praises for Spike Spencer, but I hate the man. Hate him with a firey passion.

Don't even get me started about Slayers, my favorite anime.

... whoah, sorry... I guess this is just something I feel rather strongly about. Possibly too strongly.......

Hey Shun, this isn't something that's going to affect you anytime in the near (and by near, I mean next 5-10 years, if ever) future, but my girlfriend and I were talking, and assuming we get married (which seems very likely) we might visit Hawaii for our honeymoon. So I could meet you and stuff!

Like I said, it's a long ways off (We're not even engaged yet, and don't have the money for a wedding, honeymoon, or even a ring....) and you may not even remember by the time it happens, but I thought it was worth mentioning anyway. Just kind of as a "wouldn't that be cool?" sort of thing.

. . . well put Zetan, but I think you've based your response on an SBA typo. Judging from the rest of her comment, I think she actually meant to say watch the Japanese version first, but messed up and typed English instead.

I too tend to prefer the original voices, which is why our kids wound up watching Kenshin in the original (BTW, improved their reading immensely!).

Butt metal has its place. It's place is not in videogames about hedgehogs. Then again, I'm biased--anyone even remotely responsible for subjecting me to that game's soundtrack / graphics / gameplay / plot should, IMHO, be taken out back, violated by an angry warthog named Mo-mo, stapled to the ground, set on fire, revisted by Mo-mo, and forced to watch Catwoman and Barbed Wire back-to-back repeatedly while film critics lecture them on the brilliance of Uwi Boll.

Then I'd get nasty . . . .

Ah, now I see. I've watched subtitles for so long sometimes I forget whether a show I just watched was subbed or dubbed. Or I'll watch a dubbed show and later, when I remember scenes, will realize I'm subconciously replacing the dub with the voices I think I should have heard. I figure this means I'm subconsiously trilingual: just one small stroke or blow to the head and I'll be able to speak fluent Japanese and Cantonese, but will lose all ability to speak English. . . .

I admit a preference for the Ranma 1/2 dub over the original. Probably the only time I've ever prefered the dubbed edition of an anime. . . . .



I'll consider it . . . . twisted

What happened to your comp?