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Good Dubs, Bad Dubs, In Between, and AAAAH!
Topic Started: Oct 25 2014, 03:33 AM (114 Views)
ACDCFan89
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Basically just wondering what dubbed series are actually good (in your opinion), or not good, some good and others not, and just unbearable.

Some good dubs for me have been:
DBZ and Dragon Ball from Funimation
Pokemon (original cast, not a fan of the newer cast)
Ranma 1/2, especially later on when the person who voices male Ranma comes on (goes on to voice Inu Yasha)
Inu Yasha
Yu Gi Oh (despite it being basically completely Westernized)
Princess Mononoke (first anime movie I ever watched, loved it, but though it was incredibly weird, and still do)
Vandread (2 seasons, and all the voices fit the characters pretty well, considering how large a cast it has)
Bleach, well, when I used to watch it.

Bad
One Piece 4 kids
DBZ from Ocean Dub
Tenchi Muyo Dub (too many cringe worthy voices)
Most other dubbed anime in my experience

In Between
Tenchi Muyo GXP (really, it's alright until it does the Tenchi and gang cameo about half way through)
One Piece non-4 Kids (not perfect, but better than 4 kids)
Naruto, and only because of the "Believe it!" line he spouted so much

AAAAH!
Entire series by itself? None so far. But some VAs are just terrible. Their voices do NOT go with their characters at all, and I often wonder how they even became a VA in the first place. ^o)

 
Shadow Dragon
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For other good dubs (at least in my opinion):
FLCL
Panty and Stocking
Cowboy Bebop
Black Lagoon
Ergo Proxy
Gurren Lagann
Lucky Star
Buccano
Cromartie High School
Dead Leaves
Ghost Hunt
Hellsing
Mirai Nikki
Rosario + Vampire
Ghost in the Shell
Space Dandy
Samurai Champloo
Death Note
Code Geass
Haganai
Full Metal Alchemist (both versions)
Nadesico (funny side note, main guy in this is the same VA as Shinji and throughout it I kept thinking, this is what Shinji should have been like)

As for DBZ, I kinda prefer the Ocean Dub. I just can't picture any other voice coming from Goku or Vegeta.
Edited by Shadow Dragon, Oct 25 2014, 04:33 AM.
 
savepoints
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So like, I don't watch a lot of dubs. Mostly because I prefer watching things in their "intended" language (just like I played Metro in russian, for example), but there are a few I've seen dubbed.

Good:
Death Note
Black Lagoon
Spirited Away
Yu-Gi-Oh!

Decent:
Angel Beats
TTGL

Bad:
I could probably list the majority of shows here, but I haven't seen them, so... The thing for me is that english only really fits for the more "mature" or "real" voices. When a show has this moe, innocent-sounding character, it sounds incredibly cringeworthy in english, in my opinion. One notable example tho, is Madoka. It's not that the VA's themselves are bad, but all the characters just lose any sort of personality in the dub.
 
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