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Cowboy Bebop barely mentioned in here?! For shame! It is the posterchild of great dubs! A dub often regarded as better than the original! Even Shinichiro Watanabe himself liked the dub!
Although, good dubs are less of a big deal these days. They're much more common ever since dubs like Bebop's raised the bar, anime voice actors have vastle improved in both skill and abundance over the years, and then there's FUNimation: the plucky little company that went from the worst producer of English dubs to the best in the business. I mean, seriously, the Texas VA pool will take the worst shows and scripts given to them, and act their asses off in them. Then you've got the LA pool, with consistantly solid VAs like Steve Blum, Johnny Bosch, Jamieson Price, etc. Even the Canadian pool, who've put out some real cornball dubs, have turned out some solid gold material (Death Note and Black Lagoon come to mind). These days, it's more suprising and rare to hear a bad dub than a good one.
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03-19-2010
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Most dubs I've heard have both good moments and bad moments - I recently watched through the dub for Haruhi, for example, and while it was decent and certainly watchable, there were certain characters that made me want to cry (Mikuru...). I think the only dubs I've seen that were nigh-on flawless are the ones for Code Geass and Death Note, the latter in particular - admittedly, I've become more attached to them than I was originally with the subs.
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03-19-2010
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-To me there is nothing closed minded about having a strong sense of belief, because no matter who you are or how many poeple who condescendingly call closed minded you will have as they do, a strong sense of belief (the fact you call them closed minded for not understanding the idea of liking dubs, then you yourself state your belief showing your own complete lack of understanding of their side why cannot understand liking dubs more, makes great example of this, fact is they disagree with you, you disagree with them, doesn't make ether side closed minded, just means have belief) =But then it must be asked, is it invariably any better to be a person who never able to stand behind his own convictions and beliefs? -In my opinion (note word use here) no, because opinions are how we define our sense of self and create our own persona, having opinions is fine and believing those opinions is fine, even stating those opinions is fine (as world is dull place without them) and debating those opinions is fine, the act you put your own opinion proves the point I am attesting too, because this is all just opinion, there is no arbitratory line of right or wrong, there is merely like or dislike along varying scales. -PS also if you look at the poeple who have said they prefer subs to dubs, most of them have not said that dubs are unwatchable, just that on the whole most of the time they do not consider dubs better than subs because of whatever reasons they have put forward, as in my case, I like to watch it with sense of the culture it came from and with the intent the actual writer gave it. Plus I love hearing languages which are not my own, and I just feel it is a mark of respect, however I never said I wouldn't watch dubs as I do, aspeically if watching it while doing work as need to give more attention than can afford to subs, but the only reason I would ever watch dubs in 90% of cases is because it is easier when have something like work on PSS Though Ohera I would say the Code Greass dub is very good (along with many dubs, just not better than originals) I am still not sure why poeple love DN dub so much, it is not bad in anyway, still nothing special to it, in my view, in fact just same on level with a lot of more modern dubs, in that it actually follows the original without being stupidly literal about it PSSS Lord Shm, to be fair that is good point and why do not feel is hate towards dubs there was when I was growing up and had the first "major" ones were coming out, where basically defamed the original, but it still in my opinion doesn't remove that special something that sub's have Last edited by Fat1Fared; 03-19-2010 at 09:47 PM.
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03-19-2010
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It's amazing what a skilled actor you understand can do.
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03-20-2010
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Im kind of amazed that only one person ahs mentioned Black Lagoon. Its by far the best dubbed anime I've ever listened to.
The voice acting was spot on and by and large they actually had the proper accents for all the different nationalities in the show. This and anything with Crispin Freeman or Wendee Lee in it would sell an anime for me. I could listen to those two all day and never get tired of their voices.
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03-20-2010
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03-20-2010
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I think people tend to choose whether or not they like dubs based on what they first watch the show with.
That said, I like the Full Metal Alchemist (original) dub much better than the Japanese, simply because in the Japanese the main characters sound like girls. I'm not a fan of Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood because it's like all of the voice actors forgot how to act. (except you Vic, you are amazing). Maybe it gets better in later episodes? Also, Al sounds like a girl. Heck, I think he might be played by a girl this time! I also prefer the Japanese Death Note to the english dub. The dub just sounds so over dramatic and silly to me, and loses a lot of the subtleties in Light's character that I loved. Again, just my opinion. I don't think I've ever seen a bad dub. I've seen some that aren't so great, but nothing really bad.
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03-20-2010
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Unfortunately, I can't say anything about English dubs; German dubs are mostly done well, though.
I prefer Kouichi's (Digimon Frontier) German voice over the Japanese one because, while Suzumura is great,his voice is too deep for a 11-years old boy. Sebastian Schulz, on the other hand, uses an adorable voice for Kouichi - it only gets deeper when he voices the evolutions. Reference video because that voice is extremly cute. The German YGO dub is also awesomely done, in my opinion. I especially loved that they had seperate voice actors for Atem and Yuugi, as well as Ryou and Dark Bakura. While it makes sense to use the same, they are different characters, so different VAs work nicely. Also, nobody ever mis-pronounced the Japanese names (Seto, Mokuba, Ishizu, ...). X/1999 was even better, with a lot of famous VAs. Really nicely done. While some German dubs are really bad (Naruto was plain awful), there are a lot of good ones, often as good as the original one. And nobody will ever scream like Schulz does.
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03-21-2010
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Last Exile
Muishishi 5 Centimeters Per Second Place Promised in Our Early Days Samurai Champloo s-CRY-Ed
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03-21-2010
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First post woohoo
I just had to register and share, also to say thanks for some of the suggestions
my recommendation is Desert punk 'dub'. (Sunab?zu) This anime gave me some genuine laughs not just the usual smirk others provide, I had tried to watch the subbed version right after the first episode and actually found the dubbed preferable in this case.  On a side note the main character 'Kanta' is voiced by Eric Vale who you might recognize as Trunks in the DBZ series Which back to topic as the OP had said, is so few and far between it's sad as most dubs are cringeworthy affairs that lose most charm via interpretation rather than gain or add any. I do hope you, guys give it a try, episode one is a bit meh compared to the later it gets a lot more amusing Additionally (i'm not sure if it's still on topic but) OnePiece has to be one of the worst dubs I've come across they, have utterly butchered it not only the voiceacting but the scripting, music and even some of the animation itself. The 'Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged' remarks about 4kids about this seemingly bizzare retardation they seem to inflict upon otherwise entertaining shows is right on the mark. 
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 (thx for the info tho)this is mainly because I enjoy the Manga more than the anime anyway. I've already watched and enjoyed the movies subbed, and am not really one for re-watching things unless they are truely exceptional sometimes i check to see how well they pull off some of the none filler in the show and compare it to what i had visualized while reading
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03-21-2010
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How did you miss it at all?! It was years ago, and it was pretty big news.
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03-21-2010
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But every now and again you get a rare gem like Desert Punk (you may disagree to this but everyone has different tastes) and there are some of the other good mentions in this thread btw, that every now and again floats by the radar by chance or however, And they prove to be the exception to this rule.
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03-21-2010
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FMA is indeed very watchable dubbed, try the new FMA 'brotherhood' (subbed ATM) if you haven't already, it's based on the Manga so the story is quite different (he's still intolerant about height discrimination thou) :D Another good example of this if you watched the hellsing series, is the new 'hellsing ova' it is the same deal, first few episodes are basically the same.. then it changes quite drastically as it's faithful to the manga. Last edited by sanity; 03-21-2010 at 11:23 PM.
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