Neo Dead Moon wrote:
Some people consider Monster Island to be the worst recording group from ADV. Only the least popular/least cared about anime from ADV get this voice recording group to do voices.
ADV only has two studios, Industrial Smoke & Mirrors and Monster Island. These two pretty much handle all of the work (the only exceptions were Arc the Lad, Wild Arms, and You're Under Arrest. First two were outsourced to Bang Zoom!, and latter-mentioned was outsourced to Coastal Carolina) They have a lot of dubbing work to do, so they have to have more than one in-house locations to get there work done. It is true, however, that ADV hands almost all of its bigger titles (the ones they know will be popular) to IS&M.
EmperorBrandon, I've heard Final Fantasy Unlimited and Happy Lesson dubbed, and I can tell you, they're not good..
I've never heard either of them, I was just going from what I've heard on them so far, which has been much more positive then some of Monster Island's earlier dubs, like Samurai X.
Frankly, what I've heard of Nadia wasn't really that bad, either. I took issue with Jean's annoying accent (which wasn't pulled off real well, IMO), but all-in-all, I thought it was pretty decent.