Animes that suck dubbed

Post by **Tiff** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 9:55 pm

yamijounouchi wrote:detective conan, oh excuse me, "cased closed" this, in my opinion, is a bad dub for many reasons. i really can't stand any of the voices (that's right, any of them). there is some ok acting, but the only problem is none of it's coming from the main characters. i just simply hate it when they change all the names in a dub, it feels like an insult to our intelligence. finally, all the funky dialogue. my biggest problem with funimation is their never-ending need for out-of-place jokes and lame insults.

Wow. I actually think it's pretty damn good. I mean..all you've really listed is voices and bad dialog...neither of which actually bother me. A few of the jokes are lame, but it's not like there are multiple cuts or alterations. The violence and blood is still there, the plot seems to be well-kept, and some of the voices are actually pretty good, IMO.

And they had to change the name due to copyright laws or something. They didn't just up and pull it out of their ass for no reason.

Dinozore · Post by **Dinozore** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:05 pm

I've heard (though I don't know if it's true or not) that it was the company that gave the show to Funimation who are responsible for the name changes. It wouldn't be the first time a Japanese company has been responsible for changes in a dub...

yamijounouchi · Post by **yamijounouchi** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:53 am

actually, i heard it was because of the rights to conan the barbarian. i've heard this from a couple of different, but reliable sources, so, i'm sure this is the reason. it's not that i didn't know this, i just really hate calling it that.

Neo Dead Moon · Post by **Neo Dead Moon** » Sat Aug 14, 2004 6:45 pm

Well, after seeing two episodes of it dubbed, I can safely add Wedding Peach to the bad dub pile. ADV's actors in their Monster Island division couldn't act if their lives depended on it. Even Optimum was never this bad!

Ni-ban Neko · Post by **Ni-ban Neko** » Sun Aug 15, 2004 9:00 am

Neo Dead Moon wrote:Well, after seeing two episodes of it dubbed, I can safely add Wedding Peach to the bad dub pile. ADV's actors in their Monster Island division couldn't act if their lives depended on it. Even Optimum was never this bad!

Yeah, Wedding Peach is pretty bad. The translation is a little too literal in places, so things come out sounding awkward (i.e. "please aid me!" instead of "Help!"), and the voice acting isn't very good. It's not a horrid dub, but I've seen better.

Sailor Luna · Post by **Sailor Luna** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:50 am

Hmmmmm.......I have to say that the latter dubs that start mid Frieza Saga are horrible! While I do like the original, Japanese DBZ, I like the earlier dubbed voices as opposed to the latter ones.

Cardcaptor Takato wrote:Misao sounds ilke a 30 yr old woman......

Well, being a 30 year old woman myself, I'm trying to figure out what that is supposed to mean? I don't sound any different than I did when I was ten.

EDIT: Sailor Luna, I know you're new, but please don't double post. If you have more to add to a recent post, you can edit it rather than making a second one so soon after the first.

Mattio · Post by **Mattio** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:00 pm

Serial Lain, the girls voices sound really fake, but they didn't do THAT horrible of a job

Neo Dead Moon · Post by **Neo Dead Moon** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:18 am

Sailor Luna wrote: Well, being a 30 year old woman myself, I'm trying to figure out what that is supposed to mean? I don't sound any different than I did when I was ten.

I think I said that, too. I meant that Misao's dub voice is done by a woman of that age, but the woman doesn't even try to remotely act to hide her age. It's like how you can tell in dub anime when guys not even 40 are doing senior citizens..it sounds really cheesy and fake. But at least they TRY to sound the age of the characters they're playing. Misao's dub voice sounds too old for a teenager, let alone a 10 year-old girl.

This only really applies to the 1st episode of the Pretty Sammy OAV, though. Misao's second dub voice is noticeably better (which I didn't learn until now because I was too afraid up until a while ago to watch the other two episodes in English).

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Animes that suck dubbed

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