Other shows built their credibility based on Speed Racer. Certainly, even in it's time, the re-writes, edits, and voice acting were pretty awful, but that show is also the only reason why there is any interest in anime at all in the west. From what I've heard, to a native Japanese speaker, the voice acting in the original language is just as horrible.Īnd I really disagree with your #1 pic. Nigel Kirk from Calgary, AB, CAN on January 09, 2015:Ī couple of small things: Unless you actually understand Japanese, it's probably unfair to say that poor quality voice acting is a factor in whether something should be dubbed or not. You want to see a trending devolution? Take a look at anime since 2005. Anime has become lazy, and apathetic towards their audience. That's not to mention all the moe and fans service garbage of late. Japan has been playing limbo with standards since the early 2000s and the average story in any anime is nothing but recycled tropes and characters, so shallow and contrived that you would only need to watch an average of 6 episodes of most to get the whole story. I would like to point out that ALL of these anime (except advent children) have generally worse production value than adventure time, china illinois was a youtube short with spinoffs that became so popular it got a TV show.Īlso 99% of anime out there is WAY worse than ANYTHING on North American TV. I actually thought Naruto had pretty good english Dub. I usually prefer english sub when I watch any anime.

Sad, angry, happy, excited, solemn, getting punched in the face, etc.: In every single scenen, there's no change in her emotions, or rather there's no emotion at all. Finally, while Jupiter's voice matches her looks, it's the most emotionless voice you can hear on the market. Artemis gets the voice of a 50-year-old who should be announcing sports, even though his human form puts him in the 20-somethings.

Serena, a high school girl, gets the voice of a middle-aged hag, the same as Luna, whose human form is supposed to be very young as well. Initially, there were only four major problems with the dubbing: Serena (Sailor Moon), Luna (the cat), Artemis (the other cat), and Sailor Jupiter. When first dubbed into English in the late 90s and since, the translators cycled through several different casts almost every season. But by no means is this a terrible anime in original Japanese. First off, as some may know, this series is one of the best anime ever produced in the 90s, despite the half-assed storyline and many loopholes concerning said story.

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