Worst/Best Dubbing

[FoxTrot]

My votes for worst dubbing go to

1) Magic Knight Rayearth
2) Inuyasha
3) Lain (should NEVER have been dubbed)
4) Utena
5) X (the movie), (the sound was just terrible! like shouting in an empty room)

Best Dubbing

1) Last Exile
2) Tenchi Muyo
3) Excel Saga
4)Ghost in the Shell

[ievy]

have you seen WXIII Patlabor ... the dubbing was good, least the mouth movements matched the english words, and the sound was awesome. if you buy the dVd you can select Japanese with english subtitles (which is how i prefer to watch anime).

[Kitty]

ievy said:

if you buy the dVd you can select Japanese with english subtitles (which is how i prefer to watch anime).

I too, prefer Japanese with English subtitles. Sometimes I will turn the subtitles off just to see how good my Japanese is getting. I've been teaching myself for about 10 months now...eh. Nasicaa and Cat Returns are coming out sometime soon..(March?) I think it will be interesting to see how much of the English has changed from the original subtitles. Sometimes the humor in other languages may be different so they have to put it in a sense to where we would find it funny....(or at least not super corny)



...and you probably didnt understand any of that

[ievy]

most of it *L* ... rarely have i seen anime with english dub, unless you want to call pokemon and yuh-gi-oh anime (they are then again they aren't), but i have no grasp of the japanese language. just now learning what certain words mean.

[Kitty]

Ok. I saw the English Nausicaå and Porco Rosso. Eh..I was kinda disappointed with Nausicaå. There were some tones I thought they could do a little bit better with. Porco Rosso is good, I liked how the dubbing turned out. I still havnt seen how Cat Returns turned out..I saw the preview for it the other day and it seemed ok...(young haru has a cute voice ^-^)
Ghibli's got some awsome movies.

[Jessi]

The worst dubbing I think was the Dragonball Z movies... and that's a pity because Dragonball Z (the series) was the first anime I ever saw and was my favourite show as a small person.