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INTEREST: American Teens Share Their Reactions to Attack on Titan

Stupid bitch!!

Seriously, I can't stand these idiot subbies.

Whatever your individual reasons may or may not be, in my own personal opinion, I just have a hard time taking seriously a high-pitched, effeminate, childlike voice coming out of a character that looks like this:

Barbobot wrote:

Actar wrote: To me, watching a dubbed anime is like watching American cartoons or Hollywood movies dubbed in Japanese or a Korean drama dubbed in Chinese. It's just so bizarre when you can just experience the original. The difference there though is you're watching real people. You most likely know what those hollywood actors sound like before even turning on the movie, so seeing that person with another person's voice coming out of them is strange. There's a visual and auditory disconnect there. While that can certainly happen with anime if you've watched a show a lot in japanese and then switch to english, I feel it's far less pronounced compared to live-action.

I did include American cartoons in my original comment as well. I mean, I like Japanese, but I see no reason in watching this, regardless of quality, over the original English version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZS36w_fxdg

"Overseas reaction to Japanese My Little Pony dub is a little odd to Japanese people"

SouthPacific wrote:

The dub rage is strong in this one

It sure is. But the subbies are the ones who have already crossed over to the dark side of the fandom.

Yup, it's the same thing every time. Sub purists will spew the same horse crap of the Japanese version being infinitely better no matter what even when it's horrible like Nozowa's Goku or Romi Park's Edward Elric.

Nozowa sounds like she smoked an entire Marlboro factory.
Park sounds like a girl putting on a man's voice for the sake of making some guy she's talking about sound really obnoxious.

What's next, people saying Brad Swaile as Quatre Rebarba Winner is bad while Ai Orikasa is perfect?

So the myth of the immaculate seiyu performance persists....sad.

enurtsol wrote:

"Overseas reaction to Japanese My Little Pony dub is a little odd to Japanese people"

Man I hate sites that do that. They take a few random posts from a few random forums and try to make it seem like an entire country is saying stuff. They don't even cite where they got them from or who said it? Are YouTube comments newsworthy now? lol Let alone only using like 1 random comment where 100 others could have said the opposite or somethin

sypherman wrote:

So the myth of the immaculate seiyu performance persists....sad.

You know the ironic thing about this myth ? It's being heralded mostly by people what are not fluent in japanese. And who wouldn't be able to discern a good japanese performance from a bad one. In the end all japanese dubs sound the same so they must all be good right ?

There is nothing magical about the quality of a japanese dub. You find good ones and bad ones. And you can certainly get good english dubs, french dubs, german dubs, spanish dubs, italian dubs for anime. And you know what the only difference is that they sound different because the languages are different. So of course you won't get the same "tonality" of japanese but that doesn't make it bad. Good performance is good performance. Get a faithful adaptation, and good vocal performance and you've got yourself a good dub. It all comes down to this. So the people that shout "the japanese dub is superior just because it's japanese" are freaking ignorant.

Finally, enjoying a piece of entertainment (and that of course includes also anime) in your native language is nothing to be ashamed of. Some people *gasp* even like watching something they can immediately connect with and understand. Spoken language is more immediate than reading subtitles.