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Survey: Do you give English dubs a chance?

pimping "Otaking's" rant.

Even so, it makes no sense to keep the honorifics and special-meaning words intact, and it also makes no sense to keep name orders in Japanese style, either. It shows a complete disregard for the rules of our respective languages, and isn't intelligible to the average viewer or reader.

If you want to learn more about this, go on YouTube and do a search for "Anime Fansub Documentary".

@ exfusion: English voice actors not giving the same feeling as the original? That's a very spurious arguement, considering that the actors SPEAK TWO DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.

I think ACM was referring more to how it sounds like those dreadful otaku who interject random Japanese into their sentences to sound..."cute".

ACM, just to get your thoughts, do you find "sensei" acceptable? I mean, even a US cartoon (TMNT) used it, and it's a very common loan word like samurai, katana, shuriken...actually, most of the accepted loan words we have come from cheezy old live-action samurai flicks.

AirCooledMan_2006 wrote:

pimping "Otaking's" rant.

Yes, those prima donna translators have a lot of chutzpah foisting off ersatz translations upon the public. Don't they realize that the hoi polloi yearn for the nirvana of a completely kosher translation rather than a smorgasbord of terms from other languages? After all, polluting the purity of English with foreign words is a terrible faux pas, capiche? Thankfully though, there are gung-ho gurus of xenoglossophobia who have the cojones to say "Nyet!" to this meshugganah practice. Those who refuse to kowtow to this sabotage of the linguistic gestalt and insist on the whole enchilada in pristine English. Advocates who have the mojo to blitzkrieg those mongrelizing mafiosi, deliver the coup de grâce, and exile the pariahs to a gulag in the hinterlands.

In light of your evidence, I shall admit that my gripes ought to be aimed at the director.

Thank you for providing that link. I listened to that audio clip.
Crispin's own sentiments of the alternative he tried to the rejected Romanian accent has made me utterly convinced that he was the wrong choice for the role.
I'm sorry if saying this causes offence, but I'd be lying if I were to say Mr. Freeman's own thoughts didn't leave me feeling somewhat offended.

It's like...if they'd dubbed Noir (I know I'm one of 3 people who've seen the show, but it's an example) and told the US actors to use French accents, well, then the show would have been a headache to listen to. Sometimes accents don't work, especially since dub actors don't have the time Hollywood types do to perfect the cadence and pitch.

Actually, on that note, one thing that doesn't make much sense to me -- how do Japanese girls completely understand and speak with "parallel dimension/magical world" residents when in reality they'd have no clue how to communicate? Unless it's like an RPG, where everyone speaks a common tongue.

Even in the case of something like InuYasha, it isn't so simple. I imagine Feudal Japanese had differences from the modern language, and Kagome uses modern expressions and phrases, so I can imagine the characters living in the period would, in actuality, give her dumbfounded looks and wonder what she was on about.

Oh, just to clear it up I'm not knocking your choice, because that's YOUR preference, I just take offense at the sub purists who have an irrational hatred for ALL dubs based on the standards of 15 years ago. Of course, I avoid some shows altogether due to horrendous dubs (some of the mainstream toy-hawking stuff, for example), but I've found that the voice work on most dubs is good to excellent.

I know not everyone feels that way, I just don't get people who want to shove their opinion that dubs are superior down others' throats. Not saying you're one of those types, but I did know people like that a while ago and it pissed me off.