Zer0

Since the dub is nearing completion of Part I, I felt it was time to reask this. How do you guys feel the Dub is in, well, dubbing quality? How are the voice actors? Do they match the character's original or perceived voices? How are their pronunciation skills with the foreign terms? Do they handle emotion well?

Praise or condemn.

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WombatKombat

I must say that my first instance of Naruto was watching it late one night while on holidays in America. It was Kin vs Shikamaru, IIRC, and I still consider Shikamaru's dub voice to be on par with the subbed. Same goes to Sasuke, Kabuto, Kakashi, Orochimaru and Gaara. Don't really like Naruto's voice that much, despise Sakura's and Jiraiya's and overall, I would probably prefer the dub to translate the Japanese words that remain intact simply because of the quite irritating pronunciation...

But yeah, it's not as bad as many people claim, though I do agree there's a shitload less emotion within the dub, but then, I'm not even up to date with subbed Naruto currently, so yeah..

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bean

I hate them, but I kinda have a prejudice view on it...I grew up speaking both english and spanish, and though english is my primary language, I grew up speaking a lot of spanish with family. So it's like nails on a blackboard when I hear spanish words getting butchered. But even worse than that, is when foreign words are pronounced with their foreign accent...I fucking hate it. If you're speaking english, say the word as it's spelled in english. It's a tortilla, not a torteeya. Same applies with naruto and japanese. I don't speak fluent japanese, but I know the sounds and how things are pronounced, and the english dub fucks it up. Like I said, I would rather hear hokag than hoka-geh.
But that aside, I got into naruto through the subbed anime, so when I hear the english voices, it's horrible. The voices don't match, and they kill the characters completely, jiraiya especially.

Blazing Hyuuga

I think that they've grown well into their roles, Naruto is really good, Sakura is as annoying as hell so that's good and Saskue tried being japanese, when that failed he went back to speaking his native language. So on the voice sides it's okay. They still have that whole kiddy aspect but who's to blame them but a little more maturity at times where it was mature in the jap would help. And the editing is okay I mean I don't really notice that much editing anymore.

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Island of 1,000 Condiments

Why is this not our weekly debate?

Zer0

Hm, what? Its been the debate for a while now, buddy. >___>

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Island of 1,000 Condiments

Lies.

But anyway, I dislike the anime in general. The quality just sucks.

Zer0

Truths.

Por que Island? What exactly do you mean by quality? The animation style?

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Island of 1,000 Condiments

Yes. That and the fact that its basically a bunch of still images clipped together with voices in most non-battle scenes.

Nikushimi

There is definitely less emotion going on in the English dub than in the original Japanese. However, there are some redeeming qualities as well.


Good Voices

Naruto- At the beginning of the series, it was almost painful to listen to Maile Flanagan stumble over botched word emphasis amidst a sea of cheesey grunts. But she's actually grown into the role extremely well.
Gaara- Probably the best in the series. I'm tempted to say the dub voice is better than the Japanese voice.
Jiraiya- I actually think Jiraiya sounds pretty good in the dub.
Itachi- Of course.
Kisame- Hell yeah. Quite different from his Japanese counterpart, but let's face it, that would just sound weird in the English language. So I'm glad that he has the voice he has instead. It works better, even though I prefer the Japanese voice (when it's speaking Japanese).
Orochimaru- Yes. His voice is excellent. Mr. "I have to play a character in every single fucking animu series evar yet not change my voice at all for any of my roles" really stepped things up and is doing a nice job.
Sasuke- He annoyed the hell out of me up through the Chuunin Exams, longer than Naruto did. But he shaped up once it moved past the Chuunin Exams. I guess Yuri Lowenthal's better at doing angsty, yelling voices than quiet emo voices.

Bad Voices

Iruka/Deidara- Please, just stop. This is probably the worst voice in the series, which is unfortunate for Deidara. This guy has a lot of voice acting experience, there's no excuse for him being this bad.
Tsunade- Lolwut? Sounds like a crackwhore.
Pain- It's clearly Dave Wittenberg, Kakashi's VA. Kakashi's voice isn't bad, it's just...the same guy is obviously also voicing Pain. Which sounds really weird, because it's noticeable. Very much so.
Zetsu (both): This guy had better fucking grow into the role... I'm going to be pissed if he remains this...raspy and lizard-like.

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JAIF

The dub, like all dubs, is horrible, so horrible in fact that it is the most horrible part of the Naruto anime, which is by all means so horrible it makes the Berserk anime look like a masterpiece. Which Berserk anime is so horrible that... well, you get the point.

But that may be because I'm biased towards dubfags who prefer a language because it's their own, so they have to listen to it instead of the original one in which the anime was clearly meant to be listened to at, which is the natural way of doing it.

Shirogetsu

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Nikushimi

Other than the silent guy from Blood+, I haven't really seen Crispin Freeman do any other roles.

And yes, I fixed on that Itachi remark immediately and had to reply to it. >_>

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JAIF

I don't know what the first one means, but I've been a confirmed so-called 'subfag' since I first watched anime. I have only seen one anime whose dub was better than the sub, and that anime was so shitty I don't even remember what it's called.

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Originally Posted by Shirogetsu EDIT: Also, JAIF, some animes have dub only. So... wut?

Show me some of them. I'll watch them to confirm that they suck and can't really be considered anime, and then come back here and tell you how they suck and can't really be considered anime. As far as I'm concerned, anime = sub, fin.