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KamikazePotato posted...

I think the issue is that unless you're a native Japanese speaker - as in you grew up in Japan - people aren't going to be good at judging how good a voice is.

It's very telling is that I've never seen a pure sub watcher ever admit that Japanese VA for any show is bad. That would imply that all Japanese VA is good, which is fundamentally impossible. It's far more likely that western people just can't tell the difference.

That's exactly it. I've never seen the inverse ever being discussed as a counterpoint. Sure. I'd imagine a native speaker in their own language and own writing is going to have a better time expressing things, but that doesn't mean it is a 1:1 "for it is automatically good" reason. The most I've heard is, "Well, they get trained in it at a school or job specifically for it." Again, being trained at a school doesn't guarantee you're good at something. Otherwise, I'd be a sports coach or occupational therapist right now, rather than working retail.

To be fair to my own point, I bring up stuff like River City Girls. I'm currently playing now. Though it is based on a Japanese franchise, it is totally made by an English developer with English actors first, and you can tell by the writing. I'd assume the same is true for stuff like Vox Machina and RWBY and the like. They are aping a look, but you cannot understate the difference in culture and look and feel.

Ghost Stories and Shin Chan (and Panty/Stocking, though I don't know if that was ever confirmed) were stripped out and completely retooled for and English audience and just complete weirdness between the dub actors just fucking around and having fun. I would wonder what a Japanese dub of an English show would be in comparison.