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Dungeater posted...

every woman in persona

I think the dubs in Persona sound fine. My only gripe was changing Chie's voice from cool and calm in the original to the hyper, bubbly girl we have now in Golden. I'm guessing that's the kind of VA's you mean? The over-exaggerated ones that try to carry over Japanese mannerisms into English.

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

sub vs dub is dumb. if you aren't a Japanese speaker you have a bias for subs because you don't realize how cartoony/exaggerated Japanese voice acting can be dumb at times. Not saying dubs are always better, but the realize why it sounds off because you actually understand English and can detect the minor nuances better.

I personally prefer subs because the dialogue is closer to the original than with dubs. With subs, you just have to deal with any changes the localization team feels wouldn't make sense to western audiences. But with dubs, lines can be completely different because they're also focused on making the lines have a similar number of syllables to the mouth movements. That said though, some dubs are fantastic, regardless of dialogue changes.

Dungeater posted...

also i havent seen much anime

You should fix that. Tons of great anime out there.

pretzelcoatl posted...

There are only four good English dubs:

FLCL
Naruto
FMA/FMAB
Death Note

I agree with all of those except for Naruto (the dub constantly saying "believe it" was annoying as hell). But there's way more than 4 good english dubs:
Dragon Ball/Dragon Ball Z
Cowboy Bebop
Yu Yu Hakusho
Ghost in the Shell
Big O
FLCL
Full Metal Alchemist/Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood
Black Lagoon
Code Geass
Death Note
Stein's Gate
Baccano (it's about mobsters in 1930's Chicago, the dub nails the accents)
91 Days (another one about mobsters that nails the accents)
Ghost Stories (the official dub is hilariously unhinged and feels like an abridged dub)
Ascendance of a Bookworm
Eighty Six

And that's not even counting any good dubs that I just haven't watched.