2010-07-04, 12:34 AM
I prefer watching it in Japanese most of the time. Most English voice acting strikes me as having a really unnatural way of speaking, and I don't mean catch phrases (which are already unnatural in any language); but rather, the voices they use for the characters. It happens a lot with female characters or young characters; but it's also a pretty big problem in general. There are, however, a few dubs that I really like. I check them out either out of good word that the dub is better or close to the original Japanese voice acting, or I do it during of my rewatches just for the sake of comparison after knowing how the original played out.
Cowboy Bebop is way better in English for me than it is in Japanese. Black Lagoon was really nice, because they managed to account for the ethnic diversity of the cast and made the voices even more fitting than in Japanese. Baccano also had a pretty good English dub thanks to the New York accents being a nice touch, aside from a few odd choices in the cast here and there- though I saw this one in both languages with Japanese first and English later, so that doesn't really count.
One dub that I know people will disagree with me for liking, though; was the original Fullmetal Alchemist. Aaron Dismuke was an excellent Alphonse. I actually did like Vic Mignogna as Edward Elric. Vic Mignogna did what he does best (and usually does, to the dislike of some): give a bit of a showy and confident flair to his character, and I thought it worked pretty well with Ed. He wasn't as good as Romi Park with some of the more emotional and dramatic scenes, but I thought he did a really nice job for the most part.
Cowboy Bebop is way better in English for me than it is in Japanese. Black Lagoon was really nice, because they managed to account for the ethnic diversity of the cast and made the voices even more fitting than in Japanese. Baccano also had a pretty good English dub thanks to the New York accents being a nice touch, aside from a few odd choices in the cast here and there- though I saw this one in both languages with Japanese first and English later, so that doesn't really count.
One dub that I know people will disagree with me for liking, though; was the original Fullmetal Alchemist. Aaron Dismuke was an excellent Alphonse. I actually did like Vic Mignogna as Edward Elric. Vic Mignogna did what he does best (and usually does, to the dislike of some): give a bit of a showy and confident flair to his character, and I thought it worked pretty well with Ed. He wasn't as good as Romi Park with some of the more emotional and dramatic scenes, but I thought he did a really nice job for the most part.