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The English Dub Club; DEATH TO SUBTITLES!!!!!
Topic Started: Jun 6 2005, 01:45 AM (4,621 Views)
Shiva
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This is a club for those talented, and often under-appreciated, voice actors that dub Japanese Anime. :D

I was introduced to dubbed Anime first, so maybe that is why I like it better than subtitled Anime. Frankly, I just do not care for the Japanese voice acting. They have no range in their voices. It all sounds so flat, high-pitched, and just downright annoying. The women sound like 6-year-olds, and the men don't sound a whole lot older.

Plus, I would much rather hear the voices than read the subtitles any day. I don't like having to take my eyes off what is going on to read what is being said. It's so distracting, I feel like it takes away from whatever it is I am watching.

A list of some of some of our favorite English voice actors (in no particular order):

* Richard Ian Cox: Voice of Inuyasha (Inuyasha)

* David Kaye: Voice of Sesshomaru (Inuyasha)

* Paul Dobson: Voice of Naraku/Onigumo (Inuyasha); Myoga (Inuyasha); Makoto Shishio (Rouroni Kenshin)

* Johnny Yong Bosch: Voice of Vash the Stampede (Trigun); Kiba (Wolf's Rain); teenage Taiki (Twelve Kingdoms); Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach); Lelouch (Code Geass)

* Dorothy Elias-Fahn: Voice of Meryl Stryfe (Trigun); Kaoru Kamiya (Rouroni Kenshin); Youko Nakajima (Twelve Kingdoms)

* Richard Hayworth: Voice of Kenshin Himura (Rouroni Kenshin); Legato Bluesummers (Trigun)

* Lex Lang: Voice of Sanosuke Sagara (Rouroni Kenshin); Crim (.hack//Sign); King En (Twelve Kingdoms)

* Wendee Lee: Voice of Mimiru/Black Rose (.hack series); Faye Valentine (Cowboy Bebop); Yahiko Miyojin (Rouroni Kenshin); Yumi Komagata (Rouroni Kenshin); Kiyone Makibi (Tenchi series); Charlotte (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust); Kourin (Twelve Kingdoms); Karen Kasumi (X); Shinku (Rozen Maiden); Yoruichi Shihoin (Bleach)

* Crispin Freeman: Voice of Balmung (.hack series); Harold Hoerwick (.hack//Liminality); Alucard (Hellsing); Tsume (Wolf's Rain); Rosiel (Angel Sanctuary); Rude (FFVII:AC); Fuma Monou (X); Jeremiah Gottwald (Code Geass)

* Petrea Burchard: Voice of Ryoko (Tenchi series)

* Sherry Lynn: Voice of Sesame/Tsunami (Tenchi series); Moore (Trigun); Cheza (Wolf's Rain); Shelinda (FFX); Yuzuriha Nekoi (X)

* Matt McKenzie: Voice of Auron (FFX); Borgoff Markus (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust); Agent (The Animatrix)

* Andy Philpot: Voice of D (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust); Braska (FFX)

* Dwight Schultz: Old Man of Barborois (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust); Benge (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust); Maechen (FFX)

* John Rafter Lee: Voice of Meier Link (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust)

* Alex Fernandez: Voice of Kyle Markus (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust); Seymour Guado (FFX)

* Julia Fletcher: Voice of Carmilla (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust); Yunalesca (FFX)

* Mona Marshall: Voice of Kite (.hack series); Kaite (Trigun); Toboe (Wolf's Rain)

* Mary Elizabeth McGlynn: Voice of Helba (.hack series); Jaguara (Wolf's Rain)

* Brianne Siddall: Voice of Tsukasa/Elk (.hack series); Gehl (Wolf's Rain)

* Dave Wittenberg: Voice of Sora (.hack series); Sedo (Wolf's Rain); Enki (Twelve Kingdoms); Yazoo (FFVII:AC); Subaru Sumeragi (X); Gino Weinberg (Code Geass)

* John Burgmeier: Voice of Kurama/Youko Kurama (Yu Yu Hakusho); Shigure Sohma (Fruits Basket); Eyes Rutherford (Spiral)

* Justin Cook: Voice of Yusuke Urameshi (Yu Yu Hakusho); Seiryu (Yu Yu Hakusho); Kuro Momotaro (Yu Yu Hakusho); Puu (Yu Yu Hakusho); Hatsuharu Sohma (Fruits Basket); Super Majin Buu (DBZ); Dende (DBZ)

* Vic Mignogna: Voice of Edward Elric (Full Metal Alchemist); Kurz Weber (Full Metal Panic); Kougaiji (Saiyuki); Dark Mousy (DN Angel); Ikkaku Madarame (Bleach)

* Tara Strong: Voice of Rikku (FFX, FFX-2, KH2); Kaya (Princess Mononoke)

* Steve Blum: Voice of Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop); Meiken (Twelve Kingdoms); Sanjuro (.hack games and .hack//Legend of the Twilight); Darcia (Wolf's Rain); Vincent Valentine (Compilation of FFVII); Ba'Gamnan (FFXII); Yata (.hack//G.U.)

* Steve Staley: Kadaj (FFVII:AC); Kamui Shirou (X)

* Kyle Hebert: Kiba (Naruto); Kamina (Gurren Lagann); Teen Gohan (DBZ).

* Brad Swaile: Light Yagami (Death Note); Teen Gohan (DBZ); Kurt (X-Men Evolution)

* Chris Patton: Sousuke (Full Metal Panic); Fakir (Princess Tutu); Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist)

* Kirk Thornton: Jade (Tales of the Abyss); Jin (Samurai Champloo); Antares (.hack//G.U.); Kaname Ohgi (Code Geass)

* Liam O' Brien: Endrance (.hack//G.U.); Lloyd Asplund (Code Geass); Red XIII/Nanaki (Advent Children)

Whew! :P

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Seii Monogatari
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Crispin Freeman also voiced Rosiel in Angel Sanctuary. ;)
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Kaldea
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Steve Blum RULES ALL. Spike had an impact on me rivaling Cloud even. :wub: :wub:

And the voices in VHD:B ruled too!
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Andina
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Wah, Dwight Schultz is my favourite! The voice Maechen had in FFX was simply too hypnotizing. ^_^
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I wanna join!
I don't mind American voice acting at all, and anyways David Kaye is my third god.
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Sefie
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Sign me up! I think dubbing needs more support!
I don't get why folks so often want it subtitled, they just like to sit and listen to Japanese? I'd prefer to be able to look at the purdy pictures rather than try to keep up with the mile a minute subtitles
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Kaldea
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Sefie
Jun 6 2005, 09:39 AM
I'd prefer to be able to look at the purdy pictures rather than try to keep up with the mile a minute subtitles

Exactly.

And a lot of anime hardcore fans refuse watching with dubs just because it isn't Japanese enough. It's stupid.
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Sefie
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*Nods*

although, I will admit that there are times when the English dubbing sucks monkey bones(Weiz Kruz anyone?). That's why I really like the DVD's, I can CHOOSE which I want!
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Lady Anime
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"I shall now take my sniper rifle, aim, and miss" ^_^
You know to be honest, I find some dub reactions stupid. Here's what you'll expect from a Tokyo Mew Mew/Mew Mew Power fourm

"The Manga is Better then the Anime!"

"The dub is horrible!"

"4Kids should never dub anime again!"

That's only the tip of the iceberg.

I cannot understand why people make a huge deal over some dubbing jobs.

They should chill out , the shows are just animated drawings!

Now I'll admit that I did make a big deal out of the Yu-Gi-Oh dub and all the big changes about a year ago. But I got over it! Now just for the record I've never seen the original version of most of the shows I've seen but I've heard about the changes and I watch the dubs anyway.

You know why? Because it's the only way. Unlike some people, I can't watch or download any Japanese episodes from a website, or get import DVDs, or however else these people are watching the original versions of these shows. The dub is the only way I can watch Zatch Bell, Mew Mew Power, and many other shows. I've yet to see any Zatch Bell manga being sold and IMO the Tokyo Mew Mew manga was rushed, the anime felt better paced.

Okay sometimes the dubbers do screw up voices. But there's nothing we can freaking do and that's that. Besides I would rather suffer crappy voice acting then read poorly translated or poor quality subtitles.

Yes sometimes the dubbers make dumb changes like getting rid of kanji or replacing Japanese names with American names. But again nothing we do about it. So we should just shut up and deal with what we have.

Dub bashers can make 100 online petitions, write 1000 nasty letters to the dubbers, and 1,000,000 mean posts on message boards.

There's nothing they can do about it! :angry:

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Err sorry. I just don't like dub bashing. It kind of ruins a show for me. Sign me up! :lol:

(By the way, I didn't mean to offend anyone, if I did. I'm sorry.)
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Sefie
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:sad: So! Offended! My heart! Broken! :cry:








Naaaah, you know I'm just playin wid yas
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Johnny Yong Bosch: Voice of Vash the Stampede (Trigun); Kiba (Wolf's Rain)

Trivia: Johnny Young Bosch is the guy who played Adam the Black Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I used to watched it a lot as a kid and was surprised to see a familiar name in the Wolf's Rain dub. :D
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Aerith's_Man
Lalalala Oh were you talking? Sorry I wasn't listening.
I don't want to join...just yet...but here is my ideas on some voice actors.




Kean reeves (the guy who plays neo on the matrix...can't remember how to spell his name.)- Cloud

Hallie barry-Tifa

Mandy moore- Aeris

(the asian chick on charlies angels...can't remember her name)-Yuffie



yeah that is all I got so far...I will add more later when I think of some good actors.



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Kaldea
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fantôme
I don't want ANY known actors to use voices for FFVII characters. it would COMPLETELY ruin it for me. Mandy Moore was a fricken joke as Aeris. <_<
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Sefie
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I LIKED Mandy as Aeris. Her voice was soft and sweet and I thought it suited Aeris perfectly.
But yeah, I don't want any US Celebs to do the voices. I'm too much of a nerd to want them in our secret circle
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Kaldea
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She made Aeris sound younger than Yuffie. And like a complete ditz. It just really screwed up my version of Aeris. <_<

And the only celebrity I'd accept as someone in the FFVII cast would be Sean Connery for Nanaki's voice. :wub:
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