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Why do americans keep dubbing japanese games? Don't they
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Why do americans keep dubbing japanese games? Don't they realize that their voice actors are shit?
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>>341747398
Same but in reverse.
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>Japanese VA isn't shit even though I cant understand the language thus have no way to accurately judge it
I fucking hate weeaboos
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>>341747398
>You think this doesn't work both ways
Go play a Japanese KH game.
There is a reason the Final Mix versions always have the English voices.
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because nip think westerners don't want to play with nip voices
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>>341747985
It's also a publisher thing probably.
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American voice actors are fine, the problem is with low budget Japanese games being ported over to Steam/West. Those are the ones where they can only hire third rate awful VA's and of course the end result is bad.
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Komari is cute
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>>341747398
They realize that people will buy their games no matter the voices, or even defend them no matter how cheap they are.
So they cheap out on the voices. Because they can.
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>>341747398
Why do americans keep listening to japanese voice actors? don't they know they don't know fuck what they're saying?
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>>341747398
japanese devs are cheap and write in the voice actors contracts that the VA will only be released in japan instead of worldwide

then the english version doesn't feel like spending tons and tons of money writing up new contracts so they just hire random non-union VA's

If you want to blame anyone for bad dubs, blame the original japanese developers for being cheap nearsighted retards
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>>341747907
Kingdom Hearts are Japanese games.
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>>341747524
>Why do japs keep dubbing american games? Don't they realize that their voice actors are good?
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>>341748521
Why can't I blame the localizers for being cheap?
The games literally sell more in the west than in Japan. The least they can do is match the voice budget.
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>>341748343
well, some people know better. and regarding that, japan takes Voice acting as a more serious respectable job which often leads to high quality stuff.
In america VAing is considered something relegated to those who cannot act unless its for a big budget movie where they invite famous people just to say "hey look, X is voicing this char, isnt it awesome?"
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>>341747694
Having ears is all you need to judge.

>>341747907
This is the exception, not the rule.
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>>341748769
They really aren't any worse or better than english
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>>341747398
>It's a "I don't know the language, but the reactions they are making sound better" episode
They could literally talk about anything they fucking wanted, put random subtitles on and you weeaboos would think it's the greatest thing ever.
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at least American VA is better than most other country's VA though
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>>341748773
>Why can't I blame the localizers for being cheap?
because the english/localization branches of these companies are given tiny ass budgets by their parent company because again, they don't give a fuck

the fact that the games tend to sell more in the west due to a larger population doesn't matter to them, they exclusively care about the japanese sales

this is why, for example, nintendo throws series like f-zero and metroid into the dumpster. those series only ever sold well in america and did horrible in japan so they were deemed failures
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>>341748723

Japanese games but with mainly western characters, where English is the original VO for those characters
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>>341748953
I've been watching anime for 10years, I would know if something was up.
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>>341747398
Adding subs involves coding.
You figure out the rest.
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>>341747398
More experienced VAs in US and it's a bigger industry here.
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>>341747398
Japanese VA's all sound the fucking same when given a particular character archetype to portray.
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>>341747398
It's my theory that the initial voice work is always better than any dubbing, no matter the language.

For example: Most American games with a budget have great English dubs but often the Japanese dubs are inferior, it goes both ways.
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>>341747694
But I do understand, and can confirm EOP plebs obvious impressions: dubs are almost always shit.
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>>341747398
Why do americans keep dubbing japanese games? Don't they realize that japanese games are shit?
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burgers don't know how to act
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>>341747398
game with western setting/influence are better in english regardless of what country made it

the problem is that most games weebs want dual audio for are ones that are japanese out the ass because otherwise they wouldn't be weebs, and those are cringe inducing garbage in english
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>>341749110
If a game is getting localized it is going to have an English script anyway.
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>>341747694
see
>>341748804
In some cases the original game has 10+ voice actors and the scripter writer carefully chooses a certain type of voice for it and directs the actor. then a eng dub happens where they are replaced by like 3 people who dont give a shit about what their character is supposed to look like. American dubbing tends to be for the majority, a fucking shameful stain on the whole drama industry.
The rejects that are mostly only good for doing tertiary roles tend to do VA dubbing, and you often realize why directors dont want them to open their mouths
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>>341749191
>it's a bigger industry here.
I prefer English voices in my games for the most part but you must be high as fuck or I didn't get the notice that it's opposite day.

Seiyuu sell games and anime series in Japan with their name alone, US VAs don't have nowhere near that kinda power.
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>>341749207
Wow archetypes are similar, very astute one here.
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>>341749191
whatever shit no-name VA you are, GIT OUT!
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>>341749481
Doesn't mean you can't get creative with the voices. To be fair, though, that era of dubs is kind of over.
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>>341749191
Yeah. But they work in broadway, theatre, or actual television.
While the ones who can't get into the above are relegated to voicing silly games from Japan for cheap because they're too shit to do anything else.
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>>341749337
Funny thing is japanese actors are usually pathetic and inexpressive, yet their VAs are top notch. Weird.
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>>341749579
Make me, pinch weasel.
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It depends on the genre
I'd play JRPG with Japanese voice with sub but I don't wanna play action games while reading subs.
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>>341747398
>americans
>reading
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>>341750002
This sounds reasonable. I'll allow it.
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>>341747694
At least I can feign ignorance with a foreign language.
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Better question: why is anime so shit nowadays?
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>>341749413
>Seiyuu sell games and anime series in Japan with their name alone
which is fucking stupid because they're all terrible

japanese seiyuu all go for one of three voices depending on gender

>monotone "badass"
>constantly yelling
>whiny fucker

and for the ladies we have

>monotone "sexy"
>nails on chalkboard screeching
>ridiculous old woman voice that nobody has ever actually sounded like

don't get me wrong englsh va's are bad too, but the difference is that the english ones all just have the one voice they use all the time while the japanese ones intentionally fit into one of a few stock cliches

both are awful, all the money spent on getting big name seiyuu to advertise your game could be spent making your game better instead of trying to make money off image songs or whatever the fuck. bring back text-only games, it benefits literally everyone besides the suits and weird idolshit lovers
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>Expensive high budget Japanese voice work
B-but I can't understand what they're saying and reading is hard!
>Cheap low budget American dub
Yes! This is so much better! Those weebs have no idea what they're talking about!
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>>341749985
wat.
IT IS opposite day
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>>341747694
But I can understand English, so I can tell when voicing is shit. On the other hand, with Japanese voicing I would be blissfully ignorant on the quality of acting.

Then again, this is a pointless argument as the point falls apart when you realize that you'd have to be somehow mentally disabled to not be able to make out emotion from spoken language, even if you don't understand it.
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>>341750261
>I have only played one japanese game and watched one anime!
Fixed that for you, m8.
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>>341750242
It's about the same.
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>>341750261
>I don't know what I'm talking about: the post
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>>341747694
>japanese voice acting
>can't tell if it's shit
>american dub voice acting
>can very clearly tell that it's shit
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>>341750543
>>341750690
im actually asian, suck my nutz weeblords
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>>341747398
>implying japanese doesn't actually sound like shit.
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>>341747398

>Japanese overacting
>not shit

wew
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Americans can't into subtitles, anon.
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>>341750808
Being Asian doesn't mean you aren't a total retard.
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>>341750761
>Posting on 4chan without knowing Japanese
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the curse of knowing just enough chink to know when something is horribly off or wrong but not enough to play games fully in the language

it hurts
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>>341750067
>>341748196
only reason i managed to finish NNB mainly because same VA
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>>341751148
You could always go to reddit.
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>>341751148
Do you have any idea where you are currently posting?
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>>341748923
That's not true. Obviously a country that dubs more is better at it.
American voice actors suck because they don't do much dubbing. Japan on the other hand dubs american shows, movies, etc. and has a huge animation industry on top of that.
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>>341748969
As long as there is a female character under 21, you can be sure that the Americuck dub is automatically inferior to every single other dub, even the German one
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>>341751148
(YOU)
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>>341750491
If they're used to American dubs you can't really blame them for not being able to hear emotion in voice acting considering every American dub is just an emotionless reading of the script with all scene context ignored.

American dubs of Japanese media all sound like it's the actors' first time reading the line and they've forgotten the line that came before it.
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>>341751024
knowledge of Chinese doesn't help you to play Japanese games
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>>341751415
japanese dub of such character is fucking garbage

no highschooler talks in that ridiculous high pitched voice
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>>341750917

but they're so expressive xd
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Japan has genuine underaged girls voicing underage girls lusting after their brother's dick.

Hiow could the american industry possibly compete?
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>>341751339
>American voice actors suck because they don't do much dubbing
i don't think that's true
i think they suck because it's an oversaturated market and because every voice actor has to gruel through smaller projects to even have the chance to voice stuff like AAA games, meaning there's probably some talent that's being kept back
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>>341751653
They also have grown women voicing grown men.
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>>341751653
How can they compete? Simple. Kick them in the chin.
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>Japanese VA
>Grown women sound like little girls
>Cheery mascot sounds like a chain smoker trying to be cute

>English VA
>Little girls sound like grown women
>Cheery mascot sounds wacky and CUHRAZY
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>Listening to the gook voice actors play female characters
>fucking ever

I'd rather stab my eyeballs with butter knives then listen to that shit
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I grew up with the idea that dubs were made for kids that couldn't read yet. As soon as I could read I preferred to watch movies with subtitles in my native language, and English voices. This is also how I learned English, at least until the point at which I started reading books.
When I started browsing the English internet, I was very surprised to find that most English natives are actually kids.
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>>341747694
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D77O5sNWgcs&feature=youtu.be&t=82
This is objectively false
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>>341751928
>yfw Americans think "I can't read fast enough for subs" is a valid excuse
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>>341751148
>>>/r/eddit
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#notallamericans
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>>341751971
You posted this as an example of being able to tell shit voice acting even if you don't understand it, right?
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>>341752239
Yes
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>>341751928
Live-shows are terrible with dubs due to terrible voice syncing (and generally looking weird, "he doesn't look like he would sound like that")

This doesn't transfer over to cartoons and video games.
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>>341747398
It's the awkward accent that pisses me off, like who the fuck talks like that in real life?
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>>341751919
>Listening to masculine Western women attempt cute voices of little girls
You should consider that last thing you said.
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>It's another Americans are incapable of understanding emotions not in their language thread
>It's another Americans are incapable of peripheral vision and reading text while paying attention to the characters
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POST examples were the eng dub is superior

MGR

jap
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDdFNxslEpE

superior burger version
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kHPouzEdw68
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Fact: Nippon voice actors aren't as good as you think they are. You can't gauge how good someone's acting well if you don't know the language. It gets drowned out in all the babble you can't understand.
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sorry, only burgers love their stupid dub
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>>341752414
>it's another anyone who speak english and disagrees with me is an American poster
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>>341752396
>playing games for "cute voices of little girls"

you should consider suicide or at the very least be honest with yourself and buy actual h-game

little girl waifu characters sound like shit in either language, stop putting them in games or remove the voice acting
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>>341752585
statistically, that's the case most of the time
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>>341752358
The second characteristic sure does. Especially since localization audio directors tend not to know as much about the characters as the people that made the original game.
It's true that in cartoons and games both audio tracks are technically dubs, but the Japanese voice acting industry for cartoons and games is much less shit so the original tracks end up better 99% of the time anyway.

Come up with some new excuses, kid.
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>>341752585
Well, UK also heavily dubs foreign media, so might could be either of them.
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>>341752585
I thought only Americans are dumb enough to know only language. What english speaking country are you from where this is also the norm?
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>>341747694
http://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1465299336639.webm
Just tell me one VA that put that kind of emotion in his performance
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>>341752585
Canadians are basically American.
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>>341752504
Just like you can't tell a good guitar player from a bad one unless you yourself has mastered the guitar, right? Yeah, that's how it works. Surely.
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>>341752885
Canadian dubbing is literal cancer
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>>341752815
That's Sawashiro isn't it?
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>>341752815
Is this from a character CD or something?
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>>341752815
What's that from? Sounds like Yuuki Aoi to me.
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>>341752815
>It's a "weebs think yelling and overacting is good voice acting" episode

I don't give a fuck if that's """"better"""" then english voice acting because they're both garbage

it's like saying a dogshit thats been in the sun for a week is better then one thats only been in it for a few hours. I don't wanna touch either because I'm not mentally unbalanced.
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I'm not a native English speaker, so I prefer Japanese dub with subs or UK dub.
Fuck murican English, what are they speaking.
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>>341747398
98% of audiences don't care as long as they understand it. shitty english dub > moon runes

/v/ simply just don't represent the mass.
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>>341752504
Isn't that only a good thing? If it sounds better because you don't understand it as well, it still sounds better.

I'm not a native english speaker and I have the same thing towards english language. English sounds so much better compared to my native language. I can't take anything seriously in it.

Foreign languages are a god send.
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>>341747398
I'd take a good dub over a good sub any day
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>>341747398
Because the Japanese language is grating and tone deaf like all the other Asian languages.
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>>341749250
lol nope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsEfUJA6NTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU3dfRgLCIw
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>>341753103
Character is from Ben-To but I don't think that was in the show.
This >>341753052 I guess.
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>>341752891
More like you can't tell a good guitar player if the only 'guitar-playing' you've ever listened to is MIDI shit.
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>>341753137
What the fuck is "overacting" ? There is no "overacting", there is only acting, which can be good or bad, loud or quiet, etc. And if the character in question is supposed to be yelling or making loud noises, then the voice actor is supposed to be doing exactly that.
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>>341750263
These dub lovers don't care about the budgets. They'll take whatever cheap garbage for as long as it's English.
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Yes they do realize this. Hence why they dub over the shit.
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>>341753356
>not watching foreign media in their original language and the way their creator envisioned them

/tv/ is laughing at us again.
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>>341747694
>year of the lord 2016
>not speaking at least basic nip
I want normalfags to leave
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>>341747398
Because not having to read subtitles and focusing 100% on the visual design is more important to the creators than listening to grown adults screech in their dying language.
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>>341753826
>he can't read subtitles and look at the visuals
Sub human garbage
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>>341753137
>/tv/ shit
>multiple quotation marks
Stop posting.
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>Jap VAs
>Good
>Ever
>All the women sound like hamsters that have been trapped in a helium tank
>All the men sound like they're trying to hold in a massive shit because Japanese is a shit language
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>>341753707
But it's an ugly sounding language, worse than Korean or Vietnamese.
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>>341753703
>/tv/ is laughing at us again

Who cares
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>murrilard dubs
kek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpq2q0qf2e8
turns into
http://www.watchdigimonepisodes.com/digimon-adventure-episode-54/ (18mins)
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>>341753939
I love these generalizations, anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSpoMulZbAs
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>>341753896
You can still drive on a road with speed bumps, but it ruins to intricately designed flow of the experience.
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>>341753954
>worse than Korean or Vietnamese
Are you retarded? Korean is literally the worst language on the planet, I'd rather have angry arabs screaming at me all day
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>>341752891
>Implying verbal communication isn't much more complicated than a series of notes

Shit analogy is shit
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>>341753453
I'm assuming the girl in that clip isn't literally mentally insane, right? Because that's what she sounds like. It goes way past "excited about gay porn" and into straight up unhinged. She sounds like a cartoon character and yes technically thats what it is but it's not fucking doraemon, it's attempting to be a bit more realistic.

When you have such a blatantly fake voice performance that sounds nothing like what people sound like in real life, you're overacting because you're making it harder for the viewer to suspend their disbelief.

Because regular japanese culture is so free of any sort of emotion they feel they feel the need to go way off the deep end when voice acting to try and compensate and it sounds fucking goofy.
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>>341753707
>not learning italian
Most of the japanese garbage gets to italy
It was more easy to find Violence Jack and Nagai, Matsumoto stuff in italian than looking for it in japanese
>>341753932
>/tv/ shit
This boggyman thing is getting absurd at this point
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>>341753939
wanted to call you a retard. but you posted duckman. carry on
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>>341754148
Most fujos and yaoi fangirls are like this, anon. Also, it's a fucking comedy, of course it's gonna be exagerrated
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>>341747907
Final mix has English voices because the English version always came out after the Japanese and had updates and big fixes, so when they ported it back as final mix that's the base they use. Although I do agree the Japanese voices were Fucking terrible.
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>>341754092
If subtitles are speed bumps, then dub is a whole different car. There road might be the same but the experience is altered heavily. Is it so wrong to wish to experience the game as close as possible as the creators intended? And yes, that also includes voice acting.
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>>341754104
>He's never been badgered by Mandarin shopkeepers in Beijing.

Not by a long shot.
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Japanese acting leans more towards theatrics, which serves animation well. On the other hand, American actors are better at displaying the subtleties required in live action. Of course, there are exceptions on both sides, but this is a general observation, and obviously bad acting is bad acting no matter where it comes from.
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>>341747398
You said it like if the japanese actors are better.
MGR, DMC and Bayonetta had quite good casting.
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>>341753939
At least there's a range, unlike the American "every one is an emotionless robot speaking at half speed" voice.
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>>341754206
fuck off Mario
nobody gives a fuck about trash-tier language like italian
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attack on titan had an objectively great dub

prove me wrong
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>>341754360
dmc and bayo had english as the base language, so of course they were good. Not sure about mgr.
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>>341752815
Still waiting
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>>341754401
>fuck off mario
>when we are talking about dubs
Hell, italian people do dubs over the movies since ever. Movies like from Sica or even Rossellini had the same process.
You can't defeat italians in dubs or subs. We even made a new Lupin show
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>>341754148
> it's attempting to be a bit more realistic.

Nigga it's a show where people have death battles in the canteen for half-priced lunches.

https://youtu.be/S8N9J42FJq0?t=66

>When you have such a blatantly fake voice performance

Fake voice ? What the shit, how can you call something "fake voice" when it's the voice and scripting the creator intended? All you can do is throw buzzwords out of your ass when confronted with lines that aren't quirky one-liners from stoic badasses.
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>>341754598
it's a bad show so who cares
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>>341754637
Armstrong and Sam are amazing in my opinion
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>>341747398
The majority of people don't want to play or watch something with subtitles.
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>>341754663
whatever, mario
fuck off
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>>341754701
if it was bad it wouldn't be so goddamn popular

fuck off you hipster
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>>341754948
But naruto and bleach are popular.
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>>341754071
>Talking about VAs
>Posts a singer
>Still sounds generic as fuck, like 99% of nip music
I know weebs are retarded, as that's the only way anyone can enjoy the utter trash that comes from Japan (That or Oikophobia) but at least try to use your brain.
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>>341754684
Having silly stuff happen and having your characters sound like cartoon characters are two completely different things

>What the shit, how can you call something "fake voice" when it's the voice and scripting the creator intended?
I didn't say this kind of overacting wasn't intended, I said it sounds like shit and is goofy as fuck because it's so clearly a voice someone is putting on in a studio instead of acting.
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>>341754980
that means they're good enough to have a lot of people like them

is that too fucking hard for your tiny brain to comprehend
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It's not just Japanese.
Americans like the sounds of their own voices so much they go as far as dubbing American English over the top of other English dialects.
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>>341754071
>those animations
>that lip syncing
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>>341755126
>>341754948
Bad things can be popular. The room is a meme because of its badness.
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>>341754854
Che cosa?
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>>341754983
>I said it sounds like shit and is goofy as fuck because it's so clearly a voice someone is putting on in a studio instead of acting.

Putting that voice in the studio is called acting. Voice acting. Have you seen her other roles? You really have no idea what you're talking about so why are you so adamant about giving your 'opinion'? I'm sure there was some name for this phenomena.
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>>341754982
>Still sounds generic as fuck, like 99% of nip music
How can you tell this when you don't know Japanese? Don't you have to know Japanese before you can determine the quality of their vocal works?
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>>341754948
lots of people love random violence, vaugley german stuff and a power fantasy where the only japanese person on earth is a hyper-competent badass that keeps up with people that have superpowers despite being a muggle

who would've guessed

doesn't change the fact that the characters and social commentary are laughable, the animation is horrible and still frames half the time, the titans look retarded and a good four episodes are spent on one of the characters moving a rock from one part of the street to another
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>>341755221
attack on titan is great

kys
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>>341754982
She's also a VA, you dumbfuck. Why do you think she's in a videogame?
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>>341755419
It really isn't.
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>>341747398
Our VAs aren't bad, translators can't afford the good ones.
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>>341755308
No, because singing isn't about the lyrics dumb fuck. They just can't fucking sing and their voice is fucking slathered in processing in a way that doesn't even fit the music. For fuck sake even the nips know this, that's why they'd rather listen to fucking Microsoft Sam with blue pigtails sing their music.
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>>341755478
wow you sure convinced me mr supreme authority on what is and isn't objectively good

again, kill yourself
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>murridubs in charge of tone

rest of the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n1WcsbYxsQ

murrica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB1rAqHysbk
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>>341755419
I liked it at first but literally fucking nothing happened.

The story is objectively a bad waste of time.
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>>341755495
>translators can't afford the good ones.
But they can. They just don't go for them. And they clearly don't need to because fuckers buy their products anyway.
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>>341755624
You can't even explain why its good, while >>341755338 said why its bad.
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>>341755638
Wow, now wonder Digimon's so unpopular in the US
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>>341755338
Okay, so what decent anime do you prefer?
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Japanese culture is so fucking stunted. Dialogue reads like robots talking and the acting is derivative garbage. Haven't they heard of the word SUBTLE?
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>>341755419
yeah it had lots of great moments like when that unlikable character that was on screen for five minutes got devoured by the stupid looking monster

or that time when another unlikable character that was on screen for five minutes got devoured by the stupid looking monster, and then another unlikable character thats on screen a lot more got really sad about it

and who can forget the climax of the series, when an unlikable character that was on screen a bunch at the beginning but then disapeared from the show for ages TRANSFORMED INTO a stupid looking monster and then she had a dbz fight with another stupid looking monster

I especially liked how in all of these moments the animation turned into a slideshow because animation is hard.

I understand that it really blew you away because you'd never seen blood and violence in a cartoon before but it's a trash heap of bullshit. Watch hellsing ultimate or something if you want LIKEABLE characters getting violently murdered with lots of gore and actual animation in your animated medium
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>>341755756
Your least favorite anime is probably the best show I've seen.
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>>341755338
>aot
>bad animation

are you legitimately fucking blind
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>>341755456
>HURR DURR Mary Elizabeth Mcglynn is a voice actor now
If we're counting singers as voice actors because their music is in a videogame then holy shit is that not a good case for Jap VAs since they all get killed by people like Mary McGlynn and Donna Burke.
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>>341752815
Why is Miyuki Sawashiro so based?
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>>341755419
>kys
Fucking underage faggot straight out of social media.
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>>341747398
yes

they're americans. they don't care about quality. they care about ease. it's easier not having to read subtitles. remember this is a nation that considers reading "work"
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>>341755839
The animation did have moments of poorness in the original airing. Was fixed later. It also contained a lot of stills.
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>>341755839
Still images are not good animation. Good drawing, maybe, but not good animation.

There's like the one scene with the spiderman gear thats animated well and then everything else is still frames or laughably bad (like any scene where a titan has to move)
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>>341755581
> They just can't fucking sing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_4CIlxT2Jc
Singers of Kalafina sound better than any of western singers. You can't prove me wrong.
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I watch subbed anime and play dubbed video games.

Dubbed anime and subbed vidya a shit
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>>341754642
Piggus can't compete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIRmCjeGSy4
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>>341755904
>characters in a videogame about singing sing
Holy shit, kill yourself. Good VAs are able to sing to, you fucktard
https://youtu.be/ismAYIw-ncc?t=2m33s
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>>341754982
>>Posts a singer
But that goes hand in hand in Japan. If you go to school to be a VA they'll train you to be a singer. And as a result it's very common for VAs to also double as music artists.
And studios also commonly capitalizes on this talent when they make and promote their products.
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>>341755839
Attack on Titan has awful animation, mostly because it was made on a shoestring budget. Tons of still frames, reused shots and even fucking CGI errors.

However, I will say that for that, it does do a very good job and presenting itself. If you're a casual watcher, it is very easy to get tricked into thinking the series looks good because the show picks its battles in terms of animation very well.

However, in its defense
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>>341755839
Quality dropped towards the end of the show but it was still pretty good.

Too bad the story was garbage
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>>341755781
>Haven't they heard of the word SUBTLE?
No they haven't. Their shitty language is exactly like most slavic languages where it's not suited for subtlty. But at least Slav devs manage to make their language have some charm.
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>>341756136
If they were good VAs they wouldn't be voicing idolshit.
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If you dislike anime, you are aesthetically inept and possibly gay.
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>>341755956
hey

hey faggot

kys_________________
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>>341756064

That's not even on the same tier of the grannies in my local church choir. One can't prove you wrong only because no one can argue with delusion.
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>>341756078
How would subbed video games even work?

How do you read what they say while in the middle of combat?
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>>341756147
>And as a result it's very common for VAs to also double as music artists.
>mfw hearing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH6NB2F-Jcw
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I will never not post this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I57D_LSjCc
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Whatever dub director was in charge of Nier should do all English dubs
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>>341756353
You learn to read beyond a second grade level.
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>>341756353
The same way you read them while watching a movie?

Are americans seriously incapable of handling subtitles?
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>>341756078
I'm similar. I'll watch movies subbed or watch some anime subbed. But I keep games dubbed because I'd rather not read during combat, and I mostly stick to games with demanding combat.
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>>341756239
Do you have brain damage?
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>>341756064
>Anime trash singer just singing in a western operatic style
That sounded like the a random song off of a "Sound Of The Old World" CD at some middle of nowhere wicca shop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkSGdaozMoo
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>>341756353
I can read the chat while fighting a dude in Quake, so I imagine it's like that.
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>>341747398
Cause some of us don't like staring at the bottom of the screen the whole game
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>>341747398
There are people like me that don't give a shit, rather not read.

Also, jap are sqeaky as fuck and your weebiness make it impossible to admit that
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>>341755816
>unlikable character

just because you have autism and can't even relate to fictional characters doesn't mean we're all mentally impaired anon
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>>341756365
Her animations are more cringey than the voice acting
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>>341756273
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1YF5TB-MNQ
Enjoy not being able to appreciate greatness
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>>341747398
KOMA-CHAN IS CUTE! CUTE!
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>can understand spoken japanese
>most games have difficult kanji so i have trouble reading it
>english version is dub only

so fucking annoying
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>>341756365
chie sounds like garbage in every language because she's a garbage character in a garbage game

playing persona 4 arena online made me want to kill myself because everyone played her and her voice acting was so bad
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>>341750242
It's not, it's just that only the non-shit old anime survived. The forgettable stuff was, well, forgotten.

>>341755839
art style =/= animation
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>>341756681
just play pogeymans
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>>341756064
This is on the same tier as most fucking choirs. It's far below the level of an orchestral choir.
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>>341756025
>>341756190
>>341756216
so you are blind
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>>341756353
By looking at the screen?
>How do you watch how much health you have left?
>How do you watch how many bullets you have left?
>How do you look at your map?
>How do you look at anything on the screen when stuff is going on?
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>>341756598
Yeah, the "cute" japanese female voice is fucking awful. It hurts my ears. And 90% of their dudes are incapable of sounding authoritative or intimidating. They have like 2 guys that can and you hear them everywhere.
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>>341752815
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9GaNISM210
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>>341756510
He's defending American "English" dubs. What do you think?
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>>341756064
Of all the good songs from Madoka you choose that? Come on, son
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x12JObsN41E
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>>341756773
Dude, it's not well animated. This is objective fact.
It has a handful of great action sequences but that's it.
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>>341756605
every character in attack on titan has a one note personality that can be described in two words

eren = hates titans
mikasak = loves eren
armin = loves complaining
annie = hates everyone

there's nothing wrong with a character being flat but the majority of every episode is dialogue about what these characters are feeling (which is always the same thing every time because they're so one note)

one of the secondary tier of characters big motivation is that some guy got devoured by titans but he's a character thats in like one scene, why the fuck should I care. It felt like something from a B-tier zombie movie where they just murder characters at random with no real buildup
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After hearing Rise and Chie in japanese, it made me want to rip my ears out. It sound like those jap porno with their extremely over exaggerated pig squealing
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>>341756716
I dunno, man. Even old schlock could be entertaining to make fun of because of how batshit insane it could be at times. Nowadays, things are a lot more mundane. With that being said, Sturgeon's Law has definitely always been in full effect when it comes to anime - and I kind of regret watching so much of the stuff in the past.
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>>341756879
>He's defending American "English" dubs
No I'm not.
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>>341756773
first 5 episodes were goat. then it just became a decent generic anime. the pace slowed too

still a good show and I looking forward to the next season. but the quality did drop (outside them dumping the budget on Ravioli's scenes)
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>>341753939
>All the men sound like they're trying to hold in a massive shit
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>>341747398
In some cases I prefer the dub so I don't want them to go away.
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>>341747398
Because most americunts are patriotic idiots that can't read or don't want to read.
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>>341756910
>objective fact

I don't think you know what that means niggerdiddles
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>>341756897
I just like the more orchestral/choir stuff from Kalafina
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>Y-YOU FUCKING WEEBS
Dubs are terrible regardless of where the game is from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehnfK-iES-s
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>>341757390
First time on reddi- i mean 4chan, I take it
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>>341757390
Japanese image board
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>>341757239
Having CGI errors like here >>341756004 = bad
Having every episode end with 50+ seconds recap to save animation budget = bad
A sequence of fucking FIFTY SECOND still frames (with panning) like pic related = bad

And the list goes on.

These are objectively bad things for animation, especially in what sells itself as an action show.
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>>341757032
>chink cartoons
>complaining about one dimensional characters

what the fuck were you expecting
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>>341757151
>Americans don't want to read!

End this stupid meme. I can read just fine. Here's why I don't like subbed games:

>play subbed game
>read a line of dialogue in less than a second
>proceed to listen a character say the line slowly with pauses and additional noises in a language I can't understand
>enough of this
>blast through the dialogue at the rate I can read without letting the voices play out
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>>341756084
Her other role was better
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>>341757409
>2:03
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>>341757409
That so bad is good though
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>>341753707
>speaking "basic" japanese is enough to tell if the voice acting is shit.
you don't even speak "basic" japanese if you can't see what's wrong with this idiotic sentiment.
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>>341757409
You're right 99.99% of the time. But the Halo Jap dubs are great for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE_aF6v0HXI
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>>341757703
I was expecting a show that bills itself as some sort of action show to actually be about action, not characters explaining how they feel for the 50 billionth time and still frames like in >>341757673
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>>341757778
Forgot link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P49FraVNS_Y
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>>341753939
I miss you Duckman.
>i read that in your voice
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>>341757390
>Normalfags are allowed on /v/ now
What the fuck happened?
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>>341757581
>/v/ - Video Games
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>>341758009
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>>341757885
I speak "basic" english and it is enough to understand that your country is full of shitty VA's
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AtlusUSA are no slouches when it comes to dubs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ZvsuY2DdA
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>>341758058
>Japanese games aren't video games
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>>341754948
HAHA WHAT?!
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>>341758080
>moot
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>>341758058
>4chan.org
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>>341757673
>shitty cgi
was fixed so therefore irrelevant
>episode recaps
every fucking show does this
also has nothing to do with the actual animation quality
>still frames
stupid but not overly prevalent and still don't look terrible
also only used when people are just walking down a hall or something boring so it doesn't even matter

doesn't sound that objective to me buddy
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