I don't remember for my life how Outlaw Star' english dub sounded.
I like Samurai Champloo's dub. I always though Steven J Blum's voice fit best with Mugen, among the other three or so dozen characters he's voiced.
As far animes that had better english dubs than original jp dubs go, I would honestly have to say DBZ, due in part to how bad I thought the JP dub itself was.
DBZ (Especially in the Freeza saga and onwards), seems like a great choice, especially considering how much better it was than the original Japanese.
Yu Yu Hakusho is a good one.
Rurouni Kenshin
Samurai Champloo
Cowboy Bebop
Does Afro Samurai count, even though it had no original Japanese, it had ****ing Samuel L. Jackson and Ron Perlman for Christ's sake. 131
Generally, I think the original Japanese dubs suck, so it doesn't take much to improve on them.
That said, there are MANY anime dubs that somehow succeed at being as bad as or worse than the japanese voice acting.
That said, higher quality shows usually have better English voice acting than the original...almost across the board. An exception would be Naruto. They are fairly equal.
Some great dubs were mentioned above.
Unfortunately, Afro Samurai wasn't a dub, or else I would chose that. 😄
I only watched Samurai Champloo in Japanese. I really prefer to watch every anime in Japanese, not because it's some sort of linguistic fetish or something...but because some things are lost in translation due to the English dub trying to match the mouths.
Retardedly enough, the Japanese seem to be out of sync with the characters, quite often. Even "high yen" (I don't know what they say for "high dollar", over in Japan, lol.) shows like Bleach have out of sync voice acting. It's rather stupid, really, which is one of the reasons I say most Japanese voice acting sucks.
Originally posted by King Kandy
I agree completely. I could not even watch DBZ Kai subbed because of how retarded Goku's voice sounds.
It's that bad?
Yeah, I don't like the fact that it's a really high pitched, annoying, females voice.
Same with Naruto....cept not nearly as bad. I wish they would cast a male for Naruto's voice as his voice should have changed when he was 12. 😐
Originally posted by Demonic PhoenixWho doesn't beat Brian Drummond imo.
^ Doesn't beat Sabat's voice acting though imo.
But I actually like Gokou's Japanese VA.
I liked Ultimate Muscle's dub. Cowboy Bebop, and Samurai Champloo both are great dubs. I also liked Fist of the North Star's dub, and the original Akira dub.
Originally posted by Kento
I liked Ultimate Muscle's dub. Cowboy Bebop, and Samurai Champloo both are great dubs. I also liked Fist of the North Star's dub, and the original Akira dub.
Yeah, I liked FotNS Kenshiro's voice. I liked the bruce lee sounds he made. Lame, I know...but, I'm a nerd like that.