Dubs vs. Subs

[zibo]

I have to agree, some animes have really well dont dubbing, some don't. I really hate naruto dubs, especialy Narutos his voice is well annoying.

Personaly I prefer subs, but dubbing is cool when they have good voice actors.

[complich8]

To add to the list of decent-to-good dubs, the original Dragonball series English dubs felt remarkably fitting, to me. DBZ was pretty bad though.

But yeah, dubs are definitely hit-or-miss. There's little consistency across series, and it seems like a lot of English voice actors just don't seem to be able to express the range of emotions and expressions and moods that Japanese VA's usually do.

I think that a lot of voice acting work in the US is unappreciated. Like, in Japan, a voice actor is generally well known just for being a voice actor, and the VA talent pool is fairly broad. In the US, it seems to be more like the VA talent pool is extremely small, and a lot of voice work is done by famous actors/actresses who already have well-known non-voice personas, and then they get recruited to lend their persona's characteristics to a similar character.

Not to say there isn't a very good, very dedicated US voice acting talent pool. Just that that's often extremely underappreciated, and it's very small in comparison.