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It just depends on who is doing the voices. Whats-her-name, Wendee Lee I think, goes back and forth between being good and bad depending on the character. Stepven Blum is pretty much always "that guy" which again, depends on the character type.

And I always like hearing Norio Wakamoto regardless of role. Does every villain well, and every comedy better.

I don't know, I don't really get hung up on it either way. It's been a long time since I heard a really bad dub, but there does seem to be one or two characters in a show that are never done well. I guess it comes with having such a small stable of voice actors that every company goes with. Or just bad direction.

Spike Spiegel/Shishio Makoto/Orochimaru/Eikichi Onizuka/Mugen from Samurai Champloo/Tom from Toonami and a host of other characters.

I hadn't watched a dub in so long that when I popped Baccano! into my DVD player, I couldn't recognize a single person. Good acting though, I liked the fact that American actually had accents to their voices. I generally prefer dubs, but I have little in the way of impulse control when it comes to anime (plus, a good chunk of it seemingly never comes over here) so I watch a lot of subs. If I like it, I generally try and buy it when it gets stateside though.

Ugh, why couldn't things work easier? No, we can't even get the truck till four. I wanted to be done moving out before then. confused

Crap. Fires in Leona Valley. I love Leona Valley so much. I hope they're okay. It's such a quaint town filled with lots of country hills and shrubbery. ): Plus it's near where I live. *gulp*


Edit: Gotta be the best article I've read in a while

How college is becoming a waste of money now. I think I'll get that book. It's so true.

Oh, no wonder. Kenshin is the only one of those shows I liked, and I was never very religious about watching it.



That's kinda what I was thinking about the Japanese schoolgirl thing. I don't know why the hell that would be considered "cute," but then, we've already established the Japanese are crazy.

I don't know if I even watch that many shows a year. It's more like I don't waste time seeking out subs. I only like a handful of shows that do get dubbed, so I don't really feel the desire to sift through the massive piles of s**t that don't get brought over to find the one or two gems that didn't.



And Haji. heart You know, I wish John Truitt actually did more VA work. I don't think he's ever done anything but Ghaleon for the Lunar series, but I always thought he had an awesome voice. And his outtakes were some of the funniest.

And I hear that a lot, about certain VA's being very friendly and the like. But I've never even been to a con, so... I think I may have liked to when I was in high school, but now I think I'd just be uncomfortable around all of the weirder fans. I'm not even talking about cosplayers - that looks fun as hell. But like, these people that can't seem to grasp that, cool as x series is, it isn't reality - yeah, they scare me.

Apparently Crispin does a series of lectures on themythology of anime, too. Looks interesting.

Coincidentally, FUNimation just put up a survey to find out what their customers (current and potential) actually want in their releases. It's questions about boxsets, DVD extras, included merch, Blu-Ray releases, and the like.

Yeah, it was his death scene. But I think he kept gagging, so whenever he would start again he would have to drink more milk.

And taking that survey just made me think of how good some dub releases are, and how terrible others are. I remember His and Her Circumstances actually being a pretty good release because it had a ton of interviews and notes and stuff. And people always bring up the Berserk outtakes.

I really hate it when I get a DVD of a show that I like and there is stuff cut out, or just not much there besides bare bones episodes. Then again, I'm one of those dudes who loves listening to commentary.