Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Japanese Anime: English Dub or Original Japanese Dub?

I am a huge Japanese Anime fan since I can remember. The first anime I remember watching was Robotech, (Macross in Japanese); Starblazers, (Space Battleship Yamato in Japanese); and Voltron.
All of these anime was in English dubbed, and at the time, I didn't really care, and still don't for these anime.
However, just recently I have been watching anime in its original Japanese Dub, and choosing to watch it with their original Japanese voice acting over the English voice acting.
Well it started with Naruto, it started airing on Cartoon Network, and at the time, they took ages to release episodes considering that in Japan at the time was at around episode 180.
Not to long after I started to watch Naruto in it's original Japanese voice acting, and right now I cannot stand watching Naruto in English! The English version of Naruto also trashed and messed the intro and ending credits with crap! The original Japanese intro and end credits are far superior in every way. However, later they did add the original Japanese intro song to the English version, but still screwing up the intro visuals.
Another anime called Bleach I can stand in English since the voice acting is done better then Naruto, but I still prefer to watch Bleach in Japanese.
That's the cool part of Japanese Anime DVD's is the choice to watch them in English or Japanese.
If the English voice acting is good, then I can tolerate it. However, in the end I will prefer the original Japanese dub.

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