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Anonymous
Nothing you do will change the state of VActing short of either A) throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into building VA schools, and B) somehow getting the whole industry to care. 2 out of 3 dubs I've dared to listen to have VA's who sound like they're fucking rehearsing backstage for a high school summer musical. Atrocious doesn't even begin to describe it.
But some VA works aren't half bad, I have to admit. For example, some parts of GTO, most of Cowboy Bebop, ya know, the really serious shows. The big corps really do pay attention to the tone and atmosphere of the original work and try to emulate it, instead of fucking making Americans speak in a way that's completely unnatural for the language.
And is LS one of those serious, worthy shows? Hells no. Half of the fun was listening to the VA's talk.
And don't give me that crap about the JP audio/Eng sub on all DVDs. They either have big, ugly ass fonts for watching from 10 feet away on a TV, or tiny ass white ones that're just superimposed on the bottom, and when more than 1 character speaks or there're signs or anything else that needs subbing, the words overlap all over each other. Not to mention they never seem to point out the nuances or puns from the original, not to mention contents of signs, letters, forms, anything writtern/visual, etc. I sometimes wonder why they even bother to pander to the select few who prefer dubs. Have their standards really sunk that low?
Now, the funny thing is, a lot of games have fair to good VActing. Is it because they're more realistic or just easier to VA with English tonality and emphasis?
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