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LiveandSound wrote: Phantomlink959 wrote: something tells me it's gonna go over about as well as dubbing anime into english usually does That's...usually done averagely. The USA is not the place to go to if you want your anime to be dubbed. Not so sure about England's dubbing quality.

Though there are some good english dubs in some cases. Especially since 4Kids is dead.

But still, the single best dubbing in the world belongs to Latinamerica. Great amount of passion and effort are put into it. Even in the worst of animes, the VAs put their all into their roles and give a more-than-satisfying result. Our dubs are as good as the original Japanese VAs in some cases. I have a feeling the dub will be good in Japan (Voice Acting is an art form there, when a bunch of high profile VA's made fun of a newb at a con, the populace was shocked).

As for American dubs, they're mostly edited to fit our culture a little more and make things more entertaining via relateability, typically in subtle ways we don't notice (this is known as Woolseyism, favoring the catchy and iconic "Who Watches the Watchmen?" over the cumbersome "who keeps after the custodians?"). 4Kids was hit or miss. Sonic X is one of my favorites and their VA's replaced the main games' VA's (despite problems), where as One Piece is considered pig-shit and downright annoying.