Lmao every time someone is like "But Madoka Magica looks cute how can this be dark???'' I'm just like ''Please at least watch up to episode 3. I don't care. just. episode 3''. xD
Quote: Sky-Glaceon10Quote: DarkCynder_543snip
^I agree with this. I mean not all dubs are bad, and the dubs that you've listed are examples of dubbing done really well. Like I can't watch Soul Eater subbed because I like the dub so much and I just prefer it over the subbed version. All of the English voices suit the characters really well (especially Soul, Maka and Kid's voices) and I have nothing to complain about the dubs for Durarara, Fullmetal Alchemist & Cowboy Bebop. Ouran High School Host Club also has a really great dub as well and I never watch it subbed lol. But not all dubs are that great though, I mean I've seen some really bad dubs and some anime I can't even watch dubbed (Clannad, Attack on Titan, Madoka Magica), so when it comes to dubs it just really depends on what anime it is. Some are terrible and some are even as equally as good as the sub, or even in some cases better.
Quote: DarkCynder_543
snip.
I'm really glad that someone else thinks the same way because I hate Soul Eater NOT an awful lot too. I read two volumes of the manga before the anime got adapted and I couldn't even finish it. I mean...in Soul Eater NOT they tried to make every single character look like K-On characters and tried to make everything as cutesy and moe as possible, which isn't what Soul Eater's like at all. I mean I get that SEN is meant to be a spinoff, but it could've at least made the art style somewhat similar to the original. The animation was pretty flat too, and I was rather surprised because Bones usually does pretty top-notch animation. I pretty much dislike it for all of the reasons that you've just listed and I was rather disappointed in Bones for animating Soul Eater NOT instead of doing a remake of the original Soul Eater anime. :/ But then again, the last chapter for the Soul Eater manga was a massive let down and I don't think I'd wanna see it animated along with a few other chapters, so yeah, I completely agree with you on that as well.
Yeah Ouran is another good example where I prefer the dub over the sub. Vic just suits Tamaki so well, and same goes with the other characters. Toradora is another good dub that comes to mind. And sometimes I prefer the dub because I admit that sometimes the high pitched Japanese girl voice annoys me at times, so I like how some dubs make them sound less high pitched (Shana comes to mind. I love her dubbed voice). And yeah I do agree that there are some terrible dubs out there, like the Higurashi dub. It just annoys me when people dis the ones that are actually good. It's like, do you even know what an actual terrible dub sounds like or are you just trolling?? Ok I know that people have their own opinions but it still gets annoying you know? xD
It's also annoys me when sub fans hate on dubs in general, saying they're all bad, when like what I said before, there are a lot of brilliant dubs out there despite the loads of terrible ones.
And I agree. I loved Soul Eater for it's 'Halloween' style, and I hate how it was changed to the moe look in SE NOT. Apparently the manga doesn't have this different style, but I'm still not reading it because I just don't want to waste time on something that I will more than likely not enjoy (I know I won't enjoy it even if the art style hasn't changed, because it's the fact that it's a shoujo that bothers me).
There is one thing that has always bothers me about SE though, and it's the fact that it's called Soul Eater despite Soul not being the main protagonist. I understand that the author wasn't meant to name it after Soul and the title actually represents something else (which I forgot lol), but then it's like, why use Soul's soul as the logo than instead of a different soul? The title was missleading for me because of the fact that Soul's soul is used as the logo. xD