Post by Principessa on Apr 24, 2004 12:32:15 GMT -5
Yeah... I have a slight hearing impairment and I always like subtitles, even in English movies. Plus I love foreign films, so subtitled anime is nothing new to me.
Actually I think, I really don't like English. It's odd to say, being a native English speaker, but English, to me, is such an ugly language compared to... everything else. I just like listening to the Japanese...
I also think that it's annoying how it seems in Japan that voice actors are high quality actors but in America they are not particularly high caliber anything (unless it's for a disney movie.) I also don't think English language va's take their work seriously--I was watching the cast interviews to Noir, both Japanese and English, and the English va's were really annoying people... I mean it's this incredibly serious, dark anime and the va's were just giggling like friends at a slumber party... wheras, while the Japanese va's were, although giggly and light at points, they tried to be deep at other points and were thanking the viewers and... I dunno I felt like the English VA's don't have respect for the work they do.
People are also liking of the first way they hear it, I think. I only heard the Inu-Yasha dub once and I hated it, being used to the Japanese, but I like the Escaflowne dub (heard it first) and I liked SOME of the Noir dub, and I don't mind the Gundam Wing dub... while some people hate these. Of course I'm a purist and all, so I listen in the origional language when I can, and I know I really have no right to be a purist until I learn Japanese, but... well, I'm working on it.
Actually I think, I really don't like English. It's odd to say, being a native English speaker, but English, to me, is such an ugly language compared to... everything else. I just like listening to the Japanese...
I also think that it's annoying how it seems in Japan that voice actors are high quality actors but in America they are not particularly high caliber anything (unless it's for a disney movie.) I also don't think English language va's take their work seriously--I was watching the cast interviews to Noir, both Japanese and English, and the English va's were really annoying people... I mean it's this incredibly serious, dark anime and the va's were just giggling like friends at a slumber party... wheras, while the Japanese va's were, although giggly and light at points, they tried to be deep at other points and were thanking the viewers and... I dunno I felt like the English VA's don't have respect for the work they do.
People are also liking of the first way they hear it, I think. I only heard the Inu-Yasha dub once and I hated it, being used to the Japanese, but I like the Escaflowne dub (heard it first) and I liked SOME of the Noir dub, and I don't mind the Gundam Wing dub... while some people hate these. Of course I'm a purist and all, so I listen in the origional language when I can, and I know I really have no right to be a purist until I learn Japanese, but... well, I'm working on it.
