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Xenoblade Chronicles X felt “wrong” earlier this year just because its dub VAs are American. Even though the game has a city literally called New Los Angeles, the Xeno series... -
Having started watching anime in France, I recall that back in the day there was a small cast of VAs who dubbed everything and the voices became very familiar, like a kind of...
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If you're one of those people who like both versions then getting to watch each show twice with different takes on the characters is a great bonus! I watched Sailor Moon in...
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I can definitely identify hammy acting in Japanese, though a lot of norms differ wildly across the languages, and I can also identify great acting which moves me to tears. The...
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"Another element is that it's harder to spot bad acting in a language you don't speak. Cadence carries a lot, but aside from that there's only so much I can pick up from the...
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Dai replied to the thread What's the deal with dubbed anime?.There are a few factors at play here. First, there's a difference in cultural standards about what constitutes 'good' acting. Those of us in the UK have primarily grown up...
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It's weird, most western-made stuff with English voice acting sounds perfectly fine but a lot of anime and games specifically sound unnatural to me, even though I know the...
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Remember that the Japanese licensor will usually have the final say on the dub, so often the dub isn’t tuned to the.target audience, but what a Japanese producer thinks an... -
Dai replied to the thread Rate the Last Film You Watched.Mickey 17 Interstellar travel. Colonising another world. Aliens. Cloning. How is it possible for a movie containing all these things within the first half hour to be so boring...
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Super Electromagnetic Robot Combattler V - Episodes 46 - 54 [Final] Combattler V remained consistently good right up to the end, it's a real highlight of the Super Robot genre...
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Alderamin on the Sky (English) - Episode 5 (Dropped) This isn't a bad series by any means based off of the first five episodes but I don't think it's really for me and I don't...
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Dai replied to the thread The Gaming News Thread (for news that doesn't need a thread).I've made a few attempts to play The 3rd Birthday, but always get bored and give up within a couple of hours. The body-swapping combat sounds interesting on paper, but quickly...
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Dai reacted to Geriatric hedgehog's post in the thread The Gaming News Thread (for news that doesn't need a thread) with Like.
Ah that makes sense now, I always wondered why they dropped the PE moniker for that 3rd game, but the fact that Aya was an original character fits. Never did get to play that...
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As it’s October and they’re available via PS Premium I’m working my way through the PS1 Resident Evil titles (Director’s Cut/2/3) for the first time. The plan after this is...
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Dai replied to the thread The Gaming News Thread (for news that doesn't need a thread).The main roadblock for Parasite Eve is that Square never owned the IP. The first game is a sequel to a Japanese novel of the same name. That's the incident in Japan that you...