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Subject: Re: Ok, on a lighter note...

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Daniel

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Date Posted: 09:03:25 05/02/03 Fri
In reply to: Chichiri 's message, "Re: Ok, on a lighter note..." on 06:47:16 05/02/03 Fri

>I actually think part of it is caused by the way
>Japanese is spoken, rather than being totally the
>fault of the English voice actors. Try to imagine
>people saying those lines in English with the same
>kind of emotion that they have in Japanese. Many
>times I think that if they were speaking English
>instead, it'd come off as sounding silly because
>English speaking people would not put the same degree
>(or type) of emotion into the same line. In short I
>think it's almost impossible to dub an anime in
>English with the exact same emotions for the exact
>same lines and have it sound natural.
>
>The second thing to keep in mind is that Japanese
>don't care if the lip syncing is perfect, while
>English speaking people are a lot more picky about
>that. Obviously this is going to make the actor's job
>of making the dialog sound natural and emotional that
>much harder.
>
>Of course, because the voice actors are not top rate
>like they are in Japan does have some effect on the
>quality of the dubs.
>
>*snip remainder*
>
>Chichiri

Totally 100% agree. I am glad you brought this up. I am a bit shocked that person on animenewsnetwork.com said that the Japanese *don't* have more talented voice actors and that was an assumption. Kind of makes sense since they get paid more and have been doing it longer (sigh).

As for lip sync, yeah I've been to a couple panels where they admit they cut lines to match the lips. Although I can see this as understandable, they are still cutting things out..things that I don't think they have the right to cut out.

-Daniel

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