[TV Shows] America Needs To Hire Japanese VAs in American Cartoons!

[JoeTang]

This is a terrible argument. American voice actors are fine. Futurama, Southpark, Family Guy, the Simpsons, American Dad, King of the Kill and all of those types of cartoon shows have perfectly fine voice acting. I don't see what the problem is.


Japanese voice actors would be a terrible idea - especially since you'd have to spend the time and money to teach them English. >_> Their accents would be atrocious without several years of experience with speaking English fluently. In fact, I find Japanese voice acting to be rather obnoxious way more often than I find any kind of American voice acting to be bad.


And to add to that, I could guarantee you Japanese voice acting only sounds good to you simply because it's in Japanese. If they were to spill out full fledged dialog in English, you will not like it at all. Even if they had a perfect American accent, their voice acting will still be the same as any American voice acting. The main reason people like to hear Japanese voice acting instead is because it's a foreign language that simply sounds cool, because it's different. There ARE some cases where the English dubs are terrible in comparison, but for the most part, it's simply because foreign languages sound cool.

You clearly just don't understand the sophistication that is Japanese animation.

[案山子]

Japanese Spongebob:

[JoeTang]

Japanese Spongebob:

Clearly superior. ALL HAIL GLORIOUS NIPPON!

[Smooth Criminal]

Well, since you brought that up, I like how both in your Japanese dub and this dub here, there's a bit of faith to the original voices. Spongebob's voice in Japanese isn't terribly far off, Mr. Krabs isn't half bad too; in Spanish, the Spongebob voice isn't exactly faithful but he nails some of the English voice actor's other aspects like when Spongebob pants in this scene, and this here Squidward is actually pretty good.

[Corn]

OH GOD, THAT PLANkTON AND PATRICK.

The Spongebob and Mr. Krabs were pretty good though.

[Link]

You clearly just don't understand the sophistication that is Japanese animation.

Apparently not.

[Blades4hire]

How many accounts does this guy need to make before people realize that all his threads are bad troll attempts?
They all follow the same format too.

[Rob]

Just to make a point in this awful thread, the Spanish ''neutral accent'' dubs are actually pretty good most of the time. Only for cartoons and 3D movies though. I can't stand real life movies at all.

The dubs for The Simpsons and Futurama are awesome. The Spongebob dub is awesome as well, I would say even better than the original English one. South Park is way better in english though, Family Guy too. It really depends on the voice actors doing that particular show.

On topic, the idea of having Japanese VAs for other shows is retarded.

[Razmos]

I loved Plankton being voiced by a typical female japanese voice actress. It actually fit really well in my eyes (ears?) haha, maybe that's because i watch so much anime.

[Dusk]

I thought this was a satirical thread, but knowing how many weeaboos frequent this site, I'm not sure o_o

[bracez]

This is a terrible argument. American voice actors are fine. Futurama, Southpark, Family Guy, the Simpsons, American Dad, King of the Kill and all of those types of cartoon shows have perfectly fine voice acting. I don't see what the problem is.

Yeah, but all other cartoons sounded way better in Japanese than in English. Whoever said English is better than Japanese is on drugs.

[Rob]

Yeah, but all other cartoons sounded way better in Japanese than in English. Whoever said English is better than Japanese is on drugs.

Japanese VAs kawaii desu ne~~

Stop it.

[Icho]

Yeah, but all other cartoons sounded way better in Japanese than in English. Whoever said English is better than Japanese is on drugs.

I think you're on drugs sir. I for one like both Jap. and English voice actors, but to say one is better then the other is just absurd. Especially since they are catering to completely different audiences.. but I guess if that's your opinion so be it... you are entitled to it..