02-02-2003, 05:05 PM
I don't like dubs, but I can live with other people watching it that way. I think that the japanese voices ARE the character. In most cases they are hand picked by the creator of the show. In Cowboy Bebop's case the actors were picked by Shinichi Watanabe. Those were the voices that are those characters to him. When an anime comes to America they just get whoever they can to be in a show. They just have this "pool" of "talent" that they use on a regular basis. I guess it is all just a matter of opinion. In my eyes dubs ruin the show. They go, in most cases against what the creator had in mind. On a related note that is the reason we don't have any more Ranma games in america. Rumiko Takahashi heard the voices that VIZ used, and said "Never again".
?The louder he proclaimed his honor, the faster we counted the spoons.? - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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