[Frozen]

Originally posted by Vicious_2003
Most people who concider themselves hardcore anime fans pride themselves in watching untouched originals in Jappanese. Makes them feel like there REAL fans.

As with some games, I do not consider myself a fan, however I love anime.

For one thing, dubbing animes changes partially, (and sadly, almost completely, some times, mostly in Dragon Ball) the content and context of what is said.

As an example, in "Samurai X" they can horribly change what Kenshin means in what he says, for example:

Shinsen-Gumi soldiers are infront of him. He tells them something like: "Let's not fight, and you will live"

But then the dub changes it to: "Leave, or die"

Even though both sentences lead to the same message in the end, what he originally said was a peaceful warning, meaning that if they left him alone no one would have trouble, in the dub it was changed in order to sound like a threat, instead of a warning: "Get out of my way, or I'll kill you". That, right there, changes the character's personality on a great deal. Instead of sounding like the wandering swordsman Kenshin wants to become in that precise moment of his life, they made him sound no less like the assassin he's trying to leave behind.

And this happens all the time with dubs. It makes me almost cry to see how they have ruined Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, when, for example, Gohan always treats Piccoro with utmost respect, his american-piece-of-shit-voice just refers to him as "Piccolo" instead of "Mr. Piccoro". Gohan is his disciple, he treats him as a master, but his english voive just gives him a casual tone which destroys that disciple-master addressing.

Even though it is needed to make the voice-dialogue a little bit shorter some times, or longer in other ocassions, as for it to fit the animation, they do not need to change the meaning of what is said, but htey do it all the time. Mostly they want it to sound "cool", "western" but they just fuck it up.

And my hopes go well along with meryl-chan's, I hope that Saint Seiya does well, however, my expectations are quite different: It's gonna sound like ass. But I can say nothing 'till I watch it.