The issue with a lot of dubbing is that the tonal quality of voices, particularly female voices, is so very different in Japan compared to the US. While living up to Megumi Hayashibara's standard is pretty much impossible, once she really found the character, AWL makes for a pretty good Rei. Amanda Winn Lee as Rei is an interesting case. At the start, its such a typical anime dub voice that she uses, but as the character gets fleshed out more, she begins to use more subtlety, and you can really feel her humanity. I think the best example of this is Allison Keith as Misato. But after that, some characters end up really growing into the roles. Most of the acting for the first few episodes is downright awful. There will always be a soft spot for the ADV dub in my heart. So despite me just venting on all the things about the dub I didn't like, I still think its tolerable and sometimes gives me a better experience for particular episodes. I'd default to subs, but I could still tolerate watching EoE dubbed if I had to. Despite the fact that the Soldiers don't sound like they're even trying, Makoto sounds black, and Aoba & Maya just sound poor. I'm aware of some of the MANGA edits and additions which can easily ruin the seriousness of some scenes, but I enjoy the performances done for all the main characters. End of Eva is a weird case for me though. So I can at least watch an episode with everyone else and enjoy it. I think the main cast did a good job, with the exception of the fore mentioned I disliked. Despite that however, I still see many other episodes as personally better when dubbed, or at least not painful. Also the performances done for the Bridge Bunnies, Toji, and Kawarou are really really bad.
Some of the lines are screamed for no reason when a character isn't doing much and occasionally we get some instances of really crappy audio mixing. That episode (19) along with 20, 18, and 17 are unbearable dubbed. I think part of it might have been the ADV voice actor having the most unfitting performance of Kaji I think I'll ever hear.
When I read that subbed however, I didn't cringe.or laugh, I just acknowledged it being there and moved on. In episode 19, Kaji says the line, "although I'd rather be between Misato's mellons." Which I thought was so painful and unfunny for a cool character like him, I actually cringed a little. "are you riding his baloney pony?" "Oh man, I hope shes got a great butt!" Immature as they are, I found them funny.but thats a good segway into things I didn't like about the dub. 25 and 26 feature good enough acting so as I'm still immersed in the action and I actually like some of lines in the alternate universe from episode 26. Then theres things like 21 and 23 which I genuinely think has the actors doing a pretty decent job in their roles. Same for Episode 22, Asuka's mind rape and progression through the episode seemed a lot heavier when I heard Tiffany Grant screaming consistently. When I watched it subbed, it didn't feel the same during heavier scenes.
Evangelion spike spencer rant series#
Episode 16 was the first episode in the series where I got legitimately hooked on Eva, before that, it was just something good to watch while I fell asleep. Which pertains more-so to scenes where characters are freaking the fuck out, as I feel it comes across a lot better when I'm listening to it than reading it. But then there were certain episodes where I actually missed the English VOs. When I got them, I went through them all subbed, which I now consider to be the ideal way to watch this show. For Christmas, I was gifted with the entire DVD collection of NGE, excluding the first one and the director's cut which I already owned. I remember thinking the acting was pretty damn terrible in the first three or four episodes and then having it grow on me sometime after Asuka was introduced.
Evangelion spike spencer rant torrent#
About a year ago, for the first time, I sat down and watched my torrent of NGE and EoE Dubbed.
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