Japanese? or rather English? - Page 3

Mizu La-La Profile · February 26, 2007, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Faith

I prefer English. For one, I hate subtitles and another I can actually understand what they're saying. Each voice actor's voice was fine to me.

I agree with that. English for me, all the way. I can't understand a word of japanese, and concentrating on those subtitles just keeps me from fully enjoying the action.

I do admit, the japanese voice actors do put alot more work into it, but I can't understand them, so it gets really aggrivating.

April 10, 2007, 10:22 PM

I like it best in English, but I bet if it was in Korean I would love it even more...well it depends on the voice actors.

April 11, 2007, 2:59 PM

I liked the English a lot better. I'm not really a fan of sub titles, I spend more time reading than I do watching the movie.

April 18, 2007, 4:18 AM

i like it in japanese because i learn japanese at the same time.

April 18, 2007, 5:08 AM

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Originally Posted by The Legendary Wullfe

In my personal opinion, often times, the English voiceovers are worse. You see, the Japanese have a different culture. In their country, voice actors are held in far higher regard than those in America. Here, where they're pretty much inconsequential and unknown, over there, the actors/ actresses have hordes of fans, products, articles and even their own face time. As such, the quality of their work is much greater than that of American actors. The effort they put in alone is much greater that of their American counterparts. There's a whole other variety of factors which contribute to the Japanese superiority over American voice acting, which we will eventually undoubtedly come to discuss in this thread.

For now, that's my two cents.

Yep, totally agree with everything he said.

Another factor was I DLd the japanese version before the enllish version came out, and I had watched it 4 times before I saw the english version.

Second, Im learning japanese so its good practice for me.

Third, I honestly thought that all the american voices were very wooden and generic. I dont think any of the american voice actors ever played the game and it kind of showed.

April 18, 2007, 5:23 AM

I'd prefer the Japanese Version. I've seen the English and the voices are not that good.

April 18, 2007, 7:34 PM

I didn't watch the movie for quality voice acting, I watched because I wanted to know what the movie was about. I saw one of the first fan-subbings of the japanese version, and it was very tough to understand.

April 18, 2007, 9:23 PM

I have noticed with this movie I catch a lot more of whats going on when I have it in english. I never realized how some of the scenes looked when I watched it in Japanese because I'm always reading the subtitles

April 18, 2007, 9:29 PM

Purely on the subject of Advent Children I'd have to say Japanese, I just feel that the voices were much better suited to their characters in the JP version. Also, reading subtitles has never been too much of a problem for me, and I've done a bit of Japanese studies between Night School and University. The English version wasn't too bad, except that Kadaj, Loz and the other guy's voices irritated me quite a bit. Props for Cait Sith gaining a Scottish accent once they got on the Highwind though!

April 21, 2007, 5:00 PM

I've watched the movie quite a few times in Japanese wuth English sub titles and I like it just as much as watching it in English audio, so I won't vote because I like both the same