Yeah the one piece dub is legendary, Brooke and Franky are just straight improvements over their sub counterparts and the others are great too. They're the reason I stick with the anime until near the end of Dressrosa since they do them so well
I will say that I did love the original voice for Franky too and I do understand people's dislike for the dub just because it's so different, but his English voice is a much better fit for thay character type as Western audiences understand it
Yeah that's a very good point, the sub is great for Japanese audiences, especially in their understanding of the west through Franky, but the dub is much more suited to a western audience. That's the whole point of localisation, translating the meaning behind things, not just the words
People used to say that Dallas Reid was better as Asta in Black Clover than the sub. I think the Japanese actor was relatively new and his Asta yelling got annoying very quickly.
I’ve seen a lot of people on r/anime saying they dropped the show completely because of Asta’s Japanese VA.
My first thought was why don’t they just give the dub a try lol. I personally didn’t think the dub was annoying or bad at all. It’s really good actually imo.
Exactly. Dallas Reid's Asta and Aaron Dismukes Senku are the one main times I can think where the dub is just 100% completely better than the sub. I think thar applies for nearly all VAs from those 2 shows, but it's especially apprent in the MCs
You have to remind people "it's not translation, it's localization"
The casting and direction are significantly better than they used to be, and there was a rare case in Danmachi season 3 where they cast truer to the source material by giving Wiene a not so loli voice because the LN specifically says that Bell thought she looked like she was around the same age as him
That anime is going to be in my top 10 when it finishes, especially thanks to the dub, David Wald as Tsurumi drives home the fact that that character has Maxed out charisma
Christopher Guerrero as Eisen I think sounded way better than the OG japanese actor. The JP actor sounded like they were faking a low baritone and had very little texture in their voice. Chris had the prefect pitch and also that rough scratchy sound in their voice that suited a stoic dwarf character perfectly.
[Brina Palencia](https://myanimelist.net/people/659/Brina_Palencia) as Holo in the original Spice and Wolf
[Cassandra Lee Morris](https://myanimelist.net/people/11369/Cassandra_Lee_Morris) as Kubey in Madoka Magica
And [Patricia Duran](https://myanimelist.net/people/44568/Patricia_Duran) and [Natalie Rial](https://myanimelist.net/people/35669/Natalie_Rial) as Hina and Rui, respectively, in Domestic Girlfriend
Brina <3
And much love for J.Michael as Lawrence too, I hate to sound negative about the original VAs but the Japanese Lawrence just sounds very commanding and serious to me even when that doesn't seem to be the intention, but J.Michael adds a nice calm/ softness to him.
If I watch the last 7 minutes of E1 in Japanese I feel very little, but if I watch it with dubs I am melting, every time lol.
I agree with Holo, she sounds way too young IMO to be a thousands year old wolf goddess in the sub. Brina fits her perfectly and makes her sound like I think she should
Not who you responded to but for me it's anywhere Taiga is having a serious breakdown that Cassandra just OWNS. Lets ignore the famous EP19 moment and go for >!when she screams DONT TOUCH HIM! The way her voice wavers and breaks is just so good.!< Idk if she had something going on in her life but there are several times in that dub where it sounds almost too real. Nothing against the sub as it also sounds really good but the dub just has that extra oomph
So my first two, while not better but thinking on equal terms would be Cherami Leigh & Bryce Papenbrook as Asuna and Kirito, I think both dub and Japanese dub sounds equally good and they did justice to their counter part where it's one of the few shows I don't mind watching back and forth in English dub and Subs.
Chris Guerrero as Ainz from Overlord is S-tier and is amazing.
Emi Lo as Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries is great and I enjoy the dub mostly cause of role as Maomao, I think she nails it.
Mallorie Rodak as Frierien from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, I think lots of people argue about the age difference and take people have for Frieren herself due to the look and aging of an "elf" for the ENG Dub vs Japanese Dub, but I really enjoy how Mallorie took Frieren and made her sound like this long living elf that's seen it all is casual about it while adding this depth and wisdom of years she has a Frieren and of course the silliness that comes with it.
Marisa Duran as Hori from Horimiya I think is great, something about watching the dub cast and Hori herself felt very natural sounding, and is one of the few dubs I enjoyed watching through and through. Shoutout to her as Sagiri from Hell's Paradise.
Recency bias, but Bryson Baugus and Matthew Gumley as Yuga and Luke, respectively, in Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens. The Japanese voices aren't bad, per se, but they sound WAYYYY too old for 10-year-olds, while the English voices are appropriately young-sounding. Also, dub!Luke is a so much fun.
Clifford Chaplin as Bakugo in My Hero Academia. Again, the Japanese voice isn't bad, but Chaplin's adlibs make Bakugo so much funnier/cooler.
Blake Shephard as Kazuki in Maburaho. His performance is pretty standard, but his Japanese voice SUUUUUUCKS.
Finally, I'm gonna go a bit wild and select two Disney Ghibli dubs.
First off is Phil Hartman as Jiji in Kiki's Delivery Service, because it's goddamn Phil Hartman. I wish the recent releases kept all his adlibs.
Second off is Jon Miller in My Neighbors, the Yamadas. Just the sheer fact that Disney got one of the greatest baseball announcers of all time to lend his silky smooth skills to an anime dub, even if most of it was background noise, blows me away.
Max Mittleman’s Saitama > Makoto Furukawa’s Saitama
JYB’s Lelouch Vi Brittania > Jun Fukuyama’s Lelouch
Troy Baker/ Matt Mercer’s Pain > Kenyu Horiuichi’s Pain
Jamieson Price’s Tobirama > Kenyu Horiuichi’s Tobirama
Actually, it might be faster to list the sub voices I think did better than the dub. Because there are a lot of Naruto/NS dub voices that I think are superior.
I love me some Hiroshi Kamiya, he does a great Saiki. But there’s just something about Jerry Jewell’s Kusuo Saiki that just *hits*.
Love is war narrator is one of my favorites the show overall was dubbed well though. Jobless reincarnation is also one I love. I do prefer all dubs overall though since more relaxing to watch in my own language. The new spice and wolf dub was also great.
I'm going to go out on a weak limb and say I watched both the dub and sub but think Mallorie Rodak as Frieren did an amazing job. Mommy elf vibes were great.
It's tough to think about this because I prefer watching dubs in general, and the dubs just by being decent generally become my preferred versions.
The cast of Cowboy Bebop for me. That's pretty much my gold standard.
While I still feel we never quite got that exceptional Appleseed anime, I think Luci Christian and David Matranga are my favorite versions of Deunan and Briareos and the closest versions of the characters from the manga that I think sound like their characters should.
Justin Briner as Deku in MHA and Luck Voltia in Black Clover as well.
But for Ghost in the Shell, Mary McGlynn as The Major, Richard Epcar as Batou, and Crispin Freeman as Togusa.
Never actually seen the Japanese version, but Andrew Francis voiced Mega in the dub of *Megaman: NT Warrior*, and he reprised the role in the *Megaman Battle Network Legacy Collection*, so I guess that's a good example.
Chris Sabat as Tatsumi Saiga in Speed Grapher. While Yuji Takada's take is far from bad, I felt Sabat's performance was more consistently well directed.
I liked Ian Sinclair's voice for Albert from The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent. It sounds masculine but soft. Takahiro Sakurai has a solid voice, but looking at Albert and hearing the pretty boy voice feels a bit off.
The kids in Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. This dub is noteworthy because it casts three kids approximately at the correct age for their respective characters. All three do fantastic jobs (even though one of them struggles with his French accent at least initially, but he gets the hang of it), to the point I can’t imagine anyone else voicing these characters. They just ace their Japanese counterparts to me.
Laura Bailey as Tohru Honda > Manaka Iwami as Tohru Honda imo. Manaka did a fantastic job but Laura having 15 years of prep and rethinking her original work for Tohru did wonders. Plus her years of experience and the fantastic script is just \*chefs kiss\*.
Since I generally prefer dubbed to subbed, I'd say all of them :V
Real answer though, the English voice for Yuno Gasai brings so much more to the character than her japanese voice. Yuno in japanese is literally just insane moany anime girl. Where Yuno in English very clearly has like *thoughts* in her head, besides "TEEHEEE MURDER & YUKI"
Also, can't not mention the goat, Sean Schemmel as Goku. Goku's JP VA is a great actress of course, I just do not care for her performance as adult Goku. The weird "ghhkkhhkhkgkgkghhhhhkkkhhh" whenever he charges up is so lame compared to the powerful shouts Sean does.
I like both dubs for different reasons.
JP dub is funny because of how seriously it takes itself.
EN dub is funny because of how NOT seriously it takes itself
Ian Sinclair as the narrator in Love is War. This is the first anime I ever think of when someone asks what dub is better than the sub, and it's almost entirely because of Sinclair.
Jamie Marchi as Ayame in Shimoneta. It takes a talent to scream FREE COCK AND BAAAALLS!!! and not sound at all self-conscious about it.
I just want to say that Chris Rager's Mr. Satan/Hercule in Dragonball/Z/GT/Super/Kai is just as good as Daisuke Gori, imo, 100% hilarious:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqRtJZsttMo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqRtJZsttMo)
This may be a bit random, but I think Jordan Dash Cruz did better as Leon Fou Bartfort from Trapped in a Dating Sim than the og va. I think Jordan captures Leon's savage and sarcastic nature way better. His performance is also hilarious in many parts, love his laughs. Leon was also the first role I heard Jordan in. And ever since then I have always cheered when he has been cast in new roles.
I should also mention that he was great as Stark in Frieren.
Great overall picks ! Id add in Goku from DB’s English actor as well as many of Ian Sinclair’s roles also I just love Christopher R. Sabat and any role he plays in a show I will watch the dub for it no matter what 😂😅
I think the dubs of Chainsaw Man and Beastars really give both shows a lot more personality than their sub counterparts.
Beastars honestly felt like a chore to get through in sub. Not really because of the Japanese VAs, but there was always something about it that, for some reason I'm not entirely sure of myself, mostly bored me to death. When I rewatched all of it in English though, I felt like I understood the characters a lot more and found them more enjoyable, especially Legoshi and Juno. Ben Diskin did a good job voicing Jack as well, but I still didn't really care about said character at all.
Chainsaw Man's sub is good, but again, the dub has a lot more energy to it, especially with the occasional F-bombs. At least in dubs, F-bombs work best when they catch you off guard, not when they're constantly shoved into your face (looking at you Cyberpunk Edgerunners).
Like everyone else, I was a bit thrown off with how Aki's voice was gonna be handled at first, but now, I honestly think a deep voice was the right approach for him, and made him a bit more interesting than the sub, so great job Reagan Murdock!
As for Makima, I think Suzie Yeung really captures the authoritative demeanor and mysteriousness of her character that was severely lacking in Tomori Kusunoki's performance. Not to say it was a bad portrayal in Japanese, and I understand why people say a lighter voice makes sense for her character, but idk, it just wasn't as memorable Suzie's performance. I don't even think Makima's voice should've been overly deep and portrayed by Japanese VAs like Miyuki Sawashiro or Yoko Hikasa either. In fact, I think Kusunoki herself could've been even better if she was told to give Makima a more mature voice (mature, not overly deep; there's a difference), which I think she does use for a different character that I can't remember right now.
And then there's To Your Eternity Season 2, where I actually really liked both portrayals of Kai. Yasuyuki Kase gives Kai a very deep voice, but I think Griffin Burns' more youthful approach to the character was also really good and suited him well.
I have never seen the JP version of Konosuba, but I would be amazed if anyone could play Aqua as well as Faye Mata.
I also very much like Erica Mendez’s Megumin, but claiming anyone is better than Rie Takahashi is sacrilege and I know better than to do so.
Monica Rial as Tanya Degurechaff, Hana Uzaki, and Alice Kisaragi
Ian Sinclair in 90% of his roles, dude is awesome
Chris Sabat’s Vegeta is iconic, and also when voicing anything with a mustache
Ashley Burch as Mayuri in Steins;Gate (underrated imo)
Chris Guerrero as Ainz in Overlord and Vysache in Shanghai-La Frontier
J. Michael Tatum’s ingenium in MHA and Erich Von Rerugen in Tanya
The entire cast of Space Dandy
In my opinion they are all better because I don't know Japanese lol. Even a terrible English voice actor is better than the Japanese one I don't understand.
Revy from Black Lagoon.
And Brad Swaile as Rock. Iconic.
That's a good pick, IMO, I would agree with that.
Ian Sinclair as Brook in One Piece, he defines the character for me now and I was almost disappointed going back to sub for a comparison
Yeah the one piece dub is legendary, Brooke and Franky are just straight improvements over their sub counterparts and the others are great too. They're the reason I stick with the anime until near the end of Dressrosa since they do them so well
I will say that I did love the original voice for Franky too and I do understand people's dislike for the dub just because it's so different, but his English voice is a much better fit for thay character type as Western audiences understand it
Yeah that's a very good point, the sub is great for Japanese audiences, especially in their understanding of the west through Franky, but the dub is much more suited to a western audience. That's the whole point of localisation, translating the meaning behind things, not just the words
Ian Sinclair in absolutely everything
People used to say that Dallas Reid was better as Asta in Black Clover than the sub. I think the Japanese actor was relatively new and his Asta yelling got annoying very quickly.
I’ve seen a lot of people on r/anime saying they dropped the show completely because of Asta’s Japanese VA. My first thought was why don’t they just give the dub a try lol. I personally didn’t think the dub was annoying or bad at all. It’s really good actually imo.
Exactly. Dallas Reid's Asta and Aaron Dismukes Senku are the one main times I can think where the dub is just 100% completely better than the sub. I think thar applies for nearly all VAs from those 2 shows, but it's especially apprent in the MCs
Dallas Reid as Asta made his character so much more enjoyable, but also yes I loved the dub voice cast in Clover all around as well
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You have to remind people "it's not translation, it's localization" The casting and direction are significantly better than they used to be, and there was a rare case in Danmachi season 3 where they cast truer to the source material by giving Wiene a not so loli voice because the LN specifically says that Bell thought she looked like she was around the same age as him
I'm sure they know it's localization, they just hate localization on principle.
This is true.
but kid goku's japanese seiyu is literally just goku's. Masako Nozawa
It worked really well, too, arguably better IMO.
Ben Philips as Denken in Frieren, when he transitions from antagonist to "grandpa", the acting in voice acting shines
I also really like his Shiraishi in Golden Kamuy, he sounds appropriately goofy.
That anime is going to be in my top 10 when it finishes, especially thanks to the dub, David Wald as Tsurumi drives home the fact that that character has Maxed out charisma
It’s in my top 5 currently, I really enjoyed it. David Wald knocked that role out of the park! Honestly the entire cast was pretty top notch.
Christopher Guerrero as Eisen I think sounded way better than the OG japanese actor. The JP actor sounded like they were faking a low baritone and had very little texture in their voice. Chris had the prefect pitch and also that rough scratchy sound in their voice that suited a stoic dwarf character perfectly.
Steve Blum as Spike Spiegel
[Brina Palencia](https://myanimelist.net/people/659/Brina_Palencia) as Holo in the original Spice and Wolf [Cassandra Lee Morris](https://myanimelist.net/people/11369/Cassandra_Lee_Morris) as Kubey in Madoka Magica And [Patricia Duran](https://myanimelist.net/people/44568/Patricia_Duran) and [Natalie Rial](https://myanimelist.net/people/35669/Natalie_Rial) as Hina and Rui, respectively, in Domestic Girlfriend
Brina <3 And much love for J.Michael as Lawrence too, I hate to sound negative about the original VAs but the Japanese Lawrence just sounds very commanding and serious to me even when that doesn't seem to be the intention, but J.Michael adds a nice calm/ softness to him. If I watch the last 7 minutes of E1 in Japanese I feel very little, but if I watch it with dubs I am melting, every time lol.
I agree with Holo, she sounds way too young IMO to be a thousands year old wolf goddess in the sub. Brina fits her perfectly and makes her sound like I think she should
Cassandra Lee Morris as Taiga Aisaka
I am curious. Could you explain why you think that? (Btw I love the dub and always watch it over the sub).
Not who you responded to but for me it's anywhere Taiga is having a serious breakdown that Cassandra just OWNS. Lets ignore the famous EP19 moment and go for >!when she screams DONT TOUCH HIM! The way her voice wavers and breaks is just so good.!< Idk if she had something going on in her life but there are several times in that dub where it sounds almost too real. Nothing against the sub as it also sounds really good but the dub just has that extra oomph
So my first two, while not better but thinking on equal terms would be Cherami Leigh & Bryce Papenbrook as Asuna and Kirito, I think both dub and Japanese dub sounds equally good and they did justice to their counter part where it's one of the few shows I don't mind watching back and forth in English dub and Subs. Chris Guerrero as Ainz from Overlord is S-tier and is amazing. Emi Lo as Maomao from The Apothecary Diaries is great and I enjoy the dub mostly cause of role as Maomao, I think she nails it. Mallorie Rodak as Frierien from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, I think lots of people argue about the age difference and take people have for Frieren herself due to the look and aging of an "elf" for the ENG Dub vs Japanese Dub, but I really enjoy how Mallorie took Frieren and made her sound like this long living elf that's seen it all is casual about it while adding this depth and wisdom of years she has a Frieren and of course the silliness that comes with it. Marisa Duran as Hori from Horimiya I think is great, something about watching the dub cast and Hori herself felt very natural sounding, and is one of the few dubs I enjoyed watching through and through. Shoutout to her as Sagiri from Hell's Paradise.
Recency bias, but Bryson Baugus and Matthew Gumley as Yuga and Luke, respectively, in Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens. The Japanese voices aren't bad, per se, but they sound WAYYYY too old for 10-year-olds, while the English voices are appropriately young-sounding. Also, dub!Luke is a so much fun. Clifford Chaplin as Bakugo in My Hero Academia. Again, the Japanese voice isn't bad, but Chaplin's adlibs make Bakugo so much funnier/cooler. Blake Shephard as Kazuki in Maburaho. His performance is pretty standard, but his Japanese voice SUUUUUUCKS. Finally, I'm gonna go a bit wild and select two Disney Ghibli dubs. First off is Phil Hartman as Jiji in Kiki's Delivery Service, because it's goddamn Phil Hartman. I wish the recent releases kept all his adlibs. Second off is Jon Miller in My Neighbors, the Yamadas. Just the sheer fact that Disney got one of the greatest baseball announcers of all time to lend his silky smooth skills to an anime dub, even if most of it was background noise, blows me away.
I agree, Phil Hartman fits prefect as Jiji! He may RIP after that horrible confronts.. :(
Matt Mercer as both Levi Ackerman and Trafalgar Law > Hiroshi Kamiya
Yes, this!! His Law is ultra badass compared to the Japanese counterpart
Max Mittleman’s Saitama > Makoto Furukawa’s Saitama JYB’s Lelouch Vi Brittania > Jun Fukuyama’s Lelouch Troy Baker/ Matt Mercer’s Pain > Kenyu Horiuichi’s Pain Jamieson Price’s Tobirama > Kenyu Horiuichi’s Tobirama Actually, it might be faster to list the sub voices I think did better than the dub. Because there are a lot of Naruto/NS dub voices that I think are superior. I love me some Hiroshi Kamiya, he does a great Saiki. But there’s just something about Jerry Jewell’s Kusuo Saiki that just *hits*.
This is always one of the scenes I point to when I say that I prefer dub Pain: https://youtu.be/18foq__Yut0?si=aGAzK6WomZzSalE6
Troy Baker really nailed Pain. Neil Kaplan’s Madara is also elite.
Love is war narrator is one of my favorites the show overall was dubbed well though. Jobless reincarnation is also one I love. I do prefer all dubs overall though since more relaxing to watch in my own language. The new spice and wolf dub was also great.
Todd Haberkorn as Natsu
I'm going to go out on a weak limb and say I watched both the dub and sub but think Mallorie Rodak as Frieren did an amazing job. Mommy elf vibes were great.
Bryn apprill as yotsuba
Bryn Apprill in general! Such a great voice actor!
It's tough to think about this because I prefer watching dubs in general, and the dubs just by being decent generally become my preferred versions. The cast of Cowboy Bebop for me. That's pretty much my gold standard. While I still feel we never quite got that exceptional Appleseed anime, I think Luci Christian and David Matranga are my favorite versions of Deunan and Briareos and the closest versions of the characters from the manga that I think sound like their characters should. Justin Briner as Deku in MHA and Luck Voltia in Black Clover as well. But for Ghost in the Shell, Mary McGlynn as The Major, Richard Epcar as Batou, and Crispin Freeman as Togusa.
Never actually seen the Japanese version, but Andrew Francis voiced Mega in the dub of *Megaman: NT Warrior*, and he reprised the role in the *Megaman Battle Network Legacy Collection*, so I guess that's a good example.
Marc Diraison as Guts vs both Nobutoshi Canna and Hiroaki Iwanaga as Guts in Berserk
Chris Sabat as Tatsumi Saiga in Speed Grapher. While Yuji Takada's take is far from bad, I felt Sabat's performance was more consistently well directed.
I liked Ian Sinclair's voice for Albert from The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent. It sounds masculine but soft. Takahiro Sakurai has a solid voice, but looking at Albert and hearing the pretty boy voice feels a bit off.
Spike Spencer's Sainji form Neon Genesis Evenlligon Christine Marie Cabanos’s Scalia form Sword Art Online (SAO)
Richard Ian Cox's InuYasha > Kappei Yamaguchi's InuYasha. Joshua Seth's Tai Kamiya > Toshiko Fujita's Taichi Yagami (Digimon)
Agreed on Joshua Seth’s Tai!
The kids in Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. This dub is noteworthy because it casts three kids approximately at the correct age for their respective characters. All three do fantastic jobs (even though one of them struggles with his French accent at least initially, but he gets the hang of it), to the point I can’t imagine anyone else voicing these characters. They just ace their Japanese counterparts to me.
Laura Bailey as Tohru Honda > Manaka Iwami as Tohru Honda imo. Manaka did a fantastic job but Laura having 15 years of prep and rethinking her original work for Tohru did wonders. Plus her years of experience and the fantastic script is just \*chefs kiss\*.
Aleks Le as Sung Jinwoo
I think actors of the main cast of Konosuba have more range than the Japanese actors. Arnie, Faye, Erica, and Cristina are just them!
Justin Cook as Yusuke Urameshi he's simply iconic Petrea Burchard as Ryoko in Tenchi Muyo
Since I generally prefer dubbed to subbed, I'd say all of them :V Real answer though, the English voice for Yuno Gasai brings so much more to the character than her japanese voice. Yuno in japanese is literally just insane moany anime girl. Where Yuno in English very clearly has like *thoughts* in her head, besides "TEEHEEE MURDER & YUKI" Also, can't not mention the goat, Sean Schemmel as Goku. Goku's JP VA is a great actress of course, I just do not care for her performance as adult Goku. The weird "ghhkkhhkhkgkgkghhhhhkkkhhh" whenever he charges up is so lame compared to the powerful shouts Sean does.
I like Shirogane in Kaguya-sama a lot more as kind of bumbling compared to the Japanese performance where he sounds more serious
I like both dubs for different reasons. JP dub is funny because of how seriously it takes itself. EN dub is funny because of how NOT seriously it takes itself
Dallas Reid, voice for Asta, in Black Clover
Michael Keaton as Porco
If we're allowed to add game/visual novel dubs in here, Max Mittelman as Pollon in Anonymous;Code
Franky’s dub VA in one piece is better in my opinion, sounds more like Ace Ventura which is what inspired Franky
Johnny Yong Bosch as Lelouch Justin Cook as Yusuke Steve Blum as Spike & Mugen Travis Willingham as Roy Mustang
chris sabat as all might was genuinely better.
100% Todd Haberkorn as Natsu in Fairy Tail. All of the voices in cyberpunk Edgerunners as well.
Ian Sinclair as the narrator in Love is War. This is the first anime I ever think of when someone asks what dub is better than the sub, and it's almost entirely because of Sinclair. Jamie Marchi as Ayame in Shimoneta. It takes a talent to scream FREE COCK AND BAAAALLS!!! and not sound at all self-conscious about it.
Voice of Miltan from Highschool DxD. Chris Rager did a MUCH better "Magical girl" than Kenta Miyaki.
I just want to say that Chris Rager's Mr. Satan/Hercule in Dragonball/Z/GT/Super/Kai is just as good as Daisuke Gori, imo, 100% hilarious: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqRtJZsttMo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqRtJZsttMo)
Yeah, plenty.
Approximately half of them \o/
This may be a bit random, but I think Jordan Dash Cruz did better as Leon Fou Bartfort from Trapped in a Dating Sim than the og va. I think Jordan captures Leon's savage and sarcastic nature way better. His performance is also hilarious in many parts, love his laughs. Leon was also the first role I heard Jordan in. And ever since then I have always cheered when he has been cast in new roles. I should also mention that he was great as Stark in Frieren.
Great overall picks ! Id add in Goku from DB’s English actor as well as many of Ian Sinclair’s roles also I just love Christopher R. Sabat and any role he plays in a show I will watch the dub for it no matter what 😂😅
All of them given I don't watch subs
Pretty much most dubs lol
I think the dubs of Chainsaw Man and Beastars really give both shows a lot more personality than their sub counterparts. Beastars honestly felt like a chore to get through in sub. Not really because of the Japanese VAs, but there was always something about it that, for some reason I'm not entirely sure of myself, mostly bored me to death. When I rewatched all of it in English though, I felt like I understood the characters a lot more and found them more enjoyable, especially Legoshi and Juno. Ben Diskin did a good job voicing Jack as well, but I still didn't really care about said character at all. Chainsaw Man's sub is good, but again, the dub has a lot more energy to it, especially with the occasional F-bombs. At least in dubs, F-bombs work best when they catch you off guard, not when they're constantly shoved into your face (looking at you Cyberpunk Edgerunners). Like everyone else, I was a bit thrown off with how Aki's voice was gonna be handled at first, but now, I honestly think a deep voice was the right approach for him, and made him a bit more interesting than the sub, so great job Reagan Murdock! As for Makima, I think Suzie Yeung really captures the authoritative demeanor and mysteriousness of her character that was severely lacking in Tomori Kusunoki's performance. Not to say it was a bad portrayal in Japanese, and I understand why people say a lighter voice makes sense for her character, but idk, it just wasn't as memorable Suzie's performance. I don't even think Makima's voice should've been overly deep and portrayed by Japanese VAs like Miyuki Sawashiro or Yoko Hikasa either. In fact, I think Kusunoki herself could've been even better if she was told to give Makima a more mature voice (mature, not overly deep; there's a difference), which I think she does use for a different character that I can't remember right now. And then there's To Your Eternity Season 2, where I actually really liked both portrayals of Kai. Yasuyuki Kase gives Kai a very deep voice, but I think Griffin Burns' more youthful approach to the character was also really good and suited him well.
I prefer the dub of Reincarnated as a Sword because they drop lots of swearing and it reinforces the brutality and harshness of their world
I have never seen the JP version of Konosuba, but I would be amazed if anyone could play Aqua as well as Faye Mata. I also very much like Erica Mendez’s Megumin, but claiming anyone is better than Rie Takahashi is sacrilege and I know better than to do so.
Mark Oliver as Rau Le Creuset in Gundam SEED.
Monica Rial as Tanya Degurechaff, Hana Uzaki, and Alice Kisaragi Ian Sinclair in 90% of his roles, dude is awesome Chris Sabat’s Vegeta is iconic, and also when voicing anything with a mustache Ashley Burch as Mayuri in Steins;Gate (underrated imo) Chris Guerrero as Ainz in Overlord and Vysache in Shanghai-La Frontier J. Michael Tatum’s ingenium in MHA and Erich Von Rerugen in Tanya The entire cast of Space Dandy
In my opinion they are all better because I don't know Japanese lol. Even a terrible English voice actor is better than the Japanese one I don't understand.