A huge amount of seiyuu in Japan sees the job as ‘a …

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Comment on Ika Musume – The Invader Speaks English! by Shippoyasha:

A huge amount of seiyuu in Japan sees the job as ‘a job’ and to make it as a voice actor in the West, one has to go out of their way to get through individual auditions since the voice acting studios are not as coordinated or as involved as it is with the Japanese system.

Some legendary voice actors in the west had to had some divine intervention or do a ton of work just to get recognize. I’m not liking how people have to drag the actors through the mud just because the overall quality of dubbing isn’t as good as it can be. But when it does with some videogames and anime, it can very well surpass the original.

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• Ika Musume – The Invader Speaks English!:
  

  My Little Pony seriously might have the best English dubbing for a cartoon show I’ve seen in a long time. And that show magically pulls off the ‘cute voice’ just fine. Because they don’t force the Japanese jokes + all the jokes are from American/Canadian culture.

• Ika Musume – The Invader Speaks English!:
  

  That is what I don’t get. What’s so prickling everyone with the whole dubbing hate? Westerners should generally be glad they get content at half or even third the price (or in the case of boxset Blurays, it can run up to about $600 equivalent in Japan and you can get the same episodes for $35 in America. It can be really crazy sometimes). And like someone said before, it’s just the difference of the size of the market and the talent that has been organized to make it run smoother. A lot of …

• Ika Musume – The Invader Speaks English!:
  

  Tara Strong is probably one of the very best voice actresses in the entire world. You can’t deny she has an incredibly versatile voice. She’s one of those voice actors like Houko Kuwashima who can easily play the squeaky voice girls to mature sounding ones to nerdy/emo/gothic to male voices. And there’s many English voice actors whose tonality is quite unique in that nobody quite sounds like them. There’s a huge depth of talent out there. Just because they aren’t being utilized perfectly doesn …

• Ika Musume – The Invader Speaks English!:
  

  I find English dubbing to be fairly decently cast compared to some videos of dubbing 10, 20 years ago. I don’t get why the anime fandom has to raise such a stink over it. Change the language options. Done.

• Ika Musume – The Invader Speaks English!:
  

  And to think I used to look up to people who had those levels of rudimentary Engrish.

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