(03-30-2015, 03:19 PM)allgivenover Wrote:It seems to me most of the people who picked sub in this thread understand at least a little Japanese or are used to picking subs.(03-30-2015, 02:21 AM)Ryoko Wrote: I have it on good authority that Japanese voice acting is just as much of a clusterfuck as it is in America. You have a handful of good voice actors who dominate the industry because they can do a wide range of voices really well, and everyone else is somewhere between decent and terrible.
This. The thing is western anime fans can't really hear the bad in the Japanese voice acting because most of them can't even identify well known seiyuu - let alone tell different voice actors apart - by voice alone or understand even 10% of what's being said, but believe me it's just as eye rolling and in many cases outright worse than the english.
If you can't understand it you are pretty much incapable of judging if it's actually good or not. It just seems better because you can't tell.
In my experience, those people who don't know anything about the JP industry or know any seiyuu by name usually pick dubs, and not the other way around.
You should consider also that the standards for what is considered normal voice acting for the industry are different. The JP audience observed that they preferred Bosch to Fukuyama for instance, because they felt his performance wasn't as 'exhausting.' Probably even less of them know how to speak English than there are English anime viewers who understand JP. There are plenty of people who feel similarly with JP performance vs English performance, and I think that's a perfectly valid reason to like it more. If it is "eyerolling" or overdramatic as you say, perhaps that is overacting to some and actually putting effort into your readings for others.
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