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After the talk from the Pokemon and Sailor Moon actors, we'll listen to some talk about voice actors from fans at the Canadian National Anime Expo. From left to right, here's Michelle, James and Ferdinand. As with any sport or art form, fans have their opinions about voice acting, and the convention decided to hear their feelings about the never ending sub-versus-dub debate. Most of the panel comments were in favor of subs and critical of dubs. |
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James wonders why dub companies use the same actors over and over again. "Everyone in Fatal Fury sounds like everyone in Ranma. Viz is cheap, they won't hire more actors. Don't you get a sense of loss when you hear the same guy?" He tends to prefer subs and Japanese voice actors, saying "Even though we can't understand the language, we can understand the emotions." On the other hand, James liked the way Robotech was stitched together from three unrelated anime series. |
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Ferdinand tends to like subs, thinking that "You come to dubbed anime and you feel that something's lacking. It's either mismatched voices, bad scripts or acting that's unemotional or overemotional. Most anime fans find a good dub has fewer of those problems." |
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From Michelle came the comment that "We find that actors don't portray
the emotions they're supposed to portray."
A couple of comments from the Sailor Moon panel might explain that comment: one of the actors said that there's a lot of time pressure in getting the lines right in the fewest number of takes; that the lines have to fit the original Japanese mouth movements on screen and that affects a performance; and that the actors record their parts separately and aren't together in the studio, even when their characters are conversing on screen. |
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