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@narada no idea but I've been lamenting the sad state of affairs of American anime dubbing for years
So many things wrong:
-Low pay
-Low talent pool (in the end, anime VA are basically the bottom of the VA industry)
-Terrible VA director
-Rushed to all hell even more than before
-The translator isn't the script writers (Seriously)
And they basically have to compete against the voice acting of another country who has like 12 schools for this alone. Oof
The problem in the end it's basically the only people left watching dubs are people who are basically never watching subs and are super defensive about it to the level where the industry's current problems are entirely their fault :shrug:
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@narada The issue in the end is that a lot of the people who seems entirely in favor of this current dubbing and localization practice is mostly Americans who never had to deal with another language their entire life
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@coolboymew @narada What is always amusing is some VAs from decades gone by eventually end up as directors.
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@coolboymew @narada the entire localization industry on America is just fucked. We got people who don't speak Japanese doing translations, failed writers who want to pitch the script on someone else's story, and troons who want to fuck over the target audience, "official" translators killing fan projects they haven't even lisenced, screeching about how they should get paid more and should unionize. They can't get replaced by AI fast enough.
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@SNEK @narada @coolboymew
VAs of today don't care enough.
Chalk it up to nostalgia reasons why people think old dubs are good but it is true. Back in those times VAs were experienced.
Today's VAs complain because they know they're not good enough. You could take someone like Orson Welles who reportedly didn't give a shit about transformers and he can knock it out of the park because he had experience. Today's VAs do not have it.
Orson Welles Transformers Voice Over Audio.mp4
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@coolboymew @narada how is it this bad? There's no way there more budget in Mexico for anome VAs than there is in America, right?
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@zemichi @SNEK @coolboymew @narada
Kinda unrelated but it's very upsetting to see veterans on the field of media being given absolutely shit tier roles, there's basically no upper league for good actors anymore, it's just a hodge Podge of niggers, jews, the friends of jews and that one dude that has always been into acting
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@SNEK @coolboymew @narada
Anime isn't seen as "serious entertainment" (even now) so it's treated as an option of last resort for people who can't make it in Hollywood. It doesn't help that the few people who they pulled off the street in the 90s and stuck with it managed to pull up the ladder just as sales were picking up.
You see the same thing with videogames even though they make more money than film. American devs, writers, etc. still treat it as a stepping-stone to the movie industry or at least try to suck up to them because they view it as having more "prestige". The guy who made Dexter's Lab complained about studio execs encouraging him to "graduate" from animation to live action too.
The few good dubs of the era were when they just happened to find someone who cared like Domon's VA in G Gundam.
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@coolboymew @narada Also that, for like two decades, they had maybe 3 female VAs, and one of them is utterly unbearable. The genki one.
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