Are anime dub actors better, worse or equal to pre-lay voice actors

It's always bad directing to blame. They pick the VA's, and tell them how to voice the characters from scratch. A lot of FUNI's dubs benefit from their directors actually voicing the project itself (I.E. Ouran High School with Cait Glass).
 
It was mainly a counter to an idea that those that do pre-lay American animation are somehow more refined and cultured than Anime actors.

Then again, if we remeraber Dragonball Z's move to Texas...half of the cast were guys off the street or family merabers.
 
But in LA because anime has a lower pay rate means a smaller pool overall then pre-lay cartoons.



Noted, but that's not much an argument, because most voice actors in general have acting experience of some sort, unless its a bad video game dub done by people related to the game's producer.

Again I don't think Funi is the be all and end of voice acting in the English speaking world, they are good, not perfect. Even in Full Metal Alchemist which was an overall good dub had a few goofy dialogue exchanges, like when ever Ed freaked out about people calling him short (it seemed too hammy) or the conversation between the armored version of Barry the copper and Al.
 
What does pool size or monetary gain have to do with anything?


There's no real factual answer to this question. We won't get anywhere debating such a topic, and frankly one might think this topic were made solely to bring another over to one's side of thinking for both personal reasons of spite against any one venure of acting or to simply play devil's advocate and watch the masses squabble. Hell, we don't even know what sort of acting we're talking about. Acting from those that do comedic sitcoms (Simpsons, Family Guy etc.) or acting 'toons (JLU, Ben 10). In the end we're left discussing our preffered subjects.


It's often my opinion that the pre-lay actors don't get fine enough material to actually work with, as opposed to dub actors who have to hit mutiple ranges.
 
If that were true, I wouldn't said the Cowboy Bebop dub is way better then a lot of pre-lay cartoons.

But its fun to debate such things, clearly its an opinion based question, but opinions can clash and you can argue about the basis of said opinion or the premise the opinion is based on. There is no reason to get upset.

Pool size and money has a lot to do with how good a voice cast is, most people think the Disney dubs of the Ghibi films are some of dubs ever, because Disney has more money the dubbing studio and they can hire as many actors they want and they do have rely on one take.

as for your idea thaty dub actors have more to do with the materials they are given, I again disagree, because just because something is aimed at an older audience doesn't make it better, there are plenty of animes at that aimed at an older audience that are stupid, shallow, explotively, poorly written and rely too much on sex and violence (just like there plenty of good ones). I would rather watch something done well for kiRAB then done poorly for adults, I would rather watch Super frienRAB eps then the Eiken Club. Also the writing on Avatar is about a 100 times better then the writing on Naruto.
 
Why is always have to be the japanese vs. America dubs? Why not Japanese vs. Latin dubs? I heard many great things how good the Latin DBZ dubs are. And how about other Countrys in the world. Bet some of them gotten better dubbing then the U.S and Japan dubs.
 
The Ghibli dubs are kinda borderline since they plan with Disney to make it easier to be dubbed for English, and essentially work together on the scripts.
 
Again for the last time this topic is not comparing dubs to Japanese voice work, this about comparing anime dubs to pre-lay voice acting done in American cartoons.
 
Thing is about FMA is the Japanese version is quite over the top and hammy at times as well. So what's your point? It's true to the original and that's all that really matters.

A smaller acting pool? If you're comparing LA to Texas, well yeah but comparing LA anime to LA pre-lay? Anime probably has a smaller talent pool because plenty of actors can get pre-lay work but there's no shortage of LA anime actors and it takes quite a lot to get into that industry.
 
I never said Disney was either, I'm pretty sure Disney has made some TV shows with bad voice acting




Eh, I didn't find thse exchanges funny either, maybe it was a script problem.




My point was I disagreed with Jacob's premise that Funi was the be all and and all of English voice acting. Don't get me wrong I thought overall FMA had a great voice acting, but there were a few rough patches here and there. Maybe that was in the original Japanese voice track, but I didn't like those exchanges, so I don't care. Maybe its a script problem but it was a drag in certain points.



I would say that pre-lay cartoons in LA have a bigger pool then LA anime dubs, because half the voice actors in LA will not do anime dubs because of the low pay. There is nothing that prevents anime dubbers from doing pre-lay cartoons (except that many cartoon producers do not like anime style of voice acting and tend to think that's all anime voice actors can do) But anime dubbers have done pre-lay cartoons recently. So yes, pre-lay cartoons do have a bigger pool.

So when you say an anime dub in LA hires the best people who audition, that deosn't address the fact that half the voice actors in LA won't audition at all, because they think the pay is too low.
 
I think it has to do with NY area being less active when it comes to Anime dubbing. Sure there are some cases where they get their work from doing commercials, Video Games, and the like, but you can't deny that CA/TX gets to dub more anime nowadays compared to the NY area.

Which reminRAB me that Canada hasn't been mentioned either... Strange as well.
 
And yet you still can't just get into voice acting at an anime studio without creditials in LA so there's never a lack of actors to pull from. Doesn't matter if the acting pool is smaller there's still more than enough people who audition for the roles and many if not most auditions are invite only.
 
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