I realize nothing is worse than 4kids, but the Naruto/shippuden dub tries to do its best to ruin the show it seems like. Naruto has some of the best Japanese voice acting in anime but the dub is just cringeworthy 99% of the time.
I was excited to see Shippuden come to Adult Swim's Toonami, but I found myself unable to watch it as I wasn't enjoying hearing the lines butchered by cheesy lifeless unnatural voice acting. Naruto's voice is so awful, it's a shame they couldn't have gotten a less annoying voice actor, it's like nails on a chalkboard. They should have got the guy who does Edward Elric, I always thought the Fullmetal Alchemist dub was a dub done right, especially the 2011 version.
Sasuke's voice is good, Kabuto's voice is ok, but all the others are terrible and fail to replicate the quality of the Japanese VAs.
That isn't to say the voice actors have no talent whatsoever, it could just be viz's awkward script, or lowsey voice coaching, either way it completely ruins the show entirely.
I was excited to see Shippuden come to Adult Swim's Toonami, but I found myself unable to watch it as I wasn't enjoying hearing the lines butchered by cheesy lifeless unnatural voice acting. Naruto's voice is so awful, it's a shame they couldn't have gotten a less annoying voice actor, it's like nails on a chalkboard. They should have got the guy who does Edward Elric, I always thought the Fullmetal Alchemist dub was a dub done right, especially the 2011 version.
Sasuke's voice is good, Kabuto's voice is ok, but all the others are terrible and fail to replicate the quality of the Japanese VAs.
That isn't to say the voice actors have no talent whatsoever, it could just be viz's awkward script, or lowsey voice coaching, either way it completely ruins the show entirely.
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