"Dragonclaw" <dragonclaw@westman.wave.ca> wrote in message
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> csf2860@mac.com (zedizdead) wrote in message
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> > Not familiar with the Spanish or French dubs, but the Japanese VA,
> > Yuka Miramura, who was, after all, the only "Asuka' actually cast and
> > directed by Anno, gives a stunning perfomance. Check her out, for
> > example, in the Complementation scenes in EoE; she absolutely nails
> > the contempt and loathing that Asuka has come to feel for Shinji,
> > whereas Tiffany Grant is both lame and grating (like all of the
> > English dub cast).
>
> I can't think of any way to say this that won't be misread as spitting
> on Anno's vision and status as EVA's creator but...
>
> I have an almost uniform preference for the dub cast over the sub cast
> (except for the newer voice actors in the Manga dubs that originally
> weren't part of the ADV group; their voice are mostly cringe-worthy)
> and don't really consider it possible to make any universal statement
> about who is the One, True, Voice for a charcter.
>
> In my case, I thought the dub voices mostly suited my impressions of
> the characters better than the sub ones, and both casts were
> well-acted...both qualties which are subjective, and thus no concrete
> "Is it good or isn't it?" answer can be provided.
>
> It's true Anno chose the sub voices, and thus they were part of his
> "vision" for Evangelion, but I derived a wealth of emotional
> investment and overall interest from the EVA dub, creating my own
> personal "vision" of EVA (obviously, not in the same league as Anno's
> but it wouldn't be a "better" personal vision if I preferred the sub)
> which included the ADV cast. It's the dub cast's voices I immediately
> refer to, when thinking about the characters.
>
> I don't consider this wrong, because it's just my own way of going
> about my EVA fandom. I do not intend to mock Anno's status as EVA's
> creator, or whatever.
>
> The dub VAs were not perfect; there's fluctuating name pronunciation,
> Amanda Winn Lee's tendency to whistle her "S"'s, Kensuke's funny
> southernish accent and I'm still undecided as to how well Sue Ulu did
> Ritsuko's hysterics. Yet for the most part I prefer them.

Did you see the dub first?
just wondering

btw you didn't mention Asuka's dubbed voice, which seems to be the biggest
argument in JAE about the dubbed voices.

cOwMoO