Most disappointing dub

[Scintilla]

For me there is no contest.

FLCL

I saw it on toonami (TV station plays mostly bad anime) late one night, and I thought "Sweet, they're playing FLCL" then Haruko started speaking and I literally fell to my kness. It was that bad.

Toonami only refers to Cartoon Network's afternoon anime showings, last I checked. You're probably thinking of Adult Swim.

I actually liked that dub a lot (though no one will ever be a better Haruko than Mayumi Shintani)... come to think of it, I haven't seen enough dubbed anime yet to have come across one I didn't like.

[Harlock7876]

Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again.
Bad dub! I ought to smack you on the head for being such a bad dub! Now you go to your room and think about what you just did!

[Aussie_angel5]

I would have to say Cardcaptors. I haven't seen the original version, but I have heard and know some of the things they have changed and cut from it. I wasn't happy at all. Why can't they just keep things the way they originally were?! In any anime for that matter.

[Pie Row Maniac]

Memories




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[madbunny]

I would have to say Cardcaptors. I haven't seen the original version, but I have heard and know some of the things they have changed and cut from it. I wasn't happy at all. Why can't they just keep things the way they originally were?! In any anime for that matter.

I'm with you on that one. They took a decent story line (this is CLAMP wer're talking about here) and totally changed it into pseudo incomprehensibility. Oddly the voices 'mostly' were ok, but why change a good story?

A nice page here compares the two.

[the Black Monarch]

you can't blame the dub for translation and confusion problems.

I didn't. I said it was destructive to the source material, i.e., the most dramatic step downward in quality of material being presented. Drama became melodrama and tragedy became comedy.

[Anime Jedi]

Myself, I would have to go with Cardcaptors. At one point, I watched it and thought it was pretty good. Except for the sparce confusing part and poor voice expression, it wasn't too bad. But then I witnessed the original Card Captor Sakura and was shocked at the differences. My shocks were more towards the plot and scenes, than the voice acting. I just couldn't believe how much was removed, many of which seemed perfectly innocent. Like all the chibi scenes. Don't we all love a cute scene with a super-deform character? It was like anything abrupt they had to get rid of. -_-

[mj31588]

O, Knights of the Zodiac is really bad dubbed, it's HORRIBLE!!!! God they even changed the name from Saint Seiya to KOTZ, but it's so bad, like I watched it last night, it's old school, and I love it, but it's REALLY bad dubbed.

[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

Love Hina. The Love Hina english dub is frightfully apalling. I remember when I bout the DVDs oh-so-long ago, and thought "now lets see what this dub is like" and when the chars started speaking, I just about fell over in disgust, and scrambled for the remote. Had I not found it, I was perfectly prepared to throw my boot at the television.

Kitsune's voice is waaaaay overdone, Kaolla's voice is a fucking pigeonholing (stereotyping) if I ever saw one, Motoko's voice is way too mature, and Mutsumi and Narusegawa's voices are just plain shit. They remove the majority of the jokes (good example-Naru launches Keitaro down the hallway, he hits the wall and slides to the floor, where he says... "Pink... I mean ouch!" in japanese [in relation to narus pantie colour]. In english he says "So thats what if feels like to hold a girls hand". Ugh...*shudder ) and replace them with something that cant even qualify as humour.

Although, it was dubbed by the same people who did Sailor Moon, so that explains the level of suckage.

[evamonkey36]

This isn't anime but the worst dub I've ever seen is of the Jacki Chan film Armour of God 2.