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The Hetalia Dub
Jul. 17th, 2010 02:31 pm A bit behind in this, just wanted to give a quick note.
I usually like dubs...well, dubs that aren't bad. Okay, the only dub I liked was the Negima dub, but that is by Funimation and Hetalia is also by Funimation, so surely it'd be pretty awesome right? Even though Kazumi sounded like a strangled duck, at she DID sound ducky...
And I do enjoy the fact that they kept the accents, but I was so goddamn underwhelmed by China's voice. It simply sucks. No need to make a huge giant rant on why, it just simply sucks.
First of all, it appears the dubbers don't seem to understand the gist of Chinese stereotypes. Perhaps because I'm Asian and I'm biased, but while their accents for other characters seem pretty good (Italy sounds adorable actually) China does not sound stereotypical at all. He's also voiced by a white lady, which compared to the awesome epicness of Yuki Kaida, cannot be compared at ALL. The japanese voice actress was simply superior.
Japan was okay, I didn't mind. I found a lot of voices to sound kind of similar though, despite different accents. I was expecting different voices AND different accents but they all sound like normal white guys arguing with each other while trying to do so in badly-done accents. Some done better than others, but damn China was simply disappointing. Could they not get some person to TALK WIKE DIS with a much better voice than something that obviously sounds like some western female!? Gah. Being over-the-top and stupid is the reason Hetalia is funny, and since it was in Japanese the cultural differences did not allow me to really take their voices for anything other than Japanese. (Surely there is more than the suffix ARU to stereotype the Chinese...) and I thought if dubbed in stupid accents it'd be hilarious, but it feels really, really underwhelming. I think it needs an abridged series or something at this rate, but I thought it could've been stupid enough to be an abridged series of history itself ALONE, yet the voices of favourite characters are bad. So I can't enjoy it at all.
That's only for China though, but since my favourite characters are Asians and only TWO Asians even show up in the Anime and all, having China being screwed up really disappoints me since it's a really big topic for me. Oh well. I guess I won't buy DVDs or anything like I did Negima, but that's okay. I have no money anyway. *buys Starcraft 2*
That is all.
I usually like dubs...well, dubs that aren't bad. Okay, the only dub I liked was the Negima dub, but that is by Funimation and Hetalia is also by Funimation, so surely it'd be pretty awesome right? Even though Kazumi sounded like a strangled duck, at she DID sound ducky...
And I do enjoy the fact that they kept the accents, but I was so goddamn underwhelmed by China's voice. It simply sucks. No need to make a huge giant rant on why, it just simply sucks.
First of all, it appears the dubbers don't seem to understand the gist of Chinese stereotypes. Perhaps because I'm Asian and I'm biased, but while their accents for other characters seem pretty good (Italy sounds adorable actually) China does not sound stereotypical at all. He's also voiced by a white lady, which compared to the awesome epicness of Yuki Kaida, cannot be compared at ALL. The japanese voice actress was simply superior.
Japan was okay, I didn't mind. I found a lot of voices to sound kind of similar though, despite different accents. I was expecting different voices AND different accents but they all sound like normal white guys arguing with each other while trying to do so in badly-done accents. Some done better than others, but damn China was simply disappointing. Could they not get some person to TALK WIKE DIS with a much better voice than something that obviously sounds like some western female!? Gah. Being over-the-top and stupid is the reason Hetalia is funny, and since it was in Japanese the cultural differences did not allow me to really take their voices for anything other than Japanese. (Surely there is more than the suffix ARU to stereotype the Chinese...) and I thought if dubbed in stupid accents it'd be hilarious, but it feels really, really underwhelming. I think it needs an abridged series or something at this rate, but I thought it could've been stupid enough to be an abridged series of history itself ALONE, yet the voices of favourite characters are bad. So I can't enjoy it at all.
That's only for China though, but since my favourite characters are Asians and only TWO Asians even show up in the Anime and all, having China being screwed up really disappoints me since it's a really big topic for me. Oh well. I guess I won't buy DVDs or anything like I did Negima, but that's okay. I have no money anyway. *buys Starcraft 2*
That is all.
