I've seen so many other JP lovers elsewhere who don't have an issue mentioning the music because...well, anime brought over usually keeps all of its tracks without replacing them. The only JP dubs arguments you see is how they prefer Japanese dubs than English dubs voices (which so many times they are extremely biased).
It's just that the Pokemon anime suffers from not having the original tracks made by professionals and also suffers from a very mixed bag of voice actors (and voice directors ruining deliveries and picking the wrong voice actors...sorry, but Lisa Ortiz does not work as a voice actor, much less so as a director calling the shots). This anime is the one place where things are too cheap in the West and the differences are...very, very noticeable when compared to the original version. If this were handled by places like Bang Zoom Entertainment or even Sentai Filmworks, you'll notice the quality going up several notches.
Yeah, they'll cater to weeaboos instead of people. I like it that TPCi ignores those wretched things and just keeps doing what they do.
Obviously I'm at an impasse with you and lots of others here. That changes nothing, though. The dub's had great vocal work since Lisa Ortiz got the job of VD, and really, I can count on only one hand the amount of times the dub's had a miscasting. But none of the dub's miscasting will ever be as bad as letting Inuko Inuyama give that ear-raping performance to Meowth (by the way, anyone who thinks Inuyama's doing good as Meowth will never be anyone I'll believe about acting quality of any kind), which of course cheated the entire country of Japan out of one of this episode's most emotional sequences.
The dub's had great music since...always. The older JP tracks were nice and deserved to be kept, and the dub music back then was wonderful. Admittedly, even I found Ed Goldfarb's music to be an acquired taste, but I'm happy to have acquired it. It's full of heart, soul, and passion. The JP music, on the other hand, became so heartless and soulless ever since XY that if it were an enemy from a video game, it'd be a literal Heartless.
Perhaps the dub has some cheapness to it, but somehow, that hasn't hampered the final product. Good things can come from limited resources. And bad things can come from an abundance of resources.
So, yes, I
do notice differences when comparing the Pokemon cartoon's two versions: in Japanese, it's an overblown and overhyped piece of garbage. In English (and many other Western languages I've checked out), it's an enjoyable and fun little Saturday morning cartoon. I'll stick to taking out the garbage and watching the enjoyable cartoon.
So, you’re allowed to pick on the sub but the second someone does that towards the dub, then it’s a problem? Hmmm.... go figure.
So, they're allowed to pick on the dub, but the second I do that towards the JP version, then it's a problem? Hmmm... go figure.
Fixed it for you.
Also, I’ve noticed that when anyone says something megative about the dub, you get all defensive.
Frankly, my response depends on the complaint itself. For a while, most complaints were logical enough that while I disagreed with them, I could see where they were coming from. As soon as the backlash over SM064's skipping and banning happened and revealed some
really nasty things from all involved, TPCi hater logic went straight back to the kind that makes the logic of conspiracy theorists seem like the most brilliant of rocket science. They really hit a new low.