It won't be any better until Michele Knotz and James Carter are relieved from voice acting and script writing.
The dub also needs better bgm and they need to keep more of the original bgm than they do now for it to be better to me.
Yes to all of that other than removing Michelle. As odd as it may sound, even the worst actors can give out a good performance with a good director. I was surprised to find that FUNimation was able to get the guy that voiced Usopp in the 4kids dub of One Piece to do a good job in one of their other shows where he reprises a role he had previously (can't recall which one it was, but it wasn't One Piece). They also got the guy that played Piccolo in Dragonball Evolution to come in and voice Zamasu in Super, and got a great performance out of him as well. Point is if it's possible to get good acting out of a One Piece 4kids actor and someone involved in Dragonball Evolution, it's possible to get something good out of Michelle Knotz.
The anime will never know peace until Goldfarb is removed. The parts I have listened to seems to indicate he’s getting better...to me personally at least.
Agreed, Goldfart should not be allowed within 100 feet of anything to do with Pokemon. PS love the profile pic and signature, Korra's great.
What do you mean by opening getting replaced dude? I don't want to listen to a Japanese song that I can't understand before every single episode. If it's so good musically (which could be the only thing good about it to someone who doesn't understand Japanese) I can watch it on Youtube, but there's no reason for me to want a Japanese song rather than an English song before every single episode.
Is this really something sub purists want? If so, it's a new one to me. I've heard all your other complaints from various sources but certainly never heard about people wanting the Japanese song kept.. how does that even make sense in terms of a DUB? Do you want the song directly translated, with the music itself kept intact? That would be really hard to do like She-Wolf by Shakira
I am in no way insisting on a Japanese song being used. If you do an English cover of the Japanese opening I will count that as keeping the opening. For Pokemon examples of songs getting English covers, see Meowths Party.
It's highly likely the dubbed version is unable to reproduce a dubbed version of a song, because more often than not the Japanese opening employs a REAL Japanese music band. Dubbed openings in English rarely ever get dubbed openings (the only known instance I know is the Dragon Ball openings starting with Kai). No offense, but most of the dubbed Pokemon openings are bad because the people singing aren't that good...and the songs aren't even dubbed versions but brand new ones that don't match the mood of the Japanese openings (which TPCI fervently refuses to pay for).
I can give you plenty of examples of dubs that have taken the Japanese opening and dubbed it into English other than DB Kai. Yu Yu Hakusho, the first 5 openings of One Piece (the good dub), Dragon Ball Super, original Dragon Ball, and technically Sailor Moon sort of. Point is that it's not unreasonable or impossible to have happen. Heck Yo Kai Watch gave us a dub of the opening before they switched to using their own song for whatever reason.
I question why any viewer would expect the English dub to have improved, when to my understanding virtually everyone who worked on the SM dub is working on the Pokemon Journeys dub. If the voice actors had changed then I could see why people would think that the dub might've gotten better, but as far as I know all the returning characters have their voice actors from previous sagas [that TPCi was in charge of].
Because the new company is one located in California, which has a far better chance of having good dubs produced than over in New York (seriously, has a good dub ever been produced in NY?). I was hoping for change, but I'm not shocked to hear that it's still as bad as ever. Guess I'll continue not supporting them until FUNimation comes in and saves the day.
