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Offline Arendyl

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Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« on: June 28, 2013, 09:17:30 PM »
Let's start a thread on recommendations for English dubbed anime.
Yes, I know the quality isn't as good, but it's still my native language, and I enjoy them more when I'm focused on the animation and not the subtitles.

My favorites in the past have been:

Baccano! - focuses on the stories of different characters in the Prohibition Era of America. Originating back to 1711, a group of alchemists seeking eternal youth are given a special potion by a mysterious demon, making them immortal. However, alchemists began disappearing, and realizing the danger of being close to one another they scatter around the world.
Now in the 1930's, all of the immortals have come together once again. Baccano! tells the stories of each of these immortals, ranging from alchemists, street gangs, thieves, FBI agents and even the mafia.

Durarara - The author Narita and illustrator Yasuda Suzuhito's "distorted love story" is set in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, and revolves around an ensemble cast including street thugs, high school students, a female radio host, an underworld doctor, a young information vendor, and a headless Irish fairy.

Steins;gate - The story of Steins;Gate takes place in Akihabara and is about a group of friends who have managed to customize their microwave into a device that can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named CERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.


Eden of the East - On November 22, 2010 ten missiles strike Japan. However, this unprecedented terrorist act, later to be called "Careless Monday", does not result in any apparent victims, and is soon forgotten. Then, three months later... Morimi Saki, a young woman currently in the United States of America on her graduation trip, gets into trouble in front of the White House in Washington DC, and only the unexpected intervention of a fellow countryman saves her. However, this man, who introduces himself as Takizawa Akira, is a complete mystery. He appears to have lost his memory and he is stark naked, except for the gun he holds in one hand, and a mobile phone in the other. A phone that is charged with 8,200,000,000 yen in digital cash.

Eureka SeveN - Eureka Seven tells the story of a 14 year-old named Renton who lives with his mechanic grandfather, and whose life is thrown somewhat off-kilter when a mech called Nirvash crashes into his house one day and a young girl called Eureka pops up asking for help to repair it. Shortly after, the military mechs get involved.

*Summaries borrowed from anidb

Eureka SeveN was the first anime I ever fell in love with. The way the characters grew and connected just clicked for me, and really started my love of anime.

Durarara, followed by Baccano!, became my favorite type of anime. The character dynamically changing around intriguing plots in short, sweet series are what I started looking for in other anime. Also, the voice acting in Baccano! was beautiful.

Steins;gate changed my opinion once again, that an anime could be more than titter between fight scene, really made me think. I love the deep philosophical implications, and the scifi based theories. Really great show.

I also watch and enjoy some moe like K-on! and Angel Beats (kinda), when I'm in the mood for something lighter. The relationships between characters is beautiful.

Another stipulation of mine, I have a bit of a high-quality fetish. Not only do I download only bluray/flac releases, but I want the animation to be clean and crisp, usually of this century. But, beggars cant be choosers, and I do watch older stuff if the quality is there.

If you cant tell already, I'm still pretty new to anime, so hit me up with a recommendation! Here's my anime planet profile, which I solely use to keep track of what I've watched. http://www.anime-planet.com/users/arendyl   

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Offline Al_Sleeper

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2013, 09:40:25 PM »
Planetes
Gungrave
- Skip the first episode, and watch it after the end of the first arc.
« Last Edit: June 28, 2013, 09:42:25 PM by Al_Sleeper »

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2013, 09:46:05 PM »
This thread might be helpful to you.

Also since you're new, I recommend MAL over AP. You can see the whole list in a single window. Most people tend to get drawn into AP when they're new by the catchy sigs but to be honest MAL is a lot better. There's actually even a MAL Updater so you don't have to keep track of stuff yourself.

Here, check out my 10's in my completed section and see which are dubbed - most probably are. Off the top of my head the best will probably be...

Ghost in the Shell
Black Lagoon
Hellsing
Code Geass
Death Note
Elfen Lied
Mnemosyne - about immortality like Baccano
NANA
Witchblade
Claymore
Mai-HiME
Mai-Otome
Beck
Darker than Black
Peach Girl
Canaan
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom
Spice and Wolf
Suzuka

Also if you're into ecchi,
Rosario+Vampire
Queen's Blade
Freezing
To Love-Ru

That should be a pretty decent start into the world of anime at any rate. Most of those that I listed by the way are absolute must see's.
« Last Edit: June 29, 2013, 01:46:11 AM by Tiffanys »

Offline bpfoley89

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2013, 11:11:32 PM »
Just from my list (Which may already be in other's):

A Certain Magical Index
A Certain Scientific Railgun
Berserk
Black Lagoon
Break Blade
Busou Renkin
[C] The Money of Soul and Possibility Control
Chrome Shelled Regios
Corpse Princess
Cowboy Bebop
Darker Than Black
FLCL
Ghost in the Shell
Hellsing
Hellsing Ultimate
Highschool of the Dead
Last Exile
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory
Mobile Suit Gundam - The 08th MS Team
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Outlaw Star
RahXephon
Samurai Champloo
Sands of Destruction
Seirei no Moribito
Soul Eater
Spice and Wolf
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
The Big O
Trinity Blood
Witchblade
Xam'd Lost Memories
xxxHolic
Seinen and Slice of Life cannot describe the same title, because daily life is too boring to be called a plot. Ecchi/fanservice is not plot either.

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Offline SakuraNeko

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2013, 12:12:40 AM »

If you are looking for a laugh I would recommend Ghost Stories.


Offline Al_Sleeper

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2013, 03:16:34 AM »
If you are looking for a laugh I would recommend Ghost Stories.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXWx-Q5RTE4

These Ghost Stories? Are you sure?

Offline SakuraNeko

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2013, 11:25:56 AM »
If you are looking for a laugh I would recommend Ghost Stories.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXWx-Q5RTE4

These Ghost Stories? Are you sure?

Your link does look interesting, but I was actually referring to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxJ4VWoeOzs

Offline Al_Sleeper

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2013, 11:48:04 AM »
Well, you can say many things about Requiem from the Darkness, but 'funny' is definitely not the first one that comes to mind. That's why I was surprised.

Offline Pzc

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2013, 06:21:14 PM »
I almost never watch dubs but I actually think
the dub for Girls Bravo is quite good.
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Offline bpfoley89

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2013, 11:01:25 PM »
I almost never watch dubs but I actually think
the dub for Girls Bravo is quite good.
Too bad the show itself was actually quite bad.
Seinen and Slice of Life cannot describe the same title, because daily life is too boring to be called a plot. Ecchi/fanservice is not plot either.

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2013, 11:48:02 PM »
Well, you can say many things about Requiem from the Darkness, but 'funny' is definitely not the first one that comes to mind. That's why I was surprised.

No Al, it's literally called Ghost Stories. It's the clips I quoted. http://myanimelist.net/anime/1281/Ghost_Stories

Offline Al_Sleeper

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2013, 02:40:14 AM »
No Al, it's literally called Ghost Stories.
I got it already.

Offline BronBron06

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2013, 01:10:43 PM »
oh thanks for mentioning Ghost Stories was looking for that for years

love to hear its op song again


Offline Silhouettic

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2013, 11:14:03 AM »
I really enjoyed the dub for Boogiepop Phantom :)

Offline MrIntruder

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2013, 05:51:49 PM »
Trigun - That has a reasonable dub.

Personally I wouldn't have recommended Elfen Lied for it's dub, not unless you want your ears raped when Lucy is in Nyu mode... She's bad enough as it is in Japanese.

Also I would like to comment that quite often comedies often end up being poorly dubbed largly because the humour doesn't get fully translated or simply the quality of the voice acting ends up being very poor so if you watch any comedy anime, make sure to take a pinch of salt.

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Re: Recommendations for English Dubbed Shows
« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2013, 10:31:31 PM »
Elfen Lied's dub is fine.