I find it super sad that the stigma of Japanese audio to NA Dubbed still continues to this day. It's retarded. When I was watching Japanese anime, shows back when I was around 10ish(that's over 20 years ago) Japanese Anime american voices were the SHIT. Voice acting was not a serious value in translated works and the translation companies didn't have the money to get good voices. So often they weren't even good voice actors at all, but family and friends.
These days translation companies have the budget to get descent voices that sound similar to their Japanese counterparts. There are of course missing inflections or tones of whiny, cute, bravado... that don't always make it. Ichigo, Naruto, Goku do people with voices that sound like they can fit the character, but could you imagine Ichigo sounding like some bulky baratone voice with a brooklyn accent? no? could you imagine Goku or Naruto sound the same way? probably not, but 15 so years ago that's what you would be guaranteed to get with about 90% of your anime.
So it became popular to get Japanese audio with English subtitles. This became a selling point. Of course times change. These companies can now pay for proper voices rather than reusing there family or there own. Voices work and are effective with the English translations. Now the stigma of English voices are bad is a retarded Stigma that stays with the upstream crowd for the sake of it's elitism. It's retarded. So coming from someone who has watched anime since before most anime fans were around and in many cases born. Of course I have kids these days so I don't stay in the "in" crowd anymore unlike my teen days, but damnd we have come a long way.
The only thing that drives me nut's about American translations when they change the story around. Damnd it Zoicite a guy :P
anyways on topic. What the hell is Sakura Wars?
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
