Quote Originally Posted by Dr. rydrum2112 View Post
everyone just says the voice acting is bad- how do you know the voice acting wasn't exactly as it was intended by the creators?
By watching something with good voice acting

Bad voice acting is a null tell. Good English-speaking voice actors come in only two flavours: Gilbert Gottfried and Robin Williams.

It's a cultural thing. In North America, animation has for decades been viewed as just for kids. That's starting to change now with shows like Archer, but the first thing that I tend to think when I see animation is "Oh, a kid's show."

In Japan, animation has been taken more seriously since before I was born. You can't tell me Gundam 0079 with all of its death and sympathetic villains, was intended for children. The current generation of Japanese voice actors take their work as seriously as their live-action counterparts. The same is just not true of North Americans, and it shows in their troute voice acting.

As an experiment, try playing Lost Odyssey with the English voices for a while. When they start to irritate you (it shouldn't take long), switch to the Japanese ones.

Give it ten years or so.