The Naruto Dub

[Necromas]

I was watching the marathon tonight and I noticed that they are now using Haruka Kanata as the opening song.

Welcome to two months ago.

The Naruto vs. Neji fight was better anyways, even if Shikamaru was smarter :P

[XanBcoo]

Mega update, something I said way back before the dub was cast:

I don't know what you mean by "union" but I do know that Crispin Freeman was in Zatch Bell (also Dubbed by Viz/Shopro). So there's a small chance he might be cast as someone. I think it'd be cool if he was Itachi. That would rock.

My wish came true!!

New roles, as of episodes 80-82:

Itachi Uchiha - Crispin Freeman
Kisame Hoshigake - Kirk Thornton

I can't praise the dub enough anymore. From the few episodes I catch a month, I find myself more and more impressed each time. Everything that people used to complain about is gone. No more "Believe it", no more botched OPs. And they've even got a decent cast doing a great job, in my opinion. Crispin Freeman's Itachi sounds as awesome as I hoped it would. He almost sounds even more menacing than he does in Japanese.

Also, and I really like mentioning this, everything is pronounced perfectly. It was a real treat hearing Crispin Freeman saying "KA-kashi HA-take", as well as "Tsukiyomi" and "Mangekyou Sharingan". You can really tell he loves anime, because he's saying these words like he's actually been speaking Japanese.

David Lodge (Jiraiya) and Dave Wittenberg (Kakashi) also nailed the pronunciation of Akatsuki. I was so afraid they'd butcher it and say "Ah Kat Sooki", but apparently all that was in vain. Excellent.


Anyway, here's the most recent episode, with a good amount of Itachi/Kisame dialog:
Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Thoughts?

[fifafreak18]

Well i don't watch the dubbed anime but i was curious as to how they were going to do Itachi.
Narutos voice is still exaggerated(even more than in jp) and annoying, he's the main reason i don't watch the dubbed, and Jiraiya's done ok, they managed to get that pervy kind of voice which basically sums up all his actions so far which is good. And Kakashi is done well, but his serious voice is done much better than his relaxed. But you guys already know about them so

Itachi - i like this one for the most part, calm and collected, even though hes basically the deadliest ninja in naruto-land.

Kisame - I like this better than Itachi, probably what i would picture it being in English if i had never seen it before.

I still can't get over a majority of the characters making Japanese names sound as stupid as they possibly can>.< But you are right Itachi pronounced almost everything perfectly.

[LobsterMagnet]

I'm so glad they kept the mangekyou sharingan scene in. I was really afraid they'd cut it out and replace it with something stupid like this.

"Itachi's chakra level is so high he made kakashi faint just by looking at him!"

But for the most part the whole scene was kept intact. Made me really happy, only compromise was that they changed the cross into a board which is reasonable seeing how most people would have gotten their panties in a bunch just by airing the episode the day before easter which honestly is something I still find very funny.

[XanBcoo]

only compromise was that they changed the cross into a board which is reasonable seeing how most people would have gotten their panties in a bunch just by airing the episode the day before easter which honestly is something I still find very funny.

I'm pretty sure that the construction Kakashi was on has always been a T-Shape, and never a cross.

I'll have to check, but I'm quite certain nothing was edited from that episode.

[Assertn]

No, it was quite significantly made into a rectangle board...

Interesting though, I didn't even notice until someone pointed it out. This group does a much better job at touching up artwork than good old funimation.

[Idealistic]

lmao... toonami just gave a spoiler!

They're on the episode where tsunade meets oro to confirm the deal. Before it gets to that part of the episode, the show goes into commercial and they preview the next episode saying "next week on an all new Naruto, Tsunade denied Orochimaru's offer."

[Shadow Skill]

I can't stand the English dub.

I tried to watch it, the voices just didnt match in my opinion.

[itadakimasu]

I can't stand the English dub.

I tried to watch it, the voices just didnt match in my opinion.

i dont like any dubs after i've watched alot of the series subbed.... and also vis/versa;

example : inuyasha, gundam wing.... i saw most of inuyasha dubbed and when i tried to watch it subbed it just didn't sound right at all to me.

[Kraco]

Out of pure curiosity I had a look at that episode XanBcoo linked to, and I have to say Itachi was the only one who's voice and acting I could genuinely appreciate. If the rest were as good, it would be easily watchable.

But then again, I'm from a non-English speaking country, so of course the dubs aren't even meant for me, so it matters little what I think of them.

[DB_Hunter]

First time I saw the dub. Don't like Naruto's voice. Jiraiya's is OK. So is Itachi's and Kisame's. Overall I guess by watching the subs I'm never going to appreciate the dub more.

[masamuneehs]

today the Cartoon Network continues to run a marathon of dubbed Naruto (they're doing 100 episodes in a row, which I think is pretty cool), and I finally got to hear Jiraiya's, Itachi's, Shizune's and Tsunade's english voice actors.

I have to say, Jiraiya doesn't sound terrible, but it's just incredibly plain and boring compared to the dark, mischievous Japanse voice. The english Jiraiya just sounds like a typical middle aged guy, and that's sorta a let down, as his voice is one of the more unique in the Japanese cast.

Itachi and Kisame are OK, and I think Itachi is actually a good fit.

and I want to Mute it every time Naruto opens his mouth. Goddamn it.

also, it's shocking that free fansubbers will translate signs and other written Japanese, but the syndicated dub just leaves everything except the title cards in Japanese. Honestly, that's just pathetic.

[saman]

ytv finally got ahead of cartoon network this week by four episodes. 101 dubbed is floating around on the internet right now, in case anyone's interested.

[itadakimasu]

you know... if i had no life at all i would have watched that marathon. This guy i was playing cs:s with told me about it and i didn't have a tv at my disposal to check it out, plus i had just put in the dvd that has eps 92-105 on it and had started watching that on saturday ( i wanted to see naruto pwn kabuto w\ rasangen)

its good that they did that, i hope some people watched every single episode, i dont think i could possible sit through each english dub ep one week at a time having seen it n its original form.

[DarthEnderX]

The marathon was pretty sweet.

It's hard to believe that there's only like another 7-8 months until the Dub is into the filler wasteland.

I wonder if they are gonna do anything special for that.

I hope they rename the series then. I don't want any of those fillers to end up on my uncut DVDs.


Speaking of which, why the fuck are the uncut dvds coming out so slow? There's 12-13 episodes on a disc, a disc should come out every 12-13 weeks. Instead they are like 5 months apart.

[Hikyuu]

Speaking of which, why the fuck are the uncut dvds coming out so slow? There's 12-13 episodes on a disc, a disc should come out every 12-13 weeks. Instead they are like 5 months apart.

Probably to maximize the selling potential of having the Words NEW RELEASE in front of the DVD title and whatnot..

[Idealistic]

I caught I believe episode 136 on TV tonight. The episode where Naruto returns from the fight with Sasuke and is in the hospital talking.

Previews of next episode seem like they are heading to that Tea country or whatever.

So they are dubbing the filler episodes too huh? Unless that episode wasn't filler. I feel bad for those who are watching just the English dub if they do. Maybe they'll run marathons or something lol...

[Abdula]

The dub seriously sucks I mean this arc was the best in Naruto and look at how they butchered it. Not only that but whats up with the VAs, they seem to be completely different.

And yes ofcourse they are going to do the fillers, what made you think they wouldn't.