Are all dubs shit?

[Archangel]

Actually this doesn't just happen with english dubs, i'm portuguese and i can tell u that the dubs around here especially suck.

Here it is, first part of episode 1 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW66ZKSIpw8

At least we didn't get the 4kids edits but the voices are terrible.

[Y]

A lot of dubs struggle with the translated version fitting the cadence of the animated characters...and they add words or do crappy translations to fit the animation, they could at least cycle the frames differently or do SOMETHING to make it fit better.

As far as I know the standard licensing agreement nowadays includes the clause that the foreign party licensing the show can't change any of the animation. When ADV did this for the Evangelion TV show by translating the title cards and some text that appears onscreen they lost the license to someone else for the movie.

Also, of course Eureka should be pronounced like it is in English in the dub. Do you think Cowboy Bebop's dub should have called the main character Spaikuu Spiegeruu or whatever the fuck? God no.

[darkshadow]

DBZ dub was great, actually, i cant stand japanese DBZ >_>, i only like vegetto/gogeta's jpn VA's.
Rurouni kenshin the motion picture was MUCH better in english, the added sound effects just added so much more atmosphere, plus the va's did a really good job too, shigure's va was great.
Black lagoon's dub, although i like revy's jpn VA more, the other characters sound much better in english, especially Shenhua, man her VA kicks major ass.

[Archangel]

Well the thing about goku was that the japonese didn't want to change the original voice actor so he kept the same voice he had when he was a kid goku.