To me they are when compared to other countries I mean the Chinese and Korean dubs are usually shit but I don't complain, the Vietnamese ones are worse but I would rather listen to that than the american one. Vietnamese is my main language and I know the dubs are shit.Out of all the English voice acting I do prefer British voice acting more it just has something that sounds right and fits with the characters, it might be the accent or the effort the actors put in or whatever but they seem to be quite good majority of the times.
He never said the voice acting is good to begin with.From my Japanese gamer friend: "It's hilarious. If you actually could understand Japanese, you would see that a lot of Japanese voice acting is horrible as well. In the end it just falls to worshiping everything that comes from Japan."
No, but to say that "American dubs are usually shit" at least implies that Japanese audio is better.
Especially when Vietnamese dubbing (in drama series) is in one voice for ALL characters (I think I've seen other Asian languages do it the same back when I used to see them as a child). A lot worse is when there's more than one voice dubbing and its like dafaq I just hear?!
OFF topic: I can safely say that I mostly enjoy the Iron Chef dubbing. Now that's great voice acting! I get all excited when cooking gets under way. I also enjoyed Dragon Ball Z dubs. I couldn't get used to Goku with a tad feminine voice in the original.
I prefer hearing the native language and reading the subtitles in hope to learn a little of the language since I do have a friend who speaks Japanese and I occasionally throw simple phrases whenever I learn then and get corrected after laughing at how bad I pronounce it.
Generally people who hate (I've asked friends who do hate it) and the usual response is it takes their eyes away from the face where the voice is coming from. It distracts them and makes them miss what's really happening on the screen. It frustrates them to having to rewind watch the whole scene again to get the FULL picture.