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Why is it that 99.999% of anime created in Japan, overdubbed into English, and then released for consumption in the US has the vocal parts dubbed so the characters sound like they are having way too much “fun”?

Whenever the artist is trying to convey a silent emotion in a character, the overdubbers insert grunts and air puffs and various sundry that make the characters sound like they are engaging in some sort of very pleasurable excercise somewhere past the over-scan where you cannot see it. Instead of being what it should be, it becomes something entirely different.

Please, take a look at my rough translation of real events into their perverse counterparts:

• Friends talking about a shared experience = lewd fantasy (mm hmm, yeah, hmm)
• Solitary person in soliloquy = pocket pool (eh, eh, huh ah!)
• Two people fighting to the death for the sake of the entire human race = group sex (GRRRR, MMMM, EH, EH, MMMMM, AHHHHH!!!!!)

I like quite a bit of anime, by no means a fan but a passive consumer, so maybe there is some sort of Code of Anime I’m just not getting. Oh well.

Oh, and Naruto? Yeah, that pretty much sucks. Wanna fight about it?