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NGE 2 UNEDITED REACTION (Patreon)

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2020-02-06 18:35:45
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2026-06
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As you can see I'm watching the show in sub right now, and I'm enjoying it. But Michael did recommend the dub, so I'm just asking to see what you'd all prefer going forward (in particular you, KingSlayer, as you're the one who requested this show:D)

LINK: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JcFWmKz27ofZPs2_qfcV007k3OaikIhu/view?usp=sharing

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Michael Hingston

Yeah, as I said the classic dub is generally considered to be pretty decent and I know so few people who care to watch the subbed version as the dub is pretty faithful script wise imo. If you were going to be watching the Netflix dub then I'd have said stick to the original language version, but seeing as that's not the case you would be fine watching the dub. I know myself and everyone else I know are more familiar with it having been introduced to it that way and kind of just stuck with it even when the alternative became more readily available.

Damiester

I would have to disagree with Michael. Pretty much most people I know have watched it in Japanese audio. I do live in Hong Kong where original audio tends to be kept for animes, so there's that. The voices just sound more natural, in particular that of Shinji's. It's pretty much considered legendary similar to Gon Freecs' voice in Japanese during episode 116 when he raged at Pitou.

Michael Hingston

Yeah I guess it's more what western viewers in my experience tend to have been doing in regards to this specific show. I honestly haven't watched subbed in its entirety at this point and aside from here I doubt I ever will.

Damiester

lol I've watched this show in 3 languages: English, Japanese, Chinese and I can honestly say the Japanese audio is on another level. Either way, English dubbed fans and English subbed fans would always have this differing opinion. I see the same arguments all the time on every reaction video lol.

Michael Hingston

I still don't like the original TV edit of the story having the cut to Shinji in hospital bed and then the rest of the fight later. Also what he saw at the end was a reflection of Unit 01 without its head armor... it's a living entity as you can see not just a robot. Just so you know S&T there have been a series of movies released that more or less retell the first half of the story but then diverge quite a bit into what seems to be what the creator originally wanted. A bunch of things are cut and other things changed. Maybe you react these movies at some point down the line after you have finished the series and End of Evangelion. They really look so good compared to this quite aged series and change things up enough to make them their own thing. In any case, the whole first fight with the angel Sachiel here is a single scene in full without the edits as opposed to what is in the series. Oh and I totally get that there are a lot of concepts and language being thrown at you early on that makes it all hard to take in. I was the same way when I first watched it so don't worry if you are perpetually confused lol. It's a convoluted mess of religious concepts, philosophical/metaphysical insanity and political scheming that somehow manages to make at least some sense on first viewing. People are still debating every aspect of the story to this day. I've seen it a dozen times now at least and I'm still not entirely clear on some of it.

Michael Hingston

Dameister, from my perspective the series debuted well before anime was getting dubs in the mainstream or things like Toonami etc were a thing in the US or here in Australia. Subbed anime was not a thing at all really in the west for the most part and you got a small amount of what was at the time non mainstream (Pokemon etc) anime dubbed and that was all there was so we took what we could get as fans of the content as back then all anime you could buy was dubbed as the default on VHS lol. I'm talking mid 1996 here when Eva hit TV here and a year or so after that for home video. I realise now that just makes me sound super old as I was only 16 at the time. I pretty much didn't even have the opportunity to watch Evangelion subbed until many years after the fact when stuff slowly started showing up on DVD and fansubbing became more common. It's not that I am against subs generally, I love it with some things like JoJo's as I said, but there are a handful of things from back then like Evangelion (Which I watched for the first time about 5 or 6 months after it released in Japan when it first aired on community TV network here) That I just can't really generally watch in any other way unless it's something like reactions etc. I just think most people who are sub purists just have a 'dUbS bAd' mentality rather than taking each one on it's individual merits if that makese sense. In this case for its time it was phenomenal work by the main VAs of the series, which they did on a virtually non existent budget and far from top of the line equipment. Apparently according to one of the cast on the commentaries on EoE, Spike blew out at least one mic with his screaming lol. I guess the short version is not all dubs are bad just by way of them being dubs, but certainly there is bad voice work in both English AND Japanese anime's and I think it's just a bit short sighted to loath them as a general thing. Ok this turned into a bit of a rant, so apologies in advance lol.

Damiester
>>32236681

Didn't see this comment for a week. Either way, I'm actually of the opposite opinion. Most dub fans I've seen on almost every single video simply prefer dubs for no other reason than the fact that they grew up with it. They'd say "Japanese voices are squeaky" and basically no other legitimate reason. Shinji's voice actress in Japan is legendary for specifically this role. So phenomenal is definitely a word I would use to describe the Japanese voice acting. Every single video, I see dub fans saying "this is the only series you need to watch in dub" and it gets suspicious lol. As I've mentioned before, I compared the show's voice acting in 3 languages and I simply think the Japanese one just works better. There are certain episodes were his screams do not carry anywhere near the impact in English or Chinese. It could be a slight change in modulation, the stressed syllables or simply the timing of the crescendo, but there's something very different that I prefer.

Michael Hingston
>>32236681

It's honestly the only one I use that reasoning to avoid the subbed version and I'm not likely to change my mind on the matter I don't think.