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Language of your choice.

One of the best: Yu Yu Hakusho (English). Back when Funimation remembered what fun was.

One of the worst: Mirage of Blaze (English). Hysterical. XD The dude that dubbed Kenshin also voices a main guy here, but whereas the Kenshin dub is kind of ingratiatingly bad, this is just plain awful. The theme song is a special treat.

Just wanted to see what people's opinions are.
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one piece, sailor moon, and cardcaptor sakura have 3 of the worst dubs i've ever heard

dbz, yuyu hakusho, fairy tail, inuyasha,  naruto, the first 2 seasons of pokemon, and sonic x have some of the best
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Worst: CCS

Best: Hmm...probably Furoba or Kodocha
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Jecka wrote: Worst: CCS

Best: Hmm...probably Furoba or Kodocha
Huh, I didn't like the Kodocha dub (assuming you mean the English one). It was too shrill, which tends to work less well with English VAs than it can with Japanese ones.

CCS was not good by any means, but I was more offended by the censorship than the voice acting. :P (Again, assuming English)

And the first two seasons of pokemon are wonderful.
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pofa wrote: CCS was not good by any means, but I was more offended by the censorship than the voice acting. :P (Again, assuming English)
I agree completely.

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Worst dubbed series?

The 4Kids version of One Piece. No question.
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Jecka wrote:
pofa wrote: CCS was not good by any means, but I was more offended by the censorship than the voice acting. :P (Again, assuming English)
I agree completely.

D: There was no love!
;_; It's sad when a relationship between two guys that never even reaches PG-level onscreen shenanigans is considered too mature of a theme for a kid's show. Ditto Syaoran's crush on Yukito (they sure left Sakura's crush on him in) and Tomoyo's feelings for Sakura (again, can't be an age thing because her classmates' heterosexual crushes on each other were left in, as was Rika's crush on the teacher) . :P

The manga pushed the boundaries of "acceptable" sexual relationships (on purpose), but the anime was always aware of its target audience and was very appropriate with all its relationships, heterosexual or homosexual. :/ The censorship was ugly.

Then there was the issue where the episodes without Syaoran in them were removed from air because they felt like nobody would watch a show where the only hero was a girl. :P But that's different.
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There are dubs that I enjoyed even if they were not good. So I probably have some sort of bias...

Stuff I don't mind watching dubbed:
Cowboy Bebop (I prefer it to the subtitled version.)
Trigun
Wolf's Rain
Yu Yu Hakusho
Eureka Seven
Escaflowne
Slayers
Zoids: Chaotic Century/Guardian Force
Digimon Seasons 1-3
Some Studio Ghibli movies

Worst dubs to me: *ponders*
Digimon seasons 4+
One Piece both versions
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I would say Yu-gi-oh! GX was a terrible English dub, but the Japanese version really wasn't any better.  Don't get me wrong, I love the cheesy awesomeness of both versions, but I can't call either "good".
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Yugioh GX was one of those fascinatingly awful things I watched.

Best would probably be the Ghibli dubs.
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most of anime dubbed in french in the 80's are kinda ridiculous at times
they even censored words by replacing them by others (like "apple juice" instead of "beer" in Maison Ikkoku or even "tissue" instead of "bra" in City Hunter"...)
And of course they replaced the japanese names by french ones but it sometimes makes no sense in the context
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MaitreDétective wrote: most of anime dubbed in french in the 80's are kinda ridiculous at times
they even censored words by replacing them by others (like "apple juice" instead of "beer" in Maison Ikkoku or even "tissue" instead of "bra" in City Hunter"...)
And of course they replaced the japanese names by french ones but it sometimes makes no sense in the context
replacing beer with apple juice/other stuff isn't uncommon, it happened in a lot of English dubs as well.
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Akonyl wrote:
MaitreDétective wrote: most of anime dubbed in french in the 80's are kinda ridiculous at times
they even censored words by replacing them by others (like "apple juice" instead of "beer" in Maison Ikkoku or even "tissue" instead of "bra" in City Hunter"...)
And of course they replaced the japanese names by french ones but it sometimes makes no sense in the context
replacing beer with apple juice/other stuff isn't uncommon, it happened in a lot of English dubs as well.
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All animes dubbed by "4kids" are the worst :(
The best I've heard is the Fate/Zero D(English Dub), it was A+mazing!!

others such as Haruhi Suzumiya (English Dub), and Cowboy Bebop (English Dub) is okay too ^^
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I didn't mind the dubs of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and Shakugan no Shana.
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