#[there's also tons of chemistry between jona's and spw's og VAs that i could seriously listen to them talk and laugh all day]

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When it comes to your muse's voice, do you prefer the original or dub voice actor for them?

unprompted asks 【always accepting】

//I'm gonna be very real here, nonny: I have never watched the dub in its entirety, but I have watched some clips from the US dub over the years (which I assume this question is about? If not, please correct me!). While I can appreciate the efforts of the voice actors involved in the dub, the reality is that.... the dub feels pretty butchered to me, especially in PB, as far as I could see. Between fake British accents and a very posh manner of speech even for characters who have slangy, sometimes actually vulgar, speech in the original (Speedwagon, namely, but not exclusively), and just.... being toned down overall with the cussing and the overall intensity (along with the shit talking between Spw and Zeppeli getting completely taken out, though that seems to be a translation mistake as most translations miss it, too for some ungodly reason), and this is something the dub actors have sometimes commented they did. Heck, Spw's dub VA has even joked about how the original VA probs died during the recordings due to how intense he was, lol. It's a decent dub and all, but the original dub in Japanese is leagues better imo. Plus, I feel like the dub lacks the "unspoken feel" they tried to show in the og for some of the characters through their voices (Jonathan's sweet/gentle side, Speedwagon's -sometimes over the top- intensity, Dio being terrifying and imposing even with words alone, Zeppeli's quirkiness, etc).

All that said, I totally favor the Japanese voices. As chopped as the PB anime is, there is a good reason DP spent so long doing the cast for its voice actors (months in most cases, iirc? Speedwagon being one of the characters that took them the longest to find "the right voice" for), and it shows!

So, yeah! I think I also mentioned it somewhere in the About pages, but my voiceclaims for Speedwagon (as well as the side muses) are their og voice actors for the anime and later games! So....

Spw: Youji Ueda

Jonathan: Kazuyuki Okitsu

Tattoo: Hiroaki Tajiri

Li (Kenpo Master): Itaru Yamamoto