#honestly? scratch that. people hate on dubs too much PERIOD imo

[jakotsuto]

I'm convinced people don't like Kagome Higurashi's voice (specifically the English one) for one of two reasons:

They aren't used to it/watched a different dub first, so their idea of what Kagome sounds like does not align with the English dub and it's jarring (i.e I don't particularly like Bankotsu's Japanese voice because it's deeper than I'm expecting.)

^ If you read a manga before watching the anime, that also applies. Getting used to the SxF English voices was an adjustment because I already had voices I gave them in my head.

They hate what women sound like

and those are the only two reasons I can think of, because Kagome's English voice is just... a pretty normal type of voice for girls to have.

Is Kagome's voice "annoying", or have we all just been socially conditioned to think the voices of women & girl's are more annoying because we're told they're more annoying? There's been a bias against women's voices for a long time and there's probably a lot of internalized misogyny to this day surrounding it.

There are plenty of women and girls who actually sound like English dub Kagome Higurashi. That's a real voice. It's a perfectly fine voice ???

I'm also pretty convinced that a lot of Kagome's ""voice"" being annoying is more about what she does with it, which is exhibit "annoying" behaviours like self-respect, and being opinionated, refusing to let anyone treat her like less, exhibiting emotions. All of these behaviours are frowned upon.

TL;DR: a majority of the complaints against Kagome, her voice, or her character are probably misogyny-based.