Yeah the American Sailor Moon DiC Seasons had butchered Episodes and some good voices... the Cloverway Seasons had good episodes, but also butchered ones and it seems like they gave a middlefinger to the executive meddling they did, forcing them to re-edit an episode to put an obviously-drawn-on-bikini onto a naked monster (and ruining the scheduling because of that), by having the voice actresses all sound like they're having orgasms just by running around.

El Hazard - the Magnificent World OVA has a really good English dub! First time I watched their first episode, it was in German. The German dub was good, but since I love Japanese, I watched it in Japanese with subtitles when I got the DVDs. Noticed that the timing for speech and subtitles was a bit off during the last two or three episodes, though...
Went to the English dub and that was really good! The voices fit well, the woman who voiced Ifurita did a decent enough job at sounding emotionless, whoever voiced Jinnai did a good job at that cackle and even Queen Deeva's voice was seductive. Overall, all the voices in it were really great, they did a good job.
If I were to watch it again, I'd probably choose to watch it in English to avoid the timing problem. My only complaint is how they pronounce the Names, but that problem was in the German version as well.

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Probably the best Ive heard is from Hellsing Ultimate. Which is a good thing, seeing as there are lots of long speeches in it. My favorate is the one at the end of Volume V.

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.: Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and that Disgaea anime has good dubbing.

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Steins; Gate, Death Note, Monster, any works by Key, Persona 4: The Animation... maybe it's just my tastes, but there are a lot of works out there with great dubs Of course, as I normally watch only dubs anyways, I'm not REALLY in the position where I could comment on the superiority of those animes' dubs vs. there subs in the first place

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My personal problem with that dub, aside from having Yuri Lowenthal, Laura Bailey and Troy Baker in it is the following...



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I have to agree on this. I do think it was handled a "little" better in the game, though it was still completely obvious. I did hear though they had to get a different actress to handle Naoto in the Animation and the extra scenes in P4G due to the actress not being available. I believe the same thing happened with Troy Baker getting replaced by Matthew Mercer in the 2nd half of The Animation and the extra scenes in Golden, but I think he had just gotten married or something. I do think Mercer does an excellent job overall, but he does seem to lack a little bit of "oomph" that Troy Baker had when Kanji goes on his angry rants.

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I think my problem with Troy Baker is that his voice is just way too deep for a 15 year old teenager. It just makes it sound really odd, seeing Kanji and then this supremely deep voice coming out of him. Tomokazu Seki voiced Kanji in the Japanese and while he did have a deeper voice, it wasn't too deep. And Seki's Shadow Kanji was freaking hilarious, giving him a really high, foppy voice - more than just the lisping that the English Shadow Kanji had.

As for the last few episodes of P4 Animation, I haven't watched them. Haven't found them subbed on YouTube yet...

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I personally love it, but then again, I've had 15 year olds in my high school with voices that deep, so it's nothing new for me. In fact, his voice isn't even as deep as some of the guys I sang in choir with, so it fits in quite well to me.

As for Rise, I'll take Laura Bailey over her JP actress any day. I've watched the JP voiced version before and I've loved all the voices... except for Rise's. I'm fine when she's singing, but her speaking voice just grates on my ears too much. It has too much of that squeaky Japanese female anime voice that I just can't stand. I much rather enjoy Laura Bailey's performance, and I was a bit surprised to hear that she has a decent singing voice in P4G.

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black lagoon is one of the only time ive liked the dub alot more than sub really wish theyd continue with the series

YuYu Hakusho is one of the best english dubs out there in my opinion. I also enjoyed Trigun was also good as well as of course DBZ.

I don't really watch anime any more, and when I did was a subtitle snob, but I do have to give credit where credit's due to a few good dubs that are worth mentioning:

Cowboy Bebop: Good voice acting crew, both in terms of voices and style. They really fit into the overall tone of the anime in a way the Japanese voice actors just couldn't quite make. I think it helps that the story in general was very western-oriented.

All of the Disney Miyazaki/Ghibli dubs: Say what you will about Disney, but they know voice acting. Spirited Away is the most memorable, I think, but all of the dubs they've done have been done incredibly well and are a pleasure to watch and listen to.

Honourable Mention for Nostalgia:
The original Sailor Moon DiC dub: They butchered this show like nobody's business and most of voices made no sense (what was up with Molly's NJ accent?! And Luna being an old British lady, wut?) but I can't help but enjoy the dub on some level for all of the memories I have of watching that show back in the 90s. They're burned in my memory a lot more than the Japanese seiyuu will ever be.