How's the English dub vs Japanese ?

[EyrSlayer02]

Opinions?

[mimizukari]

just play the way the game was made, jp. a game's dub will never excel over the original. the only time it ever happened in anime even was Ghost Stories.

[Jeffer'son Airship]

The English dub is overall quite good with the weaker VAs regulated to minor roles.

The Japanese dub is fine as well, though it has a couple mediocre performances among the party members.

You can't really go wrong with either.

[hyperstructure]

i only played the original p4 in english and the dub was really good, kanji especially is very funny in english. i'm playing this one with JP voices though

[Elfie]

I don't play with Japanese dub when there is an option (why play the story-heavy game in the language you don't understasnd?!). so can only comment on English dub - and its very decent. So far every character sounds on point, English voice fits characters well.

[㊈ y u w e i]

My only issue with the English voices is Chie. They changed her voice in Golden and I personally think her new voice actor did a mediocre job at best, it makes me grit my teeth..
But otherwise, everyone else is fine. In the end, English (except Chie) and Japanese are both good.

[Sumea]

The English dub at least on PS2 was very high quality, but woefully misplaced. They tried they REALLY tried to make their English localization be as fitting as it can - but it still just quite isn't given the setting and characters and they have to mishmash Japanese cultural things included in dialogue and others changed to make more sense in west like not using first names unless you really are real friends for real with a person.

The Persona 4 manual on PS2 at least in Europe has two to four pages of different Japanese cultural things within the game that you might need to know more about which is a fun last pages in the manual.

[LightningPuppet]

The Persona dubs are great, there's occasional mispronunciation but it never detracts from the story

[LightningPuppet]

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

just play the way the game was made, jp. a game's dub will never excel over the original. the only time it ever happened in anime even was Ghost Stories.

I take it you never watched Cowboy Bebop or Ghost in the Shell

[Schion.93]

Originally posted by ㊈ y u w e i:

My only issue with the English voices is Chie. They changed her voice in Golden and I personally think her new voice actor did a mediocre job at best, it makes me grit my teeth..
But otherwise, everyone else is fine. In the end, English (except Chie) and Japanese are both good.

I have always found the Persona series English dubs to be pretty good so much so that its the first series I prefer in English dubs, now that you mention it, yeah the only down side to P4G was that they changed Chie's VA

[Elfie]

Originally posted by ㊈ y u w e i:

My only issue with the English voices is Chie.

Yep, noticed that too.

She's not terrible overall, and I think fits the character well - just sometimes slack on tones and speak out of character. Like her lines haven't been prooflistened or checked in any way before releasing the game.

[ｃｏｏｌｄｏｗｎ]

I usually don't like dubs at all, but persona has some of the best out there. Probably because there's proper voice direction. I haven't heard all of the new dub they did for golden, but I don't really like chie's new voice, but I think that's just a preference.

[SKINLESSHEAD]

Japanese teddie makes me want to rip my head off.

[黒猫]

Originally posted by Elfie:

I don't play with Japanese dub when there is an option (why play the story-heavy game in the language you don't understasnd?!). so can only comment on English dub - and its very decent. So far every character sounds on point, English voice fits characters well.

It sounds as cringy as any other anime dub tbh.

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

just play the way the game was made, jp. a game's dub will never excel over the original.

/thread.

[EpicD1CK]

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

just play the way the game was made, jp. a game's dub will never excel over the original. the only time it ever happened in anime even was Ghost Stories.

The only valid opinion here.

[simplechild]

Persona 4's dub is good, but there are small things like inflection and intonations in the dialogue that make it sound less natural. Especially when compared to the near masterpiece that is Persona 5's dub.