English Dubbed Speaking and Singing Voices For Lacus Clyne are Horrible
927298
Overall, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed - Unexpected Meetings (Vol. 2) is a good volume. But the English dubbed speaking voice (by Chantal Strand) for Lacus Clyne and the English dubbed singing voice (by Jillian Michaels) for Lacus Clyne ("Shizukana Yoru ni" aka "In the Quiet Night") are awful and out of tune. They do not even sound alike. Only the English dubbed singing voice (purportedly also by Jillian Michaels) for Meer Campbell ("Quiet Night C.E. 73") in Gundam Seed Destiny is more awful and more out of tune. Just terrible.
4573780
I'm already bilingual and have never used a language CD course. Their choice for the Czech-speaking man is very poor -- he doesn't breathe while speaking so it's very hard to hear what he's saying and it makes distinguishing consonants is very difficult.  They should have chosen someone with a voice like the American narrator to do the Czech male voice.  The female voice on the other hand, is good. The makers lacked a little imagination because they failed to use a variety of names in the lessons -- for example, they keep repeating the same street name in all conversations, when it would have been much more interesting to hear different names.  In general, the amount of repetition of material is overdone in this system, because the whole idea of having it on CDs is that you can play to it over and over. They could have covered twice the amount of material with less repetition.
2346173
If you are buying this because you are a fan of the games, go away.  It puts shame on the Final Fantasy name.  Shame on you!!!!  The dubbing is terrible, the animation is crude, and the characters are annoying.
4385824
I am starting to hate the new english dialoge in classic anime.  Like in Akira I loved the actors on the tape but the new DVD verison lacked those voices.  I have the Giant Robo complete set on video tape, and I love the voices on that.  These new actors just don't fit, I miss the accents of those old actors.  Luckly the DVD has an audio track with the orginal voices.  Thank God someone thought to include that track.
4751721
Amazingly there are NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES! In music that depends totally on the words to create its mood it is incomprehensible that there would be no subtitles in any language other than German. This is particularly infuriating as it is beautifully sung and recorded.
Sadly one must say DO NOT BUY THIS DISC unless you are fluent in German. The amazon information talks about it being dubbed in English (which I mistakenly took to mean English translations would be available). The short black and white doco has English subtitles as the artists explain their interpretation, but all that does is make it even more unacceptable that the text is not translated for sale outside Germany.
1535084
I loved Watamote when it was airing, and I was really looking forward to hearing a new take on the characters in the English dub. However, this release is a complete spit in the face. Sentai Filmworks are notorious for having no respect for the media they license, and Watamote is one of the more obvious examples of that in recent memory. The ADR is awful in general. None of the VAs' performances are convincing at all. In fact, they're completely amateurish AT BEST. It's worth noting that it seems to be the fault of the director rather than the cast. Still, the casting for Tomoko is embarrassingly bad. Rial's performance sounds like it belongs in a bad "abridged parody" rather than an official dub. This is easily one of the worst dubs in years, which is surprising, considering how well the show performed on streaming services while it was airing.

This IS a relative decent release, when compared to some of Sentai's other recent projects. At least you're not shelling over $90 for a trash dub like with Sentai's Chuunibyou release. With that in mind, this release gets two stars.

I'm not asking for perfection, Sentai. I'm really not. But you guys really need to step up your ADR practices, or just dub fewer shows (or both). If you need an outlet for all of your sh***y joke dubs, put them on YouTube or something, because I don't want them on my shelf.
1966232
I'm finding the voice to be incredibly irritating, and I can't believe that they allowed the sound of his swallows to make the pressing.  I'm supposed to be using this but I can only do it with a different voice.
4048009
The book is fabulous, the original Swedish movies are great, the English dubbed version - SUUUUUUUUUCKS.

The Swedish version with English subtitled is superior in every way to the dubbed version. Very well made, I've watched the set a few times since it was released.

I have absolutely no interest in seeing the American made version of this trilogy.

I am looking forward to going back and reading the books again, they are so good!

The people doing the English voiceovers are absolutely awful! Flat as a pancake, no affect, they sound as though they are merely sitting there reading rather than professional voice actors who put everything into it as though they were the actors themselves.

I had to stop watching the dubbed version and go back to subtitles.  I highly recommend listening to the Swedish language, but having the English subtitles = infinitely better than the version dubbed with English speakers - they can't possibly be actors, they merely read the lines with no inflection, no emotion. It's very odd.
4391909
Voice of actors did not match what was happening on the movie
325247
I think the movie itself is pretty good and I definitely jumped in places.  But find a different version.  The English dubbing in this film is TERRIBLE.  Its so distracting and some of the voice overs were nonsensical (why did one guy have an English accent) or offensive (I cringed at the accent they did for the Asian characters).  The voices weren't believable either - since they weren't in the filming, their voices don't have the same sense of anger, panic, fear, and other emotions.  I would have much rather watched it in original Spanish with English subtitles.
759657
Buy the dvd. The blu ray only have the english dubbed version. This dubbing is very bad.
911855
Most of this film is in French and it has fixed subtitles that are very good. A small amount of German is also subtitled. Unfortunately the English is not and this is a great irritant. Scott Thomas speaks both French and American English and hops about between the two. As French is dominant one tends to rely on the subtitles and every now and then they are not there and one realises she has just said some words in English. The dialogue is not always 100% clear and one has to fiddle with the volume control and of course if one is hard of hearing part of the dialogue is then missed. This is a stupid and very annoying fault. The UK disc is the same. This disc is not cheap and I suggest a rent as I found this dialogue defect too troublesome to want to watch it again. This is a pity as if they had only thought about this carefully it could have been a much better view.
4875228
These are horribe. She is the stereotypical Jersey girl - complete with annoying accent. She also has some throat issue that was unbearable. I pitched the CDs after fighting through one cycle and wrote BarBri that I couldn't believe they produced such a thing. Which was a shame since I've enjoyed previous audio from them.
2857984
Read a lot of online reviews about this film. I would have rather read subtitles than listen to the terrible voice-over. If you want to watch it just get the remade American version 'Quarantine' with Jennifer Carpenter. It's a shot for shot remake.
4870055
This will NOT appear as a "certified Amazon purchase," because I bought it off Audible.com, then returned it, and when you return an audiobook, I guess you lose the privilege of reviewing it on that site.  Still, I want to review it to warn potential buyers against buying the audio production of it. The narrator is a pretty good narrator except when he's trying to do female characters (which he does falsetto and in a way that makes them into demons).  Most irritating -- unacceptable, really -- is that he did NOT do his homework.  I got through the first few chapters and had to stop because of the many mispronunciations and mistaken renderings he gave it.  He got the pronunciation of "Oregon" right, ditto "Willamette," but he didn't bother to look up how "Corvallis" is said, nor "Monroe" street in Corvallis (and he pronounces the latter differently every time he says it).  You can argue that because I'm from Oregon I'm making too big a deal of this, but he was shaky on Montana place names, too (and I'm not even from Montana), and I could not bear to keep listening to however he would continue to butcher Western place names.  Also irritating is that he decided that Juniper MacKenzie is Irish, and gives her the most canned Irish accent I've ever heard.  What the heck?  I haven't even read the book -- only listened to the first couple of chapters -- and it already set my teeth on edge.  MacKenzie is a Scottish name -- though at least I was spared his Scottish accent -- and just because she has that last name, it doesn't automatically mean she's from Scotland or Ireland!  She's an American for heaven's sake.  Did the narrator not read the book all the way through before beginning it?

Shame on this narrator for not being more careful, and shame on Tantor Audio for allowing this kind of sloppiness to get produced.

The story seems like a promising post-apocalyptic sci-fi series (it certainly has a lot of fans), so I'm going to buy the book and READ it.
3767235
I'm trying to listen to this on CD. The narrator is so horribly annoying I don't know if I can finish it. Her voice raised for Pascal is the most grating thing I've ever heard.
4680823
I just received Volumes 1, 2, & 3 in the mail today. The DVD's arrived in perfect quality and I could not wait until I popped the DVD into my laptop. Upon seeing that it had the English dub, I decided to watch it in that format, hoping to hear the voices I heard and loved as a geeky child. And oh boy, were my hopes and dreams crushed into pieces. The English dub is flat out horrible. Sakura's voice is way too high and pitchy, actually many of the female characters are, Cerberus' voice is also high & pitchy. Toya and their father's voice are just bland, monotone, and boring. This actually seems to be the theme for many of the male characters on the show. It was really disappointing to hear, because despite Nelvana heavily editing the show when it aired in North America, I feel that the voice actors they got were better suited for the characters.

With that being said, the quality of the show is fantastic; the colours, sound, picture quality. And it's great that you're getting all 70 episodes when you order volumes 1, 2, & 3. They're unedited, so you're seeing the show as it aired in Japan. So for die-hard fans of the show, you'll be happy with the DVD, and like me, you'll have to watch the show in Japanese with English subtitles.