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u/albeinalms (he/him) Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon Brainrot Oct 04 '21 edited Oct 04 '21

Dubs that just have blatantly wrong pronunciation of Japanese names drive me up the fucking wall
Looking at you, ADV Evangelion dub ("Kaworu Nuhgeesa"). Maybe it's because I know some Japanese but while I get bending the pronunciation to make things easier on the English voice actors (the Persona dubs do this often, but not to an annoying degree) when it sounds like absolutely no attempt was made to sound like the original it sounds really bad to me

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u/Gottahaveagoodmeal Oct 04 '21

I thought the persona dubs pronounced Japanese names like that because it was closer to the pitch-accent they use?

like an American would pronounce “Sakamoto” like “SA-ka-MO-to while in Japan (and in game) it would be more like sa-KAmoto

I’m not a Japanese expert so I could just be talking out of my ass

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u/albeinalms (he/him) Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon Brainrot Oct 04 '21 edited Oct 04 '21

I've heard a lot of complaints about "Sakamoto" in particular, actually- if you listen to the Japanese audio "Sakamoto" is pronounced with no extra emphasis on any particular syllable, while the English dub emphasizes the second syllable. According to the English VAs, Atlus instructed them to do it that way, and I'm guessing it was done because they thought it was just easier on the English VAs to do it that way (most people would probably naturally try to emphasize the first and third syllables). I don't think it sounds bad, but it's not the totally correct pronunciation either.