User blog comment:Grievous67/The best and worst dubs of One Piece (Top 16 dubs)/@comment-24287735-20150902104036

I watched these videos about the dubs in different languages a few weeks ago and I didn't expect that the German Dub to be underratedly nice. It 's just the censorship and name changes made it bad. This is just my opinion but Nami actually sounded better in German like their equal with the Japanese. And the German Luffy is actually one of the closest male voices to the original. The other languages that mostly had male actors for Luffy are like too mature sounding.

Speaking of foreign languages, the voice actor in Thai Luffy be like, "Boy? I'm 45 years old, lad!" (I'm serious! Like he sounds like a 34 year-old man!).

The Filipino dub (since I grew up watching it since I was 8) could be better if GMA just had a better roster of voice actors. They didn't censor nor even translate the openings and title cards into Tagalog so I think this is just made poorly because of low budget and is watched by a very young audience (uncensored anime being watched by 5-year old kids? Yes, you read it right), plus the fact that the senior citizen producers think that "it's just a mere cartoon" like Tom and Jerry or like that. But something I can be proud of is that our Luffy is so damn accurate that his voice actress is just a note higher than Tanaka herself!

I didn't grew up with 4Kids or Funi dubs like you guys but there are points where American dubs that went better than the original. For example like Ryu said, Franky sounds better in English. Yes he does because an American actor will just make an American (according to SBS) makes the sound best. I also think that the problem why English dubs sound different to some people because the way Americans and the Japanese speak are opposites. Japanese sounds almost lack pompous or fancy sounds, including the missing vowels or consonants that English has a lot, so Japanese "sounds natural" and good as it is.