Markorian
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- Apr 25, 2019
Actually a legitimately interesting observation that I'm surprised I never made the connection to. I can't tell you how many times I've been looking into an old jrpg I enjoy, only to find the story was gutted in the english localization, not for censorship, but because dialogue-heavy rpgs tend to tax cartridge memory already, and japanese text can simply say far more with less characters.English dubs of anime 9/10 are goofy as hell because they have to make English VA’s talk a mile a minute to match up with the Japanese. My understanding is that the Japanese language allows dialogue to be much more “dense” than if it were in English so any dub is always gonna sound weird.