>>36289790I beg to differ. Where did Sarah (or anyone, for that matter) think making Ash sounding so gruff and deep fit a young boy? He sounds at best like a teenage guy with a gruff voice in DP, which isn't age appropriate and was so hoarse to listen to much of the time.
I'll admit it was still not as terrible as Bill is with Brock or TPCi's horrendous rendition of Team Rocket are (particularly, Cathcart's Meowth is dreadful), but it still hurt to listen to given what Natochenny replaced- did not even sound remotely as good as Taylor was.
I will concede that Sarah was still at least more masculine sounding in DP than the effeminate, raspy XY/SM take she does (she has gotten notably worse again since XY started), but Veronica Taylor still did such a better job with Ash- the voice changes are one of many things that led to the dub becoming garbage, in general, not restricted to Sarah at all but proved disastrous in the long term.
Once Goldfarb replaced Loeffler as music composer and they started shitting up the music, and censorship returned though, the Pokemon dub went beyond redemption- TPCi just doesn't give a shit how bad it gets, so long as people eat it up.
>>36289815There were about 10 out of 11 intros better than that at the time for the English dub openings, this is probably the 2nd worst out of those 11. Sure, it's better than the DP Rap and most themes after it, but the OS and AG dubs had way, way better opening themes (helped in part by them not being only 30 seconds on average).
