#went a bit of a rant there but the portray of kaiba in the eng dub makes me sad

[setokaibassoulmate]

heyo, i’m the anon who’s watching yu-gi-oh for the first time, and HOLY HECK, kaiba is so intense??? like THE SECOND he’s on screen, he’s already laying down the plot lmao /positive

HE’S SO GOOD, he’s my fav character already :D

also, i saw in the tags how you prefer the sub over the english dub. it makes me wonder if you dislike kaiba’s english voice 🤔

I‘m very happy to hear that! He’s just such a special and unique character!

I don’t dislike Kaiba’s eng voice, I think Eric Stuart did a good job with him but imo he pales in comparison to his JP voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda. Compared to him (and tbh also the german dub of Kaiba) Kaiba in the eng dub almost sounds a bit lackluster, not intense enough, not soft enough in those rare moments…. But this is mainly because Tsudaken set the bar so incredibly high that no one imo opinion can compete with him.

The reason why I put that in the tag didn’t have anything to do with the VA‘s though but the ridiculous changes the western dub made to the characters and the overall plot. The dub changed and censored quite a bit of the plot and just never managed to properly grasp the depth of most conversation. It’s a lot more watered down and shallow. The same thing happened to Kaiba’s character too, in the dub he’s just a huge stubborn jerk. He’s such a deep, complex and also tragic character but the dub did not portray this at all… I love the addition of his sarcastic one lines but at the same time they pushed him to far in that direction of him being a stubborn asshole to the point where it’s ridiculous and it also kind of ruins the seriousness of his character. In the dub he barely has any character development, he pretty much stays the same snarky dick to the point where he almost seems stupid, while sub Kaiba is a lot more reasonable and you clearly noticed a change in his character later on. The dub turned Kaiba almost into a meme and I just really don’t like that :/

And let me tell you the difference between the sub and dub doesn’t even come close to the difference between the manga and the anime😂