Things you DON'T like in anime/manga
 

We all have them, so come on, spill the beans.

Me? When the producers and the voice actor/seyuu decide to make the female characters have this super squeeky high pitched voice. Gah. Seriously, I'm fine with making them have cutsy voice, I like some of them, but gah, do you really have to make them sound like a 5 years old on crack?

And don't even get me started on characters that are nothing but a walking talking setereotype.

xD All I can think about when you say high-squeaky voice is the English dub of Angelic Layer. Poor girl sounds like she's on helium.

Anyway, I don't like gratuitous swearing and/or sexual jokes or actions. (ie- Ping Pong Club) It's grating to me and I just don't think it's very funny. I also don't like toooons of violence without some sort of point or plot significance. (ie- Black Lagoon) I mean... it's badass the first few times, but for lots of episodes in a row is boring.

Like Monica Rial? She has the most terrible voice in the world. And, just looking at what she's done, she's Tamayo Kizaki in Angelic Layer. I have to admit I've only ever met her at conventions but she has the kind of voice that makes you wonder if she's got a secret supply of helium she's inhaling while you're not looking.

Personally, I dislike anime with excess fanservice. Nothing will get me to quit watching an anime faster then unnecessary fanservice. I can stand a little, but some of these shows it's just overwealming and that's not good.

And, in dubs, appart from Monica Rial, I hate where they mispronounce something or get the tone of a scene wrong. I wish the dub actors would watch the japanses version first, at least long enough for them to pick up the pronunciation of the main characters names. The Bleach dub has some terrible pronunciation in it, and while it gave us a laugh it makes it hard to take the show seriously at all.

No it's actually Misaki who is voiced by Jessica Boone. I never got far enough in a dub episode to hear Tamayo. I'd just switch over the the sub track.

I agree with fanservice. Blegh.

Also, I wonder sometimes about how dub voice actors tackle their roles. Do they watch the whole series in sub format first? Or are they just told by a director what to say? Not only for pronunciation, but also for intent behind words. There's nothing worse than a dramatic scene in the original format that when dubbed, has everything sucked away because the English voice actor is using entirely the wrong tone of voice for the moment.

OMG and while I'm at it. ACCENTS. I like when they try to mimic a dialect in an anime. But it can be sooooo off. Some examples are Shizuru in Mai Hime and Leon in Kaleido Star. Shizuru has an accent... but it's not southern redneck. And yes Leon is French... but.... ugh. </rant>

*agrees with fiarra*
most english dubs sound really annoying. That's why manga's so much better; there are no voices.
I highly doubt most of the dubbed voice actors watched the subbed version of the anime. Some sound like they don't even know their character or the scene(ex: fate stay night)

I actually heard that the Fate/Stay dub wasn't too terrible. Granted he'd only seen like an ep of it in dub, but at least the voices sounded reasonable. And he's a really big fan too.

i think the worst example of bad dubbing for me recently is Eureka 7. I don't think even the voice actors know wth they're going on about.

My main problem with dubs is that, as I listen to them, I can't imagine people actually spekaing like that to each other in real life. It just ruins it.

Anyway, enought about dubs. Soundtracks are another big one. If a show has an awful soundtrack I can't watch it. For me, Trinity Blood was ruined by the overly dramatic music.

Actually, I was thinking more like something among the lines of the first girl that speaks in this video.

Hmm... that girl's voice sounds like pretty standard small asian girl to me...

I agree with that one too. The thing I hate about filler is how futule it is. You know that at the end someone has to press the magical reset button and everyone will be back in the right state to resume the plot. I really wish shows would just take a hiatus and get themselves behind the manga plot again instead of feeling like that have to push ahead.

A manga annoyance - I hate when I can't tell characters appart. I should be able too. Fruits basket, I love it but I can't tell the characters appart by the art, I have to judge who it is by context half the time. I mean, some, yeah, but others you just can't tell and it's annoying. Other manga-ka manage to make their characters distinct, so there's not excuse.

My biggest pet peeves for anime/manga are:

1.When the female VAs have extremely high pitched voices. I never found it cute, just extremely annoying.

2.Casting a female VA for a male character. If the character is feminine, it's fine(especially if you are supposed to think the character is a female).

3.I loahte it when a character has a nosebleed because they are aroused. I have always found it stupid, especially when it is done excessively.

4.Male abuse. I have never found it funny when a female character for no reason.

5.Excessive fan service. I don't mind a little boobage here or a little panties there, but when the anime/manga has too much, it sickens me.

6.Overly huge boobs. This is one of the fastest way to make me stop wacthing an anime.

7.When said character with huge boobs doesn't have any back pain.

I really don't like the high voice actors, or the odd english that was done for when Hyde was suppose to speak english, but he can anyway, so why did they have someone else do his voice in Last Quarter.

As for women casting as male, it is a talent and i think some of them deserve it, but not all that many.

nosebleeds are just weird, it reminds me of a only anime trait, as does the boy abuse, though I find it un realistic, but supposedly it can be great for those guys who like assertive girls.

Excessive fan service is the only thing that causes me to get up and leave anime club. it is a rarity, or I just sit at my computer and ignore the screen the best I can, but panties shots that don't make sense, or chest that is really big, or huge amounts of blood is just annoying. I mean even Elfen Lied is a huge issue for me cause of that, but at least it does have plot.

Also bugger pet peeve is actually not the large breasts, but the complains they are small when they are huge, good example of this is Slayers, it just doesn't make sense, and whatever, also bathing scenes that are random, it is a complete what the hell.

Well, the Japanese often use female seyuus to do the voices for children and young boys (as in, barely hitting puberty), so...

That would explain it all, with the very high voices. I don't know, it is a skill there, but still.

If the female VAs can pull off sounding like a male, I don't mind. It's when you can tell that it's a female that bugs me. Like the first time I watched Shaman King subtitled, I was very dissapointed with Yoh's voice.

That was more or less what I was talking about. But yeah, female voice actors playing male characters when you can tell it is female is just odd.

oh yeah, recapping, it is soo annoying after seeing it the 30th episode, and not even that, But yes, recap is annoying. Too much blood is really hard on me, I start not likening the series, i had to be told it was a good series to watch even most bloody or semi bloody series.

Recap eppisodes are bad. They're only forgivable if the plot of REALLY complicated, then they serve a purpous as they stop you getting confused, and not being confused by the plot is always a good thing XD Though I haven't seen many anime with recap eppisodes, especially lately. Nana has them but they're marked with a .5 so you know it's a recap and you can avoid it if you want.

What turns me off from Anime

BAD voice acting for the dubbing. DiC are a wonderful example of that. Rini's voice sounds like nails clawing down a chalkboard which brings me to my next point.

When the NA versions rename characters to something completely different. Sometimes irony is either part of or connected to a characters name. For example Tsukino Usagi means "Rabbit of the Moon" and her least favourite food is listed as carrots. Same with Chibi Usagi, known as Chibi-Usa for short. The irony is completely lost in the translations (Serena and Rini respectively).

I think most of my problems have been covered, especially the one about oversized breasts. That is a big nono.