

Are there any anime that have English language dubs voiced by the voice actors
of the original non-English language of the anime?


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Anime dubbed by original voice actors


The most prominent example that comes to mind is Pokémon, which has used [Ikue
Ohtani's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikue_%C5%8Ctani) voice for Pikachu for
almost the entire series.


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As amazing as that would be the answer is no. A majority of the voice actors
in the industry would have to be fluent in English for that to happen, and
that is sadly not the case here.  
EDIT :A lot of Japanese voice acting tends to be 'good', but at the same time
it's a lot different than the type of voice acting in English. With English,
we kind of strive for natural sounding voices that sound normal. Whereas in
contrast with Japanese voice acting, especially in Anime, nobody in real life
talks like any anime character. While overacting is seen as a sign of a bad
actor in the West, over in Japan it's kind of the opposite. And I feel because
of this, it's kind of easier to come across as a good voice actor in Japanese
than it is in English. That and directors are super picky about VAs. Some
directors will go through hundreds of auditions for characters that aren't
even the protagonist.

Also, would you like to watch an anime where all the jokes and puns which kind
of make sense in Japanese, would be lost in translation?

As an answer said already the most prominent case of that happening is in the
case of Pikachu.


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As a matter of fact, [Mari Iijima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Iijima)
reprised her role as Lynn Minmei in ADV's 2006 English dub of the 1982 anime
_Super Dimension Fortress Macross_. Unfortunately I can't find any clips of
the dub, but [here's an English interview with her about the
role.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpz298XHrxw)


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The _[D4DJ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D4DJ)_ English dub has one of the
Japanese voice actresses playing the same character in English. Which is
really cool!


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