So I just watched the first episode of the english dub of Ouran High School Host Club.
Alright.
I'll start from the beginning.
The opener... sucked. They didn't keep the japanese opener. :\ They re-recorded it in english. It literally sounds like karaoke. It's really bad. I don't like the girl's voice.
The voices. I actually didn't mind most of them.
Vic does an amazing job as Tamaki, in my opinion. I couldn't picture anyone else doing Tamaki in english.
Kyouya... his voice is way to low. The voice actor has good infliction in his lines, but his voice in my opinion is way too low for the character.
Mori... I don't think I actually heard him speak...
Hunny/Honey... his voice is alright. The girl who does it can't really pronounce "chan" right. It sounds really bad. But other than that, he's cute. I miss him in the japanese version always going "Waaaaaaaiiii!<3" though. xD
Kaoru & Hikaru... I didn't mind them. Kaoru's voice was Goku from Saiyuki. :0 That was surprising. I love that voice actor, so I can't really say anything bad about him. It just makes me think of Goku and Sanzo. XD The voice actor for Hikaru was alright. They sound good together.
Haruhi... she's okay. I think her voice is a LITTLE too manly though. It's too low. Like, I know in the beginning she's supposed to be a boy, (sorry if no one's ever seen it...) but it's too low in my opinion. She does a good job with acting though.
The ending... sucked as well. :\ They re-recorded it also. I don't like the guy who sings it. The sound levels are messed up.
I found a version of Shissou that Vic sang though! Because Vic actually wrote the english lyrics for the song, so he I guess recorded it. But they didn't use his version for the anime. It sounds SO MUCH BETTER THOUGH. D:
[link]Overall? I thought it was pretty sucessful when you think of other dubs that sucked. It's nothing compared to FMA or something though. I think it's mainly the opening and ending songs that sucked the most.
The voices weren't that bad though.
I'm relatively satesfied.