OH MY GOD
After viewing
this post and watching the two openings for the Australian dub, I nearly felt my eyeballs bleed and my ear drumbs explode. The openings are just plain horrible, even Hinata is crying in shame in my default user icon. Where the heck did they come up with such lyrics? And what is the deal with them mispronoucing Sasuke's name? I was clearly ashamed and it made me just appreciate the english dub even more. We atleast kept the opening japanese songs (the only significant change to the openings we did was just arrange a few pictures.)
And I really like the english dub, because Naruto's rough voice is made of so much win. Not only his voice, but I do believe Shikamaru's voice was done very good as well (really captures the laziness.)As for the two favorite characters: Neji sounds just like royalty--all high and mighty and seriously the boy needed to be knocked off his high horse. Now in the most recent episodes he sounds less haughty and more contemplative, which is a good change. The boy, however will never stop being hot--atleast in my opinion. As for my loveable Hinata, she sounds very soft and babyish, which I expect from her, but her voice does indeed lack the strength the japanese seiryuu ditched out during the whole v.s Neji fight.
But anyway my entire point it: The English dub isn't as bad as many people think. Actually I believe it is quite comparable to that of the Rurouni Kenshin's dub (which is very good trust me.)