Quote Originally Posted by Stunt View Post
I take Naruto and Bleach come to mind easily as introductory mediums into the world of Anime due to their popularity and availability of dubs. However, are there other Anime series, that assist in easing westernised fans into anime a little more smoothly than the likes of Bleach?

With so much variety out there, it's really hard to know where to go next when your series ends because an added factor prevails that not every anime is made for every type of person - maybe we should start a thread on this.
I'll be honest ... some of the first series I watched when I got "re-introduced" to anime were Slayers, Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop. All dubbed. And initially, I didn't notice the quality of the voices - Cowboy Bebop's dub, especially is very good, and Evangelion isn't bad either.

However, as I ventured deeper into anime territory and started expanding my list of watched series (and my current list is insanely long), I got used to the quality of the voice acting in Japanese series - and I have now managed to re-watch all three of those series in their original Japanese. And regardless of how much credit I would like to give their English counterparts, I absolutely cannot go back to the dubbed versions.

Dubs are fine if you're being introduced to the medium, and a large chunk of the folk watching Naruto on SABC probably wouldn't have anything to compare against, but if you take your anime as seriously as I do, then subbed is the way to go.

That's my opinion anyways