As good as most anime dubs are nowadays, there is something weirdly depressing in how over the past decade, we’ve lost a kind of dubbing that was synonymous with the medium: the purposefully “so bad it’s good” dub. What was once an artform immortalized in works such as Ghost Stories and High School of the Dead, its now become relegated almost entirely to mostly unofficial, abridged works. That said, it’s not outright extinct just yet.
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