I know a lot of fans really hate the Cloverway dub but honestly I personally enjoyed it when it first came on Toonami. As a big fan of the Japanese soundtrack, I always appreciated they kept the original Japanese score in the dub. The episodes were still more faithful to the original than DiC and they actually dubbed all of S and SuperS too instead of skipping or combining a bunch of episodes. It also seemed like they let up on the censorship like actually allowing the characters to slap each other and they even kept blood in the Toonami version in the Uranus flashback episode. I remember being really shocked to see they kept that when it first aired on Toonami. Cloverway's dub cast gets a bad rap because of Serena and Amy's new VAs not being all that great, but honestly, most of the rest was perfectly fine to me. Amara's VA did a fine job of being both masculine and feminine at the same time to me and apparently her actress has done a lot of live action TV work too. They just borrowed Ikuko Mama's dub VA to use for Michelle but I thought she did a good job of handling her maturity and elegance. Hotaru's voice was cute and Trista's was just fine. I personally actually liked Mina's Cloverway VA more than her DiC one. Her DiC was ok but I always felt like she came across a little too average. Cloverway's Mina did a better job to me of bringing out the goofiness of her character but I think she still did a good job with the serious roles. The villains all had really good VAs too and I don't just mean Professor Tomoe. Mistress Nine, the Witches 5, Kaornite, the Quartet, and Nehelina, all had good VAs to me.
I also loved Tigerseye and Fisheye's VAs though I didn't care for Zirconia and hated Fisheye's. I think the biggest problem Cloverway's dub had was Serena and Am's new VAs, the horrible way they handled Haruka and Michiru, and the overuse of valleygirl slang. But if we're comparing to all the skipped episodes and music and personality changes in the DIC dub, I feel like Cloverway's problems pale in comparison. I think it would have been a lot better if they just kept Haruka and Michiru's relationship ambiguous and cut out all the hand holding scenes like they did in episode 92 and tone down all the valleygirl slang. In fairness to Linda Ballatyne, I think she did a better job when she was acting for Princess Serenity and she seemed to be acing in her natural speaking voice instead of trying to make herself sound like Terri Hawkes. And I just can't bring myself to hate her when she always seems very enthusiastic about Sailor Moon and I think she gets a bit of an unfair bad rap when really Terri wasn't that much better than Linda. Of course Cloverway also gave us the amazing Sugar Baybee as Rini. What are your thoughts about the Cloverway dub? Do you think it deserves the hate that it gets or do you think there are more merits to it than people give it credit for?
I also loved Tigerseye and Fisheye's VAs though I didn't care for Zirconia and hated Fisheye's. I think the biggest problem Cloverway's dub had was Serena and Am's new VAs, the horrible way they handled Haruka and Michiru, and the overuse of valleygirl slang. But if we're comparing to all the skipped episodes and music and personality changes in the DIC dub, I feel like Cloverway's problems pale in comparison. I think it would have been a lot better if they just kept Haruka and Michiru's relationship ambiguous and cut out all the hand holding scenes like they did in episode 92 and tone down all the valleygirl slang. In fairness to Linda Ballatyne, I think she did a better job when she was acting for Princess Serenity and she seemed to be acing in her natural speaking voice instead of trying to make herself sound like Terri Hawkes. And I just can't bring myself to hate her when she always seems very enthusiastic about Sailor Moon and I think she gets a bit of an unfair bad rap when really Terri wasn't that much better than Linda. Of course Cloverway also gave us the amazing Sugar Baybee as Rini. What are your thoughts about the Cloverway dub? Do you think it deserves the hate that it gets or do you think there are more merits to it than people give it credit for?