Sci-Fi Anime With The Best English Dubs

The sci-fi genre of anime is widespread, especially with the rapid growth of technology in our era. It’s a genre often unrivaled when it comes to speculations of the future for humanity, creativity, and innovations. Scientific fiction anime is an all-time favorite of most viewers, and it’s no secret that most anime are often voiced initially in Japanese, leading to a need for dubs for anime viewers who don’t want to go through the stress of reading subs.

Related

25 Anime That Are Better Dubbed Than Subbed

Most anime fans will say that subbed is always better than dubbed — however, there are a few exceptions to the rule.

Posts

By  C.M Edwards

This causes controversy online amongst fans who love the subs and those who love dubs. There are some dubbed sci-fi anime where the original intent of the voice acting is not lost in translation, and the voice actors do a perfectly good job of conveying the emotions of each character.

10 Cowboy Bebop

Anime-Planet Rating: 4.3 / 5

The anime follows the story of Spike Spiegel and his partner Jet Black, bounty hunters on board a spaceship called Bebop. During their various adventures through space, they meet Ein, Faye Valentine, and Edward Wong, and the crew embarks on various adventures hunting criminals and collecting their bounties.

The English cast of this fantastic show does a great job of bringing out the emotions of each character, especially Steve Blum, who conveys the stoic and mysterious personality of Spike Spiegel well, just like he did Zabuza and Orochimaru in the dubbed Naruto series.

9 Parayste The Maxim

Anime-Planet Rating: 4.2 / 5

One fateful night worm-like aliens invade the earth taxed with the mission of getting a host by devouring the brain of the hosts. A certain alien, Migi, fails to capture the brain of his host, Shinichi, and settles for his right hand, giving birth to an uncanny team as they try to survive other parasites that discover Shinchi’s brain remains intact.

The cast who voiced the English dub for Parayste the Maxim did an excellent job, making sure the words coming from the characters were made emotions portrayed in with Shinichi Izumi being portrayed by Adam Gibbs and the perfectly emotionless voice of Migi by Brittney Karbowski.

8 Dr. Stone

Anime-Planet Rating: 4.3 / 5

Dr. Stone is among the best-written sci-fi anime of the 21st century. In a world where everyone was petrified for roughly 3700 years, the protagonist Senku Ishigame a genius and science prodigy wakes up to a world harsher than the one he was used to, where human scientific progress has been reset. The anime follows how Senku and his friends try to return the world to how it once was, also trying to uncover the secrets of petrification.

Related

10 Isekai Anime With The Best English Dubs

Although these isekai anime were originally voiced in Japanese, their English dubs were as good as the Japanese versions.

Posts

By  Emedo Destiny

The viewers can capture the essence of the show, the fun in science, and the importance it plays in the former world of Dr. Stone, which is perfectly portrayed by talented voice artists like Aaron Dismuke, who portrays Senku Ishigami, Ricco Fjardo, who portrays Taiju Oki and Brittany Lauda who portrays Yuzuriha Ogawa.

7 Sword Art Online

Anime-Planet Rating: 3.9 / 5

One of the most popular science fiction animes, it is set in a world where virtual reality gaming is a trendy venture. The anime starts when millions of players join to play a newly released virtual game and find out that they can’t log out, and with the terrifying rules accompanying the game, dying in the games means dying in real life.

The voice actors who worked on this show effectively communicated with the audience through the emotions in the characters' voices, allowing the anime fans to feel the characters' pain and fear. The main protagonist is voiced by Bryce Paperbook, also known for his famous works in voicing Rin Okumura from the anime series Blue Exorcist and Eren Jeager from the Attack on Titans franchise.

6 Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Anime-Planet Rating: 4.5/5

Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood is one of this genre's best anime. The story follows the journey of two brothers, Edward Elric and his junior brother Alphonse Elric and their journey to find the Philosopher’s Stone and recover their bodies, which were lost when they performed alchemy to try to resurrect their dead mother as children.

The English dubbed version was able to portray the determination of the brothers through their voices, allowing the audience to experience the world of alchemy through talented voice actors like Vic Mignogna and Muriel Hofmann, who voiced Edward Elric and Alphonse Elric.

5 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Anime-Planet Rating:

This story follows David, a boy who loses his mom in a car accident. He decides to reject the rotten system and make a living by becoming an Edgerunner, a high-tech black market mercenary called a cyberpunk, where the anime gets its name from. The anime reveals the cybernetic addiction and gang violence involved in the Free State of Night City, where the story is set.

The English dubbed cast did an excellent job with Zach Aguilar voicing the main character of David Martinez, also known for voicing Tanjiro Kamado in the popular Demon Slayer series letting the viewers get a feel of this emotionally packed world where cybernetics rule.

4 Psycho-Pass

Anime-Planet Rating:

This cyberpunk psychological thriller is set in a world where one’s guilt or innocence is proven by a machine,. The machine scans and determines if you have criminal intent and are judged according to the results. A woman called Akane Tsunemori realizes the problems with this method and sets out to uphold justice correctly.

Related

The Psycho-Pass English Dub is Back

It's been over 10 years since the Psycho-Pass series premiered, but 8 years since fans last heard the English dub. Until now, that is.

Posts

By  Matthew Magnus Lundeen

In this anime, the talented voice actors can portray the fact that the world isn’t one-dimensional, allowing the viewers to connect with that mindset through the talented voicing of Akane Tsunemori, which Kate Oxley does.

3 Code Geass

Anime-Planet Rating: 4.3 / 5

A sci-fi anime set in an alternate future that follows Lelouch Lamperouge, who obtains a Geass that gives him the ability to give a command to anyone he makes eye contact with. Assuming the guise of a mysterious masked freedom fighter called Zero, he leads a rebellion against the Holy Britannian Empire.

The voice actors put in superb work here to show the various personalities of this emotional roller coaster anime. Prince Lelouch Lamperouge’s determination was accurately portrayed in his voice by the talented Johnny Yong Bosch, also known for his talented work in Bleach as Ichigo Kurosaki.

2 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Anime-Planet Rating: 4.1 / 5

Set in a future where robotic enhancements have become the norm. This anime follows the adventures of a female cyborg counterintelligence agent and her team as they solve case after case, which unravels into a series of events highlighting corruption in other branches of the Japanese government.

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn and the English cast for this anime did a great job portraying the personality of Motoko Kusanagi and her comrades. Accurately depicting her unrelenting fearlessness, it is one of the most professional and convincing dubs.

1 Steins;Gate

Anime-Planet Rating: 4.43 / 5

This sci-fi-packed anime follows the story of mad scientist Rintarou Okabe and his group of friends, who, through a series of mysterious events, invents a phone that can change the past, and they start discovering the secrets of time travel and how this discovery changes their lives forever.

The English cast for this particular work of art didn’t fail the audience as they seamlessly voiced this anime in perfect synchronization with the characters, with J.Micheal Tatum voicing Rintarou Okabe and Kurisu Makise being voiced by Trina Nishimura showing how the relationship between them develops and the thoughts of each character, fans would never imagine that its first language was Japanese.

More

20 Romance Anime With The Best English Dubs

These romance anime with English dubs stayed true to the original story even without using the original Japanese performances.

Posts

By  Oluwasemilore Oluwatimilehin Adebola