The thing that clued me into it was how I found amateur voice actors and male voice actors to be a mixed bag, but professional voice actresses were this consistent glossy professional style of terribleness. Once I started paying attention to that, It was pretty easy to track down that particular voice/accent as one that really annoys me and is incredibly overused in anime dubbed after about 2008 or so.
It really only works for stupid rich girls that the audience is supposed to find kind of annoying, and yet every female lead in dubs seems to have it.
Really, the only time I hear it is when I forget to change over the audio track in a file that has the English track as default, but just those few seconds is enough for palpable relief, when the Japanese voices kick in and the girl suddenly sounds normal, friendly, and her voice matches her appearance.
The thing that clued me into it was how I found amateur voice actors and male voice actors to be a mixed bag, but professional voice actresses were this consistent glossy professional style of terribleness. Once I started paying attention to that, It was pretty easy to track down that particular voice/accent as one that really annoys me and is incredibly overused in anime dubbed after about 2008 or so.
It really only works for stupid rich girls that the audience is supposed to find kind of annoying, and yet every female lead in dubs seems to have it.
Really, the only time I hear it is when I forget to change over the audio track in a file that has the English track as default, but just those few seconds is enough for palpable relief, when the Japanese voices kick in and the girl suddenly sounds normal, friendly, and her voice matches her appearance.