User blog comment:Lemursrule/Bleach 267 english dubbed review: Hiatus Over/@comment-4839285-20120825131103/@comment-1351982-20120825134239

I love the Japanese version too. Even though the dub is similar, it's kind of like when you take a broadway musical overseas to a non-English speaking country, same plot, but different flavor. In my opinion, there are some characters that work better in Japanese and others that work better in English. I know this sounds really weird, because even though "they come from Japan, they should speak Japanese," without getting into a ethnicity argument (which in reality only a small handful of characters in bleach are actually Japanese, because one, if you're dead or were born in soul society you can't technically be an actual Japanese citizen unless you were born in Japan in accordance to Japanese government, and two, you can't tell me that characters like Rangiku (who looks like a combination of Mariilyn Monroe and Kate Winslet) and Tosen are Japanese), some characters like Rangiku and Orihime I believe get Tite Kubo's original character intent moreso than