US EditionAmazon Removes English Dub Featuring AI Voices For Popular Anime Banana Fish After Audience Backlash
Amazon removed AI-generated English dubs for Banana Fish and other anime after subscriber backlash, while Spanish AI dubs remain on some titles.
- On November 29, 2025, Amazon's Prime Video removed an English AI-generated dub from Banana Fish after a viral clip and heavy criticism from subscribers, fans and influencers.
- The feature was part of a quiet beta that added AI-generated English and Spanish dubs to anime, building on last year's broader AI tools, rolled out over the holiday weekend.
- Voice actors and fans criticized the English tracks as generic, robotic and glitchy, while performers publicly denounced the move as insulting and warned AI threatens livelihoods.
- Io9 has reached out for comment and the removal left some releases without English dub, while Spanish AI dubs remain available on several titles.
- The incident intensifies scrutiny of studios amid embarrassments over generative AI, while Crunchyroll CEO Shams Purini said, `We consider them to be creators because they are contributing to the story and plot with their voice.
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Amazon Removes English Dub Featuring AI Voices For Popular Anime Banana Fish After Audience Backlash
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Fan Backlash Ends Anime BANANA FISH's Bad AI English Dub
Remember when we could reliably count on the dub on a foreign film just having mediocre voice acting? There was a certain fun in that. But now they are making crappy English-language dubs using AI. Is truly nothing sacred? Via IGN, we learned that the anime series Banana Fish included an “AI beta” of an English dub included in the ‘Audio Languages’ option on Prime Video. Apparently, this AI dub for the anime series was laughably bad. And not in …
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