Not sure how big a deal I'd make out of the lip synch though, when the Japanese aren't necessarily all that focused on it themselves. Most anime, even well-animated stuff, you'll find that they don't bother most of the time with different mouth shapes, just having the same mouth open-mouth closed cycle that more or less matches the vocal timing, except in the rare instances where you're supposed to read a character's lips. Contrast that with a show like Legend of Korra, where the mouths actually change shape depending on the sounds being produced. Now that is something that would suffer from being dubbed into another language with totally different sounds.
Anime, television stuff at the very least, tends to cut a lot of corners to save on budget, and lip-synch has traditionally been one of those "corners". The audience is used to it, so nobody much pays attention to it after a while.
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