Anime Dub Vs. Sub

Originally Posted by Viral

Most of the time I prefer subbed, since it fits the nature of the story and characters correctly, and the original Japanese versions have the story of the particular anime 100% correct.
Example: One Piece was completely ruined in its various dubs.

There are of course exceptions, such as Dragonball Z/GT, the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime and Cowboy Bebop, which all sound fantastic with dubs and have their original story intact.

I refer you to the VGcats strip about 4kids and their career as butchers which I'm entirely to lazy to track down right now. I mean come on......lollipops and green guns.............ouch. Cowboy bebop did indeed sound fantastic, you could hear the emotions in the voice tones and what. But SO many dubs I hear, even now-a-days, you can just see a guy reading from a script right in front of him. It's in those situations that a Sub is much preferred over the dub.

There's nothing inherently superior about subs, it's just that many dubs are just plain bad. Some make me wince listening to them.

If the dub is good and doesn't censor anything, however, I'll watch that, since I prefer to be able to understand the spoken language.

I don't watch massive amounts of anime but I usually watch it subbed. It is easier to find subbed versions online plus I tend to like the voices used for the characters.

Ideally, dubs. However, since most English voice actors for anime sound more like they're portraying cartoon characters than real people, I'll stick with subs.

Originally Posted by Spearhead

I would say Black Lagoon, but the damn chinese woman ruins it.

But I love Chinglish.

Originally Posted by Wolfen

Ideally, dubs. However, since most English voice actors for anime sound more like they're portraying cartoon characters than real people, I'll stick with subs.

Both subs and dubs have that problem. Japanese voice-acting is guilty of overacting and characters sound like Japanese stereotypes. English dubbing is just as you said it was; they sound like cartoon characters and not actual people.

The two are of equal quality. It's just the quantity of that sort of quality is in more of one (English) than the other (Japanese).

Originally Posted by LightHawk

But I love Chinglish.

I couldn't help but laugh when the woman spoke. It was so badly done.

To people that of mentioned Black Lagoon, if you think about it the show should be in english because Dutch, Revy, and Benny are all American and Rock is a Japanese business man so he would most likely know english anyway.

I would compare the first dubbed episode to the first subbed episode, and go from there.
Usually, though, I am too lazy to read subtitles, so I just watch the dub, no matter how bad it is.

Originally Posted by LightHawk

To people that of mentioned Black Lagoon, if you think about it the show should be in english because Dutch, Revy, and Benny are all American and Rock is a Japanese business man so he would most likely know english anyway.

That would make sense, but realistically no one would take that into consideration. But it was damn well done in English, nonetheless.

If the dub doesn't suck, I vastly prefer that.
Although I enjoy reading along, the Japanese usually wears on my nerves depending on the show. So I'll usually only watch a subbed video under one of three conditions:

1.) The voice-acting in the dub is terrible or unfitting.
2.) The censorship is entirely stupid (although this doesn't actually bother me too much on a plot level, for two reasons... Usually I still know what they're getting at, even through the censorship, and usually the only censored shows are kids' shows, so this doesn't often affect me anyway).
3). I can't find a dubbed version. There I don't really have a choice.

Also, if you're on the Internet watching it, subs tend to be entirely unofficial and equally as bad as some of the English dubs (albeit in different ways).

Also, Sanji's lollipop was fricking hilarious. I don't watch the show, but I'd take that over the cigarette any day. At first I thought it was just a unique quirk for the character, since it fit in with the show's goofy presentation.

It depends entirely on what's available and whether I think the voices fit.

Some Anime has yet to be dubbed, and because I hate waiting I'll watch the subs until it comes out with a dub (if it does at all). Some anime I prefer subbed, but I always watch the sub/dub multiple times before deciding. I love the .hack//Sign sub.

I can't even watch the Rurouni Kenshin sub for five minutes. Everyone sounds like a five-year-old girl. Other shows I can go both ways. It really depends. I am not picky.

Both subs and dubs have that problem. Japanese voice-acting is guilty of overacting and characters sound like Japanese stereotypes.

So true there. Every "wise old man" and "clumsy female protagonist" sound just about the same.

Depends, for example:

Bleach is better in sub

Hellsing is better in dub

Originally Posted by Zoltar

Bleach is better in sub

Dear Zoltar

If you wouldn't mind, can you please explain why Bleach is better in sub because I watch the dub version of Bleach and find it to be enjoyable for the most part.

Sincerely

LighHawk

Originally Posted by LightHawk

Dear Zoltar

If you wouldn't mind, can you please explain why Bleach is better in sub because I watch the dub version of Bleach and find it to be enjoyable for the most part.

Sincerely

LighHawk

Something being better doesn't constitute the former being bad.

Rule of thumb: go sub
Exceptions exist

Originally Posted by Danger

Something being better doesn't constitute the former being bad.

I am not saying that its bad, I would just like to know more about why Zoltar thinks so because I have friends and family that watch it in sub as well and they never give a reason other bieng able to watch it at the same pace as the Japanese.

Originally Posted by Namine`

It really depends on me mostly.
I like sub's because I like listening to the Japanese voices.
I like dub's because I like would like to stop reading sub's sometimes...

I would say both.

This.

I used to find subs absolutely annoying. Now, I really don't.

Out of all the shows I've seen so far, DBZ is the most annoying to me. Not just because of the voices, but the major music difference. >_> But I will still go to dubs just to try it out. And vice versa.

I find SUB better. probably because nothing is really changed for the audience viewing it, Dub as a long history of that.

Yeah, for some shows, the English voice actors overdo it. Resulting in it being... not all that great. Such as 4Kids' dubbing. But a good example of English overdoing, for me, would be Kanon (2006). Please don't get me started.