Anime Dub Vs. Sub

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

Yeah, did you just write me a letter in a thread?

Anyways the dub voices annoy the crap out of me.

Originally Posted by Zoltar

Yeah, did you just write me a letter in a thread?

Yes, Yes I did.

Funny.

Zoltar: Examples?

I have to say subtitled. Although I do watch dubs, I watch subs first if they're available.

The only subbed I've really ever had a problem with is DBZ. I know that FUNimation did a bad job dubbing it, but at least they gave adult Goku a voice that didn't make him sound like a toddler.

Originally Posted by Raddy

Funny.

Zoltar: Examples?

Naruto

I can only stand a good dub. That limits my options, but I just don't enjoy the original Japanese and subtitles. I won't bother with a bad dub either so spare me the examples.

also lol people arguing sub vs. dub over bleach/naruto/et al.

Originally Posted by Danger

Naruto

Woah. Didn't see that comin'. Yet, it's not a surprise.

Tends to get annoying, I agree. Aside from the whole show, that is.

Originally Posted by Envy

I have to say subtitled. Although I do watch dubs, I watch subs first if they're available.

The only subbed I've really ever had a problem with is DBZ. I know that FUNimation did a bad job dubbing it, but at least they gave adult Goku a voice that didn't make him sound like a toddler.

You, my friend, are awesome. Had Funimation not thrown Sean Schimel into it, I may have never finished it. Along with Christopher Sabot.

if a Dub is available I will watch it. But I have no problem with subtitles. Either is fine, but because most of the anime I watch isn't available in Dubs I find myself reading alot of subtitles.

Which at this point I hardly notice anyways. So doesn't matter much.

The Hungarian dubs of animes are somehow always pretty good. Of course, there are exceptions, but usually they are very good. However, the Japanese language sounds a bit unusual to me, if I'm watching something with sub. Soo, in every way, I prefer dub. :3

Originally Posted by Nesi

The Hungarian dubs of animes are somehow always pretty good. Of course, there are exceptions, but usually they are very good. However, the Japanese language sounds a bit unusual to me, if I'm watching something with sub. Soo, in every way, I prefer dub. :3

Yeah, well... I didn't expect a show like Kanon to get me so into subbed the way it did. XD So, I test it, and am loving it so far.

.hack//SIGN, GitS, Bleach. Yeah.

to me I prefer Sub on most animes take one piece for an example the japanese voices fit all characters exacly were the dub just go and pick random people not even caring about how the characters sound.

Yes, same with Kanon.

One girl in there just sounds annoying in English, as do a few others in similar ways. And all sounds a few others make are not even tried at. But in Japanese, hell yes.

If I'm watching an anime I guess I sort of want to be absorbed into the imaginary world and since I'm confronted with people speaking english all day, every day the dub can kinda ruin that absorbtion.

I dunno, that's just a theory, but I could come up with a million. Like, I see animes as Japanese so when it's in english it just doesn't seem right. Or, simply, like most people here, I find the dubs are often rushed and of bad quality.

The only anime that I can think of off the top of my head that has a particularly bad JP cast is DBZ (which IS still the best Shonen anime). And no, I'm not just referring to Goku/Gohan/Goten, I man just about every charracter that meant two ****s by the end of the series.

Everything else, I could probably go either way (Fullmetal Alchemist, for example), or I'd take the JP cast (as in a number of today's Shonen anime).

Originally Posted by Danger

Naruto

Yeah, but Naruto sucks regardless of voices...garbage no matter how much you wash it is still garbage.

Nah, I'm just kidding. But seriously Naruto's not my cup of tea.

I usually go for the Dubs because I feel better connected the experience if I can understand the language being spoken. If I were more fluent in Japanese this might be different story but then I wouldn't bother looking for Subs if that were the case. The second reason is that there is invariably a moment where the text on the screen will pass before I finished reading it. That means I'd have to rewind and pause at some moment and that disrupts the flow.

But I'm still fine with Subs especially if the Dub is un watchably bad (which is rarely the case for me).

But you can find some pretty good voice acting in Dubbed work. Especially in more recent companies that opt for quality and fidelity to the material.

TMOHS isn't so bad in English.

I get the feeling that it's equally quirky no matter which language you watch it in.