What's wrong with black Nyanta? He is a cool cat that ain't got time for being pommy nobility.Weaver said:Subs forever!
A good sub is easier to do than a good dub. As a result dubs are frequently bad in Anime.
Look at what Sentai Filmworks just did with Log Horizon. No really, LOOK AT IT It's actually laughable; as in I watched it busting my sides laughing at how hilariously horrible it is.
What's the best the anime industry really has? Steve Blum? He's honestly not the golden boy of voice acting everyone points to. He's better than most, but I still feel there's lots of voice actors that are better but are simply too costly for the anime industry.
Though it's not like Japan doesn't make shitty VOs either.
This is why I love dubs. I like watching them specifically to see someone else's spin on another person's character. Weaver's clip from Log Horizon is a perfect example as they transformed a schwasbuckler into a black guy (which are two different flavours of cool).Ikajo said:I must actually say I think that English-speakers who prefer dub is kind of lazy. My native language is Swedish. Yet I watch anime in Japanese while reading the English subtitles. Every movie coming out of the US and UK are subbed so I've gotten used to reading subtitles. This is the norm in my country. Disney gets dubbed and even then, you will be able to see the original, most adults do. The dub always do strange things to the original series. They tend to change the tone and sometimes even the content have changed completely.
I've never missed any part of the video because I was reading the sub. If it's hard in the beginning, learn how to see the text as a whole.
I'm kind of a purist (I actually know Japanese to some extent) but if someone don't want to learn Japanese, I won't mind. That's their choice.
The way I try to enjoy dubs is to see them as individual works independant of the material they were adapted from. Although I do not think I would have enjoyed the dub of Log Horizon nearly as much if I hadn't watched the subtittled version first, since seeing Nyanta transformed from a chivalrous schwasbuckler into a cool-assed swinger was just so awesome.