Poll: Anime Dubbed VS Subbed

[Elle-Jai]

Much prefer subbed. Dubbed they always sound like idiots, and they change the lines, which often has the effect of changing the entire tone of the anime. With practice you can catch basically everything on screen, picture and the little words, and keep up perfectly well. If you need extra practice, READ MORE BOOKS. Skill will only come with time, and if all you normally read are porn, wiki or forums, you're doing it wrong.

 

[Ngunjiri]

A lot of Anime is better subbed but that would be because a lot of them are set in Japan, also the dubbing sucked balls. However there have been a few anime that had excellent dubbing and i preferred them over the subs such as Fullmetal Alchemist and Cowboy Bebop. Both of these anime seemed to want to be dubbed in English, considering FMA is the only anime i have seen with Japanese subtitles for the English text they have on the show and Cowboy Bebop has black people, i can't really imagine them speaking Japanese.

 

[Artina89]

Both. If I am busy and want something in the background, I will go for dubbed. I f i'm actually watching it, I tend to go more for subbed.

 

[thylasos]

Subs. Dubbing strikes me as patronising, and, as far as I've seen in terms of anime, is almost never done well.

 

[Gigano]

I usually go for the dub if there's any available, and then switch to japanese if I dislike it. In Spice & Wolf I took the subbed version though, even though the dub was fine, because the original work was so incredibly excellent. Once I've settled, I never watch a particular anime in any other way.

It can depend on the setting of a particular anime. For something like Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, which takes place in a traditional japanese village, subbed is more consistent (but then again that dub was so awful that you don't really have a choice as far as I'm concerned).

 

[Tarquinius Superbus]

If I may venture a baseless guess, part of the hatred towards certain dubs might be on the grounds that the questionable/bad dialogue of certain cartoons becomes more noticeable when you can actually understand the language.

 

[Draithx]

Subs only, think the only anime that I've ever watched in english was DBZ when they showed it on tv.

 

[Fenreil]

The only dubbed anime I've watched(so far) that didn't suck ass is Trigun. I could watch either versions of that with equal enjoyment.

Sooo....subs all the way. I refuse to watch dubs.

 

[Turbulenssi]

Subs all the way for me

 

[DocBalance]

Subbed or die.

 

[Auron225]

Subbed all the way! The only dubbed series I managed to endure was FMA. Im watching Brotherhood (the remake) subbed since it wouldnt be released for ages dubbed! I think it takes away from the show when its dubbed - and half the time the voices are downright strange 0.o

 

[Vault Citizen]

Depends, sometimes it will be subbed, sometimes when I'm tired or don't mind the American voices I'll go with dubbed.

 

[Dizeazedkiller]

dubbed. In my experience the voices are fucking fine.

Exactly. Thank god there are some people not spouting crap well done

OT: "Subbed voices are more emotional" "Subbed voices capture the characters better"
Blah blah fucking blah.
I guess its all personal opinion but i find this to be absolute bullshit. My friends all watch subbed so i make a point of listening to the subbed voices of animes i've finished and liked so that i can make a decision on which voices i prefer and although some japanese voice actors are pretty damn good for the most part i prefer dubbed. To give any1 who is bored enough to read this an idea of what i mean i watch these animes.

Code Geass
Bleach - For the most part better dubbed, Cpt Mayuri of squad 12's english voice is PERFECT
Ergo Proxy
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Darker Than Black
Elfin Lied - Haven't checked out the subbed for this one, but... i dunno. I voices sound like they've been recorded in low quality and they're only average voice actors but... it has a strange.. sort of more realistic charm to it in dubbed.
highschool of the dead
When They Cry

... When they cry is the main reason i don't listen to subs. The voices were bland and just plain awful in the subbed... i could barely stand getting through the second season (only did because of the story, and because they are taking ages to dub it).

There are a lot of good english voice actors that you can really imagine as the characters, that bring across good emotion and IMO outdo the Japanese voice actors. I guess maybe the animes watched by most subbed lovers are ones i tend to avoid so i wouldn't know how good or bad the english or japanese voices sound.

 

[Nemesha]

I prefer subbed. I watched pokemon and Dragonball z+gt dubbed though since I was a child. Years later I tried watching DBZ in Japanese but the guy voicing Goku sounds like he was kicked in the nuts, and I mean real hard.

I generally dislike dubs, it just doesn't connect, sentences drag out too long or too short to adjust to the mouth movements and get filled with filler words.