Poll: Anime Dubbed VS Subbed
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My hierarchy: poor dubs->subs->good dubs. The exception is if the original voices and/or language are especially important to the series, and thus a dub can't conceivably do it justice no matter how good.
I prefer subbed, but there are two animes I watched in dub. Death Note and Outlaw Star. Death Note because I felt the English voice acting was great, and I wanted to be able to understand the series quicker than reading, and Outlaw Star because the English dub was equally good, and I had seen it first in English.
This is completely dependent on how good the localisation is. With an anime such as bo x7, the English localisation is phenomenal, and I couldn't imagine watching it any way other than dubbed. Other animes however, are dubbed terribly. As such, I can't vote either way in the poll because it completely depends on the anime.
Depends. I don't watch a whole lot.
Subs have awkward sentence structures half the time because the translators have awful English skills. They also subject me to freakin' nails-on-a-blackboard anime girl voices.
Dubs mostly suffer from awkward wording (they speak... poshly) and wierd pauses in order to fix the lip flaps. The voice actors also try too hard to immitate the annoying sounding Japanese girls which is equally annoying... oh and everyone seems to speak wierdly as though they're talking backwards, putting more emphasis on the end of the word rather than the start.
Except Black Lagoon for some reason, as far as I can remember for the most part they speak like actual people with no wierd speech patterns, out of place accents (Did every anime villan go to Eton?), wierd pauses or out of place words.
TL;DR: They're both as bad as each other if you average them out.
Subs have awkward sentence structures half the time because the translators have awful English skills. They also subject me to freakin' nails-on-a-blackboard anime girl voices.
Dubs mostly suffer from awkward wording (they speak... poshly) and wierd pauses in order to fix the lip flaps. The voice actors also try too hard to immitate the annoying sounding Japanese girls which is equally annoying... oh and everyone seems to speak wierdly as though they're talking backwards, putting more emphasis on the end of the word rather than the start.
Except Black Lagoon for some reason, as far as I can remember for the most part they speak like actual people with no wierd speech patterns, out of place accents (Did every anime villan go to Eton?), wierd pauses or out of place words.
TL;DR: They're both as bad as each other if you average them out.
Only shows I've watched dubbed are DBZ, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Tenchi Muyo. Everything else is subbed.
I completely Agree i only watch subs if the series hasn't been dubbed or if it is just absolutly awful, My example 4Kids One Piece ^_^xavierxenon said:
Argh, dubs get me so riled up. I have yet to hear a good one - they're always so substandard and bastardised. Subs all the way, for me at least.
