Subbed or Dubbed?

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  • #164115

    I love both! 🤩

    #164196

    For me it all depends.  Subbed is usually a lot closer to the original meaning from the show.  So in a lot of cases, I’ll choose subbed.  Tho, if it’s a show that I really, really like, or has a lot of action in it, I’ll go dubbed.  I miss out on too much of what’s going on, while I’m reading the text.

    I also put on anime to put me to sleep.  Reading it, and the background noise helps to fight my insomnia.  So when I’m trying to go to sleep, it’s definitely subbed.

    #164208

    Sub. All the way. Dub’s Tend to have cringey acting, very poor translation of the original dialogue and over all don’t tend to get characters right. Goku In Subbed DBZ over Dubbed DBZ for an example.

    #164233

    I can do both.   Subbed when I have time to actually focus on the series.   When I am doing other stuff I watch in dubbed.

    #164238

    Subbed, the horrible/ non existent voice directing in some dubs ruin certain characters. If you watch dubbed so you can listen while doing something else, you definitely miss out on things. The dialogue has to be changed to match the lip sync, and many dub voice actors are just really bad.

    Also, like the Parasite director said, not being able to pay attention while reading subtitles limits your possibilities and in countries where you dub rather than sub (America, Spain, Germany etc) you kind of get stuck in that bubble.

    You get used to reading the subs while paying attention to the screen really fast. Ofc, if you have dyslexia etc. it can cause problems. But I feel like filtering out subbed shows really limits your options. Both in anime and tv shows/movies.

     

    I even watch movies and series that are in english with my native language subtitles, even tho I wouldn’t need them. But simply because if I can’t catch what a character says, it’s good to have subtitles to back up. I can’t even imagine seeing a movie in the theatres without subs, you probably miss out a lot of dialogue due to the audience cheering and clapping

    #164306

    Depends on the anime.

    #164909

    Always subbed. No exceptions. I would never consider watching a dubbed anime

    #164931

    If the dub is good (which is not the case most of the time), then dub.  But, sub is usually always better, in my opinion.  It probably has something to do with the anime getting the emotion across better from being in its native language.

    #165172

    I tend to go to dubs if available, and if I think it’s good. There hasn’t been a dub that I found to be flat out awful to the point of being unlistenable in recent memory. If it’s just subs available, then it won’t be a dealbreaker or anything like that of course.

    #165211

    Dubbed for anime; Subbed for live action

    #165443

    I could go either way. I prefer dubs usually but find subs to be mostly superior. Even in old Godzilla movies, westerners take too many liberties and “interpretations”. They sometimes can even change the tone or character’s intentions. It depends on first impressions. Shows that i started with dub i can’t switch halfway through because i am attached to the characters’ voice, and vice versa. I would choose dubs if they were all purely translated, or as best as possible.

    #166258

    Its just a matter of preference

    However you cannot say Subbed anime is ovjectively better because “its from Japan therefore its better” not only is that ignorant, you wouldn’t be able to distinguish between Good and Bad Japanese voice acting unless you grew up in Japan and learned the language. We have no idea how the sentences are structured, if they use the same vowels, how honorifics are supposed to be used in certain contexts, and many other things.

    The reason why have this discussion because a gigantic mojority that have this conversation comes from English speaking Americans. We know how words are supposed be to said, how sentences are supposed to be pronounced, hows phrase are supposed to be enunciated, and when acting is good or bad.

    Unless you go out of your way to learn Japanese, its customs, what I’ve listed, and other things you really shouldn’t say subbed Anime is objectively better. And Guess what some things are lost in translation when anime get subbed as well.

    At the end of the day non-Japanese speaking fans just prefer watching anime in whatever way they want.

    For me I watch anime dubbed unless an anime does not have one, and if one is subbed-only and it gets a dub later ill rewatch it dubbed

    #166261
    Anonymous

      May I ask why the destinction?

      #166276
      Anonymous

        I actually now all these things, not only am I  indeed learning japanese but I have been watching/playing subbed anime/games for over a decade and watch a ton of japanese Vtubers on a daily basis, pretty much there is not a single day I don’t hear japanese these days, I know about grammar structures, the differences in voice tones, how honorifics are used, how you can hear when a question is asked etc. and I have heard bad japanese voice acting. In my personal opinon subbed anime and japanese games are better, and as a german english anime dubs often feel off, overacted trying to emulate japanese overacting but it never really works well for my ears, it’s just kinda cringe so I even prefer german dub over english dub. But only when it comes to japanese creations, english creations I want to watch in english, our Comedy Centra at 1st showed many american comedy shows like Chappelle’s Show with subtitles but eventually they started dubbing them, and that was just shit, I want to hear Dave’s own voice.

        #166595
        Anonymous

          I Agree with you on Masako Nozawa v sean schemmel. But I do like peter kelamis and ian james corlett way better as goku. That being said, Japanese is overall better.

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