| Normally it sounds normal to ask which is better sub vs dub right? You would think so, but that is what I consider a horrible question. Why? No matter how good a dub is people with say sub is better rendering the question absolutely useless. The only exceptions might be complete parody dubs like SAO Abridged (great btw) and Ghost Stories. I understand some dubs are pretty trash with censorship and bad acting, but in general even if a dub is really good people will chose favor sub. This dynamic renders this question to complete waste. I think overdone Japanese voice acting is not a must all the time. Once you watched so many anime, you heard mostly all the performances before with both dubbed and subbed. As a result, I view going subbed all the time pointless though sub is certainly preferable to a horribly acted or censored dub. In many cases dub is not even an option. I believe the point of a dub is to be able to consume a mostly equivalent anime in your own language without viewing the subtitles all the time. Instead of asking what is better; a superior question is to ask if the dub is good or not. Do you think asking which is better, sub vs dub is a futile question? |
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RedZ21 said: Japanese VA never disappoint. That's certainly not true cuz I'm familiar with a couple of Japanese voice acting characters that sound super off or are annoying. |
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| Yes, because who cares at the end of the day? Watch whichever you prefer. I don’t like dubs in general, not just with anime, which is why I never watch anything dubbed unless it’s like a parody or something. |
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| This debate has been going on for years XDXDXDXD. At the end of the day I still prefer jp voices in my animu. Speaking of which, the only time I found overdone jp voice acting annoying was in Kanojo mo Kanojo because these retarded numbskulls for characters wouldn't stop screaming the whole time. |
| Depends on the show honestly. Some shows either is okay (high school DXD) Others sub beats dub to a bloody pulp (Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid) But generally speaking sub will be better. Dub is just ease of use really. Sometimes I wanna watch a nice SOL in Dub just to relax so I don’t have to read |
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| People who only watch subs are up their own ass. People who only watch dubs don't know any better. People who watch both are cool. |
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| No cause it's a good conversation starter to ask when you're meeting another person who watches anime. Then again, most people on here don't even know how to communicate with others offline. So it's more useless than futile |
Erebus_AkeldamaOct 14, 2021 3:56 AM
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| I prefer dubs, because there are plenty of dubs that are objectively better than or equal to their sub counterparts. When I do prefer the sub, it's because the dub wastes top-tier talent to deliver stilted, awkward, way-too-literally-translated dialogue that makes the whole affair wooden and awful. Lookin' at you, Gurren Lagann, Fate/Zero, and Monster... |
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| I'm not an English speaker, but English dubbing sucks. Of course, for English speakers there may be good dubbing, but for me, who am not an English speaker, it sucks. Putting this aside, wouldn't it be easier to see if you like the dubbing in the first episode? If you don't like it, just watch it subtitled, there's no secret. |
| legit I don’t know why it’s so hard for someone to play both the sub and dub to form an opinion for themselves, shouldn’t take more than a few minutes |
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| It is absolutely not true that this is the worst question anime fans ask. ...because non-anime fans are apparently asking this shit too, thanks Squid Game. Now I have to deal with sub vs dub when I'm not even watching anime, and people are far less civil about it outside of the anime community since in the anime community we've already gone through the worst of the debate, and most people that try argue about it get equally shit on. Moving passed the sub vs dub debate is one of the few things I think this forum has done somewhat well, even if it still sometimes is an issue with certain users. |
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| I think the worst question has the word overrated in it at least. sub will always be my choice; just because I can read the subtitles in a loud environment. |
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