| I think there are *some* types of anime that will always be better in Japanese, simply because they contain types of characters which don't really translate well into English. I am thinking mainly of the 'pure, sweet innocent' moe-type characters which in my experience don't sound that great in English most of the time, maybe because many Japanese voices are naturally higher and more sweet-sounding, whereas if an English-speaking actress makes her voice go that high, it generally just sounds silly and unnatural. However when it comes to action anime I tend to prefer in English, because I connect better with the types of characters found in those animes if I can hear what they 'would sound like' in English. For example I have seen Code Geass in both English and Japanese and I VASTLY prefer the english version, the one moe character aside. I also am loving Eureka Seven in English. But I would never want to watch something like Clannad in English. |
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| I usually think the subbed version is better, but I'm usually too lazy to sit there and read all the words, so I deal with dubbed. There are a few anime that are really good dubbed, but, eh, that's a rare case. |
| I generally don't dislike dubs but the voice actor for Luffy sucks. I'm sure she's done well in other rolls but I can't stand her as Luffy. None of the charisma that Luffy has get through in the dubbed version. |
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| yep, with sub xD |
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| Short and simple- I hate dubbed anime. |
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| Not all the time. I mean Baccano! Dub > Baccano! Subs. But, subs are consistently decent at worst. Dubs... yeah. |
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| "imagining konata dubbed" LOL that would never WORK..... i hate dubbed anime!!!! 100% HATE IT!!! |
| SUB beats DUB!! o.O |
Chiyo-ko said: Short and simple- I hate dubbed anime. Me too. Some Dubs are good, but japanese are always best. |
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| Yeah, ATT. |
| Anime that were better in English due to better writing, acting, or both: Ghost Stories Colorful Orphen/Orphen Revenge Generator Gawl E's Otherwise Desert Punk Solty Rei Trinity Blood Burst Angel Girls Bravo Ikki-Tousen Dai-Guard Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (well, compared to Bandai's subs, anyway) Chrono Crusade Magikano Nerima Daikon Brothers |
Zalis said: Anime that were better in English due to better writing, acting, or both: Ghost Stories Colorful Orphen/Orphen Revenge Generator Gawl E's Otherwise Desert Punk Solty Rei Trinity Blood Burst Angel Girls Bravo Ikki-Tousen Dai-Guard Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (well, compared to Bandai's subs, anyway) Chrono Crusade Magikano Nerima Daikon Brothers Lolz funny list |
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| yes, even if i sometimes do like the voices in English better, Japanese do have more experience and care alot more, they do better voice acting so YES IT IS ALWAYS BETTER |
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| i wouldn't watch dubbed anime over subbed if given a choice, but dubbed anime is borderline tolerable at worst for morning cartoon before-school anime like one-piece - luffy's voice wasn't THAT bad. was it o.o? Mikaru said: "imagining konata dubbed" LOL that would never WORK..... i hate dubbed anime!!!! 100% HATE IT!!! xD konata's english voice is baaaaaado. |
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| Good dubs DO exist (like Fruits Basket) but they are EXTREMELY rare. Original Japanese with subs = win. The general rule is: Subs>>>>shit>>>>dubs |
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| Always better in Japanese. When it gets dubbed, see, it gets changed to whatever is acceptable for the culture of its intended viewers. They couldn't show Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune being lesbians, so they made them cousins instead. <_<;; I also noticed that in Japanese anime, characters usually utter senseless things like "Iya!" "Oro?" "Nya nya nya!" "po po po..." and it makes the scene funnier or happier for me. But when they get dubbed in English, they ALWAYS make the character say something else instead, like "Oh no!" "Watch Out!" "Come and get me!" it's weird. |
| For the most part I can't stand dubs, but I collect Dual Audios here and there because sometimes they are entertaining. There are a couple of shows I prefer the dubs for, but I'm not entirely sure if that's not just from childhood nostalgia. Sometimes it's fun watching a show dubbed with it's original subtitles on, too :> The story can be quiiiiite different. |
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dojowitch said: What if the japanese found english sayings like "Oh no!" "Watch Out!" "Come and get me!" to be funny and entertaining?I also noticed that in Japanese anime, characters usually utter senseless things like "Iya!" "Oro?" "Nya nya nya!" "po po po..." and it makes the scene funnier or happier for me. But when they get dubbed in English, they ALWAYS make the character say something else instead, like "Oh no!" "Watch Out!" "Come and get me!" it's weird. |
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| subs are almost always better the only two animes i watch in english are Beck and Elemetal Gelade |
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| anyone who says yes needs to take a gun and blow their goddamn brains out |
"everyone knows that the last toes are always the coldest to go." Telavators-the mars volta |
| nearly always better in Japanese. Although.. the subbed version of Cromartie High School was fricking hilariously funny. (in a good way) |
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| I started watching Code Geass with english dub and can't complain. Subs are just more common and faster. |
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| I actually prefer to watch English dubs, but sometimes the acting in English just doesn't fit or just plain sucks, so I watch the originals. But sometimes I prefer originals over English dubs depending on the anime. Something like Beck. I like the acting in the English version, but you kind of miss part of the magic it has in the original, because of the language barriers the show creates between some characters. In English, they totally re-wrote the dialogue and broke those barriers down. |
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| Frankly speaking there were only 3 animes I enjoyed watching them dubbed in French so far(my native language is French) which are: Ghost In The Shell, Escaflwone and Gundam seed the rest is simply a bullshit ... But we have to admit that animes are always better and greater in Japanese (specially guys voices xD) |
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| I'd say original Japanese is the best. The only anime series I can't watch in Japanese is the DragonBall/Z/GT series. |
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| In general anime is better in Japanese, however to say all English dubs suck is idiotic |
| Anime is always better in Japanese. How could be a dub version better than original? Specially for those three movies. Castle In the Sky Grave of the Firefly's Howl's Moving Castle |
Eluden said: I got wayyyy too used to Howl's Moving Castle in English (watched it a lot with my niece who loves it), so now it sounds really weird in Japanese. It had a pretty decent dub though. Just wondering what you think as to if I should watch certain anime in the original Japanese or dubbed... Castle In the Sky Grave of the Firefly's Howl's Moving Castle Castle in the Sky's dub was okay, though I would have rather heard it in Japanese (saw the VHS eons ago) As for Grave of the Fireflies, I've only seen that in Japanese. I would check both languages out and see which you prefer. By the way, It's "Grave of the Fireflies", not 'firefly's' -_- |
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| I'm a fence sitter.. I have watched more subs.. But this is living proof that dubs do not suck.. That song fucking rocks. |
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| The only thing about sub/dub taht matters to me is which version of the anime i watch FIRST, if i were to watch a sub first i would prefer that version over the dub just cause i wouldnt like the voices cahnging, and the same goes if i watch a dubbed version first. once an anime is on my HD theres no reason to RE download them in an another language, therefore i havent seen the other verson and couldnt tell anyone which version was better |
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| I am more of a sub person. The 4kids version of One Piece ruined my faith in dubs so I try to watch anime subbed as much as I can. Although I will watch a dub if the anime's voice acting isn't too bad and they don't drop in too many bad puns. |
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| I usually watch anime in jap but that doesn't mean it always better in jap.I remember watching DBZ dubbed and it was pretty cool |
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| Anime is usually better in Japanese because it was created in japanese. Let's say something like Two and a half men with japanese dubs would be really weird... Or perhaps something like Family Guy in japanese would be pretty weird also. A lot of animes that i watched on tv when i was a little kid that was in English i thought of it as good..lol Cowboy Bebop wasn't bad in English but i dropped it o_O |
| あらあら。。。＾＾ |
| yes! ofcourse x3 it s weird for me to hear dub version xD |
| I've watched a pretty decent amount of dubbed anime when I was growing up and I like them. But once I watched the ones with japanese voice actors and subbing I was hooked. The thing is I can never rewatch the dubbed ones in japanese because I am use to their dubbed voices rather than the japanese voices. But overall japanese voice is way better. |
| Yes.. almost all the times XD I always prefer anime in japanese except in one case, rurouni kenshin.. the portuguese dub its way better.. actually it was consider the better dub =3 but well... that must be the only time we portuguese do a good job dubbing something XD |
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| Yup, Japanese Animes are better. |
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| since i've been watching so many dubs nowadays, i've gotten used to anime in japanese. english is so... foreign now, haha :3 |
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| I always watch anime in Japanese because it's the best. Dubbed anime sucks most of the time but the Transformers anime in English dub was alright. |
| of course in japanese but sometimes when it's dubbed it becomes funnier with changed scripts(they make more llocaller) |
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| I never like the dubbed voices. To me, anime is Japanese and should be viewed with the original Japanese audio as intended. |
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Hikari-tan said: The problem with the "Anime should be watched in Japanese as intended" argument is this: Do you think the creators intended their shows to be watched with subtitles plastered across the screen? I'm sure they definitely didn't intend for them to be watched with overstyled unreadable fansub subtitles. No, they intended for audiences to hear the audio in their native language and take in the visuals fully. So it could be argued that for English-speaking viewers, watching English dubs is actually closer to what the creators intended. Shinichi "Nabeshin" Watanabe has come out and said that he never intended for his shows to be read.I never like the dubbed voices. To me, anime is Japanese and should be viewed with the original Japanese audio as intended. terryaki said: You're never downloaded something in dual-audio and gotten both languages at once? Usually if I have something I've never seen before on DVD (or DVD-rips), I'll switch between the languages on occasion.once an anime is on my HD theres no reason to RE download them in an another language, therefore i havent seen the other verson and couldnt tell anyone which version was better |
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