| Arabic dubs are most of the time great in term of voice acting but they tend to censor a lot of things depending on the channel but their remakes of opening songs are great French dub is the best type of dub out there Eng dub is horrible mostly |
| Most underated anime on mal: https://myanimelist.net/anime/4651/Yume_no_Crayon_Oukoku?q=Yume%20ni%20crayon |
| The Thai dubs are laughable. It does add a lot of humor though. xD |
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| My country doesn't normally dub animes, but I saw an episode of Bayblade dubbed in my language. The voice and the lip flaps were embarrassingly out of sync. It was so bad, I would pick the English dub over it. Or even the Indian dub! |
| Straight up horrible, not just in my language but any except of course japanese *imo* |
iLbcoVEDec 25, 2018 8:34 PM
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| it changes how I perceive the characters and I think dubbing in my language makes it funnier and the slangs are more culturally appropriate to me |
| Nah, never mind. Even in other show like movie or even news interview I never like them. |
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Manyaa_- said: They are shit and should be erased from existence. Any form of media, like movies, TV shows and anime, should be watched in its original language. Well, here's the thing (and this is also a message to @captjoe213 regarding jokes not working out right): watching subs isn't watching in the original language, so original language means requiring someone to actually learn the language. As for subs: I was just now watching the first few episodes of Heartcatch Precure, which is subbed-only (as most of Precure is). There was a humorous moment between the two main characters, where Erika asks Tsubomi to stop calling her Ërika-san, for the fifth time or so. It went like this: "Stop calling me -san! If you do it again you're treating me to milk." "Yes, Erika-sa---" *extremely embarrassed* "Safe!" The thing is, that second line? Its humor works best if you have a brief moment between the first line and the core of the punchline, during which Tsubomi erroneously thinks she has corrected herself. Reading the subtitle, however, spoils the joke right from the getgo, rendering the voice delivery mostly moot. This sort of comedic timing is something that a dub can do better than a sub job. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| I am from Italy and dubs are reaaally bad, not just Anime but also TV Series and a lot of movies... |
| @glennmagusharvey that's a very good point, and lots of times they *are* either able to translate the joke or find a suitable replacement that hits the point close enough in the dub version to help preserve comedic timing, why I tend to go dub then subs. But seriously, watch how you like! Now let's all have a big group hu........nevermind. |
You can make me grow old, but you can never make me grow up! |
| I hate german dubs, because they constaintly Distrikte the meaning of the original dialogues and add a lot of random insults. I recently watched one Punch man in the german dub once, and it was horrendous. |
Dauphine said: xShinigami3125 said: I hate german dubs, because they constaintly Distrikte the meaning of the original dialogues and add a lot of random insults. I recently watched one Punch man in the german dub once, and it was horrendous. Ah, so the quality of German dubs has dropped as well since the time i watched them on RTL2? That's sad. :( The ones they aired on RTL2 (back when it was still watchable) were usually only dubs of big popular franchises, normal shows usually get a shit dub. |
I agree, most German dubs are really good because they built up a superb voice acting industry from dubbing all the US movies and series. The US and UK on the other hand record the regular actor's voice during the film shooting and that's it, they usually don't need to dub stuff in sound studios with voice-only actors (unless it's foreign or animated). Japanese dubs are also very good, naturally because they produce so many anime but sometimes it can be somewhat annoying to repeatedly pause the videoplayer in order read the subtitles, that's why I mostly prefer German and English dubs if they are available. |
ZarutakuDec 26, 2018 8:05 AM
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| i dont really understand why people see dubs, the most of it its just bad, and listening in japanese is always good. Just my opinion. |
| I'd be scratching my face like Tomura from BNHA cuz it would be so irritating for me. |
  "Self respect is the greatest gift we can give to our self" |
| Usually they're not that good or it is just that I prefer the Japanese dub, however, watched the Cowboy Bebop movie with Ger dub and it was pretty great. The voice actors for the main cast fitted them perfectly. |
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| " What do you think about dubs in your language?" I always prefer the original dub. Also the dubs in my language very often are bad and give the wrong impression about the show. |
Turtles_Hunter said: ShockZz said: German are often considered as the worse anime dubs after the english ones (that's what I often read. not understanding german, I can't really give a personnal opinion). Italians, SA spanish and french dubs have overall pretty good reputation (even if it varies from a show to the other).I'm from Germany and I think we actually have really good dubs. I don't like the english ones bc they are all very high pitched and feel monotone. Maybe this is just personal preference but I really like the variety we have in german voices. So what about yours? I've seen that a lot as well but I gotta be honest and we are somewhat perfectionists, which makes it all a bit complicated. Germans like to complain about details a lot and apart from a few (like me) we are very proud of our language and stick to it. Most Germans can't compare it to other languages bc they simply only watch ger dubs or ger sub. Obviously it could be personal preference, but I watched ger dub, eng dub, french dub; ger sub, eng sub (i.e. original sound). After watching all of that I gotta say english is the worst simply because of their voices, french is alright (gotta say I'm not the best at french so I watched it with ger sub), but listening to their voices is ok, you can at least feel some emotions. Original japanese voices are good, as simple as that. Germans, for actually being a dub, are amazing. Not every single one of them ofc, but you can enjoy them. |
i am from UAE, we used to watch anime dubbed to Arabic from TV channel called Space Toon which was also censoring many animes... for example  Right side is the original and left is the edited also anime like One piece they censored nami so most of the time you see Luffy running about to do Cannon or just randomly punching... not to forget they would censor any skirts and other things like alcohol or cigarette still never knew anime until i started college where my friend has recommended to me to watch Angel Beats/school days/one piece/Fairy Tail... and than i started to watch anime since than |
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| Filipino dubs are just really horrible and embarrassing to watch lmao. ; ; |
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Love-Shonen said: Daisy-Sensei said: i am from UAE, we used to watch anime dubbed to Arabic from TV channel called Space Toon which was also censoring many animes... for example Right side is the original and left is the edited also anime like One piece they censored nami so most of the time you see Luffy running about to do Cannon or just randomly punching... not to forget they would censor any skirts and other things like alcohol or cigarette still never knew anime until i started college where my friend has recommended to me to watch Angel Beats/school days/one piece/Fairy Tail... and than i started to watch anime since than Wait, they actually censored an entire character??? Goodness, that sounds horrible. :< also i forget to mention that the story is not the original they come up with many things to change in the story so sometime its fucked up and you end up with no knowing whats going on |
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| I think a lot of Polish dubs are better than the English ones |
| I just don't like dubs globally. Original Audio is always how I watch stuff. (as Anime fanatic and Japanese language fan I am, only dub I do consume now and then is Japanese dub. Meaning now and then if I re-play/play or re-watch/watch something then I use Japanese language). And rarely other dub now and then. Mostly just clips or parody. My country language dubs I haven't seen. Nor want to. Somehow I grew up disliking my language a lot, making me very uncomfortable consuming any of my language. (texts, music, movies etc..). |
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| I always thought they're great when I was a kid watching them, but now they sound so awful. |
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| Actually, the first anime that I watch was Tagalog dub (Filipino) it was Dragon ball,Naruto and one pice. It was good in my ear when I was a child. But I suddenly think subbed is better than dub, since in Japanese they can show strong emotions on their lines |
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| English dub is fucking awful, only a select few shows are great in dub like DBZ |
| Latin American (Mostly Mexican) Spanish Dubs used to Suffer from a lot of thingsthat english dubs suffered of because they were based of them. Now a days they are becoming better imo. Cruchyroll and Netflix have been making High Quality Dubs for some of their shows. Sometimes I feel like they dub the first thing they see on their Catalog (For Example: Crunchyroll Dubbing Isekai Smartphone even though nobod asked for it) burt when they dub something Good, ITS FUCKING GOOD. Not all Spanish Dubs are prefect but this year has had the best ones in recent years. |
  愛がなければ、見えない。 Without Love, the truth cannot be seen. |
Buexta said: ShockZz said: I'm from Germany and I think we actually have really good dubs. I don't like the english ones bc they are all very high pitched and feel monotone. Maybe this is just personal preference but I really like the variety we have in german voices. So what about yours? Well, I disagree with this statement. Yes, some dubs improved in quality, but these decent dubs will never air on Free-TV and no one can afford buying DVD's/Blu-Rays these days. 180€ to buy Fate/Zero? When I can get the exactly same Edition in English instead of German with the exact same bonus content, but for 45€? Well, that choice is obvious. The German VA's often struggle with the little girl and the crazy tropes. You can't let a woman with the heaviest smoker voice to ever exist on this planet, play a 9-year old little girl, who is the female lead and then expect it to not backfire and ruin your studio's reputation. For the crazy trope... Just try watching an episode of Kakegurui without cringing and/or raging... I think, for the children's market the German dubs are quite good, but when it comes to a show rated 16 or, god forbid, 18, we're doomed. Elfen Lied sucks, so do Fate, Ergo Proxy and literally every Ecchi series there has ever been. When it comes to gruesome content, the translators and voice-directors add random insults to 'match the tone of the series', which it simply and objectively does not. When there is sexual stuff happening, they often leave out the girl's screaming and are making it seem more or less harmless. And that all thanks to their attitude, that animated works must cater to kids. Honestly, the current influence of political correctness and the overall SJW/NPC agenda is just annoying. It destroys context and the overall tone. The German Amazon Prime subs for Banana Fish are unbearable, Gangsta is an embarassment. Due to all the censoring and catering everyone attitude, I think our licensors don't do a good job, with the worst offenders being Peppermint Anime (i.e. Akame ga Kill) and Kazé (i.e. MonMusu). Especially the latter needs to improve heavily or finally get dumped on I fully agree with you. They still aren't bad though when it comes to the technique and voice acting. It's just that the censoring is often interfering with the rest of the story. For example a character ''disappearing'' after a fight where he obviously died. |
| Well they mostly end up awkward and laughable and miss out on jokes so i prefer subs. Dubs are meh |
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| Latin American dubs tend to be rather mixed, the ones from Mexico are really good, the ones that come from Argentina, Colombia...less so, but there are also not as good Mexican dubs and really good South American dubs. |
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| I find it interesting that the following two opinions have appeared in this thread at least once each: * "English has no well-developed dub industry, so that's why English dubs are bad." * "[language other than English or Japanese] dubs are good, but English dubs are bad." (despite there being fewer dubs in that language than in English) I don't know if anyone holds both of these opinions, but something isn't consistent between them. SinisterTwister said: I've noticed that jokes are sort of a compromise situation. There are some jokes that work better using original text, but some jokes that depend on timing and would work better with just voice delivery...or maybe clever subbing, perhaps. Here's an example. And of course, some that just fall flat anyway unless you know the original language yourself (e.g. if something depends on alternate kanji readings...good luck translating using subs or dubs).Well they mostly end up awkward and laughable and miss out on jokes so i prefer subs. Dubs are meh |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
How about people (like me) who's first language is not english and the dubs on their language are few and usually very bad? Should we prefer the english language dub instead of the original (I am speaking about all media not only anime)? Supposedly my first language is closer to russian, french and italian (some turkish and greek words too) than english. Should I watch/play all media on those languages, including those which originally are acted/dubbed in english? |
| For me, it depends. I don’t think English dubs are necessarily bad, barring a few exceptions. I think the English dub is decent for most anime shows, but the subbed is better. There are also anime that I think have really good dubs, and prefer them to the subs. So whether I prefer the subbed or the subbed depends on the anime. |
| I'm russian and I used to experience both english and russian dubs (though I watch anime only subbed). English dubs are bad but russian are way worse. Mumbling, stuttering, reading with no emotion, reading by syllables. Japanese names, cities etc are never pronounced right. English dubs suffer the same problem but are a bit less disgusting. So, if I happen to watch something with dubs (hardly ever), I'd prefer english rather than my native language) |
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| In Latin America, anime dubbing in Spanish is rare, according to my experience. There are some good and some bad, but it bothers me a lot when they translate the songs (OP and ED). |
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| In Italy only a few dubs are decent, the rest is shit. But i'm really used to Jap dub so maybe it's just my personal opinion(sometimes it's objective tho). |
| depends on the show. eng dub pokemon/naruto is pretty nostalgiac |
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| Good or not, I don't want to think about dubs. Translating a content automatically makes it lose some of it's value. I prefer original content + sub. |
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| There are a couple dubs that are really good but most dubs are questionable at best in English. For the most part, I prefer subs because it feels like a lot of English dubs use the same voice actors for everything. |
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