| I watch sub by default, overall preferring the voiced in Japanese, but there are exceptions, in my mind, to this. The disastrous life of Saiki k. to be one. There is so much going on with the subtitles flying by with captions on the upper screen to read it became a nuisance to pause and read. I have also heard that anime like Baccano! (91 days too) are better in English because they fit the setting its placed in. I'm curious to know your guy's preferences since subs vs dubs is such a heated topic. |
| I've never heard of any dub being better but there are the rare times when they get the dub to sound similar to the sub |
| not better per say unless perhaps they change the script like how one can say the anime dubbed by 4Kids got worse due to all the edits and censorship but can change experience. I wouldn't say HOTD or B Gata H Kei are better dubbed. I can watch both either way really but when I rewatch them I opt to watch in dub because it feels more fun and fitting even if not better or worse but some shows I just can't watch dubbed like Shakugan no Shana. Both dubs for the show is just awful |
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| there are only like 2 or 3 times where dub is better than sub |
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| I'd say Cowboy Bebop is better dubbed. |
| I will say baccano dub was kinda better than the subs.. |
| for my language, yuyu hakusho totally nailed it |
| Ye the japanese dub is better haHAA. |
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| yuyu hauksho is better dubbed, dbz is better dubbed, cowboy bepop is better dubbed, space dandy is better dubbed. |
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| I've run across a number of quite enjoyable dubs, so yes. I would have just been treated to generic voices in a language I don't understand, if I watched it subbed, but the dub allowed the story to come to life more effectively. Yes, I like dubs. Not all of them are stellar, of course, though my hunch (albeit based on just a few data points where I watched stuff dubbed + subbed at the same time) is that those that stick too closely to the original script can run into problems of sounding a bit stodgy. The best dubs don't try to translate things word-for-word, but take the meaning of the whole sentence or paragraph, and re-create it using phrasing that flows better in English. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| Kill la kill was that for me, I can't watch the sub now because of how good the dub was. The voice acting matches each and every character superbly |
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| As dub trash every show is better in dub to me. |
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| I think it is more a matter of preference, although to me it seems that the Japanese VA are much more professional in most cases than the people that give dub voices in English. Either way, for me dub is very cringy, so I would vote no. Ergo Proxy is an excellent dub, but better? I would say no. |
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| Death note and of course ghost stories. |
| Nope. Although I haven't watched that one meme thing about ghosts yet. |
| In my language, One Piece TV dub is quite good. |
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| Ghost Stories and Black Lagoon from what I can recall. B y e |
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| Of course there are ghost stories, Code Geass, Gurren Lagann, Cowboy Bebop Full metal alchemist and there are many more examples of this. |
| What about Pokemon? The dubs are popular than subs for that. |
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| Monthly Girls Nozaki Kun is better to watch with dub than sub, the only anime i've ever seen where i like the english better than the japanese, and of course Pokemon also. |
A_silent_Being said: I always wish i could learn the native language of media i watch.....of course its a pipe dream. It's never too late! This is actually one of the reasons i'm learning japanese right now lol |
| I think that dubs are better in general because you are able to focus on what actually happens on screen (u less ofc the dub sounds absolutely terrible) I think people in general are way to harsh on eng dubs while there are obviously some awful ones but the majority of them are okey. |
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81Koyomi_Araragi said: Yeah, honestly, people complain a lot about 4Kids changing stuff, but frankly speaking, whatever they did for Pokémon, it worked. It was an enjoyable ride. It was fun to watch.What about Pokemon? The dubs are popular than subs for that. Maybe it wasn't the original. So, for example, in the 4Kids Pokémon world, onigiri are known as "donuts". Well, yeah, that's "wrong" by real life standards, but...so is the existence of all the pokémon anyway. This is not to say that dub companies should feel free to cut and paste wildly as they please. Certainly not. However, I do mean to give credit where credit is due. There's nothing absolutely holy about the original Japanese release -- it's just that it generally works well because the folks over there tried to make it at least basically cohesive and make sense. (Whether it does is another can of worms, and people endlessly complain about shitty series left and right anyway.) (And heck, 4Kids wasn't even asked to bring it over "as faithfully as possible" -- IIRC they were basically told to play with it to make it work for American TV broadcast. If the instructions/intentions they got were different, they could have done something much closer to the original.) Besides, we can complain about companies like 4Kids for doing shitty jobs, but it remains a fact that their work inspired so many of us present-day anime fans to be who we are today. They obviously weren't perfect, but what they did certainly mattered a lot in the course of the history of the western anime fandom. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| I liked both sub and dub version,but ouran highschool host club in dub is my favourite |
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DateYutaka said: Assuming the translation is done right, the subs are able to offer the more word-for-word-accurate translation.what provides the better translation key word translation Doesn't necessarily lead to a more enjoyable product (your mileage may vary on this, clearly), but it is what it is. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| I watch both subs and dubs and Redline is the best dubbed anime i have seen till now. Also, action-seinen anime always have good dubs. Coz these use good amount of explicit dialogues which makes the dub sound more natural. |
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| Cowboy Bepop and Baccano! are pretty good in dub. There is one show you have to watch in dub: Ghost Stories. Do not watch that in sub. You will hate yourself. |
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| I've only watched subbed anime but the dragon ball and saint seiya series. The latin american dub is top notch |
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| dubs that are better than the sub: black lagoon yu yu hakusho fullmetal alchemist (both) panty & stocking ghost stories cowboy bebop golden boy hellsing ultimate baccano flcl spice & wolf dubs that are shit, but enjoyable: high school dxd garzey's wing devilman tanjou-hen anything by central park media original pokemon (besides the heavy censorship, it was entertaining as hell and you can't deny it) dubs that are literal shit: sailor moon (dic media ver, haven't seen the new one) anything by sentai filmworks the only example of bad japanese voice acting i've seen though is higurashi. |
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| I stopped even trying dubs a long time ago, the probability that they were going to be bad is just way higher than subbed. Also |
| if dubs are done properly with good voice actors i have no problem with them but they usually arent |
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| FMAB, Cowboy Bebop and Kill la Kill are the only dubs I've ever seen being better or equal to the original broadcast. |
DateYutaka said: 1. What is "chuvanmnsim"?GlennMagusHarvey said: Yeah, honestly, people complain a lot about 4Kids changing stuff, but frankly speaking, whatever they did for Pokémon, it worked. It was an enjoyable ride. It was fun to watch. Maybe it wasn't the original. So, for example, in the 4Kids Pokémon world, onigiri are known as "donuts". Well, yeah, that's "wrong" by real life standards, but...so is the existence of all the pokémon anyway. This is not to say that dub companies should feel free to cut and paste wildly as they please. Certainly not. However, I do mean to give credit where credit is due. There's nothing absolutely holy about the original Japanese release -- it's just that it generally works well because the folks over there tried to make it at least basically cohesive and make sense. (Whether it does is another can of worms, and people endlessly complain about shitty series left and right anyway.) (And heck, 4Kids wasn't even asked to bring it over "as faithfully as possible" -- IIRC they were basically told to play with it to make it work for American TV broadcast. If the instructions/intentions they got were different, they could have done something much closer to the original.) Besides, we can complain about companies like 4Kids for doing shitty jobs, but it remains a fact that their work inspired so many of us present-day anime fans to be who we are today. They obviously weren't perfect, but what they did certainly mattered a lot in the course of the history of the western anime fandom. defending cultural chuvanmnsim i see 2. Explain your contention. DateYutaka said: Well, if word-for-word script accuracy is your most important concern, then subs are generally better than dubs at this. Subs still sometimes change around word order only because English grammar and sentence structure doesn't work the same way, and doing more to force the word order would produce an English translation to sound awkward -- which is generally not the intention of the original script.im one of mal's Token Japanese people all i want if for western fans ot get exactly what i got cannot be any mote fare than that However, the script alone isn't the entire performance, and aspects of delivery -- such as comedic timing -- can easily be missed in subs. I've run into this problem a number of times, actually, where I can see the punchline on the screen, in text, thanks to the subs, before the character actually says it. There's no absolutely perfect way to translate something for audiences who speak a different language. You can choose a different methods, but each one of them involves tradeoffs, so the choice of which one is best depends on which aspects you prioritize the most. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
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