Is it funny telling someone you watch dubs over the original voice acting?

People getting so upset over one's audio preferences is the most petty shit imaginable and this is coming from someone who used to be a sub elitist. There are way more important things to get upset about and what language someone likes to listen to is one of the least important things ever.

People getting so upset over one's audio preferences is the most petty shit imaginable and this is coming from someone who used to be a sub elitist. There are way more important things to get upset about and what language someone likes to listen to is one of the least important things ever.

@LSSJ_Gaming Wat do you mean, "used to"? I thought you were a trve elitist, but even our 60% anime compatibility can't save our friendship now that you basically admitted that you watch english dubs 💀

@Zarutaku "talented voice acting" *most nasal and forced voice ever* "oniiiiii-chaaaaaaaaaan"

@LSSJ_Gaming What if someone's audio preference is having an 8 year old girl perform sexual ASMR to them over Discord because they threatened to kill themself if she didn't? I wouldn't call it petty to be upset by that.

I mainly watch english dubs, I dont have a lot of time after work to relax so i like to play a game while I watch something after I do chores. It makes it easier on me when I can understand what they are saying without having to read at the same time. I do still watch subs, but if a dub is available I am probably watching that. People that talk down to you for watching dubs are just elitists. Luckily, I have been noticing less of those types of people more so lately.

@kutuya

this is a false equivalency. I am talking about languages here not illegal pornography

I prefer English dubs when possible.

1, I can only speak and understand English. I have tried a few different languages but it has never worked. Some people are naturally bad at math or sciences. I am bad when it comes to other languages. This has always been the case, even going back to middle school.

2, I have found that my ability to immerse myself in a title increases if I can understand what they are saying.

3, It infuriates the hardcore super fans who are like "TrUe fAnS ONLY WaTcH SuBs". The moment these people pop their heads up, I know who I am gonna block. I don't need that toxicity in my life.

4, The Dubbing process has gotten better over the last 30+ years, as a whole. That's not to say that modern dubs are automatically better than the old ones, nor is it to say that a modern dub is going to be automatically good, but it does improve the likelihood of a good or better dub.

I watched my anime dubbed (but I do watched it sub too), but... What if I told all of you that I watched Blue Eye Samurai (a non-anime animation) in Japanese dub over the original English, how would you react? What if I told you that I watched Netflix's Castlevania in Japanese over English despite I watched anime in English dub?

What if I told you that I played Skullgirls on my PS4 with the Japanese dub voice on for the cutscene, but fighting voices in English, how's that for a shock @fallout45 @JoeChip?

@LSSJ_Gaming You were clearly talking about audio preferences, this is what you said:

If you were talking about something else you should have said something else.

@kutuya

You are just arguing semantics at this point when the exact specifics can easily be drawn from the nature of the discussion at hand.

@mdo7

You really overestimate yourself way too much bro

@LSSJ_Gaming No? I just responded to what you literally said.


You can't just accuse me of being and then immediately go on to say something so .

@6001hulls

if i had a hot take, it's that i disagree that dubs have gotten better. like we are now hiring youtubers instead of actual voice actors. i don't like dubs but any given ADV dub from the 90s tends to strike me as better than like whoever Sentai is currently hiring

@fbjim

You realize that there are YouTubers who have other talents outside of video editing right? Limiting a person to being only able to be good at one thing is so silly

@fbjim

You realize that there are YouTubers who have other talents outside of video editing right? Limiting a person to being only able to be good at one thing is so silly

@LSSJ_Gaming in other words, they're amateurs. in fact a lot of the English VO scene are amateurs because the ones paid enough to be professionals stick to Hollywood VO gigs.

like, whatever. i do know that if I hired amateurs, I'd far rather grab stage actors than a youtuber who knows how to imitate old shonen dub actors and nothing else.

@kutuya

if your only rebuttal is to go into semantics and immediately devolve into making fun of someone when called out on it, it really shows how poor faith your arguments are

@fbjim

that is not necessarily true. SungWon Cho (ProZD) for example has been acting professionally since 2015 and he got his start making comedy skits online. He gets consistent roles because he's a talented voice actor. Pay is more a union vs non-union thing and the issue more lies within the anime dubbing industry cheaping out, with most popular dubbing studios like Crunchyroll not using union contracts. Netflix is one of the few distributors that I believe do union contracts for anime dubs. You also do realize in order for a lot of actors to get those big Hollywood gigs they have to start somewhere right?