subs > dubs

The dubs vs subs argument made more sense when dubs were generally low effort trash. Now dubbing is done very well. As someone who can read subtitles fine, a dub is always more a relaxing/ less cerebral experience where I can focus that much more on the content.

Except singing of course. Don’t dub songs.

At this point I've adapted to somehow reading and seeing the picture at the same time

To each his own. My AuDHD means if there are subs I can't pay attention to the images. Dubs all the way for me.

Well... you can't spell subtitles without tit..s.

Unfortunately when I'm watching TV Im usually working out so I mostly just listen and occasionally glance over at it.

Dubs for the win on that one.

I always enjoyed subs, but wished I could understand the original Japanese, so I took Japanese classes in HS and college to learn the language. Now I can't help but listen to the Japanese AND try to read the subtitles at the same time. (ー_ー*)

Yeah I can't watch subs. I don't want to have to read for a movie. I want to see the faces and expressions of people or characters as scenes play out. If I'm reading subtitles, I'm not immersed and the story doesn't slap as much for me.

Ironically, when you read subs you do inevitably miss some nuances of what's going on.

On the plus side, the translations can be much better since they don't have to match it to the lips of the characters.

In the end, I like both, but I tend to watch more dubs. Japanese is a really neat language, though. Sometimes it's fun to watch subs just to hear it.

I learned English by reading english subs of pirated movies.

I did that for years. Now I get wierded out by movies dubbed in my language.

I can't stand dubs, I think that japanese VA are a lot better. Anyway, I have been reading subs since I was 8 years old so I read them so fast that it doesn't bother me.

I generally watch dubs.. but if I can have the subs on at the same time as the dub I'll do that.

I only watch subs by itself if there is no dub, or if the dub is rediculously bad.

I actually think dubs get a lot of hate they shouldn't be getting so many of them are actually pretty good especially for a lot of modern shows.

Interestingly fairy tail is actually one of the better ones imo.

I watch anime for the beautiful animation (not necessary the "plot")

Having text plastered all over it kinda takes away from it.

So I will watch Dub every time.

It is also a great way to check if an anime is good, since they don't put so much effort in to dub something mediocre (usually)

To each their own. I understand that dubs obviously miss things in translation and it is a valid argument. Sometimes the voice acting is trash. But at the same time I'm not gonna be a dick to someone for enjoying the same thing I do but different. A friend of mine that has never watched anime before we met has recently gotten into it and he watches dubs. We still have a lot of fun talking about the shows and he asks for recommendations all the time. The barrier for anime is pretty high for people that have never seen it before and the biggest way to turn people off of it is to tell them what they enjoy is wrong.

I will turn on subtitles for dubbed media too

I speak English, and like using my ears and my eyes, which is why I watch dubs. If you don't speak Japanese, what are you doing listening to Japanese speaking voices?

And for the fandubs, there should be an additional paragraph as a hat explaining some concept or pun that just does not translate well.

日本語を学べばもっと簡単です

I prefer subs but as a person who has to be doing something I tend to watch dubs so I can multitask. My husband thinks I'm a monster but that scarf didn't knit itself ya know?

Cartoons that don’t sexualize kids > cartoons that do

But the anti-4kids crowd hates that argument

with many anime shows, the english dubs have a lot of shit cut out. Especially if it's not one of the huge ones that everyone has heard of.

Someone once told me the dub for Mushoku Tensei was better than the sub. That person was a liar.

Also, that anime is incredibly weird.

I read the subtitles for the "plot" after all 😅

I'll never understand fanboys that fawn over subs. Why give yourself extra work? Anime is the perfect medium for dub.

I understand that you can lose meaning in translation but most fans do not understand Japanese so why?!?

There's a reason why Japanese voice actors are treated like A-tier celebrities and 'murican anime voice actors are a bunch of nobodies. The chasm between their skill levels is too big.

I prefer subs.

I have watched anime for quite some time now and started watching subbed, when I realized that the animes I liked were way ahead in the original version. Like a couple of hundred episodes for One Piece as an example. I got used to reading the subs in my peripheral vision. There may be some instances where I have to do a double take if there is an unusual word, but that's very rare. English isn't my first language, but english subs are more easily available. Outside of anime, I always choose the original version with subs as well because it feels more natural to me and I'm used to reading subs anyway. One good example is Sopranos, where the dub in my language doesn't have any Italian accent whatsoever. The great mafia atmosphere of the original gets totally lost that way.

That aside I totally get watching the dubbed version. Today in times of simul-dubs you don't have to wait for years at a time. You can watch dubs as background noise. The voice actors are usually great, even if not as consistently incredible as the originals. I always watch dubs with my family and friends, often shows or movies I already watched subbed. Watching something together for me isn't about the show alone but more about experiencing it together. Watching subbed would defeat that experience as you couldn't talk to each other as easily as with the dubbed version in your native language.

TLDR: alone I watch subs for the original experience, with others I watch dubs for the experience of watching together.

you both it!

And then you turn on dubs and it's all "And such as this and thus, as I have said so, and I declare in this moment."

You gotta find the right eye height.

I usually think less of a person when they say subs > dubs cause it's usually an elitist loser.

pov: too lazy to learn the language

In jojo, the dub is 100 times better than the sub, especially pts 1-4

Stop watching anime and read a goddamn book