spike00 Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 I personaly prefer eng. dub, but I do still watch the one's that are subed because no dubs are available.Know... since I mainly watch eng. dub. anime, am I missing out on some story ??Or do dubs change the story a little.Are dubs evil ???Please your thought on this.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmingllama Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Most dubs are truthful to the story. The only thing that you will really miss if you watch the dub instead of a good sub is that you will not see any of the japanese jokes and a lot of the japanese culture will also be removed. So for action and that, you are not missing anything. For some slice of life and comedies, it will not be as good dubbed as it is subbed. You will not miss any plot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroPenguins Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 What lemming said is quite true, you miss out on a lot of japanese culture. Some dubs are just terrible, one good example is Initial D when tokyopop did it, they changed the character names and modified the story, music sounds, etc. Funimation took it up later on and made it true to the story. There are many bad dubs, but some cases subs can be even badder than the dubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostwriter066 Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 It depends on the voice actors. A good English dub voice actor can do a great job, but then again some suck. Like the Dragon Ball Z voice actors. I think they suck. I always watched DBZ in Japanese, that is the only way I will watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSJSilva Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 It really depends. I want my dubbed anime to be true to the original japanese audio/scripts. It can be a mixed bag at times, but hey these years dubbing has improved over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilala99kisses Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 It depends on the show some dubs take alway from the action or emotion. Also sometimes the voices done match idk maybe its just me but I like sub better but there are some good dub anime out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowtheman Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 As far as I know as long as the person translating has common sense a dub can be vary proper to the original. How ever theres a layer of comedy missing from all English dub. Japanese use phonetics to create there alphabet. The meaning of a word can change drastically just by pronouncing it differently or even by writhing the word horizontal instead of vertical. In many subbed shows as long as you know when it happens you can pick up on the joke even if not shown in the subs. Like the scene in one peace were Luffy is riding on the trains engine while leaving city 7. He says go faster, but every one thinks he's talking about frogs. This stuff is vary common and plays many parts in many different kinds of animes, but in English these things just don't exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estracha Posted February 21, 2012 Report Share Posted February 21, 2012 I definitely prefer sub most of the time, but I keep an open mind towards dubs and it has rewarded me quite a few times. It would have to be an outstanding dub to make English my default though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fargone Posted February 21, 2012 Report Share Posted February 21, 2012 I am notoriously picky about dub anime... I watch subbed versions of animes because most animes loose seem to much of their tone and humor in translation to dubbed english. And sometimes, just one bad voice actor can ruin the enjoyment of the rest of the anime for me.Do you have any recommendations for really good dubbed animes out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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