Poll: Anime Subbed or dubbed?

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admiraljustin

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I love a good dub.

Problem is, I only accept the good ones, and they are horribly rare.

So I take advantage of my very-fast reading speed for subtitles.

Though, I find, oddly, I'm starting to read them less, without losing anything...
 

DarkJester

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Subbed all the way! When it's dubbed, a lot of the emotion is lost in translation.
Perfect example = Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro Chan. It's gritty, dirty comedy would be utterly destroyed by dubbing. Even the subs get half the jokes wrong. (I am learning Nihongo... VERY slowly so I still use the subs)
 

Ugert

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Dubbed. They put enough time, and hopefully effort, to make it in my native tongue, I might as well listen to it. Subtitles don't bother me, it's just that japanese can get rather arduous when things get frantic. Compound that with tiny words at the bottom, I may as well just watch and guess that the giant robot squid thing is bad and that Japan feels they must conquer it.
 

Icehearted

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Dubbed. In all honesty, spending my time listening to what sounds like gibberish in my ears while staring at the bottom of the screen reading gold text isn't what I'd call watching a movie. Good dubbing can do wonders, Ghost in the Shell, Akira (Streamline), and most of Miyazaki's work is proof of that.

In short, if I want to read my anime, I'd buy the manga.
 

Spirit_Of_Fire

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Dubbed i dont mind subtitles but i dont want to have to read the subtitles i want to just watch whats going on.
 

AdamG3691

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Julianking93 said:
Subbed.

American dubs are usually terrible.

Take this for example:

I believe that was in the manga as well though... Including the emphasis on "and EAT IT!"
(I guess they just wanted to show how to eat crisps (...I'm british you know) in the most epic way possible...)

Anyway, Dubbed for me, Its all well and good having good voice acting, but if I don't know what they are saying, it's useless (and subbed is annoying to read)
In fact,I watched the anime(dubbed) , after I read the Death note manga, and the american voice actors were exactly like I imagined them.

The only Dub companies that should be shut down are *lightning strikes and ominous latin chanting plays* 4-KIDS and Disney, especially 4-kids... (anyone disagrees and I will shoot them with my invisible gun)
 

chozo_hybrid

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The Candyman said:
I only prefer dubbed if it is done well, like FMA. But if the voice acting is terrible, or if it's the only option, then I'll go for subbed.
Same here, DBZ is one of my fav dubs XD

Funny considering how most of the FMA cast were DBZ as well XD
 

Zyst

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Subbed, I simply can't stand most voice overs, besides there's sometimes miss-syncing and that kind of stuff.. I just prefer subs.
 

Lyese

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Subbed for me since I'm dutch anyway so dubbing doesn't happen in my native language. And I find english dubbed stuff often really painfull to listen to.
 

OmegaXIII

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I can only deal with dubbed if it is done well. Dragonball Z is probably the best example of dubbing i've seen. Otherwise stick to subs.
 

linwolf

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for almost any anime I see I prefer the subbed one, but there are a few where the dubbed is better
 

Nalgas D. Lemur

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Dubs have been slowly getting better over the years (or at least less bad), but I still avoid them like the plague. I've had enough bad experiences with them over the years (I've watched stuff that I absolutely hated dubbed, but then when someone forced me to watch it subbed to give it a second chance, it turned out to actually be good) that I don't even bother giving them a chance at this point. That goes for non-animated stuff, too, regardless of what language it's in.

I can read subtitles just fine without any effort, so I prefer the original voices, if that's an option. Yeah, sometimes the original voices suck, too, but that's what the people who made it created and what I'd like to see/hear. Also, depending on who did the official subs, I often prefer fansubs from one of the good groups (there are many, many bad ones, unfortunately), because they Americanize stuff less and put in cultural notes explaining things, so you get a bit more exposure to something you wouldn't otherwise be familiar with. A rare exception is Puni Puni Poemy, which I rather liked what they did with the Americanization in the official dub and could appreciate what they were going for with their translation, even if the dubbed voices bugged the crap out of me.
 

Pink_Pirate

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i used to be a total sub whore about anime, i'd throw a fit any time someone even mentioned watching the dub. but i'm over it now. For me it mostly just depends on the quality of the dub. Cowboy Bebop, Lucky Star and Evanglion all have fantastic english dubs for example.
 

Deviluk

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Subby subby!

I accidentally downloaded the dubbed Code Geass, or couldn't get the subs to work, or something. Anyway it was a bit too cringe for my liking. Its the same with FF, if you watch the new 'international trailer'. Japanese voices I can just about stand it, americans just pill on the cheese. Stop it! Its not just for kids!
 

chase211

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Takabaka136 said:
I'm just wondering what people prefer when it comes to watching anime. I prefer subbed, because for whatever reason the dubbed voices have really started to get to me and especially with Charles vi Britannia's voice in the original Japanese
Subbed in 90% of cases, if I'm bored and just wanting to only half watch something (which means I'm probably playing games while I do it, I'll go for dubbed)