Poll: Dubbed or Subbed?

[Gigatoast]

It depends on the dialogue, if it's well written I'd rather have bad english voice actors. If it's "Needless" I'd rather just hear the bad Japanese voice actors.

Oh, and I never EVER want to know what the people who do anime theme songs are saying. Trust me, the lyrics are either poorly translated, or just garbage.

 

[Risingblade]

Depends on he anime, some are just better dubbed while others others are better subbed.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

I have to watched them dubbed, but only because I end up staring at the bottom of the screening, waiting for the characters to talk so I can read the subtitles... Which leads to missing vital points in the show/movie... Which sucks...

 

[Scarim Coral]

I pretty prefer sub but when I bought an anime dvd I tend to watch the dub first to hear their english speaking.

 

[Elven Marksman]

Yeah depends on the voice actors.

Speaking of which, poor shakugan no shana series 2... the voice actors are sooooooo different from the first season, and definitely not in a good way.

 

[The Floating Nose]

Subbed ! Because most english dobbing are HORRIBLE ! Sometimes they are good but most of the time not.

 

[micky]

im a slow reader and i dont like looking at the bottom of the screen to understand someone, but i like both evenly.

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

Generally subs for a variaty of reasons:

Dubbing can be done extremely poorly while the originals SHOULD be done by professionals

And as Jonluw pointed out, closest to the source gives you the best view oh how it was intended to be for better or for worse. Besides, I don't go to watch russian movies like Nochnoy Dozor so I could see them in English >.>

Finally I just prefer the cutesy-Japanese voices and feel they just can't be replicated by the English and for lach of a better reason because I understand the language so well that it just sounds silly.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Films should NEVER be dubbed because it abates the power of the actors performance and when you see the actor but with a different, often monotone voice it kills the immmersion. As for animation you tend to have more dedicated voice actors, they have full involvement in the role rather than trying to match another actors visual performance, so I'm happy for animation to be dubbed as the end result is not nearly as atrocious and damaging to the immersion.

 

[luckycharms8282]

I prefer subtitles for both animes and foreign films. For characters like the shinigami from deathnote, I prefer their intended, Japanese voices.

 

[Restoshamankk]

the english subs are usually so bad :/

 

[Kevonovitch]

very rarely have i ever met a dub i liked, most of the time, they sound like shit, and they have horridly bad faking the character's reactions, but most importantly, they dumb down the translations for joe average.

subs aren't always the greatest, and yeah, sometimes, they cut bit's out aswell, but generally, they just shorten something (ie, holy crap this sucks, what are we gonna do? to-well shit, now what?) instead of dubbing where "/full length specifications for teleporter blueprints, full details and explinations." gets cut down to "thing powere's up, get in, go places." -_- wow, really? and they do that for MOST of the show (generally) >=/

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I always do dubs for a few reasons:

1. Reading English and listening to Japanese is confusing
2. When turning down the volume to get rid of problem 1, you won't hear the good music or important sounds
3. Your eyes are glued on the bottom of the screen, and everything interesting is in the middle
4. Sometimes the voice of Japanese can be more annoying than a bad dub, namely the high-pitched females which feels very similar to someone drilling a hole down your ears

 

[TheSkaAssassin]

Dubbed.
I like to do other things while watching things so when I can hear the actors speaking in a language I can understand, it helps.
Plus when I do watch I like to focus on the whole screen, not just the bottom.

 

[Buccura]

Dubbed, I wanna watch not read.

 

[game-lover]

I like both! Really! *smiles*

To answer your other question, here are some dubs that I preferred over the subs so much.

Yu Yu Hakusho: Yusuke doesn't sound as cool and Kurama is a woman! EFF That!

Blue Seed: Momiji Fujimiya's voice is too high and wrong. Kusunagi's voice is too deep and wrong.

Rurouni Kenshin: Kenshin is a woman! No!!

Cowboy Bebop: Spike is no uncool with that old man voice! So... ugh...

Samurai Champloo: I didn't like Mugen's voice. He also had an uncool voice to me.

Dragonball Z: Has anyone ever actually seen Dragonball Z in Japanese? Has anyone truly? Because omigod, it's horrible. Just horrible. No, no, no, no, no...


That's pretty much all I can name right now. Maybe I'll compare more laters.

 

[l3o2828]

Subbed, and preferably raw.
Mostly because living in southish america makes most of everything i watch be on a Spanish or Mexican dub.
and while there are a couple dubs i think are even better than the original, about 90% are just utter shit.
i don't know what happens with Voice actors in South america and Spain, they just seem to lack the ability of emotion or something.
besides the accents make me want to go on a murder spree.

 

[linkvegeta]

Yeah it really depends, like DBZ is crap subbed but great dubbed, and shows like one piece dubbed makes me want to kill myself wile the subbed is amazing.

 

[Alphakirby]

I typically watch dubbed anime,but if the dub is bad,I'll go for subbed. Also in the case of some anime (exclusive to Japan;ex.Panty and Stocking) I have to watch subbed. So I can't really vote for either

 

[Shockolate]

If there's a dub, I try it.

If I think it's garbage, I go for subs.