The Ultimate Anime Battle : Dubbed VS Subbed

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The Ultimate Anime Battle : Dubbed VS Subbed

Postby Clara Yuri Asaki » Fri Aug 16, 2002 4:24 pm

The biggest anime battle that most don't even know about. Which is better? English Dubbed or Japanese w/ Subtitles?

You obviously don't wanna read words while alot of cool-insane action is going on. But how many of you have actually watched an anime both ways?

I've done this with some animes, and 100% of the time, the Japanese dialogue is better. The voice acting is better. The voice actors are more into the anime. It's alot more accurate.

But English Dubs are getting better now. The Slayers Motion Picture from ADV has the best English Dubbed anime voice acting ever. Great script too. Excel Saga's english voice actors are really good too, even if you really can't understand what they're saying most of the time.

So I'm just wondering, what do ALL OF YOU think about this? Tell me which one you think is better, English Dubbed or Japanese w/Subtitles. Say anything you wanna say! :D
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Postby KLin » Fri Aug 16, 2002 5:49 pm

Most of the series recently dubbed by ADV are done pretty well. (Note, most, not all.) I still prefer subtitled anime to dubs though, on the whole it seems more accurate and 'faithful' I suppose. But you're right, on the whole American dubs are improving. Bandai's dubs are decent too, if not great. Some other ADV dubs that I know were decent and worth checking out:

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Postby thewhacker » Fri Aug 16, 2002 6:04 pm

Sub all the way the voice acting is a hell of a lot better than dub i like to hear a curse over and over a gain that way i learn something new you learn japanese while having fun (just like phonics yay) And most of the scenes that i have seen with a lot of action dont have much talking and if you missed a part because you are a slow reader here is a little secret there is this feature called rewind in dvd's.
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Postby LlyrLlediaith » Fri Aug 16, 2002 6:17 pm

i definitely prefer subbed. the english voices are so gay and they change a lot of the dialogue. the japanese versions are usually better.
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Postby Melfina » Fri Aug 16, 2002 6:36 pm

Depends totally on the series. Normally Anime Movies are done well, but sometimes you get certain bad apples.
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Postby Castor Troy » Fri Aug 16, 2002 6:52 pm

I stopped caring about this whole thing so I end up watching the dub track of every anime dvd I get.
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Postby LongShot » Fri Aug 16, 2002 6:55 pm

Dubbed- A lot of anime fans don't want to have to deal with the bother of reading subtitles and would rather be able to enjoy the shows without haveing to continaully look down at the screen every time someone talks.

Subtitled- If you hear the original Japanese voice actors, they are alost always better thean the guys that they drag off the street to do the American dubbing. For some reason, most anime characters are dubbed to sound like Saturday morning cartoon characters. Subtitling, on the other hand, allows the viewer to hear much more emotion from the shows. Also, English-dubbers have a bad habit of "Americanizing" the script by changing certain phrases or terminology that cannot be translated easily. A lot of jokes (puns mostly) are lost when things are dubbed.
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Postby temjin » Fri Aug 16, 2002 7:11 pm

macross sub - great
macross dub - there really is no god

cowboy bebop sub - pssh, okay i guess
cowboy bebop dub - spike and jet sound damn cool. GREAT DUB

evangelion sub - great acting(shitty show)
evangelion dub - good acting, butchered script

these series being the only ones i have seen of both the sub and dub, all i can say about subbed and dubbed series is it varies. sometimes the dub is better in every way. such as cowboy bebop: i feel the dub got the story across better, plus it had waaay better acting, and again, spike sounds damn cool. but in macross, shitty acting and a horribly rapped script in the dub, but a great series was portrayed in the sub. and last, evangelion, great acting on both the sub and dub, but the dub shit on the original story.

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Postby temjin » Fri Aug 16, 2002 7:13 pm

oh yeah and in my opinion, princess mononoke is better dubbed
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Postby Dark Kamui » Fri Aug 16, 2002 7:17 pm

Today I was done getting my rips of the 7 3x3 Eyes OVAs. To my horror ova5 was a rip from the pioneer DUB and I was reminded yet again of the gut twisting horrors that bad dub acting can induce. I bared the entire 50mins, and am gratefull that nothing else is DUBBED...

*Why do dubbing companys often replace cool sounds like monster growls or snarls with voice actors grunting from constipation?*
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Postby Chaos Angel » Fri Aug 16, 2002 8:20 pm

Because they CAN!!

I tend to prefer the sub for the better voice acting quality. Re: Lain and Eva. Horrible dubs, I hate them. Now, some dubs are pretty good, like Bebop. I am in the process of watching Bebop through subbed for comparison's sake, but Bebop is one of the few series (Actually, the only series thus far) where I lean more towards the dub than the sub, although the sub is still great.

I Image Bebop, regardless of dub or sub.

But, on a whole, yeah, I prefer the better acting in the subs. A bad dub is absolutely horrendous to have to sit through (re: Eva, Saber Marionette J, and Wings of Honnaemise.).
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Postby CaTaClYsM » Fri Aug 16, 2002 8:32 pm

and to add to the list of good dubs, macross plus and akira.
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Postby temjin » Fri Aug 16, 2002 8:43 pm

akira is a great dub. but, macross...are you fucking serious?
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Postby Digital_Sakura » Fri Aug 16, 2002 9:18 pm

I would have to say that the Subbing for Initial D was probably the BEST subbed Anime that I've seen,along with Hellsing and Noir..oh yeah,Love Hina was alright too with subtitles..it kinda scares me when they announce that the awsome subtitled anime that was out that you would download off of Kazaa or just off some other source would soon be comin' to the U.S. which means...Dubbing =P (i.e. "Love Hina inncident",everyone sounded like country hicks -_-)so I'm afraid that when Initial D comes to the states,then how it will sound...but...if you buy it for DVD,then hey,it'll come with either Subtitled/Dubbed options,so that's cool..cause me,I won't even begin to look at how bad they dubbed an awsome anime,it may make it to where I don't wanna watch it again...but anyways,yeah,me,I used to prefer Dubbed a while back,but then I switched to subtitled cause you could learn some valuable things and no to mention that if one of your friends was talkin' to you or the sounds of all the action going on in the background was too loud,or maybe even one of them "sentimental" moments were happening,then you couldn't hear what they were sayin',then at least you would have the dialogue text down there so you don't miss out on the storyline ^_^...so all I'm sayin' is that you get awsome actors to do the voices in Subtitled animes,and a better perspective of what the story is really about..and once you get used to watchin' subtitled anime,then don't worry..you'll get used to lookin' at the dialogue and watchin' all the action at the same time..but it'd be better than missin' what they're sayin' though right?so go for subtitled!sorry for this reply bein' soooooo long,but that's my 2 cents

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Postby artfreak13 » Fri Aug 16, 2002 10:07 pm

the quality of dub varies from title to title. sad to say, there is no real clear cut rating of how dubbing has done with proper results.

cowboy bebop - good

evangelion - so so

macross - ....*blech*
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