are you a SUBBY OR A DUBBY

[Trident]

I'm not going to fork out $30 for a DVD just to read it. If I was going to do that I may as well buy fan-subs.

1) Unless you buy bootleg, DVDs tend to have both subbed and dubbed on them. Heck, the free sample DVD that came in this month's Newtype had both subbed and dubbed on it. (If you buy bootleg, then it's much much cheaper and has much much worse subbing in general and is much much more illegal.) So unless you're watching only what's on TV, then you'd need to fork over that same $30 for the DVD anyway.

2) The point of fansubs is that you don't buy them. You download them, watch them and delete them so you have an idea of what's out there and so you know what to buy when they get licensed. As far as I know, almost all fansubbers take down their versions when the series gets licensed--the possible exception is Inu Yasha, which is close to 100 eps ahead of what's being aired currently on Cartoon Network. As the subbers said, by the time the eps actually get aired, their fansubs will be virtually forgotten.

[Scintilla]

Now have any of you guys tried watching Excel Saga subbed? Well I tried and gave up after about 5 minutes.

I thought the Excel Saga dub job was notoriously painful and bad?

[Bebop0083]

im half and half

dubs i like

Cowboy Bebop
Blue Gender
Yu Yu Hakusho
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust


subbed

Dragon Ball Z
Trigun
Love Hina

dubs i can tolerate

Dragon Ball Z
Outlaw Star
Inuyasha


if its really bad i stick to the subs. i havent been able to watch the japanese version of Inuyasha yet since im stuck with the dub on AS.

[TallonKarrde23]

Now have any of you guys tried watching Excel Saga subbed? Well I tried and gave up after about 5 minutes.

I thought the Excel Saga dub job was notoriously painful and bad?

INDEED
as ive said numerous times, at AX i almost threw my chair at the booth where they had the dvd player and projector so as not to kill myself, but someone else instead luckily for them, cuz everyoen there hated the dub, they played it subbed

[tagarth]

I don't think I have like a single dub in my life! For little kids, they get an old man, for old men, they get a woman off the street to fake it. Damn I hate english dubs.

Japan of course has the money to put into animation, so they can afford... pffft, I don' know, a real old man and baby to come in a gargle into the microphone.

If the U.S (And canadian for that matter) animation industry had more money (Which is the anwser to every thing kids), then maybe we would have some higher quality dubs.

...... I just feel bad for that girl who did Excel's voice, the poor girl prob gets the spit beat out of her every time she goes to a convention.

[ryuu_hime13]

I used to be a pure dub fan, then I realized just how BAD some dubbing out there is. In some series, the Japanese seiyuu just does such a great job I'd rather watch that.

[Mroni]

Well the worst dub ever is love hina. Thats a fact sailor moon is pretty painful also. But as for Inu Yasha viz itself is commiting an act of piracy with both crappy subtitles and an annoying dub. Does anybody care to calculate how much money you would be spending buying their crap version when it averages 3 eps a dvd?


Mr Oni

Viz got a shitload of my money for ranma. They wont get me again on Inu yasha. Think 2 eps per tape 25 bucks per tape!

[CaTaClYsM]

This is going to turn into yet ANOTHER sub vs dub thread. I can feel it. And it feels like penut butter.

[HeartbreakerByZep]

This is going to turn into yet ANOTHER sub vs dub thread. I can feel it. And it feels like penut butter.

You mean it isn't yet? Isn't sub vs dub pretty much the point of the thread? What's wrong with that?

[J-0080]

Right now sub/dub wars are being fought.

Well the worst dub ever is love hina.

I like the LH dub, even though Kitsune's texas accent seemed a bit odd at first it reallys seems to fit after a while.