The Ultimate Anime Battle : Dubbed VS Subbed

[kthulhu]

Hey, leathel! We don't all live our lives looking for deep meaning in everything!

[leathelanime]

Hey, leathel! We don't all live our lives looking for deep meaning in everything!

I swore everyone thought like me.....I guess that is why no one understands me....

*Sigh* The Black Man Gets No Play....

(That should be my new Sig...

[Clara Yuri Asaki]

C'mon lethelanime, if the Japanese dialouge really has bad acting, the worse it could be is over-acting. There's no way that the Japanese voices actors could be doing any kind of under-acting, like most english dubs. (well, used to be most dubs, but now it's just some dubs) The Japanese voices sound way too spazed up and enthusiastic to be bad. And it doesn't matter if it is bad, what we're talking about here is the fact that the Japanese dialouge is almost always better than the English dialouge. We're not talking about the script either, we're talking about the voice-acting. If a J-Pop song sounds good, what does the lyrics matter if you don't understand Japanese anyway. The lyrics are an important part, but we're talking about the way it sounds, not what it says. A major goal of anime (and any fantasy type of material really) is to escape the boundries of reality and real life. So even if the voice-actors for the Japanese dialouge don't talk like normal real-life Japanese people, it doesn't matter, because it sounds good anyways.

Don't worry, I look for deep meaning in things too, (if not VERY deep meaning) but these are my responses after my "research" of all of this.[/i]

[CaTaClYsM]

so if there was english show would you rater watch a japan dub with subs than it in english?

[leathelanime]

The question is....Would you rather watch PPG in japanese dub with subtitles....You said it yourself Dubs are horrible...

[CaTaClYsM]

no, I said dubs are USUALLY bad, but if they are done well enough I'll take the dub over the sub any time.

[Clara Yuri Asaki]

I love to watch the originals, no matter where they come from. So if I watch a Japanese show, I wanna watch in its original entirety. Even if that means watching it with Subtitles. So, of course, I would rather watch an English show with its original English language. But which one I enjoy more depends on which one sounds better, which is usually the original anyways!

"Dubbing" is the re-recording of the audio of a piece of media, mainly to change the language. So even if I ever said dubs are horrible, that wouldn't apply to anything that was originally was in English. Powerpuff Girls doesn't count as being dubbed. It's English Dialogue, but not English Dubbed. There's a difference there. But then agian, the PPGs might actually sound cute in Japanese. Who knows?

[leathelanime]

More of that Anti-English stuff....

[leathelanime]

Clara I think you took what I said the wrong way......I was talking about would you rather watch the dub of PPG (Japanese) over the original.....But you already answered that....And that last post wasnt pointed to you

[RyanGlazner]

I don't mind English dubs if they're done well. I just like the Japanese voices better. No, I can't tell what they're really saying, but the English voices just sound so... harsh. Especially after hearing the same characters' Japanese voices.