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Which do you prefer?
Do you watch anime in English or Japanese?
I watch anime in Japanese because it's more authentic |
Japanese. Like you said, it's more authentic and in most anime, the voices sound better.
I only watch in English for anime I've grown up with or I think sound better i.e Dragonball Z |
In English. There's no reason for me to watch anything in Japanese if it has already been translated in my native language.
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I watch the dubs because I hate distracting myself from the anime to read text. I don't care if the voices are terrible or not.
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I find that subtitles give translations that I find more preferable, since none of the dialogue is changed to make it 'fit better in speech' or make more sense to an American audience (which I am not, so I find some things like Kasuga's redneck accent used to get the jokes across better in the Azumanga Daioh dub mighty frustrating).
If they've got decent British voices though, as in Hellsing, I'll watch the dub. No offence to anyone but I find American accents grating and all extremely samey. |
I prefer to watch anime in English.
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English, because it gets tiring having to read the subs. Though, I watch in Japanese when it's unaviodable like in FMA Brotherhood that just came out. The voices do sound better though.
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Japanese! <3 Subs are the way to go I think... American-animation voice actors just don't seem to fit the characters :\ (Take naruto for example, rofl).
And I don't find reading distracting - its on the image so you can see it anyway :P and you don't have to focus intensely. For action scenes its not necessary anyway... which is where 'watching' is preferable XD |
Definitely English. I think it's important to watch anime in a language that you can fully understand, so that nuances in the dialogue aren't lost.
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Normally I don't have a preference, really. As long as I know what's going on, I'm not picky about voices.
The one exception is the Slayers dubs. 4kids eff'd those up so bad, even I can't stand to sit through it. |
I prefer Japanese as long as there are English sub-titles. Japanese sounds amazing.
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Japanese at 100% I need to practice my japanese skills more then English xD But some exceptions are... When I feel like it I watch anime in english but that's not very ofter
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I'd rather like to watch anime in english, but if dubs are not available, then I can resort to subs.
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I'll go both ways lolz xD
It really depends on the VAs. FUNimation's anime dubs I can usually listen to, but there are occasions. But I also love watching obscure anime so I usually end up watching Subs. |
English.
The reason I was a subs-only elitist for years was because they used to hack dubs apart when the localized them. Now that they don't really edit scenes or episodes anymore, dubs are muuuuch more tolerable. I prefer them now because I don't have to concentrate on reading--I know it takes little to no effort but it's much nicer to just sit back and be able to enjoy the anime rather than make sure you aren't missing any text. |
I watch it either way. If half of the episodes of an anime are in English, and the second part is Subbed, then I'll just watch the first half in English, and then the second half in subs.
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Either really. Sometimes I prefer the voices in one or the other. I usually leave it on whatever the default is.
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Japanese.
Most the time they mess up the English voices. |
English, but most of the time I prefer Japanese.
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Meh, if i can find it, I'll watch the dub, I prefer dubs over subs anyways /le gaspi!
As long as the dub is still pretty accurate, i'm cool with it, The voices aren't all that terrible, of coarse they'll sound strange if you're used to hearing the voices in japanese anyways x3 and some dub voices are very fitting for the character 8D |
I prefer Japanese with English subtitles.
I think the Japanese voices are better (in most shows) because in English, the kids' voices sound horrible. Also, the drama and cheesiness is much more bearable when I'm listening to Japanese for some strange reason. X) |
I prefer Japanese with English subtitles, The Drama/show is different to the English version. I also, prefer Japanese because the voices! ;)
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Oh man, definitely Japanese. I barely watched dubs anymore, unfortunately.
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