Anime/Manga Do you prefer dubbed or subbed anime?

[donavannj]

Aren't dubs just as bad at high pitched voices, except it sounds even more cringy when American VAs imitate squeaky Japanese voices. That's usually the biggest turn off for me with dubs, when I hear high pitched girls trying to be like Rie Kugimiya. Just don't, voice act as if it was a western animated series.

It completely depends on who they get to voice, really. Certain VAs have been typecast into that role, really.

 

[Adam Levine]

There are some anime I prefer dubbed, like Panty and Stocking. Otherwise, subs sound better, just so you can listen to the characters' original, adorable voices.

 

[dudealmighty]

For Pokemon and Yugioh, dubbed. The others are better subbed.

 

[GUMI 02]

After watching a lot more anime since I first posted this thread, I can see why a lot of people prefer subbed to dubbed.

The English voice actors for Clannad aren't very good and I've decided to just watch it subbed.
I feel like some animes (Like Toradora!, for example) work well with the English language and It makes it hard for me to watch it subbed after I've already seen it dubbed.

All in all, I have changed my opinion. I think most animes are better subbed because they fit the story, the characters and the elements around them much better in their native language.

 

[ZetaZaku]

For Pokemon and Yugioh, dubbed. The others are better subbed.

To be honest, you're doing yourself a disservice by watching Yugioh dubbed. Other shows usually just have English voices and similar script, but Yugioh has completely rewritten script that doesn't match the original at all.

 

[someguy.fromnevada]

Truth be told, I think I'm more into dubbed anime, cause then I can just kick back and watch it, rather than read. I mean, if I wanted to read the anime, I would rather just get the manga.

 

[Lusus]

Usually I watch subbed over dubbed. Pokemon is the only exception because I'm used to the dub, and the original is usually not any different so no reason to switch.

But for everything else I prefer subbed. Dubs tend to remove stuff like guns, mentions of death, blood, huge acts of violence, etc, especially in "kid" shows whenever or not that anime was aimed at kids in the first place. Remove all that stuff and then change the plot around it and now suddenly you have a million plot holes that make the plot make no sense.

Also aside from really popular anime, dubs tend to have very lackluster voice acting. And even in popular dubbed anime the original VO is usually just better. Seeing English voice actors try to imitate Japanese things also makes me cringe. The soundtrack is also more fitting and better. All IMO of course.

 

[Sheep]

Subbed, I always prefer watching things in their original language. Same goes for any cartoons or other TV shows; if they're originally made in English (or whatever other language) I'll go for that before anything else. That and I feel most anime tends to sound more natural and has more emotion when it's in Japanese rather than dubbed haha. There are some exceptions, like Durarara!! and Soul Eater which I thought were fantastically dubbed, but I still wouldn't go out of my way to watch dubs over subs.

 

[donavannj]

You know what? I forgot to state my preference in this iteration. I have a slight bias toward dubs, but I generally will prefer to watch a series in whichever language I see it in first, and then maybe again in the other language if it was good the first time through.

 

[DanKyoshi]

I prefer subbed than the dubbed one... For me the voice acting of dubbed one is kinda boring..

 

[dudealmighty]

To be honest, you're doing yourself a disservice by watching Yugioh dubbed. Other shows usually just have English voices and similar script, but Yugioh has completely rewritten script that doesn't match the original at all.

I know this, and I am aware of a lot of the differences. I even agree that it's worse dubbed. I don't really know why I prefer it dubbed. Maybe it's cause I just grew up watching it dubbed. I watch all the episodes that never get dubbed with subs, though.

 

[Satoshi Ookami]

I feel like some animes (Like Toradora!, for example) work well with the English language and It makes it hard for me to watch it subbed after I've already seen it dubbed.

Well... Toradora has Rie Kugimiya MC, that alone makes subbed version superior =D

To be honest, you're doing yourself a disservice by watching Yugioh dubbed. Other shows usually just have English voices and similar script, but Yugioh has completely rewritten script that doesn't match the original at all.

YGO is actually somehow weird... I definitely agree that the butchered script is a disgrace, but if you are an YGO player, you somehow tend to lean towards dubbed because of card names. Because you know what they do and how they are supposed to be played. That is sometimes not the case in case of sub as Japanese cards sometimes have different naming.

 

[ZetaZaku]

YGO is actually somehow weird... I definitely agree that the butchered script is a disgrace, but if you are an YGO player, you somehow tend to lean towards dubbed because of card names. Because you know what they do and how they are supposed to be played. That is sometimes not the case in case of sub as Japanese cards sometimes have different naming.

But the cards are the same, aside from the dub having censored artwork reflecting the censored real life cards, and replacing every black with dark (DARK HOLE). Also card effects rarely reflect actual effects, the show always makes up card effects on the fly. Dub maybe works if you just want the card game, but if you watch it for the characters/plot, the dub does ruin a lot of it, especially character development since most dialogues were turned into puns. At least Kaiba is a dick no matter what version you watch. He'll always be the best tsundere there is.

 

[Satoshi Ookami]

but if you watch it for the characters/plot, the dub does ruin a lot of it, especially character development since most dialogues were turned into puns.

That's for sure.
Not to mention name changing...

At least Kaiba is a dick no matter what version you watch. He'll always be the best tsundere there is.

LOL

 

[Espeonica]

I also prefer dubbed anime because it's easier to get pulled into the characters & I feel more connected to the story. I can understand why some people prefer subbed, but I just don't like to read the subtitles because then I'm not able to focus fully on the anime.
My attention span is pretty low xD

 

[Log]

I usually prefer to watch shows - anime or otherwise - in their original language because it feels more, uh, original to me. That, and the fact that the dubbed anime I've seen so far just didn't feel natural compared to its subbed counterparts (voice-acting wise).

 

[GetHyper]

Definitely subbed, subbed anime sounds more natural while dubbed for me at least often sound out of place or a bit forced.

 

[Crizzle]

It really depends on which one I'm exposed to first. But usually, they're interchangeable to me. As long as it's not doing some 4kids BS.

 

[Drogan]

It's usually whatever I hear them in first, unless the VO is awful. Then I try the other.

 

[Pebbles]

definitely dub
but only when its done good
i used to love watching fairy tail dub​