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[Snapple]

There's no question, subbed is superior. I cannot STAND American accents in anime, erughh makes me shudder! I'd watch it raw if I knew enough Japanese.

[2squared]

Most of the time I prefer subs. However, there have been some good dubs. I feel that subbing allows the characters' intended personalities to shine through. (Then again I grew up watching the Sailor Moon dub. After I saw the subbed version, I figured out that the subbed version is far more superior, received barely any censorship, and enhanced my attention span).
Dubs on the other hand can be beneficial because over here in the States, we normally gain knowledge about various anime series via dubs. The bad side to this is that many people believe that the dubbed version of the series is the original one. (My friends all thought this about Sailor Moon until I told them how many different medias Sailor Moon has been produced in)
One thing about dubs I cannot stand is when a company does a voice over on a live-action movie. For example, I was so psyched to watch "Oldboy" on Netflix's streaming service, but the audio being streamed on the site is a rather tacky dub. It wrecked the film for me.

Plus if you really stretch it, perhaps reading subs might enhance your reading skills

[Arcfayth]

Personally, I find that Subs are much better than Dubs. As someone above has said, English voice actors aren't really that good. I find that a lot of the emphasis and character of a character('s voice) really gets lost when it's Dubbed.

Plus if you really stretch it, perhaps reading subs might enhance your reading skills

I don't think it's a stretch at all. Some of the talking goes by fairly quickly depending on which series you watch. I remember there was one anime where I had to stop the video to catch all the sentences flying about.

[TVD]

For me it depends on the Anime. For example: I prefer to watch Escaflowne subbed.
Code Geass however, with its wide cast of characters from various countries I actually prefer seeing dubbed.

Lucky Star is an example where I enjoy both the dub and subs immensely.

Although I must say that I hate it when they also dub the songs in an anime (I'm looking at you Gundam Seed+Destiny)

Edited by TommyVD, 24 August 2011 - 08:16 PM.

[awesomecakes]

As a child, I saw some of the classical dubbed animes, such as Pokemon and Yugioh.

However, after that, I never saw dubs again. I really hate dubs, unfortunately. For games such as Final Fantasy, dubs are fine since they are necessary, and usually done better than in animes.

For the last 6 or 7 years, I've been watching subbed anime, and my Japanese is actually pretty good right now. I'm glad that watching anime is also a learning experience for me.

[a23ri]

I really love my country dubbing anime.......
I always watch every sunday.........

[TheFicusWithSuperPowers]

I like DUBS more

Actually, I can't understand very well dubs

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[rinafest'19]

Shows like Hell Girl, FMA, and Ojamajo Doremi () I really do prefer the dub voices..

But I haven't watched anime in a while because I haven't found one that I liked..

Dokuro-chan I watched in subs where it later got dubbed ( I was in 5th grade I didn't know what I was watching..) I didn't find the dub bad at all.. Cardcaptor Sakura on the other hand when it was dubbed they literally altered their target audience giving the guy a bigger role and my god the opening... It was just ruined overall..

Shows like Shugo Chara, [C] - Control, and No. 6 are shows I am excited to hopefully one day see dubbed..
( I've watched more anime than that I just want to see these dubbed..)
I had to watch the last two seasons of Hell GIrl subbed (legally by the way) and I was just fine adjusting because new characters were introduced all the time..
FMA had great dubbing and I really didn't like Edward's japanese voice..
Magical Doremi was the version I originally know and i think all of the dub voices were fine until the Onpu came in and got the worst voice ever .__. but I don't think they really did anything wrong.. Except butchering the Shogi, the spoiled girl hitting scene, and turning Sake into tea..

Tokyo Mew Mew was butchered by 4kids editing things time after time and changing all of their names..

But if a dub is good I won't turn it down, nothing is wrong with either of them!
I think the important thing is you are supporting the person who lets you watch it legally..

[maddogz33]

It depends on the anime for me. If I don't think the voice fits the character, I might try dubbed. For example, I really don't like the voices in the subbed version of DBZ or Death Note. That said, I generally prefer the subbed versions over the dubbed.

[Logan ⭐]

Inuyasha is probably only anime I strongly prefer the English dub. The rest I have no preference on dub/sub.

[Moondoggie]

It all really depends. Some anime like Eureka Seven i prefer the dub i just think the voices fit the characters more and convey the emotions better. And then some like Ergo Proxy and Haruhi Suzumiya i like both the dub and sub equally. Though for a lot of anime it's better seen original subbed because the dub totally takes away from the original intention of scenes. Gantz, Serial Experiments: Lain and FLCL for example.

Some like One Piece i'm still on the fence about. I think the Funimation dub has been done really well but the original is just so good that it can't be beaten or even matched so i'll stick to watching the original.

[NyNy]

I used to prefer dubs as a child but now, I like both. The only reason I'll watch subbed is if the anime I am watching is not dubbed yet or is only available to a Japanese audience and isn't worldwide.

There are people who say you suck if you watch dub instead of sub but come on! Most of us who don't know Japanese fluently grew up watching a lot of animes in dub so I don't see the problem. I personally don't care whether their voices sound better in Japanese at least I can understand it better!

Sorry, went on a little rant there.

[PCC]

i'm fine with wrong accents for certain characters, but since i usually only watch the anime of more typically "shonen" stuff which aren't all that wordy, a sub would do just fine. stuff that has more complex dialogues are better off dubbed.

[TenshiDoll]

The only anime I watch with English dub is Death Note.
All others, Subtitles please.

[Heidi Lipasti]

Dragon Ball's the only anime where I like the English dub (cuz Goku sounds like a 10-year-old in the original.(And of course ...it's over 9000 ))
But anyways, it's subs for me and but can understand raw too just a little

[Caroline]

I always watched sub. Can't stand the dubbed for some animes especially Naruto.

[reinalovesllamas]

The only dubbed that I like is School Rumble and Studio Ghibi movies.
Everything else needs to be subbed since i dont speak a lick of Japanese.

[ParuYui]

I prefer sub over dub anytime, I find it looks weird when an anime is dubbed so ~ ^^

[NyNy]

I recently did a post on this, feel free to read if you guys want: http://nynyonlinex.w.../19/dub-vs-sub/