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CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 6 days agoThat’s fine. Do you watch subs if there is no dub? Some popular shows don’t have English dubs. What about extra content? A lot of it is in Japanese only. If you watch that after watching a dub the voices don’t match.
One time I was watching one of my favorites and an emotional scene came up. However the sub was not accurate and diminished the emotional impact. Luckily it was not a hard line and I could just hear the Japanese which saved it for me. I’m curious what you think of that. Because with a dub you wouldn’t be able to spot the mistake right?
Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I used to watch subs, back in the day, because there was no alternative. But nowadays there is so much dubbed anime at an at minimum decent quality that I don’t have to watch subs at all. If a show I’m curious about has no dub I’ll just watch something else. The popular ones all get a dub sooner rather than later anyways and I can’t even watch all of those. The day only has twenty four hours and most of these hours I have to do something else anyways. Ain’t got no time to watch all that. If by extra content you mean making offs and cast interviews and such, then no, I don’t care about that at all. Special episodes I do watch, even if it’s only a sub. And no, the different voices don’t bother me at all, because usually they aren’t that different anyway. Voice casting doesn’t happen in a vacuum and the voice artists are selected to suit the character and to sound similar to the original voice, if possible. Doesn’t always work out, but nothing’s ever perfect.
By the way, there’s more spoken languages in the world than just Japanese and English.