I like subs best. Sometimes the dubs are pretty terrible (Like the Slayers. It's awful!).

hey now, i like both OPs and both dances for their own reasons. i'll take my GALS and my Lucky Star crack, with a twist and a lime

Never watched GALS but the Lucky Star opening is the best EVER! However i cannot makes heads or tails of the lyrics to the song. Even the subs seem. . . wrong. Weird, but catchy as all hell!

GALS rocks. i loved it

Big dub fan myself. I think the days of all dubs being being bad are long past, although some people don't like to admit it. Yeah sure it can be easy to pick it apart, but I think it's much easier to find flaws when listening in one's own language than in a less familiar one. Not to mention so much work goes into making English versions. So it's dub for me.

i will def agree that dubs in 2008 are far better than they were in 88 or 98. but, dubs are still never going to be as good as the original language.

is that largely personal opinion, yes. but, anime or foreign film, i think it is indisputable that the original is always going to be the best. dubs or adaptations can do the original honor through respect and a faithful script and acting. but, the Original is still the Original. there will always be unique cultural distinctions and inflections that cannot translate and thus that part is lost.

take Pan's Labyrinth for example. for those who have seen it (effing awesome movie!), can you imagine watching an english dubbed version? brrr. i know i sure can't -.-

True. When i first started watching anime i thought that dubs were the only way to go. However, when i had to watch some shows that were sub only i got hooked. To me subs are the only way to watch anime.

Are you fluent in Japanese? Because if you aren’t then this argument is totally invalid. Because if you are reading the reference or hearing it in English, it is still totally reliant on it being translated properly and you understanding what they are trying to get at. You can’t read inflection any way.

This is one of the arguments that get under my skin from Sub only people the most.

I am not against subs as a means to enjoy anime, because they are perfectly valid. But in my mind if I am going to pay for something then it would be nice to have a dub on it as an option. And when that option is totally taken away from me it makes me wonder why I am buying it and not downloading it and ripping it to disk. fansubbers tend to have a better translation any way.

How would you feel if studios did a dub only release on titles like FMA, or Hellsing, or Chobits, or any other number of popular titles? Would you still buy them because you can still watch them or would you take it off the shelf and burn it in the pile in the middle of the store as sacrilege?

I dunno about him but i am. I agree, meaning and inflections are lost and trust me, it makes a big difference.


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! *melts into a pile of goo*

*re-congeals* Then again this point is moot since subs are easier than dubs so subs are always done first

Oh, I fully understand that subs are easier. and I am the kind of person that really could care less if I was watching something with subs or dubs. If a dub isn't available then I am not going to cry over it. But I also will be less likely to buy it. Dubs are just easier on me because I can't read that fast and it drives the other people in the room nuts when I stop and back up all the time. I also don't follow names as easy with subs only. If I hear the name then I can point out the person much easier.

I just wanted to see what your thoughts would be on a dub only release if one ever came out that wasn't a 4kids release.