I choose to watch dubbed with sub captions. You often get two different translation attempts that way and I think between the two i occasionally pick some some nuance i may have missed had I only received the sub or dub translation alone.
After almost 30 years of anime and foreign content watching, I have consumed tons of content subbed and tons of content dubbed, and still regularly watches subbed content for huge amounts of no-dub content out there, and have concluded that dub + sub is the overall best experience for me by far.
That being said. I don’t personally care how any other person consumes their content. If you want subs, that’s cool. If you want dubs, that’s cool too. But I’m sorry, all you anti-dub folks, you are not cooler, better, or smarter for listening to voices in a language you don’t understand. It’s a preference. It’s fine to prefer subs, but it genuinely does not make you or your experience superior.
I suspect that a huge portion of Americans do not have the reading skill to keep up with subtitles. Subtitles make them feel stupid, so they won’t watch em.
Drag’s friend has ADHD and doesn’t like subs because then bot can’t look at bot’s stim toys and other distractions. Drag prefers subs because dub performances are so unreliable in quality, and they’re never going to perfectly match the directorial intent which the animations were made for. All Might’s American voice actor absolutely sucks. Which should be impossible because All Might is one of the most American characters in all of anime. But the guy just did a bad job. He’s not nearly loud and boisterous enough.
Do people watch stuff for adults dubbed?
I choose to watch dubbed with sub captions. You often get two different translation attempts that way and I think between the two i occasionally pick some some nuance i may have missed had I only received the sub or dub translation alone.
After almost 30 years of anime and foreign content watching, I have consumed tons of content subbed and tons of content dubbed, and still regularly watches subbed content for huge amounts of no-dub content out there, and have concluded that dub + sub is the overall best experience for me by far.
That being said. I don’t personally care how any other person consumes their content. If you want subs, that’s cool. If you want dubs, that’s cool too. But I’m sorry, all you anti-dub folks, you are not cooler, better, or smarter for listening to voices in a language you don’t understand. It’s a preference. It’s fine to prefer subs, but it genuinely does not make you or your experience superior.
Edit: typo
Yeah. If I wanted to read I’d pick up a book.
Uncultured rubes do.
I suspect that a huge portion of Americans do not have the reading skill to keep up with subtitles. Subtitles make them feel stupid, so they won’t watch em.
Drag’s friend has ADHD and doesn’t like subs because then bot can’t look at bot’s stim toys and other distractions. Drag prefers subs because dub performances are so unreliable in quality, and they’re never going to perfectly match the directorial intent which the animations were made for. All Might’s American voice actor absolutely sucks. Which should be impossible because All Might is one of the most American characters in all of anime. But the guy just did a bad job. He’s not nearly loud and boisterous enough.