Subbed or Dubbed?

It depends which version has the better voice actors for me. I watch as much english dub as I do sub, and usually check for an english dub first to see how it is before I commit to watching it the whole way.

I’m new to anime, been watching Attack on Titan w/ Dubbed. I watched a few of my fav episodes w/ Subbed but I miss stuff when I’m reading the subtitle and sometimes I can’t read it fast enough so I have to rewind and pause. It’s just to much of a hassle. Mainly it’s because I feel that I’m missing the amazing animation while I’m reading.

Subtitle reading is a skill like any other. The more you do it, the easier it gets. Granted, I’ve been doing it for over 30 years, so there’s that. But there are watching skills to make it easier. If you sit a little bit back from the screen, it helps train your eyes to see both the words and what’s going on with the animation at the same time. Eventually, with enough time, you’ll be able to absorb it all without realizing it.

The biggest problems with dubs today is that Funimation is super woke and is changing dialogue on a regular basis altering the anime to trickle in woke agenda. Therefore, present day dubs, anything in the past couple of years, really cannot be fully trusted.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Roas.

I still watch some anime dubbed, but now I mostly watch subs because of Funimation botching the dub and the translation. Crunchyroll has problems. Sentai Filmworks botched one dub in To Love Ru which is why I bought the manga and not the DVDs. So I mostly watch anime in subs now. Classics, dubs. But may find the time to watch it in subs.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by AustinZero.

Subbed only.

Dubs, imo, are mostly garbage. The voice actors all sound the same, they are so overly dramatic it makes my ears bleed listening to them, and most of them are terrible people. I live in Dallas and had a friend who worked for Funimation for years. When I say they are terrible people, I really mean it. Also, I go to cons here all the time and have asked multiple dub actors if they ever watch the Japanese episodes to get an idea what the seiyuu and studio was going for in regards to the character. Everyone of them said no. I get wanting to put your own spin on things, but many times the way the American dub actors voice the role completely changes the characters’ personalities.

Japanese voice actors take their roles pretty seriously and many of them are like idols over there. Heck, some mangaka even create characters with the intention of certain seiyuu voicing them. Also, Japanese studios have to approve the subtitles so they are more likely to be accurate. Dubs, especially Funimation’s, take extreme liberties with the dialogue to inject their own bs into the characters’ mouths.

Most of us started Dub for obvious reasons then over the years went Sub. The sad reality is there was a time where the Dub could be good..but BS Social Justice is ruining that quickly. Cannot remember the anime but dubbed saying Bitches, Bros and Nonbinary Hoes was the most cringe I ever felt in recent memory and I remember Ghost Stories….

Honestly, I don’t even care. I will watch a sub if I have to. But I prefer dub for the simple fact that I don’t have to pay as close attention or rewind if I cant read text fast enough.
What really sucks is if neither option is available…
Or in the rare instance where a dub is started but dropped half way through. Like in GaoGaiGar. It affects the immersion.

FUNimation is full of woke people making the translations. Pure sjws. they even grab about it on twitter everytime they change something just to sound more PC and woke. It’s a disgrace nowadays entertainment industries being hijacked by these weirdos.