Poll of the Day > Konosuba: subs vs dubs?

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Unless there's a really specific reason you can't read subtitles (like you watch shows while doing something else), there are near zero instances where the dub is better. Good english voice actors don't generally do anime dubs, and rewriting sentences from English to Japanese while keeping the same meaning/tone can never be done naturally 100% of the time. You'll always have translations that just don't land.

Yes I know there's an urban legend that the Cowboy Bebop director prefers the dub, guess what, the sub for Cowboy Bebop is better too.

Counter point to the above post. Most dubs nowadays are pretty great. Realistically the acting and writing are going to be well done. And if you're not watching the subs as well as the dubs then the difference is irrelevant anyway. So if you prefer one way or the other go with that.

it's konosuba, not konoduba

Just watch what you want. You cant ask a sub vs dub question without having weebs flooding in just to talk shit about dubs in general. Notice how the first reply only says bad things about the dub, but nothing good about subs. For something supposedly so superior, they sure do love having to keep telling people it is.

For someone who thinks you should watch whatever you want you sure do seem assblasted.

If TC is looking for an opinion on what's better, then typically the original will be better unless it was terrible and the dub was deconstructive in some way.

I just watched a movie about nuns giving each other oral called Benedetta. I watched it in the original French, because I'm not gonna watch nuns having sex while an American woman who gave up on her acting career talks over them and pretends to be part of the movie.

This is basic science. Watching a dub is like watching a special edition Star Wars film, you're just watching the original with extra shit strewn on afterwards

You should consume every piece of media in the original language no matter what.

Isn't that invalidated if you're using subs, though?

I swear this is the biggest piece of gatekeeping bullshit in all of nerddom

Just watch whatever the fuck you want

I swear this is the biggest piece of gatekeeping bullshit in all of nerddom

Just watch whatever the fuck you want

Most dubs nowadays are pretty great.

The sub is still better, but the dub is excellent

And I'm not one who always thinks the sub is better. Code Geass, Cowboy Bebop, and Goldenboy all are at least as good if not better dubbed.

The Konosuba sub is just so damn perfect

rewriting sentences from English to Japanese while keeping the same meaning/tone can never be done naturally 100% of the time. You'll always have translations that just don't land.

You should consume every piece of media in the original language no matter what.

I will admit there are a handful of exceptions, but its a generally good rule to follow.

I just watched a movie about nuns giving each other oral called Benedetta. I watched it in the original French, because I'm not gonna watch nuns having sex while an American woman who gave up on her acting career talks over them and pretends to be part of the movie.

This is basic science. Watching a dub is like watching a special edition Star Wars film, you're just watching the original with extra s*** strewn on afterwards

The often mentioned point that the original voice actors were what was intended for the characters is mostly inaccurate as well, because the majority of anime is adapted from some other source like manga or books. It's very unlikely that the original authors designed a character with a specific actor in mind, so when dubbing into another language the process is no different from what happens when the animation comes along: they simply choose the actor that best personifies the already-existing character.

Most anime is animated before the voice work is recorded, so it's really a dub either way

I don't know, what to do. What should I do?

Just do what you want to do.

Yeah, the original VA argument makes no sense because its just a VA.

An English sub of an anime will always release waaaaaaaaaay earlier than any American localization team can make a dub. It can take years for a company like Funimation to decide to localize, purchase rights, hire new actors, and sell it in the states.

Yeah, very few anime are done live. It's a terrible strain on animators' hands.

An English sub of an anime will always release waaaaaaaaaay earlier than any American localization team can make a dub. It can take years for a company like Funimation to decide to localize, purchase rights, hire new actors, and sell it in the states. Japanese VAs usually get OG status because thats what is usually released first. However I think theres some exceptions like Space Dandy where they all release at the same time. Generally though, when it first premieres/airs live - its in Japanese.

This hasn't really been true for about a decade, there's been plenty Anime dubs that realease simultaneously with the JPN voices and like the other poster said big names typically get released very soon after, not years like it used to. Also if insist on using the asinine "Orignal VA" arguement, Space Dandy was broadcasted in the U.S first so does that mke the ENG cast the "OG?" Or is that still somehow the "Inferior" version by your warped logic?

Once again driving home the point that people who so vigorously denounce Dubs are stuck in the 90's.

This hasn't really been true for about a decade, there's been plenty Anime dubs that realease simultaneously with the JPN voices and like the other poster said big names typically get released very soon after, not years like it used to. Also if insist on using the asinine "Orignal VA" arguement, Space Dandy was broadcasted in the U.S first so does that mke the ENG cast the "OG?" Or is that still somehow the "Inferior" version by your warped logic?

Once again driving home the point that people who so vigorously denounce Dubs are stuck in the 90's.

I think that's kind of all a moot point, given what I said earlier.

Next to nobody is worried about the number of degrees of separation between what they're watching and the original work. If something like that does matter to you, then learn Japanese and read the manga. Otherwise watch what you want to watch and leave it at that.

Also Konosuba is quite good, but you might need to adjust your expectations for it depending on your preconceptions going on. The artstyle is in some aspects deliberately ugly, I think it has a lot of thought put into even it's more bizarre aspects. The movie that came out a few years ago is very good for anyone who missed it.

again, like i said before, dubbing is one step further removed because now you have a replaced cast of VAs IN ADDITION to a translation, making subs that much closer to the original experience.

btw. I wonder if when a Madhouse exec gets the green light for a new project and the writers room gets busy over in Tokyo, what language is being spoken? What language is the anime being written in? And what language are the VAs hired to speak in? Probably Spanish or something.

..That's what I suggested in the first place.