While I haven't seen this show, and so can't say anything about the quality of the English voice acting, I find dubs preferable. I know English, WTF would I bother with voices I don't understand? They can be just as awful, but you just don't know it.
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I don't know; I think it's fairly easy to tell the difference between good and bad Japanese voice acting.
Ideally, I prefer watching everything in their original dubbing (which for anime usually means Japanese dubbing with English subtitles for me) because it's usually the best quality. The original voice actors usually put the most effort into their acting and it sounds more believable. There's actual emotion behind the characters. And certain things like references to Japanese culture are often lost in english-dubbed anime because they try to adapt it to American culture instead. That makes for weird conflicts between the voice acting and animations sometimes and often has me raising an eyebrow.
It's like watching a martial arts movie, but rather than them speaking Chinese, they're dubbed in English and their lips poorly match what the voices are saying. It just looks wrong and is enough to bother me. Everything is just better watched as they were originally intended, in my opinion.
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I used to think the same thing until I accidentally bought a movie that was subbed rather than dubbed, and I enjoyed the movie enough that I watched it a few times and finally came to realize exactly what TimidTofu's saying. You can still tell whether someone's acting is good or bad, and the dialogue all makes more sense because it's not something that's been edited for cultural differences or simply to make the lip movement match up. The Japanese also have certain ideas of how these character archetypes should act & sound which is different from western expectations so the voices usually fit the character better as well.
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Some of us like to keep our eye on what's happening instead of straining them to read and keep up with the subs maybe? I find it real annoying when I have to pause and backtrack a video 10 times because I couldn't read everything people said.
I dunno about this show but dubs aren't THAT bad... Ok, I'm biased since I survived the Sailor Moon dub, but still... :P
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It depends on the show. i thought the cowboy bebop dub was better than the sub, but i hate the one piece dubs.
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I'll take your Angel Beats and raise you Golden Boy.
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Here, this one is always a great fallback : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHmBSfci0yE
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Ah how coincidental. Looks like I barely ninja'd ya, great taste :).
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Todays laugh of the day goes to Angel Beats!
Here you go!
Still Not Enough??
Sorry couldn't find sub
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