My opinion on the whole dubbing thing...
I don't really see the problem in dubbing, as long as it's done well... just like I don't see the problem in subtitling... if it's done well. Someone mentioned a while back about s/he was laughing at a french movie because the subbing was so far off from the actual dialog. Personally, I like to have my anime's dubbed, especially the 1st time I see them. I want to watch the movie, not read the screen, you miss a lot of the animation when your reading the bottom few inches of the screen.
as to the "you should see the movie how it was ment to be seen" argument... the movie was ment to be seen in japanese for the japanese viewers. The directors/producers of anime make them in japanese because they are japanese, not because they want the whole world to see them in japanese. If proper voice actors are hired and a good translation of the script is made, there is no sin in a dub. The little words on the bottom of the screen weren't in the orignal version, so unless you watch it unsubbed and undubbed, you aren't watching the "Original" version.
Another thing is, unless you are fluent in japanese, how do you know how well the original voice acting is? Honestly, most anime that I watch dubbed sounds like they hired kids off the street to voice the characters, so I don't see the crime in dubbing them. Anime like Bebop and FLCL did a pretty good job in dubbing (I've seen both series dubbed and subbed about 10 times each), and honestly I liked the dubbed voice actors better than the japanese ones.
It all comes down to what you like. In film, I like it subed, I liked to see the voice coming out of the actor, in animation, I like whatever sounds better, since it's not synched anyway. Movie dubbing is much better than it was 20 years ago, but I enjoyed seing Hero subbed when it came out.
In all, no one is a moron or a fool for liking what they like. feel free to try to persuade them to your point of view, but don't go yelling at them for disagreeing
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canibalistic_smiley_face
19 years ago
I have no problem with dubbing, but I really prefer subbing.
Dubs are ok, but if you watch the sub (if it's translated properly) and then the dub, it's laughable. The plot completely changes. Then take "Spirited Away". The voice actors in thier respective languages use such a variation of emotion. It completely changes the way you look at a film.
I have a fairly high reading speed, so it doesn't bother me to read the subtitles and then look at the scene, but I can understand how it would annoy others.
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