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@ghostfacekiller39  
Well what’s worse, dubs or WatchMojo?

@ghostfacekiller39  
When thry say pervert it sounds like a nice way of saying slut
 
Sort of like how male perverts are all guilty of sexual assault in anime

@EHAN  
well, yeahh, but that aside
 
dubs

@ghostfacekiller39  

 
Well there’s your problem

Watching WatchMojo’s list of Top 10 Female Anime Perverts
 
Putting the fact that it’s WatchMojo and therefore sucks aside, it reminds me why I avoid dubs like the plague - most Ecchi and Harem Animes don’t get nearly the amount of attention of more mainstream animes and therefore the amount of money they have to go into a dub is an absolute joke.
 
This is a scene from a dub of a very successful Harem/Ecchi ffs, it only goes downhill from here
 
It shows dubs every now and again and, like I anticipate, it is horrible
 
Kill dubs with fire ._.

Okay. This show is great.

So I started watching Oshiete! Galko-chan. And I thought it was gonna be a boring fanservice show but I was pleasantly surprised at how “For Girls” this show is.

I want an anime version of the jake from statefarm

@Shadow the Hedgehog  
Ghost Stories was pretty garbage before the dub happened.

@Shadow the Hedgehog  
The thing though is that the original is considered to be very forgettable.

@Dr Outback  
Seriously speaking, Ghost Stories English dub removes the suspence.  
Something that the Latin Spanish dub doesn’t.

Samurai Champloo has a really good dub. Ghost Stories English dub is notoriously good and is the definitive version. seriously

The only good dub is the Latin Spanish dub  
Is the best of all, and fits with everything.

@Dr Outback  
“There have been subtitles that are too americanized such as having excessive swearing and/or slang. takes me out of it.”
 
You put forth this criticism towards subs and not dubs
 
Okay then ._. You just do you, buddy.

@ghostfacekiller39  
when I say tone I don’t mean the scene tone. I mean the dialogue tone. There have been subtitles that are too americanized such as having excessive swearing and/or slang. takes me out of it. Then there are subtitles that are very standard and literal that sometimes it doesn’t match very well on the screen. It loses any flavor the original dialogue may have had. It may lose some of the jokes and wordplay. Yes they may provide translation notes but many times they are so long they kill the pacing (and sometimes the whole scene tone) because I would have to or rewind to read it.

@ghostfacekiller39  
Black Lagoon was never popular/memorable in my home country.
 
 
Heard of / seen anime titles like Blassreiter, The Book of Bantorra, Tokyo Ravens and Kaze no Stigma?

@MethidMan  
Nah, and I’m not really interested tbh.
 
Call me narrow-minded or whatever, but I watch anime for personal enjoyment and putting shitposting aside, I legitimately don’t enjoy watching dubs. At all.

@MethidMan  
I know she’s done voices in Black Lagoon, along with Cathy Weseluck.

@ghostfacekiller39
 
Tabitha St. Germain, whom you would know as the voice of Rarity, has done a few dub voices and I think they all sounded pretty good. Ever heard any of them?

@Dr Outback  
That’s just a bad criticism, honestly. I’ll drop the schtick for a moment.
 
If you can’t pick up on the tone and context of what’s being translated through both the tones the characters are using and what’s happening on screen, then I honestly believe that you would fare no better picking up on these things in a dub. Animation and voice acting are meant to illustrate these things, and you would be kidding me if you were going to say that anime didn’t use universal signs of tone even when it is in English - characters will raise their voice if they are angry, sigh and have a soft tone when they are sad, use certain positions and motions to illustrate these feelings, et cetera. As somebody who watches subs exclusively, there has never been a moment where I wasn’t able to at least grasp what emotions a scene was trying to convey.
 
The context is being put on obvious display, it’s not like reading a book or something. If you want to watch something in a language you understand, than be my guest, but that doesn’t help with context or tone at all unless you’re in a situation where you can’t see what’s happening on the screen. Which, in turn, kind of defeats the purpose of watching any form of animation to begin with.
 
While I don’t actually care if somebody prefers dubs to subs, dubs are more-often-than-not poorly voice acted and to deny this would be absurd. I don’t possess an understanding of the Japanese language, I find that listening to poorly voice acted dialogue that I can understand is far more grating to listen to than the unintelligible language being spoken in subs. Even the better dubs are mediocre at best compared to the Western Animations that I’m so used to, and call me spoiled, but I’m going to hold something to standard if it is going to try and provide the same outcome.

@Dr Outback  
Ive heard that a lot, never watched too much out of the subtitled one and I havent bothered with the dub

@ghostfacekiller39  
It’s also many subtitle that doesn’t provide the right tone or doesn’t take away from feel

@Dr Outback
 
@ghostfacekiller39  

@ghostfacekiller39  
I disagree. For example I think the English dub for Black Lagoon is better than the original

@Dr Outback  
no such thing as a good dub