09-30-2003, 07:10 PM
For as long as I've been watching anime, I've never had a serious debate about the whole subs vs. dubs issue.
Rereading peoples posts I do see merit to both sides of the debate and believe that it boils down to personal tastes.
One reason I haven't seen mentioned for watching a dub instead of a sub is horrible subs. Recently, I watched Evangelion for the first time all dubbed. The dubs were just below the standard I like for dubs but the subtitles were dropping way too many lines. Halfway through the series, I had gotten used to how the characters sounded in the English dub and I'm not sure that I would enjoy the original soundtrack now that I've associated those voices with those characters.
One final thing is that this thread has gone a bit off topic from the original posters question. The point of this thread was to find out why people watch dubs to begin with. It wasn't to be which is better.
Rereading peoples posts I do see merit to both sides of the debate and believe that it boils down to personal tastes.
One reason I haven't seen mentioned for watching a dub instead of a sub is horrible subs. Recently, I watched Evangelion for the first time all dubbed. The dubs were just below the standard I like for dubs but the subtitles were dropping way too many lines. Halfway through the series, I had gotten used to how the characters sounded in the English dub and I'm not sure that I would enjoy the original soundtrack now that I've associated those voices with those characters.
One final thing is that this thread has gone a bit off topic from the original posters question. The point of this thread was to find out why people watch dubs to begin with. It wasn't to be which is better.
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