Apr 9, 2006, 09:52 PM
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I'm really too lazy to read this whole thread and to be honest I don't really care.
Why do I prefer to subs to dubs? Simple. You get more of a variety with subs and more emotion. Allow me to elaborate.
The seiyuu (voice acting) industry in Japan is a shitload more extensive than the dubbing industry here. I bought a copy of Animage, a Japanese magazine last year, and one of the extras was a small book with lots of seiyuu, possibly all of them? The book was pretty big, probably the thickness of an average-sized manga. In America, you have maybe 30-50 people freelancing for whatever series they're hired for. I won't go so far as to say some of them are just doing it for the money, but there's not really money there in the first place and it's not my place to say this.
Secondly, Japanese is a lot more emotional a language than English. You can't pull any "You don't know Japanese so you don't know" bullshit on me because I do know Japanese. There are things that I find I can't properly communicate in English because its so dry. This also helps the seiyuu convey emotion moreso than dub VAs. Due to the way that Japanese is formed, there's a lot of different ways that a person can speak. In English, that's just not really possible. You also have to consider that a lot of the time these characters are created with Japan and Japanese in mind. Not America and English, so when you try to transfer over characters that are meant to have an Osakan accent and give them a Western accent, its just dumb.
That's just my two cents, I don't really feel like writing any more.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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