Japanese or English?

[puppypaladin000]

Any thing done by 4EBIL animation, JAPANESE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

any thing else, let me hear the dub first

[Tenma6]

japanese is so much better still.

here's a perfect example:

a person that get's surprised by something, right?
imagine a voice saying the following things:

english: whaaaaaaaaaat!?
japanese: eeeeeehhhhh?!

personally, the 2nd one sound alot better.
I'm studying japanese in my free time, without guidance of course cuz i've got lots to do still.

usually, i find http://www.freedict.com a useful source to learn japanese, though not all of it is translated perfectly.
Funny thing is that i'm dutch, and when i selected the enlish to dutch dictionary on that site and looked up some words, there were made SO many mistakes!
so many mistakes that it's actually insulting, lol (just kidding)

[Cless]

Imagine having it on Japanese when Piros is cursed by Love Potion #9 or Overworld Helm. I would get a kick out of that. The way I heard it in English was funny but I wish I had it in Japanses to see what he would say in that version.

[Tsuki of the Silver Moon]

depends on whether the english voices are good or not

[boy123]

well i am not good at japanese but i can count and name colors in japanese and i know some basic animal names well got a question does hotoru actually mean fireflies?

[Boba]

I prefer Japanese because dubbing usually turns out horribly.
But it also takes away from me being able to watch the movie.
So the first time, I usually watch it in English.

[Endrance'sCat]

For the most part, I prefer the Japanese. Reading subtitles doesn't bother me, and I usually find the original voice actors to be better. ^^;

[Nenja]

well i am not good at japanese but i can count and name colors in japanese and i know some basic animal names well got a question does hotoru actually mean fireflies?

hotaru mean fireflies i learned this at a Mortalkombat Video

[Cless]

I really dont' mind reading subtitle sas long as I get to see the jokes in Japanese.

[Nenja]

well FMA English version is better that the japanese but maybe is because FMA is based on a fictional western country.

[boy123]

yay i got it.anyway subtitles are cool!!! you can realy tell what the are saying like fo the sign intro music instead of bla bla bla in japanese with subtitles i know that the are singing in english well kinda like te beggining "how come i most know" "where bla bla bla"

[Cless]

The only problem with subtitles is you have to read it to find the joke.

[boy123]

one bad thing about subitles you keep on looking at thm and you can barely watch the showit self

[Kaito Fujiwara]

hmm....

I've never had that problem. I wonder if I'm the exception?

[Covered-up Panties]

I have sub. and dub. anime. Mainly because I like the Japanese voice acting better than the English. However, I do enjoy a few dubs more(Spiral, Chrno Crusade, FMA, Gensomade Saiyuki((the ADV dubb)), etc).

Then, there are some where watching the dub is just not acceptable(Naruto, One Piece, Sailor Moon((I have a pet peeve with this one)), Pokemon((Whiney... *insert curse word of choice*)), Tokyo Babylon, Card Captor Sakura, etc.)

Notice I named mostly 4KIDS dubs('cept for the last two and Sailor Moon). I hope this tells you something.

[puppypaladin000]

yeah, cause 4kids are the pinicle of ebil, looks at Yu-Gi-Oh! DM and GX

[Cless]

one bad thing about subitles you keep on looking at thm and you can barely watch the showit self

True, but the game .Hack//Mutation for example. If you have it set on English the character speak English and the words appears. If you have it set on Japanses the character speaks Japanese and the words appear. Either way is okay with me.

[Satu]

Ooh, it's a tough choice at times. Mainly, I go for Japanese. Sometimes dubbing goes over REALLY well, though. Look at the .hack video games. They even got English VAs that sounded similar to the Japanese VAs. (Well, sometimes they were a tad off, but compare that to what 4Kids does, and you'll feel differently.)

A lot of people can't focus on the words and image at the same time, which is perfectly alright. I don't like looking at subtitles during more action-oriented scenes because you miss a ton of what's going on. I've been working on reading the words while focusing on the picture using my peripheral (if I'm spelling that correctly) vision. It'll help me out in more aspects of life than one.

But I know that bad voice-acting and poor voice choices for characters can absolutely slaughter a dub. Look at Pokémon and Yuugiou (excuse me, "Yu-Gi-Oh!"). I mean, sure, they were horribly mangled dubs to begin with, but the terrible voices sure didn't help anything.

It's odd, though. If you go into a series listening to the English track, it's sort of hard to listen to the Japanese one, and vice-versa. I mean, I listened to .hack ENTIRELY in Japanese. (I bought the $150 box-set (which was a STUPID decision, might I add.) Then, after I finished up, I went back and listened to the English VAs. For the most part, they were alright, but some made me burst out laughing. (Particularly Sora (I want to know what they were thinking on that one), Subaru, and Tsukasa, the last of which traumatized me with flashbacks of Pokémon's "Ash Ketchum" for some reason.)

But, to each his/her own, right? =D

[Cless]

That alot to think about.

I just have it on either to see which sounds funnier.

[cbjkelvin]

of cause it is japanese lah!!!!!! it make the anme more alive...