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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/anime@hexbear.net

I'm rewatching Spirited Away with English subs I grabbed off opensubtitles.org and I had already been confused by some phantom lines that didn't correspond to any spoken dialogue but this scene made it obvious what was happening- there's extra lines added in places where the characters are facing away from the camera michael-laugh

Either the subtitler was hallucinating or these originate from the dub. I grew up watching a VHS tape chomsky-yes-honey in Japanese with Finnish subtitles and I don't recall this scene having dialogue

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[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

with English subs I grabbed off opensubtitles.org

With Spirited Away, it's important not to get dubtitles, which is what you did

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I legit didn't even know those were a thing! I mean yes, I've played games in English with the Japanese audio track and noticed some pretty large differences between the localised English script and the Japanese script but I didn't realise anime dubs went as far as to add entirely new lines.

Lesson learned though, I went and grabbed another set of subs based on the Japanese version which made the experience of watching the movie far less distracting

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