This is why I watch the dub for anime. And when I say the subtitles are too distracting people always tell me I'm wrong and I'm not a real anime fan. But I guess I never really expected the anime community to be understanding in the first place lmao

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

My wife puts on the dubs and I put on the subtitles. The dubs bother me because the voice acting is always worse. Because of the audiotory processing, all I get from the voice is the emotion. The actual words come from the subtitles.

Even for shows in English, I use the audio dialogue for emotional cues. Captions better convey the actual words said.

I can process the audio dialogue if I have to, but subtitles require less mental energy.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Which is fair. Personally I think dub quality has gotten substantially better over the past couple decades. The sub will always be better, but the days of god awful translations and dubs is, for the most part, in the past (looking at you, Dragonball Z). Both have their positives and drawbacks for me.

My problem is that I straight up miss half the show if I have subtitles on. When Attack on Titan first came out I watched the sub because it was my only option at the time. When I was later able to watch the dub I found out that while I understood the dialog better with the sub, I missed almost every other scene. Especially when there was dialog in fight sequences where there is a lot happening. When I went back and watched the dub I was legitimately surprised because in my head the fight went completely different because my eyes were glued to the bottom half of the screen.

[–] Micromot@piefed.social 1 points 23 hours ago

I had a phase of being against dubs too but have now realized they are just soo much easier to watch and understand