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I prefer subbed.The japanese voices are just so much better.

i preffer dubs cause, i dont really watch enough anime to know any familliar voices.

Sub, my family is dead and most anime doesnt come with Captions. so its Alot easyer to watch Subs.

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I prefer the subtitles, I like reading what they're saying and most of the time the dubs are wrong. Though when I am doing something and I have it in the background I prefer the dubbed ones so that I don't have to look up constantly to see what they are saying.

Not necessarily. When a studio dubs an anime, they will often times take libeties with the wording of a phrase in order to make it fit more naturally with the lip movements of a character. Sometimes a voice actor or actress might also ad lib something and they keep that because they like how it flows better than the origional diologue. Both of these factors will often times make the dubbed version different than the subtittled version. If you don't believe me just listen to the english while watching the japanese subtitles sometime. Some of then will stay very close and similar with just a few minor changes in wording here and there to account for the beat and patterns of speech, and others will have large divergencies or even talk about completely different plot points.

A good example of this is a slighly more obscure clamp title called Tokyo Babylon. There is a sceen with the cherry blossum trees that when listened to in english Sei(His name is longer, but I"m using the abreviation) is talking to the girl (supposedly) about promising that she will never feel pain or hurt, in the subtitled version he is talking to suburu, the male main character, about something completely different. It really depends on how much a studio cares about sticking to the original or not. It's more pornouced with the older anime though since voice actors were more often allowed to take liberties with the characters than they are now.

Sorry if I got onto a bit of a tangent, but it's something that really does irk me slightly when people assume it's exactly the same. It's not.

I know all of that, I just meant major differences. I hear a lot of moronic teenagers, who have no idea what dubbing involves, saying things like "They COMPLETELY changed what the character said!", or something to that effect.

This argument also comes up when talking about fan-subs, which is more what I was referring to. Many over-obsessive fans claim "You should download the series because they translate it right; the company's subtitles are censored/completely wrong/propaganda/etc. In __________ series, __________ character called his enemy a 'b*****d', but the company changed it and censored it as 'moron,'."

What these people may not realize is that the original japanese phrase was "baka" which would accurately translate more along the lines of "idiot" or "moron", however, to be "edgy", the fansubbers translated it as "b*****d" "retard" or "********".

...so to sum up, I was just trying to say that dubs aren't massively different from subs, even if some changes are made to accomodate cultural equivalents, lip-flap length, etc.