Jedisakora

I think it would have to be on the Comedy Channel

vc318

I'd rather sit through a film that was subtitled than dubbed anyway. Whenever it's dubbed, it's usually done poorly.

Lain

Spirited Away did a pretty decent job but from what I heard, some dialogues were changed in dubbing from the original that loses that certain element.

I don't know...I should go read that Wikipedia entry again.

Lady_Lee

Definitely subtitled. The dubs usually sound pretty montonous to me.

Jedisakora

Hi Lady Lee

I think 95% of dubbed anime and movies dialog is changed. I saw the english version of 'Steam Boy" but my sister also watched it in japenese and said the story was basically different, the same with " Castle in the Sky".

Lain

The dubbing companies must've held the belief that their "audience" (kids) would not notice the difference or think it's really a Japanese show.

I can't blame them if some parts of the dialogue is changed...I mean, just as long as it's true to the original and remains consistent with the overall plot. I mean, our mouth movements is kinda different when a Japanese person talks

Changing dialogue to play down to the kids (or to make it something horrendous and different)...that's a different story.

Jedisakora

I agree, If the movie or show had non-kid dialoge in the first place it should remain that way.

Lady_Lee

I tried watching Advent Children in the dub version and quickly had to change it. Not that the dialogue was that much altered, the acting was really bad.

Jedisakora

I own Advent Children but i haven't seen it yet, luckily i have it in japenese

Lady_Lee

Good thing you have that option to turn off the English dubs and listen to the Japanese. Thank goodness. The actor they chose for Cloud has a great voice.

Jedisakora

I might have to watch the movie now after the finale of American Inventor to hear that voice

Lain

My friend prefers Ranma 1/2 dubbed but only because she doesn't want to read the subtitiles.

At least half of the cast or secondary characters sounded lifeless to me

There are dub actors that have this really bad habit of not putting any life in their characters.

Jedisakora

I know. They're just soo bland. I watched a little bit of the english version of my Angelic Layer and they have the same words but the voice acting and voices are horrible!

Lain

I have the imported version And the Japanese voices were great. Just kinda found it annoying that it focused too much on Cloud. I don't know, maybe it's just me. I've never really played the games before.

I'm not buying the billingual version...I hear a lot of mix reviews on how the English version was so I'm just gonna stick with my intuition and avoid it

Jedisakora

The Advent children movie goes with the new Kingdom Hearts that my sister is playing so she keeps telling me about the Final Fantasy characters in it since she already went ahead and watched the movie so she'd know about the characters for the game.