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Hot take: Dubbed anime vs subbed isn't even the real debate anymore
I was watching the new season of that big shonen show last night and my stream kept buffering like crazy. The subs were way off sync and it totally ruined the fight scene for me. But then I switched to the dub and the voice acting felt flat at some moments. So which is worse for you guys - bad translation timing or a voice cast that misses the emotional beats? I'm leaning that a bad dub is harder to ignore than laggy subs.
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evanpalmer21d agoMost Upvoted
Oh man, "bad dub is harder to ignore than laggy subs" hits so hard for me. I was watching that same shonen show last week and had the exact same buffering nightmare, subs were like 10 seconds behind the action and I almost threw my remote. Tried the dub and the main character sounded like he was reading a grocery list during a big emotional moment where he loses his friend. I honestly think a flat voice cast messes up the whole vibe way more because you can't just look away from bad acting like you can with a subtitle glitch. At least with laggy subs you can pause and refresh, but a bad dub makes every scene feel fake and ruins the rewatch value forever. Been burned so many times by dubs where the VA clearly didn't care about the source material.
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wyattbennett21d ago
Yeah bad vibes in acting just feel fake the same way fake politeness does in real life.
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