Dubs vs Subs

[Riverl]

We are not talking about correct or not.
Most of the time, the author dont have a say, or dont even want to, beside some suggestion, in term of choosing VA anyway, and you dont have a bar of standard to judge the correctness of it except saying it sounds good or bad, unless its those Visual novels or games with voice or already have some drama CD already.
No sense sweating over if its "correct or not" rather than "good or not", but that's another story.

Now for the originality we talked about...
Those show was Japanese animation, directed by Japanese, draw in Japanese manga/anime style, with character having Japanese accent and pun base on Japanese culture. And IMO, with culture product, the closer to how it was made/writen = better unless some major revamp occurred when it was translated/dub.

Quote:Ignoring the exceptions sounds like a bad idea to me.??If anything, we should be looking for and singling out the exceptions, in whatever we do.??Maybe it's just the scientist in me, but boundary conditions are always the most interesting.??After all, you don't keep watching the mediocre stuff you don't really like.??No, you delete it and move on to find something you truly enjoy.??Saying it's too much effort to attempt to listen to the dub version, when you're already seeking out and forming opinions of entire franchises seems arbitrary to me.

You give me the impression that you want to argue the general idea of dub vs sub with exceptions, so here is my respond, sorry if I got your intention wrong:

Exceptions are exceptions, they are gems you find on the sidewalk, and you dont rely on picking up gems on the sidewalk for steady in-come. They are also not what you can be used to judge a group or category as a whole. Acknowledging them is different from judging base on them, that's just like you see a pig can do some math calculation and you assume all the pigs can calculate. When you talk about a group, you talk about how that group generally fare, and only acknowledge exceptions, not treating them as a generic example. That is NOT scientific. Scientists research the exception extensively and try to find out the principle behind them, not using them for evaluation in these kind of comparison.


The point of the topic is Dub vs sub, and thus, Dub in general vs sub in general, not exceptional good dub vs exceptional bad Japanese voice acting.


When there are tons of anime I havent try out (while even more get released when a season start), and tons of stuff I need to do other than just staring at the screen, I cant rely on the rare chance that dub is better.
I do download dual version (call me pirating all you like, they never release those shows I downloaded here, ever, that's the situation, download or nothing), sometime dub, and listen to them, and yahoo if one was good, however I dont have time to actively seek out the ever-oh-so-rare cases where dub is superior.
Thus sub and Japanese VA is better than dub