English Or Japanese

[K. H. Kid]

Just a simple poll to pick which is better for anime: Japanese voiceovers or English voiceovers.

For me, Japanese voiceovers are better but in some cases like Samurai Champloo I prefer the english. What do you think?

[Venom]

English. Soley because I cannot read sub-titles and watch at the same time.

[Sylvie]

Englis please.

EDIT: Nah, I just wanted to make fun of your title. I like Japanese with subs better.

[LunarWeaver]

It depends. Sometimes dubs are horrible and I'll watch the subs, or if no dub existed when I began watching it and I'm simply used to the Japanese track I'll continue on with it..

But if the voice acting is good in English, then normally I just watch that. I don't see a reason to watch subs for the sake of it.

[Sylvie]

I liked Samurai Champloo either way. All had good voices on them.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

The voices chosen by the actors, as well as the quality of the voice acting itself, are generally much better on the Japanese side.

[Roto13]

Unless you're talking about female characters, who are often shrill and whiney in Japanese.

I use the English voices.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

I've gotten used to reading subs and watching the anime at the same time, once and a while I have to pause it to read a long paragraph, but I prefer the subs with the Japanese voice acting. I have heard abominal English dubs before. Most shows that I watch subbed, I cannot stand the dub, there are a few exceptions.

[NeoCracker]

It really doesn't matter to me. I've always thought English voices did quite well, though there are definately exceptions.

[BakerMan]

I prefered the Japanese ones in Samurai Champloo, I couldn't stand the english ones, the japanese voices seemed to "fit" it more realistically.

[Zeromus_X]

While a good majority of English voice acting is unbearable, it's gotten alot better recently. I usually watch it in both languages to see which one I prefer. Some Japanese voices can be just as bad as the English.

[Sylvie]

I prefered the Japanese ones in Samurai Champloo, I couldn't stand the english ones, the japanese voices seemed to "fit" it more realistically.

I thought Mugen and Jin's voices in the Engish dub were fitting. I wasn't a huge fan of Fuu's though.

[KentaRawr!]

A lot of times, not understanding anything adds to the effect. However, it really depends on how good the voice-overs are and exactly what show we're talking about. Most of the time for anime, I prefer Japanese.

[JKTrix]

In general, the original language of any production is 'better'. Englished dubbed anime has a history of being pretty attrocious, humorously so at times. In recent years though, they have really taken a step up.

I was very impressed with RahXephon, which is my favourite anime. I had downloaded it a year or so prior, and when I watched it on DVD in English I was quite surprised with how well the dub was handled.

[jrgen]

English. Soley because I cannot read sub-titles and watch at the same time.

I don't understand why so many Americans have such a hard time doing this. While I don't watch anime, I think it just looks and sounds stupid when something is dubbed.