I like to watch some subbed anime as some animes I like either haven't gotten a license for the either the show itself or the first/second season if it's a 2 season anime or if the show just will never get a dub or if the dub wasn't done that well.

Fun fact, it's proven that people who report to being the best at multi-tasking are actually really horrible at it. Basically, humans generally stink and analyzing out own abilities. If you guys say you are able to perfectly look in multiple places at once then more power to you. Most of us can't do that. It's why people generally discover new things on a second or even third viewing of TV shows or movies, even in their native language. We're only human.

Fair enough, I just never interpreted that as multi-tasking since it's the common way to watch foreign shows here.

The brain actually captures and stores the presented information. It's just that some is "deleted" after a short time.

Same. To me it's just the same as watching a movie, I often have subs on both video games and English language films as well so I don't miss dialogue.

I wasn't trying to say it was multi-tasking. I was just pointing out that you wouldn't realize if you were missing things. You would assume you hadn't just like a lot of people assume they are doing two tasks (say talking on the phone and writing a paper) at 100% even though the more confident they are about it the lower their performance. Again, I'm not saying reading subs is multi-tasking. Maybe it technically is but I don't count it as such. I'm just saying it's easy to not realize when you are missing stuff.


I do the same thing for video games for when voices aren't clear or the dialogue audio is too low and you can't hear what's being said.I don't mind reading it when I have to but I would rather stare where my eye is drawn for as long as I desire.

I saw a study on foreign language films a couple of years back where it showed the audiences missed more of the visual details of in foreign films than ones in their own language. Like, they scored lower on tests about specific details after the viewings. I should try to track that down. I don't remember what they suggested was the reason for that. A general audience might be different than seasoned anime vets.

I'm sure some people have brains more suited to it. I just know the general population always complains about subs and I even see anime fans who prefer subs saying they miss things and have to rewind, especially with heavy action series. I've never said it's wrong to watch subs (I watch plenty of them), it just means you are valuing one thing over the other if you pick them to a fault. For most people, subs mean the animation comes second to them. Even more so if someone doesn't read as fast as we do. Some people with learning disabilities get completely lost with subs or even just people that read slower for whatever reason.

i can put my two cent on this after watching few episode of DBZ Season 5 subbed and all of the original Classic Dragonball subbed i can say the japanese cast is actully fare better then dub there more emotion in the character that i never felt before in the dub and the screaming is not as bad as the dub make it out to be and what the japanese say when the subs is some time different to what the dub has due to script need to word to make the dub work in with an american audiance.

That used to be the norm for dubs, especially when made to air as cartoons for kids. Are there any 4kids dubs that don't ruin the shows? Even as a kid I found the parts strange where there would be no Japanese dialog and they would have something in English so there wouldn't be silence. DBZ is when I first discovered that by watching in English with subs for the Japanese on.

yea i know what you mean I dont bash dub unless its on goinsh serise and i can use the dub to catch up quicker and continue sub that what i done with Fairy Tail and One piece and bleach i watch all the dubbed episodes that had been dubbed for bleach it was up to the start of the zanpacto filler arc i switched to subs after one piec eit was after water 7 arc was finished and i watched only 38 episode of fairy tail dubbed. i do support the dubs if i enjoy the dubs. its like i ended up hating naruto due to the dub only just recently i watched it subbed and and blanked the dub ever was done. but 4Kids there the most racist company i know for anime

Talisman Jaffe at NDK last Sept said that, "The job if the subtitles is to explain the joke to you. The job of the English dub is to perform the joke and make you laugh the same way it would without subtitles as it was originally intended were someone fluent in Japanese watching it."

He is quite right. Yes, we will laugh when we read funny lines in the subs, but they will never be as effect as actually hearing the joke spoken.

The only things I do no like watching dubbed are live action things. If I have to, I will, but I always tend to look at the audio as if it is out of synch when I do.