[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Orange Ranger

That is the closest a non-Japanese speaker can get to the original vision of the work. These were created to be watched without subtitles, for people who speak Japanese. Anime is such a visual media, some series more than others, and reading text was not part of the creator's intent.

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.

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Originally Posted by algo448

It may be because I grew up watching american shows subbed, but I really don't mind subs at all, I kind of prefer them, and can't understand how that causes to miss the action.

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.