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Maniac64 posted...

I mean I enjoy a good dub and have no issue watching them, but so often the quality of acting is just worse.

Is it really, though? I think the issue is that unless you're a native Japanese speaker - as in you grew up in Japan - people aren't going to be good at judging how good a voice is.

It's very telling is that I've never seen a pure sub watcher ever admit that Japanese VA for any show is bad. That would imply that all Japanese VA is good, which is fundamentally impossible. It's far more likely that western people just can't tell the difference. It's gets even worse when those people equate anime voices to what Japanese people actually sound like - when that couldn't be farther from the truth. Anime voices are often extremely exaggerated compared to what real people speak like, especially the female waifu voices.

Like, it's perfectly fine if people prefer subs. Maybe it just sounds better to them. However, I think there are definite reasons it might sound better that people often ignore in favor of elitism/purism. The disconnect of language not only hide poor voice acting, but it papers over the corny-ass dialogue a lot of anime has. I dare anyone here to say a friendship speech in English and make it sound good.

(If you can't tell, I've met multiple real-life people who have soured me on this topic.)