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Interesting, thank you. I certainly don't have anything against people watching dubs (unless it's a bad dub for a good show and people say the show sucks because the dub sucks (yes I'm still bitter about AICO)). There are just a lot of anime quirks that I think would feel wrong coming from an English speaker. Stuff like how they sometimes go "Mm" when answering a question "yes", and theres no lip flap there so it's not like the dub can just say "yes" instead. "Mm" has a very different meaning from an English speaker! Plus there are all the stock phrases like itadakimasu. I've probably seen that translated a hundred different ways over the years, but it doesn't matter what the subs say because I hear it and know what it means. I'd miss little things like that in a dub, I think.

But hey, as long as dub watchers enjoy the anime, that's all that matters! Manga readers probably think I'm crazy too for basically never reading manga.