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-Komaiko54- posted...

People who say sub are weebs in denial

where in the ever living fuck is the logic behind "lol they JApanese"

And there are people who shit on the dub version of an anime for no fucking reason other than "dub iz 4 puh c's"

There's plenty of good, non-hipsterish reasons to go for subs over dubs. For one thing, some of us actually speak Japanese.

But even if that's not the case, a lot of studios don't bother to spend the money needed to re-animate characters for the new language, so the voice actors are either stuck trying to sync up their lines to the original animation (when it's almost always done the other way around when an animation is first being made - record voices first, animate the mouths to match up), leading to really awkward sounding lines with out-of place pauses ("So, maybe, if I... just walk... to the store, I'll... meet her") or they don't bother and the mouths don't even remotely match up with what's being said. Sometimes both (the amount of time needed to say the same thing is not constant across languages which, combined with the fact that Japanese is often spoken at a much faster tempo than English, means that English voice actors sometimes have to talk like squirrels just to try and match the animation).
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