I'll never understand fanboys that fawn over subs. Why give yourself extra work? Anime is the perfect medium for dub.

I understand that you can lose meaning in translation but most fans do not understand Japanese so why?!?

Someone once told me the dub for Mushoku Tensei was better than the sub. That person was a liar.

Also, that anime is incredibly weird.

Cartoons that don’t sexualize kids > cartoons that do

But the anti-4kids crowd hates that argument

with many anime shows, the english dubs have a lot of shit cut out. Especially if it's not one of the huge ones that everyone has heard of.

I read the subtitles for the "plot" after all 😅

There's a reason why Japanese voice actors are treated like A-tier celebrities and 'murican anime voice actors are a bunch of nobodies. The chasm between their skill levels is too big.

I prefer subs.

I have watched anime for quite some time now and started watching subbed, when I realized that the animes I liked were way ahead in the original version. Like a couple of hundred episodes for One Piece as an example. I got used to reading the subs in my peripheral vision. There may be some instances where I have to do a double take if there is an unusual word, but that's very rare. English isn't my first language, but english subs are more easily available. Outside of anime, I always choose the original version with subs as well because it feels more natural to me and I'm used to reading subs anyway. One good example is Sopranos, where the dub in my language doesn't have any Italian accent whatsoever. The great mafia atmosphere of the original gets totally lost that way.

That aside I totally get watching the dubbed version. Today in times of simul-dubs you don't have to wait for years at a time. You can watch dubs as background noise. The voice actors are usually great, even if not as consistently incredible as the originals. I always watch dubs with my family and friends, often shows or movies I already watched subbed. Watching something together for me isn't about the show alone but more about experiencing it together. Watching subbed would defeat that experience as you couldn't talk to each other as easily as with the dubbed version in your native language.

TLDR: alone I watch subs for the original experience, with others I watch dubs for the experience of watching together.

You gotta find the right eye height.