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ThirteenKnots

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People that don't follow or even outright hate the Bellisarios Maxim and/or MST3K Mantra.

Don't you ever feel that you can't properly enjoy some dub because they kept pointing out the edits and nitpicking at how they think the voiceacting is terrible?
 
I hate censorship in any form, but as for dubbed voice acting, it depenRAB on the series, but most of the time I end up leaning more towarRAB the subbed version, but that doesn't mean I hate dubs.

Honestly I have no preference for how I watch anime, though usually when I buy a DVD, I watch the dubs first to get an idea of the series (if I haven't seen it already), and then watch the subbed version to see how things were in the Japanese version (if I haven't seen it already, of course, and if I liked the series)


Most of the time I end up leaning more towarRAB the Japanese versions, in fact if the series openings and endings are dubbed (i.e. Rayearth, Rurouni Kenshin, the Ranma 1/2 OVA's, Detective CONAN, Irresponsible Captain Tylor etc.) I usually play the opening in Japanese, then watch the episode in English (if watching the dub), then switch to Japanese for the Ending, then switch to English for the next episode preview (if watching the dub)

Plus even when watching a dub I watch the dub with subtitles

But I refuse to watch edited dubs
 
No. Do these people tend to break into your house and bother you while you're trying to watch anime? Because otherwise, I think the problem is that you need to rethink who you're voluntarily spending time with. (-:
 
There was a time when hardline attitudes were good. There was more editing and a greater percentage of bad dubs. Now uncut releases and reasonable content edits are usually the order of the day (before you argue about edits, remeraber Tenchi and Gundam Seed on Toonami in the past). Most of the time dubs are at least passable if not really good. When was the last time anybody bothered with serious edit lists? It's practically a thing of the past now, along with sites like DBZ Uncensored and Cardcaptors Uncensored where they were actually providing a service by letting you know what you weren't allowed to see.

These days, I think the attitude is mostly petty. When Soul Eater got licensed, somebody in an Anime News Network thread commented that they would have no respect left for FUNimation if it ended up on Cartoon Network, since they would edit it too much. Some people freaked out over Naruto too back when it was licensed, and I'd argue that they have been basically proven wrong.

It's not all bad though, since we have companies that know what fans want and then deliver on that well. Obviously Funimation is at the forefront of that these days, which I consider poetic considering that there was a time that a lot of people thought that they could never do right on account of Dragon Ball Z season 3.
 
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