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Azure Flame Reloaded » Blog Archive » Tuesday Rumble: September 18th — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:00:54 +0000

[...] to dig up that old subs vs. dubs issue, this week I want to follow on from the comments here to ask if an increased exposure to subbed anime lowers one’s tolerance for dubs, and if one can [...]

By: Karura

Karura — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:12:56 +0000

I admit I don’t know all the specifics about how much each airspace a channel gets to work with, but if the BBC can have “press the red button for audio commentary” or to switch between different matches at sporting events, it certainly can’t be impossible to broadcast two audio streams and some subtitles.

Don’t worry about the off-topicness; I’ve been thinking about exactly the same thing myself. Much as I hate to rake over the old dub vs sub argument again, I really cannot bear to listen to dubs now, whereas in the Sci-Fi channel days it didn’t bother me. I guess you can’t go back…

By: Haruchin

Haruchin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:55:41 +0000

Ludwig has a point. :) How hard would it be to broadcast both Japanese and English audios? I would happily watch some of that line up (had I not already bought and watched the DVDs…), and it’s certainly much much better than anything Propeller has been putting out, were it not for the English dub.

I’ve been wondering if your average TV watcher has a similar reaction to dubs? I remember back before I got into anime, a friend lent me the VHS of the Patlabor movie. Obviously it was dubbed, but all the same, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Now, rewatching it after two years of sub watching, it grates to the point that it makes me physically cover my ears. Is it possible to be spoiled by watching too much subbed anime? Does it actually lower our tolerance of dub performances? And other such wonderfully off-topic questions. Ahem.

All the same, it’s great that more and better anime is being shown on British TV. We’ve been without it so long, and now we’ve got two whole channels showing the stuff! A time of plenty indeed.