subs vs dubs

This really happened? That's so weird...

In Portugal they they did air the whole Dragon Ball series (og, Z and GT) but with the dub being very far from the original. Essencially the Voice Actors kinda improvised along the way and filled it with Portuguese references. It ended up becoming a hit with young and old stopping what they were doing when a new episode aired in the afternoons. Still remember sitting in the school cafeteria with teachers, cleaners and kitchen staff all watching Frieza scream at goku like a little removed (they dubbed him with a super high pitch voice). Good times...

Luffy defeats Big Mom by having a beyblade battle.

I'll be honest I prefer subs but that's mainly because the dub actors are usually bad (the cheapest they could pay to do a dub for english). When they actually get real high quality actors for things dubs can be extremely good, for example I prefer the dub to Howl's Moving Castle over the sub purely because it has an all A-List actor cast, Christian Bale as Howl is great and Jean Simmons as Sophie absolutely nails it, Billy Crystal is Calcifer, Laurel Bacall as the witch of the wastes, it's a really top cast lol..

There's a reason that domestically they use their famous voice actors as a selling point for shows compared to when we get ported dubs with some dubbing company doing it with their regular cast who dub hundreds of shows on the cheap.

One of the things that made me realize that intellectual property laws are bullshit was the Kafkaesque legal battle over the rights for the original SDF: Macross between the company that made Robotech and the original Japanese studio. Kotaku has a pretty decent primer here.

Subs are superior because when I was 10 years old buying bootleg VHS tapes of Urusei Yatsura I thought I was cool because the ugly yellow subtitles had swear words

The world lost something when you could no longer go on obscure forums to buy shady VHS anime that was probably translated wrong

Instead of Naruto and One Piece we could have Pirate Ninja Battleforce where Naruto and Luffy are brothers named Chuck and Bronson. Every once in a while there's a fight scene from Neon Genesis Evangelion spliced in

That's just describing an average Gintama bit. https://youtu.be/f__w6TnMOzM?si=K-T6KgR8SMqyBRN0

The only dubs you should be watching are right here

Uphold Big Green DBZ dub thought.

"The Saiya Peoples"

Honestly the superior option is neither. Just power through in ignorance. I watched the new Takeshi's Castle like that and now I can't go back.

Planet Arus sure does look like Earth but it's totally not!

Ah, the Robotech approach

Amazing

Samurai Pizzacats did this.

Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets. I had a Battle of the Planets lunchbox.

i did recently see some robotech tapes that were like 2$, but i don't have a way to watch them so i guess i'll never know how bad it is

Robotechs existence is actually great because getting vintage Macross models costs tons while you can fine the same exact ones but Battletech on ebay for like 1/5th the price.

Instead of Naruto and One Piece we could have Pirate Ninja Battleforce where Naruto and Luffy are brothers named Chuck and Bronson. Every once in a while there's a fight scene from Neon Genesis Evangelion spliced in

You joke but that sounds awesome

Is that what Voltron was?

Most people don't know that the Generation 1 Transformers toyline was really like four or five different Japanese toylines smushed together. Some of the toys were licensed from mecha animes like Macross, and that's why the characters never appeared on the cartoon, because Takara, who made the toys, didn't want to promote characters who were part of other companies' toylines in Japan.