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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 15 points 2 days ago (7 children)

The big streaming platforms probably get pretty much all of the casual watchers, who favour dubs, but have to split the more hardcore fans who favour subs with the high seas. That's going to skew the stats a bit.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If the dub is good I see no reason not to watch it dubbed.

Earlier anime used to have absolute garbage dubbing. But these days that's not the case anymore.

[–] Crank@ani.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still prefer to watch subbed because even if the main characters have decent VAs in the dubbed version, it's way more common to have some disappointing performances among supporting cast there.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Same with Japanese original VAs. I've experienced it so many times that some side character or passer by sounds like they're either voicing for the wrong series or just found the cheapest intern in the animation office.

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