in my opinion i definetly prefer JAPANESE WITH SUBTITLES!!!!!!!!
its the original, and im more comfortable with it. When they translate the anime its like all ruined and sounds soooooooo annoying, ne?

subtitles, not dubbed.

dubbed is crap.

dubbed is total crap, and they always get the voices all mixed up. I took japanese in hi school and we would watch movies in japanese, usually without subtitles, which sucked cuz we didnt know it that well, so then I went and bought the whole studio ghibli collection on dvd with the english subtitles and I looooovvveee watching them!! Its especially nice to know what the heck they were talking about. and its good because I can still remember a lot of the language by hearing it and seeing the words at the same time.

Subbed, I hate dubbed... errr, the horror!!!

why so much hate on dub? Sure...I much prefer subbed over dub, but dub isn't all that bad, I actually wouldn't mind watching either ways.

it depends i mean like i dont think the japanese artists (in my opinion no offense) dont care about the voice of a character. casue they usually have a scrawny annoying voice and dont care about relating the voice to the character.

Englished dubbed animes are much better to me. but if it is a real movie with people in it i prefer it with subtitles cause english dubbed people are so nasty for example "VOLCANO HIGH" when they played it in mtv. it was just ew lol.

but i prefer english dubbed in animes cause i think americans carefully consider what kind of voice they put into their characters.

depends if i'm tired or not. if i'm tired, i won't bother w/the subs... but any time other than that i would prefer jap w/subs ^^

japanese with subtitles of course. eng ones make me laugh

english sucks

japanese all the way

example:when i was watching initial d i heard the songs that were in it in japanese. those songs sound sick but, when i put it in english it sucked

JAPANESE WITH SUBTITLES!!!!!!!!!!!
i agree...i hate the english voices..makes me wanna kill myself. eeeek

Yeah its like watching gundam seed in english.. and when they translate the song... My friends who watch the english one goes like its better and I'm all about to throw up...

^coool you're back. o.o

and yeah subs > dubbed.

I personally don't care, but I'm a bit more comfortable on English audio. Sometimes I'm not fast enough when I read something, so I have to pause, read the subtitle, and look where the characters are and yea. But I don't mind. As long as I get my anime.

depends how bad the dubbed is

i perfer subtitles. i'm used to it; and when they dub it, the voices are different.

The only series I like without subtitles that aren't japanese is Sailor Moon. I watch the chinese version of it. Very used to it.

Japanese with subtitles, like what you said the english voice over is just plain eehhh....japanese voices sounds more HOT!

there's something awkward about dub. when i hear it... i somehow feel uncomfortable. like i'm not myself anymore. besides, the japanese language sound so beautiful! Why take it away?

one day i hope to learn and understand japanese so i won't have to use the subtitles anymore.

sometimes i like it dubbed, sometimes i like the subtitles. as much as i hate anime, i would prefer it those ways.

I, myself, love subtitles, because I'm a fast reader and it doesn't bother me when the text goes by quickly

But for some people, they don't like to read and, moreorless, want to watch the show instead of reading it...

That's the only upside to dubbing, I see nothing else that's useful from it.

I STRONGLY AGREE!! The nihon language IS kawaii!!! I'm learning my myself. I know and read some of it, i talk japanese to my friends, sometimes they know what i mean. And the other people around me are like "speak english!!" and then i reply in nihon again. I like to get on their nerves!

one prolem. It may be the original sondtrack but you have to think of it this way. It is not the original intent. The japanes epeople did not have to read their anime. so technically it is not the original. start understanding and speaking japanese and then you can get the original experience. I am a big fan of the translated subbs. but I am just saying that the dubbs may not be al that bad.

I watch both. But i prefer the dub to be uncut, uncensored versions.

I kinda prefer subtitle.

my experience is most dubbed versions have very annoying or exagerated voices

We have this channel over here which shows Anime 24/7, early on everything is subtitled but gradualy everything became dubbed and it was pretty terrible, shows had the same set of voices, some sounded too exagerated.

but in defence of dubbed. sometimes subtitles are too fast to read and kids might have a hard time following the story.

WHAT!? A SUBTITLED ANIME CHANNEL!? You gotta be KIDDING ME!!! like, what channel is it?? It cant be anime network cuz they show DUBBED animes 24/7. OMG i did not NOT know there was a channel like that!.