Sub watchers, what's one show you HAVE to watch in dub? Dub watchers, what's one show you HAVE to watch in sub?

Bebop, DBZ, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Champloo are burned into my brain as the dub. Pretty much anything that ran on Toonami and Adult Swim in the late 90s/early 00s I can’t help but be drawn to the dub for.

Not a show but a movie. Ninja Scroll

 Dragonball Z. I just can’t stand the Japanese voices in it. The Dub is so much better. 

I cannot think of a single one


That's a MUST

I got into anime through dubs before switching to subs, so those early shows I can't watch unless they're dubbed. Shows like Soul Eater, FMA and Rosario x Vampire to name a few, but most anime that I watched on Netflix between 2010 and 2014 would fit here.

I don't really have one. Every anime I've ever watched is ingrained in my head as the sub version.

Agreed, Ghost stories should be watch in dub cuz its hilarious

For Dub, I'd go with FMA 2003 and Dragon Ball

Cowboy bebop is much better dubbed. Yu Yu Hakusho is pretty even between bud and sub.

Space Dandy's dub feels like it has more personality. I remember being resistant to watching it dubbed because I had watched it subbed so much as one of the shows I would have playing in the background, but damn that dub changed my mind real quick.

Spice and Wolf must be dub for me, if Brina P and J Michael ever stop then I stop watching and read instead

Hellsing is a dub show for me. Gotta have the Scotsman.

Black lagoon I’ve heard is good in dub but I watched the sub and loved it- up until the bilingual sections. Bilingual in Beck has the same issues, but at least it’s better than Dub where they completely paint over it.

Sub watcher. Mob Psycho 100 dub all the time though. Reigen's English VA is SO good.

I started watching anime in dub - so DragonBall, Pokémon is airways dub for me. Anything else is sub. Once you get accustomed to the quality of Japanese VA conveying them you can hardly tolerate sub any longer.

Cowboy Bebop and Kill la Kill I’ll only watch dub

Princess Principal has a good dub.

Gurren Lagann and Kill La Kill are great in dub.

I kinda have to watch old Pokemon seasons with a Turkish dub because that's what I grew up with lol. Same with stuff like Bakugan, Redekai, etc.

I don't know if I would say you have to watch it, but Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple actually has a different feeling in the dub and kind of fits better in the dub version, at least when it comes to the first season (OVA are a bit different).

Ghost stories and bebop are the only ones I can think of

Attack on Titan, for both. Can easily enjoy it both ways. Naruto as well for both.

Dub watcher here, mostly by necessity as my wife's dyslexic and can't keep up with subs. That said, there are a few shows that I/we insist on sub-only, usually because we vastly prefer one or more of the MC voices - the main ones are Spy x Family, One Punch Man, and Bleach.

"Baccano!" will always be imo the best example for how a EN dub can be better than the original JP. You not only have a really high quality EN dub but the show takes place in New York during the 1930s so you get fun American accents too

Sub: Spy x Family. I just can't do little Anya's voice dubbed.

Dub: Black Lagoon. It's a perfect dub fit.

Black Lagoon for Dub

If you’ve never watched the show dubbed
Watch Steins gate in dub it’s great they did a really great job localizing it for an English audience making sure all the jokes and geeky references would land as intended, making sure you’d laugh

Oh I have a couple, but I'd say the two big ones are Baccano and Cowboy Bebop. Yeah, I'm not original, I know, but those are just too good

Original 1996 Bastard funny as hell, dubbed.

Yu yu hakusho

subwatchers, Panty and Stocking, besides Stocking VA everything just great, especially Garterbelt you just can't replace Black/Ghetto dialect with Yankee in JP.

I'm primarily a sub watcher just because that's how I've been watching anime for decades now. But, I will always watch Black Lagoon and Infinite Stratos in the English dub. Cowboy Bebop and Cyberpunk Edgerunners also have excellent English dubs, I prefer the Japanese audio track, but you can't go wrong with English for either of them.

Anything comedy must be a dub for me. The nuance in the voices are just too good.

Now the one time I watched a non-comedy in dub was Vinland Saga because it just felt weird for Vikings to be speaking in Japanese lol

Sub: TBHK

Dub: Dr. Stone

Coming from someone who watches everything subbed: I wish Tatami Galaxy had a dub. The dialogue is way too fast for such an artsy show it's almost impossible to watch without constantly pausing.

Goldenboy. That's the only one.

I've never watched any dub for longer than the two seconds it takes to switch the audio track in a file where the tracks have been incorrectly labeled. So. None.

I agree that the Ghost Stories dub is well-made and entertaining -- but it is nonetheless something I don't really approve of. It is NOT a representation of the original work. Maybe it might be better than that original work in some ways, but (in the end) it is a new work.

Attack on Titan and Vinland Saga are both English dub for me. it already doesn’t make much sense for these characters to be speaking English, but it makes even less sense for them to be speaking Japanese.

and Cowboy Bebop is an obvious one to watch in dub. it’s fantastic.

also, i picked Cyberpunk Edgerunners dub because the English dub felt like it was actually the original.

i also rewatch Your Lie in April during every April and always pick the dub. Kousei and Kaori’s English VAs are both perfect and i love the way they deliver their lines. i also prefer the English dub quotes to the Japanese sub translations.

basically every other show i’ll watch subbed though.

I'm from South America, and the latam versión of DB, DBZ and DBGT is the best, so much passion into it. Ive heard English, French, Italian dub but Japanese and Latam are the best, perhaps nostalgia but there is no other way to enjoy it.

If an anime has no dub or a very bad one, then I'll read the manga or just give up on it. I have more anime to watch than time to watch it, so shortening my list isn't some kind of tragedy.

(To address a specific example you gave, I think that they needed more time to cook if they wanted to use accents in the dub, but that's my only real complaint. Well, that and the name changes, I guess, but the same thing happens in the official subs and manga. They stop the accents in part 3 anyway.)

Afro samurai is amazing in english with Samuel Jackson.
DBZ also feels better in english since the old tv broadcast.
There is Alfred Jodocus Kwak, an old Dutch show produced by tv Tokyo. That needs to be in Dutch

Im a sub watcher but jojos is the only dub ive ever watched because its just ten times funnier

"Cultural Exchange with a game centre girl" is my answer for both scenarios, as both the dub and sub teams tackle the accents and misunderstandings differently.
They're also both hilarious.

Probably only One Piece for me. Growing up watching it dubbed, so hearing it in JP is weird. Idk how newer episodes are since I don't watch it anymore.

Honestly, I’ve already broken myself of habits like this. Nostalgia and memes don’t make a dub suddenly good after all. But I’ll generally stick with whichever language is the original.

That said, I really like the soundtrack changes they made for the eng dub of dbz back in the day. The let’s go on a fun adventure bop fits better with OG dragon ball than it did with dbz and the music in the dub felt like it made some scenes way more intense imo. Though, maybe that too is leftover nostalgia as well. 🤣

Cowboy Bebop in dub, Black Lagoon in dub.

There are some other good dubs, but those two are my favorites.

I watch sub 99% of the time.

Every anime I watch is dubbed. No sub here.

Ranma 1/2 and Slayers in dub for me. Otherwise I prefer subs.

Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie

Literally only Baccano.

Cowboy Bebop is good either or.

Everything else in sub. Always.

In German dub:

DBZ, One Piece, Cyberpunk, Demon Slayer, Shaman King, DanDaDan, Jojos (this one 100%), Soul Eater & Fire Force (Black Stars German voice fits him so much better tho the dub has that old anime dub quirk where they use -chan etc. too)

I *would* throw AoT in too but its only a really good dub not the better version.

Yu Yu Hakusho

I will always start new shows dub. They have gotten really good compared to the before times. But Konosuba, that shit will stay subbed forever. The attitude, tone and personality really is unique in sub and wouldn't have it any other way.

Oshi no Ko's dub is so unbelievably lazy (at least in s1), it HAS to be watched in sub.

Honestly I don’t know, i’ve had people tell me certain dubs are “better” than the subs and I should watch them… but when i’ve listened to clips I haven’t ever felt that’s the case.

And personally, i’d rather consume as close to the original as I can… even if I don’t understand the Japanese audio entirely (although obviously you pick up bits just via exposure).

Ghibli movies have some of the best dubs in all of anime. Howls Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Boy and the Heron etc

I rarely watch dubs these days, but I absolutely love and prefer the Kaguya Sama dub.

Name another show where the Narrator is the best character lmao

Yeah, Ghost Stories is the only show I've considered watching dubbed. I just don't see a reason to watch something dubbed, and not just when it comes to anime. Foreign films and TV too.

I'm trying to watch anime set in Western countries in dub. Ninja Kamui is one example, but planning to watch Lazarus and Darwin Incident in dub.

But if it's a local dub, I prefer some of my childhood shows like Doraemon, Ninja Hattori-kun, and Hamtaro to be dubbed. it's more of a nostalgic feeling rather than preference.

Dubs make my ears bleed

Setting and culture of Cyberpunk Edgerunners makes the dub mandatory in my opinion. Pretty much the only show I’ve felt that about.

Certainly not HAVE to but for whatever reason, despite being subs only for decades, when I think of Sailor Moon it's the dub that comes to mind.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners

Infinite Stratos for the dub. I remember hearing that people hated this show because of how generic the MC is and how it pretty much sums up everything you wouldn't want to see in an anime. The writing doesn't get better in the dub but it being not great, allows the VAs to have fun and be creative.

Also dungeon meshi is probably one the best dubs I've heard. I put some scenes side by side with the sub and dub versions and there are some scenes where the dub VAs really take the cake with it.

One the flip side, there are some shows that either don't have dubs or have lackluster ones and it makes sense why. The monogatari series for example has a ton of wordplay that doesn't really work in english. Gintama has I think the first season dubbed but it's... well it exists. But it also has a ton of jokes that reference japanese politicians and celebrities so trying to make that work in english also doesn't work. Recently we saw another shounen jump manga, dandadan have a bunch of references thrown in the first episode that are difficult to make work in english, even with a talelnted dub cast.

nothing

ToG has a great dub because Hansung’s voice is the most beautiful English dub voice in all of anime

There isn’t a single show that I would ever choose the dub over the original. Having said that, Cromarty High School is the only acceptable dub that I would recommend.

I don't think there is something you "have to". I usually watch JP, but the only exception I made was "Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russia". The EN dub just was too good.

As a sub watcher, I personally HAVE to watch Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and DBZ in dub. Would recommend them that way to anyone.

Otherwise, I pretty much hate dub for just about everything.

As a mainly sub watcher:

Dub: Romeo x Juliet, Cyberpunk Edgerunners (you are doing it wrong if you watch this in anything but Engish), Black Lagoon, Baccano!, Cowboy Bebop and personally yeah I still prefer the dub of Dragon Ball, especially cuts with the Falconer OST for Z (and a fan cut for Kai).

I have to watch My Hero Academia in subs. The villian voices sound so off in the dub!

If I watched it initially in dubbed, any rewatch or subsequent continuation needs to be dubbed. This gets complicated when I want to finish a series like Mushishi and I just need to get over the discomfort and start from scratch in sub. Panty and Stocking getting a totally new cast makes that difficult as well, for example. For me, consistency is extremely important in maintaining my immersion and interest.

Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Gurren Lagann, Code Geass, Space Dandy, FMA - these are just a small example of shows I will only ever watch dubbed. There are surely more modern examples but these spring to mind first.

As far as sub only, beyond a couple like Jojo's Bizarre Adventure I don't really have any. It's more a matter of seeing it soon after it airs more than necessarily an innate insistence.

None. There's no show or movie I'd ever watch dubbed.