It's ohayo for good morning and hayaku for hurry. and anyone who watches dubs is not a true anime fan. the edits and censorship they put into the dubs makes it a completely different show from the original uncut japanese version.

I can easily see what anime the author watches fairly regularly, just from the word selection s/he offers.

As to subs or dubs, I prefer subs. I like to hear the original Japanese, with the original nuance of each character, rather than the bastardized Americanized version.

Nothing illustrates the differences more than the American version of an old (elderly) man. The Americanized ones all end up sounding like Mr Turtle from the old Tootsie Pop ad...

A note to the author...Mr Yamaguchi also voices Usopp in the anime One Piece (also much MUCH better in the original Japanese).

Although my anime experience is fairly limited, I prefer to watch it once with the dub-- if one available-- then go back and do the subtitles.

Thank You, Theory! I am curious about how a series sounds in dubbed that's why I watch it dubbed, but then to get over the censorship etc. watching it in Japanese is good. Thanks for the corrections, Ryan, I knew Ohayo, but I couldn't find a dictionary online that would give english spelling and not the Kanji/Kana of the word. another voice Mr. Yamaguchi did is Ryuichi-san from Gravitation and little Zenki of Zenki (the dub made my ears bleed). Speaking of comparison has anyone compared the sub and dub of Excel Saga? the story, if there really is a story to Excel, is much, Much, MUCH better in Japanese.

Technically all anime is dubbed.

>>Speaking of comparison has anyone compared the sub and dub of Excel Saga? the story, if there really is a story to Excel, is much, Much, MUCH better in Japanese.

I've watched both the sub and dub of Excel Saga and I enjoyed both. It was really like getting two shows for the price of one. Excel's voice is a little hard to take in English, but I loved the English voice of Hyatt.

As for the whole sub/dub debate, I think it's a ridiculous debate. It kind of annoys me that people automatically assume that Japanese voice actors are all great. They only seem great to us because most anime fans are not fluent in speaking Japanese. There are definitely anime with poorly acted Japanese versions but we'd never know it because we can easily tell if the English version is crap. I try to watch both versions whenever I can (although I tend to watch the subbed first). There are even some dubs that I like a whole lot better than the original. I only watch Cowboy Bebop in English.

One trend that is both interesting and disturbing is ADV's "original" dubs where they take a show and completely rewrite it. They did this with The Super Milk-Chan Show (although the true-to-the-Japanese dub is what was aired on Adult Swim) and they will be doing this to another show as well. I kind of like the idea of taking a mediocre anime and turning into something good...but at the same time, the anime fan in me is reeling.

Nice info, but Hello = 'Ohayo'
Properly romanicized Japanese is perfect.
Thanks for the info, and I watch subbed, btw.
Japanese w/ English subtitles roXXorZ.
-Morris

The correct spelling for Hello is Ohaiyou. I like to watch anime in both dubbed and subbed form. The subbed versions are cool, but the dubbed versions allow you to take a break from reading.

Hello is NOT ohaiyou, ohaiyou means good morning. it means hi in the morning ONLY. afternoon is konichiwa, then its konbanwa (evening) and etc. depends on the time of the day.

i find that it depends on the mood i'm in. Dubs if i'm feeling lazy and aren't really paying attention and subs is i can actually be bothered to focus completely on the screen. I mainly watch in subs, as thats all thats avaliable but i watched all of fullmetal alchemist in dubs and i did think it was good. :)
It is interesting to see the differences in the language used between the two versions.

Keh....When the American dubbing companies actually start caring about dubbing anime's, hiring talented voice actors that mirror the Jap acting, and not editting it, then I'll watch dubs...but that's about 10-20+ years in the future lolz

Like seriously, the dubbing companies are the biggest bakas in the world....They take a successful anime in Japan, and then -censor- it! It's successful for a reason and editting it has a risk of not even being successful in USA(dub-wise).

I watch animes only in subtitles, uncensored Japanese versions.

I prefer to watch the dubbed anime as I usually find that female Japanese voices tend to be very high pitched and it's annoying

this argument has been around now for so long....
I find it offensive that people who prefer subbed anime actually feel they have the right to say things like "anyone who watches dubs is not a true anime fan" like somebody did in this thread. I guess the 250+ anime dvd's and video tapes I own means nothing after all. The way I feel about it is quite simple, If I wanted to read I will buy a book.

However I have to agree about English dubbing companies really have to stop censoring things when they translate an anime. It makes me laugh when they quite happily place an 18 certificate on an anime due to its graphic nature but the dub has been censored in some way or the language and meaning has been bastardized in transulation . I realize it's slowly getting less of a priority to censor dubs in anime due to some recent dub I have watched, but its a long way off from being perfect....

this argument has been around now for so long....
I find it offensive that people who prefer subbed anime actually feel they have the right to say things like "anyone who watches dubs is not a true anime fan" like somebody did in this thread. I guess the 250+ anime dvd's and video tapes I own means nothing after all. The way I feel about it is quite simple, If I wanted to read I will buy a book.

However I have to agree about English dubbing companies really have to stop censoring things when they translate an anime. It makes me laugh when they quite happily place an 18 certificate on an anime due to its graphic nature but the dub has been censored in some way or the language and meaning has been bastardized in transulation . I realize it's slowly getting less of a priority to censor dubs in anime due to some recent dub I have watched, but its a long way off from being perfect....

That's pretty harsh, Rya. Watching a dub doesn't mean you aren't a true anime fan. It's just a matter of which voice you feel fits the characters better. Most dubs get an uncut version anyway. And Anime Fan, why should american actors have to try to mimic the originals? If I wanted to hear the original voices, I would watch the original. I love it when VAs put their own spins on the character. You can't deliver a truly emotional performance if you are trying to sound like someone else. Vic Mignogna doesn't sound too much like the original Ed, and his performance gets more praise than jesus!

lol good morning is ohayo not ohio if it was written like that it would be pronounced o-hee-o
and hiaku is also wrong....

that is also the thing I hate about dubs, they pronounced it using english pronunciation, like when I watched keroro in the english dub pekopon is always pronounce pee-kaw-pwn which is clearly wrong... or in ranma 1/2 ranma should be pronounced run-muh but instead they pronounced it ran(as in ran away)muh


I just think Japanese dub are one of the charms of anime and it shouldn't be changed.... like when I watched Tsubasa Chronicle in original japanese dub, and then I watch the english dub, I seriously got really pissed off... the character Fye have this distinctive a bit high pitched, calm, a bit cute for a male's voice, but somehow really cool and nice to listen, but when I heard the dubbed one, it was horrible, just horrible... the voice was the exact opposite... it just ruins the show....
one other thing about dubs is that little girls voice in english dubs is annoying, in english dub little girls voice are always extremely high pitched which is okay I guess, but sometimes it doesn't fit the character very well and it just kills the loliness...

the main thing that makes people make dubs is that anime, in most country other than Japan is targeted to kids, and people who aren't into anime think that it is for kids, even though when you watch the original animes you can clearly see that it is not so, even though there are animes that are targeted for children like chibi maruko chan, doraemon and other animes like that....
and the other reason is that I guess people are just too lazy to read subs....