User blog comment:Clary Dragneel/Fairy Tail New Episodes!/@comment-7418318-20150926061013

If you REALLY want to know what happens, you can always pick up the manga, since there the story is already further ahead ;)

I generally prefer sub to dub. It is a bit harder to follow the subs than to "just" have to listen, but I still prefer the original voices + sub for several reasons.
 * 1) I'm really, REALLY used to them, so hearing different voices come from the mouthes of the characters I know so well just feels weird. ^^
 * 2) The translations: Due to the massive differences in grammar and word-length between English and Japanese, keeping lip-synchronity is hard and thus the translators have to sometimes compromise and change things, even IF they would be able to make accurate translations. In the subs, it's solely down to the skills of the translators and thus more precise.
 * 3) I just like the work of the Japanese voice actors more. The english VAs, while quite good for english VAs, often seem to get the emotions a bit wrong. They either overplay to the point of feeling forces or underplay them. In the original it just seems natural.
 * 4) I speak a few bits of Japanese, so listening to the original helps me not get too rusty and occasionally learn a new word or two from context and certainly helps me with pronouncing the words right. ^^

Granted FT does have one of the better translations, but it still can't quite live up to the original in my opinion.