User blog comment:Nerdyanimegirl225/1st Blog!!!/@comment-4829046-20140508093856

Meh. The best animation for me was when the anime team was CONSISTENT. The moment they stopped, well.... it seems they they never will again but I could be wrong. All I know is that there are plenty of other series this season that have MASTERFUL animation in comparison but the best thing about those is consistency. If a scene is bland or normal, they just keep it that way but spend the budget on places that require proper animation and that works so well.

As a person who like pretty much most others, started anime watching in dub, I had a slight prejudice in the beginning, especially since the subbed of series I liked at the time were inferior like in Dragon Ball but over time I found that dub only works depending on the VA. If you put the wrong combination of VA, it turns to shit. Also not fitting the appropriate VA also fails. Fitting a low monotone pitch to a high-pitch character is like a sin. And some series were basically MADE to be in English, with lots of Western influence but others were pure Japanese culture influences and those are very difficult to dub properly.

But regardless, I watch EVERYTHING with subtitles; even English movies and youtube vids so I lack that prejudice people have for needing to "read" on the screen and having words "blocking" the pictures. So unless I REALLY find a problem listening to it in Japanese, I wouldn't really go for the dub. However like MDM said, "95%" of the time. 5% of dubs are still good. Sadly in most dubs I feel like I'm listening to the same thing. That unique aspect of the Japanese VA diversity is lost in English. Speech patterns and such are translated in English as broken English or Refined(posh) English or slang or otherwise heavily accented but none-the-less still English, so that cultural aspect is lost and the Japanese VA went to a lot of trouble to get it down.

Still doesn't mean I don't watch dub. When rewatching a series I tend to take the other option like for instance I first watch it subbed and then in dubbed or vice versa but me doing that would mean the series is actually that good though. I don't bother on series that are boring but sometimes curiosity trumps my displeasure cause I really want to watch something to see what it sounds like in English.