How do you prefer to watch your anime?

[Metalhead]

Dubbed into your local language, or in Japanese with subtitles? Or in Japanese without subtitles?

I used to be subtitles only back in the '90s, but I have to say the general quality of anime dubs has increased a ton since those days. I prefer a good dub these days.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Not into Amine, age showing.

 

[Shamar]

I prefer to watch anime by switching off the TV and picking up a good book. I rarely watch it except when my son was a child and we watched children's versions.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I don't watch it.

 

[Judge]

Strange, puzzling topic to me.

Why Anime and Manga Characters Have Enormous Eyes

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Other than Miyazaki movies, I don't watch much anime at all.

However, a lot of 80s cartoons were Japanimation, like Dungeons and Dragons, Rainbow Brite, the original Care Bears and My Little Pony, I think maybe Transformers and Inspector Gadget were originally Japanese too.

Don't tell anyone, but for a couple years I was, about 25 years ago, a pretty big Pokemon fan. I don't remember how to play the game anymore, but I still love Vulpix.

I also watched a hefty amount of Digimon, Dragon Ball Z, and a few others well enough that I could at the time, tell you the plot that built from episode to episode.

You see, I was with someone who was heavily into Anime, comics, etc. I've seen a lot of the famous anime films of the 90s and early 2000s. Many of which were very weird and confusing.

I am a lifelong Hello Kitty fan. And used to watch the early 80s cartoons as a little girl.

Sailor Moon is also pretty darn wonderful. My daughter has inherited my love for all things clumsy, weepy, awesome, adorable Usagi!

I'm not really interested in Anime at all right now. But like I said, I do love the meditative wonder and beauty of Miyazake movies, like Totoro, Castle in the Sky, Ponyo, etc.

I prefer foreign films dubbed, with captions on at the same time, so I can really understand them.


Ponyo says her mother is really big and really beautiful:

I kinda want to be her when I grow up.

 

[AGXStarseed]

Depends on if the English Dub is good or not.

 

[Misery]

Dubbed is easiest. Helps that the quality of them has gone up a lot.

My favorite example right now is Zombieland Saga. Whoever voices the band manager deserves some sort of medal.

That being said I dont watch nearly as much as I used to.

Mostly it's just harder and harder to find anything good (that isnt old).

The isekai trend hit and suddenly it seems like that's just every bloody series lately.

 

[Shevek]

I prefer to recognize it with a glance and move on. All mammals are programmed to pay extra attention to infants and their general characteristics, even out of context.

 

[AGXStarseed]

The isekai trend hit and suddenly it seems like that's just every bloody series lately.

Isekai is where a human character is transported/reincarnated into another world, isn't it?

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

While with anime I like the dubbed version, I have really enjoyed the non-anime Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories in the Japanese with subtitles. It let me pick up some phrases that came in handy last year traveling in Japan.

I like the feature length anime or series where character development rather stylized tropes are done.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

Never saw the appeal. I gave up on animation/cartoons when I was a child.