Howl's Moving Castle

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by mousepod

It was shown in the US subbed - although on a very limited basis. Call me crazy, but dubbed animation doesn't bother me nearly as much as dubbed live action - probably because the "actors" are really the animators. This is especially true of the Ghibli films in the hands of Lassetter.

Although Billy Crystal did annoy me at first.

It doesn't bother me as much with animation, as well. Somehow the dialogue and animation end up fairly married. Also, a lot of the time, the translation is better in the dubbed versions. The written text is sometimes very, very strange/funny. It's just not translated as well.

Also, it's an English story, and hearing it in the original Japanese may have felt disjointed. Not bad, just strange.