Howl's Moving Castle

[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.

[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.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

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

So I presume you turn on the Dutch soundtrack when you watch the Little Mermaid?

I too am less thrown off by dubbed animation than live action, but I'll still choose subtitled over dubbed every time.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

So I presume you turn on the Dutch soundtrack when you watch the Little Mermaid?

I too am less thrown off by dubbed animation than live action, but I'll still choose subtitled over dubbed every time.

Hah. No, but when I watch the anime version of the Little Mermaid, I'm glad it's in English.

Sometimes that crap doesn't bother me at all of course. But it kills me that Hollywood makes movies that take place in French, and for some reason use an all British cast, as if that somehow makes up for the French characters not actually being or speaking French. Totally amuses me.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

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.

Not counting terrible fan-sub stuff that's only one step above throwing it through Google's translation software (though you get some damned funny lines that way like "fate vibrator" and "Why do you put your shirt in the word bad?"), I find that the ocassional awkward translation adds to the understanding. The preservation of some of the fundamental gramatical and idomatic differences between the languages keeps more of the original spirit, imo. But I suppose that only works if you've watched enough subtitled stuff to build a kind of an idiomatic vocabulary to intuitively decode those differences.