Yeah, didn't you hear the Tony Bennet song?

But old Italian movies were always dubbed, because they were filmed without sound

Because Dub never does an original justice. And when you watch with subs you din’t actually only read them. You have time to read and watch what’s happening

considering most animes are adaptions of manga, it’s technically not an “original performance”. the original performance is the source material itself. english dub is every bit of an adaption as japanese dub. the argument for subs would be that japanese performers are more likely to perform to the nuance of the material, and set the tone for being the first adapters. it’s not because it’s the original performance though.

edit: why the downvotes? i’m right.

Gattaca

the translation is better and people without a reading deficiency don't experience any disruption

*teenagers - she's 13

A lot of good anime actually has very good English dubs, but more niche shows don’t and it used to be a lot worse

Sub is preferred in many foreign forms or anime and TV shows and movies because it best alligns with the story and characterization of the original artist. Also many people who read fast barely take more than a second to read a line of dialogue. Most Dubbed media is very awkward and completely takes some people out of the experience. This is more applicable to live action movies and TV than Anime but still a big factor.

As with most things the more you get used to something the less you even notice it. There have been plenty of times where I have had captions on even during English speaking shows and never really noticed them.

Even if you can't understand the language, the original actors tone and mannerisms come across and add so much to the performance that dubs just don't recapture in my opinion. Especially when it's something with absolutely terrible dubbing that makes watching it in that format impossible (see Squid Game)

How High - 2 black guys from the projects end up at Havard because they smoked weed that grew in a dead friend's ashes and he came to them as a ghost to give them all the answers.

hearing anime dialogue out loud in a language you understand makes you realize how terrible it is

I've not seen Citizen Kane, seen bits but not all. Should I? Has it aged badly?

English language dubs are often done poorly, especially on older anime content.

Just for more completeness, while there is an insane amount of anime produced in asia, only a small sliver of that makes it to the west, but even then, a lot of it is subs-only anyways, so there isn't even a dub option

This feels like a joke

Spoken like a dude who enjoyed some Blackbelt Theater growing up thinking those lines and voices were real.

Yeah I guess, not done in a great way though but violent and bloody but it counts. Love Goodfellas though.

*Happyness

Does Goodfellas count?

The tagline should be "She's Becky"

After the story the strongest part of the anime is probably Voice acting , if done correctly then watching dub ver is actually great but unfortunately That's not the case most of the time

Face Off.

Scarface (De Palma’s) Brewsters Millions (Pryors)

Because subtitles are better, and dubs are awkward. With subtitles you actually get the original performance, which is why I turn off any old Italian movie when they do shitty dubbing, and when I actually can hear and see the original performances with subtitles I am on board.

Edit: If we are talking about anime in particular, I still prefer the subtitles

When he made it up them first steps I was cheering too, I also love the story behind the making of it that it was kind of rags to riches too in real life.