

I was wondering if you actually miss out on anything from watching the dubbed
version of a series (E.g. Magi- Labyrinth of Magic over watching the subbed
version of it)?

Everytime I watched dubbed animes, my friend in particular use to moan about a
lot of things such as the voices sound horrible and you miss out on more of
the storyline through improvisation and other stuff such as cuts on certain
lines and sayings. Ever I was oblivious or just plain blind but I actually
never noticed this before (besides the voices of course) and since I have
never actually watched the same of an anime series in both dubbed and then re-
watched it in subbed to compare it, do you actually miss out on anything
important or paramount?

Is there any difference in terms of the story, how the characters are
developed or how the storyline runs when you watch a dubbed anime over the
subbed version of it which is in Japanese? Do you miss out on anything or is
this just my friend trying to persuade me to only watch it in subbed which I
highly suspect.


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Is there a difference in terms of story etc when watching a dubbed anime over a subbed?


Short answer, it depends.

Long answer, some change a lot more than others. The major thing is whether
you are watching just a dubbed version of a show or whether you are watching
an Americanized version of a show (assuming you're talking about English
dubs). Some shows are changed because of censorship, and some of it is because
of other changes. You can check out the censorship for at least some of the
shows at [this website](http://www.movie-censorship.com/). A lot of that ends
up being differences in blood, violence, and sexual content. Sometimes the
changes are based on the animation, including making colors brighter or
slightly changing positions of things.

On the other hand, you get shows like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor
Sakura/Cardcaptors. In Sailor Moon, for example, entire relationships are
changed, such as making characters cousins instead of being in a relationship
(which ends up just looking like incest). That's done because the relationship
was between two women, something which wasn't really accepted in the US when
it aired. They also skipped entire episodes.

Sometimes you also just lose subtleties because English is a less subtle
language than Japanese. That ends up happening with subs, too, so it's pretty
much unavoidable unless you know Japanese.

Some shows don't really change anything at all.

The major changes tend to be related to nudity, violence, sex, and
homosexuality, though there are other changes. If you want to check out the
differences, you can look at websites like the one I linked too, as well as
[this](http://www.smuncensored.com/) for Sailor Moon,
[this](http://www.psypokes.com/anime/censor.php) for Pokemon,
[this](http://frozen-wings.net/ccs/main.php?page=information/differences) for
Cardcaptor Sakura, etc. You have to be careful if you're worried about
spoilers, but for most popular shows you can find someone talking about the
differences.

For Magi- Labyrinth of Magic, which you mentioned, I can't find anything
talking about the differences, though only the first season has been released
in English, so that might change later.


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