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Do the english dubs do anything but translate anime?

they make episodes from the stand point that they edit them they way they see fit. A perfect example of this is Sailor Moon The last two episodes of the first season were cut and editied to make one epidsode. But they do not draw their own episodes and add them in.
They could also twist the plot to fit the audience they are targeting. Again, my example is Sailor Moon. They took Neptune and Uranus and made them into cousins instead of spoiler[lovers] like they originally were. They didn't feel that American society would accept this when they were marketing to a younger audience like they were.

IMO English dubs negate the aesthetic experience one receives from anime.

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I not talking about editing the anime I just saying why do english dub do not have offbeat filler episodes that we have not seen in the subbed version of anime.

Facade19 wrote:

IMO English dubs negate the aesthetic experience one receives from anime.

Okay, but you really need to provide a little more than that. Why specifically do they have that effect for you? A one-liner providing a stance with nothing behind it simply won't suffice.

That's certainly better, although I completely disagree with you there. I personally find watching in a language that is not native to me and that I do not understand to be a bit off to me, tolerable but it just doesn't feel natural. Now you see, that's the point and what these companies provide. They offer the choice because they respect the fact that not everyone is going to see things the same way and that catering only to dub advocates or purists isn't the right way to do business.

You can dislike dubs all you want, although your generalizations about their acting skills and the quality of the dub and release demonstrate a degree of bias so I'm forced to take that in to account.

Either way, dislike them or hate them but most licensors still provide you with the sub so there's no reason to deny dub fans their right to choose.

No one is making you watch it so it shouldn't even bother you if you find it that, amazingly, universally awful. And if you want to go to the source, feel free to do so as they probably get a lot more money from selling imports since they cost more and have fewer episodes per disc.

It's all a matter of personal preference and I think a lot of it has to do with when you came into the fandom. If you came in back in the 70s when I did, you're much more likely to only want the original Japanese because back then, that's all you had a choice of. If you wanted to watch anime at all, you watched it in Japanese with no subtitles because that's all that was available. If you came in later when it was available dubbed on TV, then you're more likely to prefer dubs. Neither one is right or wrong, it's all personal preference.

No, there's nothing biased about it at all. Most of the people doing anime dubbing in the US aren't the world's greatest actors. It's like having to get Reba West drunk to sing Minmay's songs back with Robotech. Also, the pool of potential actors is very limited in the US so you get the same actor doing a bunch of voices in the same series or in series that are on at the same time. There was a time when you could play "count the Inu Yasha voices" on Cartoon Network. These aren't deniable facts, so for you to call it a bias is rather telling.

It's actually only been somewhat recently that things have been available with a sub, which I always thought was silly because subs are much cheaper to produce than dubs, but then again, most anime was produced for a TV audience so I guess it's understandable. There really is no excuse whatsoever for a DVD release not to have a sub-track though.