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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, absolutely.

My monolingual Japanese best friend literally refuses to watch the Simpsons Japanese dub.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

This is funny as fuck to me. I wonder if they have their own version of the word weeb

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Wow. Looks like they can't watch movies together ever.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Yes and I'll give you an example:

The Japanese dub for King of the Hill had Boomhauer speaking perfect Japanese. The ability to understand Boomhauer all the time undermines most of the gags written for the character. It makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

How did the dubbers get away with this?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

And they likely could have matched the joke through fringe Osaka dialects of Japanese.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

Japan doesn't exist, it was invented as a ploy to sell more anime. You can't fool me you are paid by BIG ANIME.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They certainly do that for movies

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Can confirm. Would you like the Jimaku or Fukikae version?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I’ve seen question before and the conclusion was that they do.