The can choose to show emotion in the movie and are perfectly capable of doing so but they didn't in that case. Or rather I know whats going to happen and I can focus on the deeper context of whats going on.Īs for the characters being boring in the movies and having no real discernible qualities about them remember that they are cyborgs and actually are hardly even human anymore. Like GITS has been on my mind a lot lately and I have been watching the reruns on adult swim and I find it even more fascinating now when I first watched it years ago even though I know whats going to happen. The thing about GITS is that its really not simple and you aren't going to get everything in a single viewing and im talking about all the media surrounding it. The series Stand Alone Complex is much more entertaining to watch and a lot easier to understand even though it can get quite philosophical as well. I just wonder how those sort of issues are undone when watching a sub - I personally have always preferred the dub because I don't fully understand what is said when only reading the text.The movies are indeed a bit deep mostly they try to condense a lot down in two hours. Such as Corinthians 13, and Japanese bibles have their base in a lot of English (American I believe) versions: meaning it's more intact, in usage, the English dub. Not to mention throughout Oshii's work references to many texts translated from English or another language to Japanese. Not to say they achieve what they are doing but that subs just avoid the issue of translating those complex verbal element totally and therefore subs are not the intended version.Ĭonsumption of media is a multiparty affair - a producer has intended qualities of consumers such as native language and comprehensions of the subversion to that form.

So, one would expect, that dubs actually present a closer image of the original intent to non-japanese speakers than do subs which cannot convey tone, pacing, or unique modifiers like conjugation, while dub can alter the delivery of lines to produce the equivalent in the new language. Subs often have much less time, lower interrater reliability and less tangible work put into them.

How do you get the original meaning of words and phrases or tone associations when you are not a fluent speaker?ĭoesn't this advice only work for fluent speakers of both English and Japanese.

Ghost in the shell 1995 english dub