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Ah dunno about that, Levi and Erwin's voice actors were top tier

Facts 100% agreed, and I've seen the show. Much easier to take everything going on, the art the dialog, the reactors reaction, not only vocal, but facial and body language, that's 4 things you need to watch simultaneously and one of them is fast paced reading. SMH I dislike how in their feelings everyone gets about the 3% more emotion you get from the Japanese voice actors. Which honestly I argue is less emotion, you just can't understand the words so the ONLY thing you can pick up on is emotion. The ONLY thing that translates is emotion. So you feel like there's more by comparison to something you can listen to, and hear emotion, and tone of voice, and inflection. Sometimes I think these people equate volume to emotion. "they're yelling therefore it's done with more heart" no they're just louder and whinier than the dub. lol I admit in a single watchers perspective, if they can keep up, the sub is a better experience, but as a reactor, and as a reaction consumer, I say the dub is simply better for a multitude of reasons.

okay now i gotta disagree. it is totally fine prefer one or another, but saying is weird…???? it’s the original language, it is good. and if we can’t feel the voices in animated movies or shows the dub or sub shouldn’t exist. if you like the dub it’s fine, but don’t say that the literally origin language don’t make sense.

I agree the voice acting is good, but I feel like these statements aren't doing much to talk up the voice actors and doing very much put down the incredible job the Dub voice actors did. They're both great, neither so good you "have to" watch it one way or the other. We all have preferences and we all have opinions on which is better, but anyone who says that one is "that much" better than the other or that one is so good the other is unwatchable is simply wrong and biased. And people gotta stop acting like their strong opinions are evidential fact.

A slow reader is a slow reader. Not something you can just get over or learn to do better with some people. I've seen so many people miss things who typically watch things in sub. Even some anime lovers that miss subtle things. Unless the dub just sucks (which it doesn't in this case) then there's just pros to watching it in the language you understand. No matter how fast a reader you are. I agree it's better if you can catch everything, but I've even seen reactors that re watch each episode in dub after each recording session to see what they missed and almost every episode came to the next one's intro talk with 2-4 things they missed watching it in sub. And to the viewer you couldn't even tell they were missing all those things, or misunderstanding the translation errors in the text compared to the tone of the conversation. And these were intuitive smart people who seemed to catch everything in the episodes, but in their later explanations you can tell that the things they missed would have mattered dearly down the road. Didn't seem to ruin anything that episode. But in the long run those straws add up and one eventually breaks the camels back. Death by a thousand cuts. there's a million metaphors for this. It's better to understand than it is to hear a little whinier voice IMO lol And those examples were people who were fast readers, and they still missed a bunch.

agree!

The dub is great. The voice actors are fantastic. Is it as good as the sub? debatable. People who aren't cry baby die hard weebs with bias shoved so far up their ass they can't see straight will admit this is one of the best Dubs in anime. I've seen this show multiple times in both sub AND in dub. There's only a couple/few times the Americanisation of the translation is silly or out of place. There's only a couple times that the emotion is dramatically more in the original than it is in the dub. However, I personally like the sound design of a lot of things more in the dub. I also read slow and even though I'm good at reading dyslexia slows me down, so if you're not super fast at reading you would definitely benefit from the dub. You miss subtle facial emotions, hints, looks, side eyes, not to mention the amazing art of the fight scenes, the emotion in the eyes. All the art suffers when you constantly have to look away. Emotion in voice acting means VERY LITTLE when you can't understand them, it's all just whiney screams IMHO. It only seems more emotional because you can't understand the words so you're only picking up the emotion, it's the only thing that translates to someone who doesn't speak a word of the language they're using. For reaction content in general, I suggest the dub. But especially if you are a slow reader. Now here's the caveat the weebs who love this show won't watch it if you do dubbed. So your reaction interaction will suffer. What you can do to mitigate this is what I've seen some people do and you could do that too, is edit and post both versions. Line your reaction up to the audio of both sub and dub and release two videos. (it's more work, but if you are watching the dub, you'll have less cuts and pauses, and lining up both audios will be simple, you'll also get the benifit of understanding the show, while not alienating all the die hard fans that won't watch the dub). And if you do watch along rather than picture in picture (the legal way, and the way I assume you do it) you can just watch the dub, and suggest to people to watch along in their preferred audio. You can do the same if you want to watch sub, but have fans that want the dub. This all being said, if 2 versions is too much work, but you want to watch the dub, just edit in the sub audio when you record and put together the edited version. Just a thought. It will keep interactions up, while you get to watch the way you want. Best of both worlds. You're going to get a MASSIVE amount of bullying, harassment, and straight up TEMPER TANTRUMS to watch the sub. But if it ruins your time watching it, fuck those cry babies. Watch it how YOU want to watch it, and you'll make the best reaction for your fans. The people who want to watch YOU see this, rather than just want to watch the show again themselves will sub and watch in their preferred language. They'll want to support you and want to see the show so they'll settle. I've done this both ways and it does NOT ruin the reaction in any way, barely effects it. However, watching it in a way YOU don't want too. Or worse, missing major plot points ruins the reaction entirely for everyone except the weebs that don't care about your reaction and simply want to watch AOT their favorite way for the millionth time. I've seen people who said they didn't want to watch it in sub, be forced into it by their viewers that care more about watching it how they want for free on the youtube edits than they do the reactors time, or supporting the channel in general. So their voices shouldn't even matter. Countless reactors have switched and been bullied into watching the version they don't want and held hostage in a show they can't enjoy and miss all the major points too. Here's the thing, if you miss a look, or miss a statement, or miss a word, you're not going to know. You're not going to magically go "wait I missed something a scene or two ago let me rewind it". you might catch it in the edit if you're doing the editing yourself, but you won't know you missed something and it will ruin future scenes and reveals. There's just too much to miss in this show, subtle things. Quick statements that don't have a huge reaction so if you look away for a split second, or are enjoying the art you might totally miss a major plot point or reveal. Also, if you're not doing picture in picture, and giving us the audio and visual attached in the same video stopping, rewinding, and starting again will be a NIGHTMARE to line up with and stay synched. Doing a watch along format to that would be IMPOSSIBLE. furthermore, you need to pause or go back and re-read these quick passing title cards that give you info about the world. Adding another layer of difficulty to a continuous watch through. So if you are going to be doing a lot of pausing and replaying you'll have to do it in picture in picture which means you'll be copywriting and illegally streaming the whole show. If you find yourself struggling, or missing things, please do what YOU want and not what the watchers want. If they truly like you and want to support they can watch along in their preferred language and everyone's happy. Just some things to think about that these "dub sucks" Karen's are NOT going to admit or let you know because they want their way or the highway, and for this spoiled group of bullies (I've seen it in COUNTLESS comment sections for reactors *they're the worst fan group of all time with bullying and spoiling, and fighting each other, and arguing, and spitefully spoiling things if you piss them off.) Don't cater to these nonjobs cater to your long time viewers and your own wellbeing. Watch how you want and screw the rest. Also please have someone scan your comment sections and remove spoilers because this show isn't a matter of if, it's a matter of when the wrong people find it and start spoiling like crazy in every comment section, whether they mean to or not. I'll watch along in either, but if you're doing watch along, I'll be enjoying my copy in dub. Since with my dyslexia and ADHD it's much easier to stay retained and get everything, but also because the dub voice actors killed it and I enjoy the performance of both languages equally, but like I said, I enjoy the ability to understand the auido, not have to read the whole time, and enjoy many parts of the choices in sound design more than in the sub strangely enough. Can't explain what without spoiling. have fun and enjoy one of the best stories ever told, and please watch it in a way that you can FULLY enjoy and take in everything, I'd hate for fast text or a quick statement to send you into confusion and not enjoy all the teasers and flashes they throw at you. If you find the sub completely palletable and reading isn't a struggle by all means do the sub. But for many other reasons that outweigh the little better emotion you get and a little better lip synching you get from the sub, I recommend the dub with a couple *'s being that you might want to release both options if possible, since it will raise your numbers to have a sub posted (even if you do dub) and if you do dub, you won't have to pause and rewind often, meaning the video you need to synch up to both audios is continuous and not split into 30 sections from pausing and replaying. I say watch the first couple episodes in Sub for the reaction, but re-watch it in dub and see which one is better, and which one you prefer. And if you choose sub, don't lock in that choice until you know it's what you want and you think you can manage. Thanks for coming to my ted talk. Please do what's best for you and let the reactions spawn from that, don't do what you don't want just for a higher view count.

yess! i prefer she pauses it lol, it’s good to watch slowly

Hopefully nothing yet so we can get more episodes of the shows she’s already watching 😁

for me it’s not that the dub it’s bad, but it just doesn’t hit?? i don’t know how to explain but like i kinda FEEL what is happening in the sub ya know