The real problem with dubbing is that they usually have to redo all the sound effects without the director involved, including any natural sounds that would have been caught with the original dialogue. Audio is half of video, so it can change the director’s intent pretty drastically.

It sounds weird and I always go with subtitles for those reason.

[–] regul@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Would they really need to do new foley for animation? It'd be completely separately recorded audio during production. I guess it just depends on which files the localizers have access to.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, these days they wouldn’t need to if they’re provided with the .proj or .xml or whatever they’re using for editing. King of the Hill is pretty old though and the scene change music in the video above sounds off to me so I think they did redo it all.

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[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Normally I would say dub or nothing because I simply can't read that fast without missing what's onscreen. But for this show only, I'm going to say subs, if for nothing else then because closed captioning includes Boomhauer's lines.

Also, from everything I gather, fluent English doesn't come off to me as being a common thing in Japan. I'd love to be incorrect, but I've heard repeatedly that they mostly fall off again after high school and that their educational system looks down on errors so much they basically won't even risk asking questions, so they shrink from practicing verbally in front of actual speakers.

So the guy in the photo is a freeaboo