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boku-no-anime-phase · 1 year ago

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So Ghibli dubs are pretty good across the board right? Most people watch Ghibli dubbed bc the dubs are good.

But I, a weeb, am working on watching Ghibli movies subbed for the first time in my life and y'all.... It's a different experience.

Howl's moving castle?? Almost a completely different movie. Feels more quiet and chill. Has more clear themes of courage and cowardice. I felt like the characters' personalities came through with greater clarity and consistency. Not to mention that I wasn't constantly distracted by the clashing accents or Christian Bale's wildly incongruous voice (I know he's a crowd favorite, but I'm a heretic and I refuse to apologize).

Totoro is the same way. Some of the script changes and inflection changes just completely alter the mood of certain interactions and it's weird! Why would you do that!

I should stop being floored by how much better these are subbed than dubbed but I'm going to do it every time

#also listening to Calcipher in this i wonder if this was part of Pattz' inspiration for his voice as the heron in tbath #Billy Crystal is a delight but he didn't try to be a weird little guy as calcipher #however the Japanese voice actor for Calcipher really committed to weird little guy voice #love it #ghibli #ghibli films #studio ghibli #howl's moving castle #my neighbor totoro #Totoro #i wish they would redub these to be more faithful to the original script and intent #but they probably won't do that

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