March 4th Blog Post - Japanese Video
Hello again! This is Josh Jones, and I am one of Fuse-sensei's Elementary Japanese Students. For this blog post, I decided to watch episodes of one of my favorite anime's, and compare the differences in the translation between the subtitled version and the dubbed English version. When I first started watching One Piece towards the end of 8th grade, I would watch the show in the dubbed English version. I continued to watch the show in the English dub until I got to an episode where the English dub had not been dubbed yet. When I started watching the show in subbed, I instantly fell in love. The power-ups and special attacks sounded cooler and more authentic, and matched the vibe of the show. However, I noticed that there were slight differences between the dubbed and subbed versions in terms of direct translation. Looking back on those differences, I decided to watch a video explaining the differences. In the video, the narrator highlighted various reasons for the differences b...