Comments on: Why Watch Raws?

By: ignorant wanderer

ignorant wanderer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:09:14 +0000

yeah. most subs aren’t really accurate with what the anime characters are saying. but as long as it’s close to whatever they’re trying to say. i’ve watched a few raws, i did try my best to understand. i might only know bits and pieces of sentences eg. dokyusei, neko, betobeto suru.

i find raws and subbed anime the same.having the opening ending theme and no cut out scenes… i can just ignore the subtitles, right? making it ‘raw’.

By: koudaitenshi

koudaitenshi — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:26:47 +0000

well, i really wanna watch the anime in its raw, but i can’t grasp any single word

By: DarkHonour

DarkHonour — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:18:22 +0000

I’m not very fluent at Japanese either. (I can hear, write and listen but I can’t even speak it. T_T)

But I do agree with your point on watching RAW at times. For those light hearted series, I’ll tend to watch RAW. And for a little heavier, I might switch to subs.

Or if I’m having just a very bad week, I’ll watch subs since I don’t want to overload my mind already.

By: keikakudoori

keikakudoori — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:56:04 +0000

I think that even if my japanese were better I would still watch subbed anime. I wouldn’t want to miss out on anything and I could tell when the fansub group isn’t doing their job right.

By: Seo

Seo — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:59:53 +0000

Watching raw sometime can be fun. But since I am not that fluent, and when I really want to watch an anime series seriously I guess I watch it with sub. Well just my personal opinion

By: OnyxSyaoran

OnyxSyaoran — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:17:19 +0000

well i do watch raw of some series and i don’t have japanese classes (i haven’t found cheap ones XD) but i do get to understand many things now i’m a fortunate man with a lot of multi-tasking skills so well i’m learning that way XD (but i still can’t read buuu)

By: double

double — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:20:22 +0000

53RG10 > Subs would be required if I watch heavy dialogue anime too. My standard just isn’t there yet. In fact, I’ve still a very long way to go.

louki > Wow, I like your analogy.

satomi >　久しぶり。またチャットしよう！

C.I > Because I have weird taste buds.

LianYL > Wtf?

By: LianYL

LianYL — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:05:04 +0000

Nowadays I don’t even realise that I’m listening to Japanese. It takes some time for me to understand that people around me have no idea what I’m listening to.

By: C.I.

C.I. — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:47:21 +0000

>>And in case you were wondering, I do eat my fish and chips with black pepper sauce

WHY DO YOU DO THIS.

WHY DO YOU DO THIS ;_____________;

By: Ketaikeon

Ketaikeon — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:04:27 +0000

Hmm, interesting post… but I’m a little obsessive-compulsive about getting the “full meaning” of whatever’s going on. However, I used to watch anime via Youtube way back when- and, to my surprise, I found out that I could understand between 50 and 80% of the dialogue without subs (when I couldn’t find a subbed vid). I think it was fun, a good challenge- but yeah, as you said, I became pretty dependent on subs now and rarely watch raws.