Download Japanese Subtitles Anime

That would be very good, I was going to check if iFlicks or Handbrake would allow for this on Mac, for now I have been using Subtitle Tools to adjust the timing and also create dual language subtitles which works well but results vary depending on the quality and timing of the subs.

While watching, you can see three layers of subtitles: the Japanese text, the romaji and then the English translation. You can choose yourself which subtitles you want to display. If you click on a Japanese word, you will see the definition in English, and vice versa.

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Like Crunchyroll, Funimation has a mix of free and paid content. It was acquired by Crunchyroll in 2021. Though it used to specialize in English dubbed anime, it now features plenty of options in the original Japanese.

As the name suggests, this service is great for fans of the anime classics. Featuring shows from the 70s, 80s and 90s, as well as modern shows that fall into old-school anime tropes, RetroCrush offers a nostalgic look at the bygone eras of anime.

Using the FluentU language learning program, for example, is one way to turn your anime viewing into a learning session. FluentU has anime clips (and other authentic videos) with high-quality interactive subtitles that provide on-demand contextual translations.

Japanese anime companies can be very tight-fisted when it comes to streaming rights, much to the dismay of many foreign fans. The issue is compounded by the fact that many anime streaming services are only available in select countries. However, with a little careful finagling, you can watch anime on legit websites with Japanese subtitles.

When I was just beginning to learn Japanese, one of my classmates proudly claimed to me that she could understand anime without subtitles. That really took me aback at the time, since I assumed you needed to be fluent in order to understand what people were saying in another language. So I tested her. I played the audio of an anime episode without the visuals and asked her to translate the lines for me. It turned out she only understood a few words here and there. That was it.

I tried to watch Danball Senki W raw but I ended up dropping it because while I can sort of understand the basic storyline and the battles, everything else was just lost on me. However, this is not the case with Cross Fight B-daman eS, perhaps because of the episodes are just 15 minutes long and everything is much more simplistic. I planned to do the same with Gaist Crusher thanks to subs being very slow and the way the anime was set up allowed for watching it raw, but I gave up when I realize that I will be watching around a minimum of 17 anime series this winter even after considering anime series which will end by this season and dropping Saikyou Ginga Ultimate Zero: Battle Spirits, which I found to be very weak, especially with regards of its card battles.

Strangely, watching anime was for me always a multi-culti thing. Back then in school I remember watching Pokemon with a friend in Russian, with another friend Pokemon in Turkish LOL :D When I started watching anime seriously, I watched most stuff in my own nativ-language, German. Only later I started to study the Japanese voice-actors and so on. But honestly I never had real intention to study Japanese language seriously, as many anime-fans do. 2 years ago I watched the original Saint Seiya anime and watched like 5 eps in Spanish and actually liked it :D I was amused that they confused some of the genders of the characters in the Dub. Another comedy anime show I watched in Mandarine-Chinese. Was also very interesting for me.

I watched Bleach without subtitles, then watched the subtitled version when the fansubbers released it. Needless to say, I was pleased to see I had gotten at least half of the dialogue (or more) correct.

Interesting post. I have to say I do agree with you that it is easy to understand the anime audio. Back in the summer when I watched at least 6 episodes a day, I found myself understanding what they were saying without paying attention to the subs. However, I still have a long way to go when it comes to learning Japanese. Perhaps I should start with signing up for a class.

Learning Japanese? Netflix is a surprisingly good way to find anime and TV dramas that have Japanese subtitles. When I was learning Japanese, one of my favorite things to do was to make flashcards from anime with Japanese subtitles. Back then, I had to download the subtitles manually and add them myself (it was almost ten years ago)!

However, even if you are subscribing outside of Japan, Netflix still has a decent number of shows with Japanese subs. According to one thread on the Duolingo forums, Netflix has 46 anime series and 13 movies with Japanese subtitles:

As the shows on Netflix are always changing, these numbers are likely different now. However, despite some small variation, the general numbers of shows should be the same. And several dozen shows should give you plenty of content (anime, TV dramas, etc.) to supplement your Japanese studies with.

Netflix Japan also has many Japanese dramas and movies. Personally, I prefer anime to Japanese films (except for the older classics like Kurosawa, Ozu, etc.). But there is likely to be something available for everyone.

The rule of thumb always seems to be that original works will always be better than its altered or remade counterpart. The same can be applied to an anime that gets licensed for the U.S. market. Usually there are studios who dub over the Japanese voices with English ones. Luckily, if you are not a fan of the dubbed voices DVDs and Blurays offer the option to keep the Japanese track and turn on the subtitles. You can enjoy the anime as it was meant to be enjoyed.

This is where I think they should have kept the Japanese cultural references at least. I suppose keeping the Japanese names of the characters would be too much of a stretch (maybe due to pronunciation issues for the kids), but the cultural references they should have tried to keep. Maybe the studios could have had a small segment at the end of each episode to explain some of the Japanese references to the kids watching. I think it would have been nice. I became fascinated with Japanese culture, the language, and the people after becoming acquainted with anime/manga.

These days I end up watching most animes with the Japanese track on and with subtitles. Sometimes I switch to the dub just to see how the English voice actors portray the characters. Almost 99% of the time, the Japanese voice actors are better than the English ones. Some English voice actors do a decent job on a character and other times they are absolutely horrible.

I watched both Fushigi Yugi and Ceres: Celestial Legend with the Japanese track and subtitles. The voices were great and I got into the animes easily. When I decided I wanted to try the dub on for size for both series, I could not watch one episode of either series for longer than five minutes. As soon as I heard the English dub voice actresses for Miaka of FY and Aya of Ceres open their mouths I cringed. They sounded irritating to listen to and the immersion into the story was broken for me because of their voices. These are two series where I will not under no circumstances watch the English dub. I rather listen to the original Japanese voice actors and read the subtitles over the English dub.

I like watching both the dubbed and subbed. I kind of like seeing how the voice acting was approached on both sides. There are very few animes I watch as dubbed these days. Usually I watch the anime as subbed first and then later rewatch the series as a dubbed to try it out.

I have always felt that watching anime helps with my Japanese, but still regarded it as mostly leisure time with potentially some language learning benefits. However, apparently if done right, it can be a cornerstone of foreign language acquisition, even though watching anime for this purpose is considered counterproductive by some.

There are many voices in Japanese language learning and anime online communities saying that watching anime for learning Japanese is not useful. Main reason being that the language spoken in those shows is not real, everyday Japanese.

Anime and manga definitely use a lot of impolite speech and slang, so this is probably where this misconception came from. This is especially true for anime like Naruto, Dragon Ball or Bleach, which are targeted to younger male audience.

But, can you actually learn Japanese from JUST watching anime? Probably not. However, if you would do reading (manga, books) and include other media, like TV news and be methodical about your sources then probably yes. At least according to the comprehensible input hypothesis.

However, for the language acquisition to be possible, the message in a foreign language needs to be understood. It has to be comprehensible. We can understand the message if we already know some words, or we are familiar with the context. For example, anime and movies bring about the context by using visuals, non-verbal communication and storytelling.

We have established that watching anime is fun, and can be great for learning Japanese as well. However, to really get those language acquisition benefits you actually should watch it without native language subtitles. This has been highlighted in an interesting study that compared the benefits of watching foreign language movies with and without subtitles.

In this study, a group of Spanish students studying English was asked to take an English language test. Afterwards, they had to watch an 1h long TV drama episode in English. The students were divided into three groups: watching the episode with English subtitles, without subtitles and with Spanish subtitles. After watching the drama they took another test.

I have tried watching anime episodes with English subtitles, and then without. I tried doing that quite a few times. Unfortunately, the amount of dialog and changing contexts were quite hard to comprehend, even though I knew the story.