Comments by "James LaBarre" (@SenileOtaku) on "Has Hollywood Reached Peak Woke? - Critical Drinker" video.

@rhuonaChanel It really depends on the movie or series. Some fit better in subs, some fit better as dubbed versions. If I look at a couple of anime examples, 'A Certain Scientific Railgun' just sounded better subtitled (the 14 year old Kuroko sounded better with a voice that sounded like a 40 year old chainsmoker, because that really fit your impression of her). But then 'The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya' was (for me as an English speaker) better dubbed, because I would have missed Kyon's snarkiness had it been anyone other than Crispin Freeman doing the voice.
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To what Drinker says on shows cutting themselves down to shorter runs, and trying to squeeze a story into fewer episodes, that certainly seems the situation in Anime as well. Where shows like "Space Battleship Yamato", "Queen Millennia", "Neon Genesis Evangeleon", "Revolutionary Girl Utena", and other classics put their stories over a longer story arc, these days it's a whole lot of 12-and-done productions. The problem with those is the storylines get rushed and lots of story development gets dropped, or they run the 12 episodes and it ends without resolving anything. It's especially problematic when adapting from a long-running manga. Look at a series like "Yona of the Dawn"; the show gets as far as Yona gathering the 'four dragons' she will need on her quest. The the series ends. Nothing about how the dragons will help regain her kingdom, how she learns about the world, the neighbouring countries, no answer to what her cousin is really up to, etc. Especially how the first episode starts with a 'flash-forward' scene of how she fights the evil in her land, which would imply the show would eventualy go there. Sometimes it seems like these anime adaptations are just advertisements for the associated manga.
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