Dr. Nyar wrote...
But then again, I prefer subs which apparently automatically means that I only pirate my anime and don't support my country's anime industry, no matter how many DVDs I buy, so what do I know?
Relating to my argument, are you a dub hater? I'm pretty sure that the majority of anime fans prefer subs, but I never implied that dub haters are only the people who prefer subs. In fact, there are many anime watchers who prefers sub over dub, and yet they choose to respect the dubbing voice actors of America through their efforts in several anime shows. Several said examples from AZ would be Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, DragonBallZ, Gundam Wing and others as well. After completing one of those said series, would you say that their dubbing is bad? Of course, these are the classics anime that made a boom in America, but even so they were dubbed, and some are praised to be better than Japanese dubs(subbed).
Concerning of your piracy statement, I ask you what is the MOST available way of watching anime? Of course, you have the DVD sets, certain TV channels, VHS (for the oldies out there), Blu-Ray, and the Internet. Now then good sir, from which of these sources do you watch your anime shows from? Everyone in this forum literally watches MOST if not all their anime shows via the Internet which provides multiple ways to showing anime which is torrents, streaming videos, downloads, and other various methods that I do not know of.
If you purchase DVD box sets from the licensing industry, I compliment you a good job for supporting the industry. I envy your availability to accept the dub anime show you purchased, and choose to respect the show for itself, not for its dubbing voice actors.
If not and you stubbornly choose to ONLY watch subs, and deny the existence of dubs, and you sir clearly don't know any better.
If not and you choose to prefer subs, and respect several good dubbed animes, then keep up the good work and you know the difference between you and other dub-haters.