While the subs vs dubs debate in the anime zeitgeist will likely endure until the heat death of the universe, I am not tethered to such earthly things. I watch both when simulcasts are available for a show I fancy, like Daemons of the Shadow Realm. I’ll even prefer the English dub for the slang in shows like Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and gut-busting romcoms like You and I Are Polar Opposites. Hell, I’d prefer the original language for shows like Tank Chair to the more stilted delivery that matches the lip flaps to the 3D character models of its English-language counterpart.
Sometimes, a “bad” dub, like the one in Ghost Stories, is the best thing an anime has going for it. But I never expected to be watching a milquetoast isekai like Overgeared solely because its English dub is pretty funny.
Isekai anime are a genre of fantasy or sci-fi shows where a normal dude, usually a loser in real life, gets teleported into a fantasy land where he has one cool gimmick that makes him the god-tier emperor and most important person in the universe that everyone wants to be or be with. I’m not a big fan of the genre. The power fantasy of a loser getting stronger by making the number on his RPG-esque stat sheet go up just doesn’t do it for me . Likewise, I find its oversaturation over the past decade in the anime scene, slightly echoing the premises of the shows that came before them, Polly Pocket-style, to be pretty whack.
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