Sorry, I don’t really know how to phrase my question. For example, we know that over here in the USA, a box set of dragon ball z contains the English dub and the original Japanese track. If someone from somewhere else wanted to watch, let’s say SpongeBob on DVD, could they expect the original English track or was it commonplace to only have the local dub? ETA: Of course I’m referring to the time period before streaming, and I mean any type of popular cartoon.

  • Nariom@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Bit late but I just remembered two interesting cases:

    • some Japanese animes not intended for children but marketed to them in France ~30 years ago were sometimes not translated but dialogues were improvised to censor anything inappropriate
    • in Switzerland they used to put subtitles in 3 languages resulting in a ridiculous proportion of the screen covered with text (maybe they still do idk)