Comment on People not from English-speaking countries, was it possible to watch cartoons in English subbed?

omnomed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

In alot of the developed countries you’d get the local dub if available as well as the english track. The most common case would be to have the local language subtitles along with the english track. It mostly depends on an IP being picked up for localization by a local publishing studio and passing the censor board of the respective country.

In alot of developing countries you’d not get anything other than the english track so no subtitles at all. However it’s actually not so definitive because if you went to a store to buy say “SpongeBob anthology DVD collection” you’d most likely end up with a bootleg set which is just pirated off the web and burned onto a couple of DVDs with a generic SpongBob Logo sticker(Literally) on the DVDs. So basically random, it could have subtitles burned onto the video in arabic for all you know.

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