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Japanese Dubbed TV?

Dakho — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:27:51 +0000

Hey all, I’ve been using textfugu/various resources to study Japanese for a little while now and one of the things I think would be super beneficial is the whole immersion concept. So one of the things I’ve been trying to find but have had zero luck with so far is finding Japanese dubbed TV shows, either online or somewhere I could order the dvds. Unfortunately I can’t say I’m really into anime so I’ve been trying to find either The Simpsons or Friends dubbed over. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

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Dormoxx — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:16:49 +0000

I know it’s not as interesting as The Simpsons or Friends, but you could download a program called ‘LiveStation’ and and watch live Japanese TV. The only thing I can seem to get is The Shop Channel right now, which I do have to say, is a bit interesting.

http://www.livestation.com

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missingno15 — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:21:13 +0000

In my experience, livestation is useless and resorted back to keyhole.

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マーク・ウェーバー — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:23:28 +0000

You should go for some podcasts as well :) just have it running in the background while you are doing other stuff – even though you are not focusing on listening and can’t understand much then you will still pick pronounciation and other things up :D

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Edgar Perez — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:48:45 +0000

Blu-Ray dics from Japan should work in American Blu-Ray players. You can find some on http://www.yesasia.com. Like the movie “Inception”, is dubbed in both English and Japanese. You should be able to find T.V. shows from America dubbed in Japanese with Blu-Ray dics as well.

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Dakho — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:35:56 +0000

Thanks Edgar! I actually was going to add that site as I found it last night after my post. I was able to find some of the shows I was looking for on there luckily, also even though some dvd’s are labelled as region 2 they can still be played on a PC using players like VLC. Thanks again

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MisterM2402 [Michael] — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:13:39 +0000

Again, an old TextFugu thread comes up on a quest for Japanese learning materials.

Has anyone had any luck finding English shows dubbed in Japanese? Like the OP suggested, I wouldn’t mind watching Friends in Japanese (I’d be able to enjoy watching it more, already knowing the story). It would probably be damn expensive to buy the actual DVDs; even if not I’d still like to watch a few episodes first to see if I’d even like it. YouTube only seems to have a handful of clips.

What kinds of search terms would be useful for searching for these on Japanese Google? Anything equivalent to “watch [show xyz] online” or “stream [show xyz]“? There are so many of these kinds of sites for English shows, so surely they have Japanese equivalents, right? Or perhaps Japanese equivalents to the *ahem* bay of scurvy sea dogs?

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Aikibujin — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 19:03:54 +0000

Here’s one. http://www.hulu.jp/

I think you have to pay for it though, and you have to use a Japanese proxy to get it to work…