What exactly does dubbed mean? What does Bi-Lingual mean?
Dubbed means that the audio for a video or other media has had the sound replaced with another sound, usually a voiceover.
A bilingual track means that you have both the original language of the media as well as the translated or alternate version. For example, you might have both English and French for a DVD of a movie.
‘Dubbed’: Most of the people that still ask this question are probably really trying to make sure we are not carrying some Hong Kong dubbed bootleg, which of course, we don’t. 🙂 ‘Dubbed’ simply mean that the original Japanese language dialog has been redone in English language dialog by professional voice actors. Keep in mind though, that not all dubs are created equal. ‘Bi-Lingual’ is the best of both worlds, and means that the DVD contains BOTH an English Language track, and also the original Japanese Language track with professional English text subtitles, and you get to choose to watch it in either or both languages. This is the great thing about releasing anime on DVD in that you can have multiple spoken language tracks on the same disk. A few disks even come with Spanish and French language tracks, in addition to English and Japanese, which is awesome!
