Typical anglo-centric nonsense. The reason anime fans in the US are so adamant about subtitles instead of dubs is because the American dubs are the worst in the planet. A monkey with a Speak & Spell would do a better job the american “actors” they hire for the dubs. All of them seem to belong to the Jon Lovitz school of ACTING!! and seem to have absolutely no understanding of the characters they’re playing. It’s simply painful to watch anime dubs, specially comedies like Azumanga Daioh or even The Slayers and DBZ.

But that’s a only problem with American dubs. If you’ve heard (even if you don’t understand) the latin-american dubs or the brazilian (portuguese) dubs of some anime and even american cartoons, you’d know how much better it could be. And I seriously doubt the Japanese dubs are bad either, considering voice actors in Japan are usually the best actors around.