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I don’t think it’s just that they contracted subtitles and dubbing to different teams. The requirements are different.

This is particularly true in Japanese, the space constraints on speech and normal modes of expression are very different.

The original English, literal meaning of the Japanese audio, and Japanese subtitles all differ significantly.

Comparing the English subtitles and Japanese doesn’t work very well for language study. Mostly you just have to look each Japanese word you don’t know up in a dictionary...

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