Anime with subtitles are that when the audio has not been altered meaning the spoken language remains in Japanese while dubbed anime overhauls the dialog, but lip sync can suck if that detail is overlooked since the source material for the lip sync animations regarding mouth movements as they are originally in Japanese. The thing is, when a character’s name begins or ends with ryu / ryo , they often struggle to correctly pronounce that in the English dub.
First time always dubbed. I want to take in the visuals and not miss anything. Later on if I rewatch and I hear it’s a bad dub because the meanings are wrong or things are missed, then I’ll watch sub to take in more nuance of the writing.
Either way I find there are cultural memes that simply never translate and sometimes the dub, while less accurate, makes more of an effort to translate the memes into something similar that I can understand better.