Subtitles vs Actual Audio

bledsoe60 said:
Why does everyone call him Elymas when his name is CLEARLY Elmyas? Do the subtitles overwrite what is actually being spoken or are people just dumb?

Triggerfish124 said:

I'd assume that the pronunciation is more accurate than the subtitles. Anime episodes are usually made raw; translators have to add the subtitles for western audiences. That's why on certain sites you'll find there's a delay in the episode upload. The more anime you watch, the more you'll start to get the jist of certain words and phrases, in which you can tell that the subtitles a lot of the times will "fudge" the translation a bit - it's usually still accurate ofc, it's just you know what was actually said means "this" instead of "that".

Also sometimes character names are just different for the Western audiences, like Ash from Pokemon is known as Satoshi in Japan.