Death Note - The Complete Series (December 1, 2015)

[callahan09]

I finally got around to watching the first episode of this today (the product was back-ordered, out of stock when I bought it so I had to wait a while to receive it).

I did have a quick question or two about the viewing experience. As someone who is pretty unfamiliar with anime releases, I don't know if this is normal or if I just need to tweak my settings in the disc's setup menu.

I'm playing in English with subtitles turned off.

The audio seems incredibly quiet. I have to turn my entertainment center up to 65 to be able to hear the dialogue clearly, which is weird, because if I go past 50 on most other blu-rays it is ear-shatteringly loud.

The other thing is, there is a lot of Japanese text that appears on screen, including what appear to be chapter titles or other such things, and with subtitles turned off, there is no English overlay of what this text translates to at all. Do I have to turn on English subtitles if I want to know what the text onscreen says?

I find it distracting to have the subtitles on while playing English audio, largely because the subtitles don't match the audio, it appears that the subtitles are a different translation than the dub.

But I wasn't planning to watch this in Japanese, because I kind of want it on in the background while I'm working or doing other things. So do I just need to watch it in Japanese and read the subtitles, or should I just forget about reading the Japanese text in an English translation, or is there something else that I'm missing to get the most out of watching this?