My buddy did almost the exact same thing with Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, watched the dub all the way through first, then went back and tried the sub, and he said the scene where Hughes dies hit him WAY harder the second time around in Japanese. He's not even a sub purist, he watches dubs all the time, so it caught him off guard. His take was that the original actors just had more direction from the people who made the show, so the small stuff, the cracks in the voice during sad scenes, lands better. He still watches comedies dubbed though, says the jokes need to hit fast or the timing dies.

That thing where you watch the old guys use their thumb as a guide is the part most people miss. I saw a guy at the Marshall County fair do the same thing on a shoulder and he kept saying the blade follows the bone, not the other way around. What got me was how little he actually cut. Maybe 6 or 7 real slices on a whole shoulder and the rest was just pulling with his hands. I tried it on a 180 lb gilt last fall and my yield went up around 4 lbs just off the trim. The demo taught me more in 10 minutes than any video ever did.