Subtitles are a MESS

Black60Dragon said:
Trust me, you absolutely do not want to watch a show with literal sub translation you are not going to enjoy it. Translate the meaning, not the words. This is why they have the job and you don't.

DarkLeafNinja said:
Idunno if it's the translator or the localizer that they "hire" to westernize it who usually are open about their butchering of subs on twitter and say "if you don't like it, these subs were not made for you". Garbage people that should not have this kind of job.

DarkLeafNinja said:
One show that has had terrible "official" subbing too is Urusei Yatsura, terrible, over exaggerated to hell and back and I see that you have it in your plan to watch list so I suggest looking up fansubs for that one. Onimai also suffered from trash subbing. Also great favorites! Umamusume, K-on, Kill la Kill, A Place Further Than The Universe, Yuru Camp and ofc Nagatoro. ;)

KainiusTheGreat said:
It seems we have those particular tastes in common! Also, I did like Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou but I found myself unable to score it...hence the no score lol.

It's sad to hear they did my girl Lum dirty. With how many shows that have gotten messed up, if I were a conspiracy guy I'd say the workers of the anime industry are mad at the higher ups and mass sabotaging shows out of spite. Like, how many shows got screwed up this past 2 seasons alone? Clean sweep the industry, keep the time tested workers, and the start fresh.

KainiusTheGreat said:
You are half right. A word for word translation would be an even bigger mess, but you shoulda stopped there. I don't "have the job" because I wouldn't want it, plain and simple...but if I did I wouldn't screw it up like they did here, or with any number of shows recently that were butchered over someone's beliefs being more important than doing their job right (I'd localize without maiming the end product).....imagine, going to a restaurant and ordering a steak medium-rare but being given chicken breast because "the chef wanted to make chicken"......don't defend incompetence/stupidity.

Junichi_Hashiba said:
Where are you watching Nagatoro? There seem to be a few different sub releases around for each episode and some are better than others. The official Crunchy one seems to suffer from a lot of trendy colloquialisms, and you’re right that some of the jokes just get completely messed up. 

In fairness there have been some jokes where I’ve been pleasantly surprised in how they managed to make it work (I can’t think of any from 2nd Attack right now, but season 1’s splinter pulling incident actually worked better than in the manga). 

I think the last episode is the only one I’ve watched where the subs correctly have Gamo referring to Senpai as Paisen. 

Black60Dragon said:

Why are you overreacting so much?

KainiusTheGreat said:
Waaaait....you do realize you just did the equivalent of poking a bee hive and wondering why you got stung?  "This is why they have the job and you don't" was clearly not an innocent, polite comment so why are you surprised I responded in kind?...but hey, whatev's, let's just agree to disagree and move along.

LostSpectre said:
What subs are you actually complaining about? If you're talking about the first subs available on 9anime and such, it's your own fault. 

KainiusTheGreat said:
I was talking about Crunchyroll...but, as far as I'm aware, illegal streaming sites re-stream from Crunchyroll, Hidive, Funimation ect as soon as they put episodes up. Is this incorrect?

LostSpectre said:
Admittedly, I'm not actually sure. I just know that whatever gets posted on 9anime is barely passable, dedicated subs are usually better.

Ionliosite2 said:
I can confirm that's true, a lot of pirate websites just copypaste what sites like CR put up and then stream it like that.

lawlies1234 said:
Not sure what subs you're watching, but CR has it as, "the cod roe and soft roe..." as a translation for 「たらことしらこが。。。」 - soft roe being another term for milt. 
Episode 3 has 「スリップストリーム」 as "slipstream."



https://ibb.co/LQWjqLc - in case the image doesn't post

So, seems like your arguments are pretty moot.

DarkLeafNinja said:
One show that has had terrible "official" subbing too is Urusei Yatsura, terrible, over exaggerated to hell and back and I see that you have it in your plan to watch list so I suggest looking up fansubs for that one. Onimai also suffered from trash subbing. Also great favorites! Umamusume, K-on, Kill la Kill, A Place Further Than The Universe, Yuru Camp and ofc Nagatoro. ;)

MadanielFL said:
What's wrong with the Onimai subs?

KainiusTheGreat said:
A point made in the past is not moot because of corrections made down the road. They were valid then which makes them still valid now, post changes. I'm glad to hear corrections were made. 

DarkLeafNinja said:

Certain liberties with the subs were taken.

DarkLeafNinja said:
One show that has had terrible "official" subbing too is Urusei Yatsura, terrible, over exaggerated to hell and back and I see that you have it in your plan to watch list so I suggest looking up fansubs for that one. Onimai also suffered from trash subbing. Also great favorites! Umamusume, K-on, Kill la Kill, A Place Further Than The Universe, Yuru Camp and ofc Nagatoro. ;)

FryingJam said:
I know this is late, but by chance do you know where I can watch the Nagatoro fansubs? I can't find any no matter what I google, no matter which site i'm on. This entire topic of localizers cencoring and distorting content has had me pretty upset for the past few days, so some directions to the fansubs (or any fansubs for that matter) would be most appreciated.

DarkLeafNinja said:

Rom & Rem is the fansubs i used, you would have to torrent it tho since most if not all pirate sites take the subs from the official sources.