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08-23-2017, 10:14 PM
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Fish Sandwich
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Halfway through Ginga S now. The good news is the show's absolutely awesome! The bad news is the subs still aren't, and I'm not done venting my frustrations with them yet.
To be clear, they're far better than those for Ginga's first season. Simply remembering to translate the episode previews already qualifies them for that, but in general the lines are written a bit less clunky and I've yet to come across any notable errors or blatant mistranslations. But I really don't feel comfortable accepting what is allegedly a professional job as "good enough", and there are still plenty of outright
gems
like this line:
I'm pretty sure even without context you can see what's wrong with this, but to elaborate: This is Arisa casually expressing frustration with the fact that Hikaru always seems to run off whenever there's trouble. Classic secret identity lampshading. Unfortunately, due to the way the line has been rendered here, it almost seems more like foreshadowing her turning out to not be human, given that she sounds more robotic than the
actual robot
on the show usually does.
This isn't the most egregious example of a poorly phrased line, but the reason I chose this one to focus on is because it's the perfect illustration of my problem with a "technically correct" translation like this. None of these people speak differently from each other. Character voice goes completely ignored and as a result a ton of personality is just
gone
from the show.
I'm not imagining this being a problem, right? Like I always see people crap on TV-Nihon, often deservedly so, but in my opinion this isn't any better than their stuff, yet I haven't seen many people talk about how mediocre Crunchyroll's Ultraman shows generally are outside of X onwards. I suppose you could make the argument that you can still
see
all the emotion visually happening, but I've seen way too many people say that reading subtitles for a show or movie takes a lot of their attention, or who just take whatever is written completely at face value, to not feel like anyone watching these shows this way is getting a bum deal.
I'll try and lay off Crunchyroll and actually talk about the show itself next time, but if something really awful comes up I can't make any promises. These are the people who think "Earthian" is an acceptable translation of 地球人, after all. Not to mention calling Victory's King Joe Launcher a "Rancher" in two different episodes before finally realizing in a third that it's
a gun that
launches
projectiles
. Agh!
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