[GoldenXtreme]

Yeah, TVN's overly literal translations are noooot my favorite. By and large, I may understand the RANDOM JAPANESE they leave untranslated (and even that had exceptions), but trying to show anything they subtitled to a less familiar audience just results in a barrage of "What did they just say?". I also have a deeply dislike the use of translator's notes. I understand if you use it on the rare occasion for something which you think is vital, but mid-2000s TVN threw them around for practically no reason. It really ruins my suspension of disbelief to see a random note that I probably can't read fast enough and have to rewind to read some inane comment that was completely unneeded. Nowadays I really think at least translation-wise they have improved, and in Gaim's case they are my preferred subbers, but even then I vastly prefer the more localized translations of Over-time. I guess it is a matter of preserving the meaning of a show for an audience of a different culture by changing some details to a tonal equivalent or being much more literal like TVN and potentially losing some meaning to an English-speaking audience that way.