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Originally Posted by VilaVanilla

Am I the only one who actually likes how TVN leaves some words untranslated? Like I prefer them using -san than miss or mister. Maybe because I don't speak English in my everyday life so I don't mind them doing that.

I can live with honrifics, but keeping entire phrases untranslated is lazy and not subbing. I'm still trying to find out what "it's Time De Gozaru" means, that's not translating. There's staying true to japanese, then there's having stuff make no sense in a western context. It's also a case of, why? What is the point of keeping it as "Oba-San" instead of just going Grand Mother/Any variantion of that. "Magiranger's Mandora Boy de gozarimasu desu, ka nya?" is also another that's just so dumb. What does this mean? IMHO when you're fansubbing you should assume the person watching has literally no idea of what means what in Japanese, you shouldn't just put a giant wall of text in an action packed series explaining your artistic choices of keeping an entire sentence the same.

It also doesn't help TVN releases subs slower then Overtime IIRC, despite literally just typing over what they hear.