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Originally Posted by Annuga

'akumademo' which means selfless

That's not actually what akumademo means at all but yes, TV-Nihon did indeed botch that line hard.

So, just to add a nice, moderate perspective to this conversation, TV-N really has sorted out a huge amount of the problems they had in recent years and it's a mistake to assume their current stuff is anywhere near as awful as something like their Magiranger subs (*shudder*).

They still make actual, objective translation errors every now and then, but so does every group. Just a couple weeks ago Excite Subs turned a simple line in Ex-Aid into complete nonsense that actively contradicted everything else in the episode. I whined about it in the episode thread and everything.

But since this whole conversation started because Kiwami wanted to watch the Specter movie, I should also point out that, even beyond the obvious special effects text and onii-chans, their subs for it are serviceable at best. There's an "itadakimasu" in there that isn't being used in the usual context of eating but is still left "as is", which would suggest that it was just mindlessly translated from the captions or something but there's no way that's the case since they also messed up several lines by mishearing words.

Although given the translator was quick to let us know in their forums how much she hated the whole film, maybe it's just laziness? I mean, I honestly don't say this to crap on TV-N, and I love that they make it a point to sub every last thing in a series down to the commercial bumpers, but jeez, if you're straight up saying you feel like you've wasted your time translating something, it probably isn't going to be your best work?