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Originally Posted by Annuga

I mean. When out of all the sub groups, you're the last one to upload in the week, tend to have literal translations in comparison to the other groups, don't actually translate stuff and keep Japanese words in, then it's just fucking lazy by comparison. RTA, Excite and Overtime don't get praise for just being quick, but for making it enjoyable. I haven't seen anything from TVN Ex-Aid, so I can't say if you're subs are actually good or bad, but rather, in comparison to other TVN subs I've seen, I just tend to be baffled how TVN's one of the biggest toku fansub group. I STILL can't bring myself to watch Dekaranger because only TVN had the full series and I kept getting pissed off by inconsistent translator notes. Note though, again, this isn't against you

I wasn't criticizing this Lunagel for not liking the movie, it's Ghost, which has proven time and time again to be controversial in the fandom.

Personally, I would say that I'm one of the more liberal translators in TV-Nihon. I try not to change the meanings, while also making sure that the viewers can understand them. Eg. I kept the "boku/ore" thing in, with translation note for the first time, while EXCITE and RTA change it to "polite/rough" or something like that. Remember when Emu started using "ore", then he eventually returned to normal, saying "boku" at the end? Asuna said "You said boku"? while RTA's translation was "You returned to normal?" RTA's translation, while easier to understand, lost some meaning in there, in how Asuna realized Emu returned to normal. So yeah, that's one benefit of literal translation. I translated all the jingles for Ex-Aid (except some which can't really be translated accurately, like Maximum's Dariragan Dagozuban which doesn't really mean anything).

I also had lots of issues with our old DekaRanger subs myself (eg. DekaMaster's Jigoku no Banken, DekaBreak's Yoake no Keiji), but to be fair, those were one of takenoko's first projects. He was too literal at first, but I can see that he strikes a finer balance between literalism and localization now. Which is one of the reasons I'm working on the DekaRanger blu-ray translation checks.