Skipped to episode 10. I assume I haven’t missed anything relevant to the plot.

Table of Contents

Release Information

Visual Quality

Script Quality

Results

Release Information

Episode details.

Release format: MKV (203 MB, 10-bit)

Japanesiness: No honorifics. Could you even imagine?

English style: American English.

Encoding details: http://pastebin.com/N1CnrfKv

Speed: Quick (<48 hours)

 

External links.

Group website: http://commiesubs.com/

IRC channel: #[email protected]

Fansub.co screenshot comparisons: http://fansub.co/oreimo-s2/

Subbusu screenshot comparisons: http://www.subbusu.com/view.php?id=6

 

Visual Review

Karaoke.

Opening. Sometimes the color choices matched, and they did a cool thing with the cosplay shoot bit in the middle, but overall you could tell this was rushed. Guess I chose a bad episode for them since it looks like the OP and ED were both created just for this episode. Too bad for them, though. I’m not about to pick and choose eps based on which’ll score the best. Eve’ll get the same treatment, no worries.

Oh well, this was decent by Commie standards.

Rating: Okay.

Ending. I don’t understand all the color choices, but it was all right enough since most hit the mark.

Rating: Okay+.

 

 

Typesetting.

Good thing “Manami-oneesan” and “Manami” mean exactly the same thing, amirite? Ah, I’m just giving ya shit, Commie. You’re good; you can put down the mad now.

Thanks for putting some effort into this. Eve didn’t even try.

Sure am glad I can tell what they were. Thanks, Commie.

Decent typesets on the whole.

 

Other.

Sponsor-less sponsor screens? In my Commie fansub release?

 

 

Script Review

Main Script.

was; isn’t

was; wasn’t

ClariS is a group, not a person.

Do tell me what “soon” has to add to the sentence.

Holy pig-fucking Mohammed, Commie went whole hog on the swearing here. (Kirino’s cussing the shit out of her boss in the last screen.)

For a show like OreImo, no, it didn’t really fit. Instead it came across as Commie going “Look at all the swearing we can add just for the giggles! Aren’t we so hilarious? Laugh with us! Hahaha!”

Ha, indeed. Bad characterization, especially if done solely for the sake of your entertainment, negatively affects the quality of the script. It’s really fucking unfortunate they did this too, since the script was pretty solid otherwise.

 

 

Things I won’t bitch about

I hesitate to call these issues, but they are things I would fix if the script were handed to me.

I’d rather have “example” here than “one”, especially considering this is the only reason she gives. (Yes, I know how “for one” is used may be considered correct. I just don’t like it.)

“thieving cat” isn’t a thing in English. But it’s contextually obvious what it means, and wapanese enough that it could be considered a stylish choice on the part of the editor/TL.

Generally you’re going to want to introduce yourself with something other than “It’s me.” But she did say “Watashi desu.”

 

Anyway, you get the picture. There are various lines in each script I review that I may feel deserve change, but not to a high-enough degree that I’m going to specifically call them out under the Main Script section. Though in a review where one of my principal problems with a script is excessive fetishization of Japanese terms, I might throw in the “thieving cat” line as a representative issue. Anyway, that’s enough of my internal processes. On we go~

 

 

Comments

Commie’s comments were the best part of this release. (Everything hidden in brackets won’t be seen by the viewers who watch the release.)

The joke doesn’t translate that well to post format, but it’s essentially a lighthearted fuck you to groups that use honorifics.

 

 

Results

Watchability: Watchable.

Visual grade: B

Script grade: B

Overall grade: B

Beyond the unnecessary changes they made to the characters, Commie had a good script here. It’s sad their distaste of their own audience had to affect it.

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