Now that the second season of Oreimo is over (for now), let’s see how the BD rips of the first season you’re currently archiving are holding up.

Table of Contents

Release Information

Translation

Other Observations

Final Grade

Release Information

Episode details.

Release format: MKV, 720p ( 363MB, 10-bit)

Wap Level: Full Wap (Eastern name order, honorifics, Onii-san/Onii-chan)

English style: American English.

Speed: BD rip

 

External links.

Group website: http://afternoonnapsempire.org/ http://mazuisubs.com

IRC channel: #[email protected] #[email protected]

Fansub.co screenshot comparisons:

Subbusu screenshot comparisons:

 

Translation

Karaoke.

OP: Good, though it’s a pet peeve of mine whenever I see people using “ha” instead of “wa” in the lyrics for the particle は. If the point of doing these stupid karaokes is to allow neckbeards to pick up the mike and sing along whenever a song comes along, then the romanji lyrics should direct us hairy Western barbarians on how to pronounce the damn runes, not sticking slavishly to the common, non-particle pronunciations of certain kana.

It’s obvious that Mazui translated this particular ED, which Wikipedia translates as “No, Tom Has Learned Sexual Arousal for His Little Sister” (seriously?), by ear since they had no access to the official lyrics at the time, and as a result you get this mixed bag which ANE didn’t bother to clean up for their BD release. For example, here it’s not “mitasanai” it’s “nigasanai”, and it’s not 捜索 (sousaku, search)　it’s 創作 (literary creation).

So juuman (100,000) equals a thousand dollars, eh? Well, now that may be the case thanks to Abenomics, but back when this was released way back in December of 2010, the yen was pretty strong against the dollar. So that actually works up to 1208 dollars in 2010 money. I remembered the exchange rate was in such a flux back then that some groups decided to stop converting yen to dollars in their overly localized subs.

Insert song. Mostly good, but Kyousuke took the words right out of my mouth considering this English line.

 

Main Script.

Technically correct, but the line needs to be written better, as in “What fucking celebration are you talking about?” better. Japaneseses may be fine with just hearing just the word “oiwai”, but here the Western audience needs more details. Unfortunately, in order to do that, you’d have to read the parts of the novel they left out in this episode. And double unfortunately, you have to deal with Baka-Tsuki and their derpy-ass translation of the chapter in question (mfw they translated Ayase’s “Onii-san” as “Onii-chan”). But I guess they got the basic idea across that Ayase wanted to give her something to “celebrate” her good standings in a recent track tournament, so the line above should be, “But I want to give her a congratulatory gift, so I’m making an exception this time.”

More like “We’ve also started talking a little bit about anime.”  The line as it is now make it seem like Kirino is the one who was unwilling to talk about anime while clearly it’s the other way around.

I would have went with “But it hasn’t worked out too well,” as long as we’re talking about an anime noob trying to talk about useless toys figurines with a disgusting neckbeard who just happens to be a popular female, 8th-grade model/athlete/honor student.

“You made me buy those earrings for you on Christmas Eve, didn’t you?”

Heh. Other subbers and professional subtitlers would have gone with “goth girl” or “emo chick” whenever Kirino calls Kuroneko “kuroi no,” but good ole Mazui always keeps the lit-tards (as opposed to “libtards”) in mind when they sub their shows.

The term “doushite kureyou” means the speaker is wondering what to do (usually what to do with the party that offended the speaker). You’ll usually hear that term in period dramas.

No, 上位互換 (jouigokan) means forward compatibility, not backward (and no, don’t believe jisho.org, they’re being stupid), and she’s saying that what they are looking for must be “forwardly compatible” with what Kyousuke has in mind for a good present for Kirino. The line doesn’t really work if they have her saying that Kyousuke’s ideal must be backwardly compatible with the present. Honestly, either way the line does look pretty retarded upon first glance, but since Kuroneko is not only an Eighth Grader, she’s also a computer geek, so the line actually fits her.

“Look closely! This is a serious, corporate-sponsored contest!”

You mean “Thanatos” right? And even if the “official” romanization has her name as “Tanatos,” I’d immediately change that obvious engrish to “Thanatos”.

They didn’t typeset the “Nin!” above Saori’s little drawing ;_;

Another pet peeve of mine, whenever translators hear “gaki” they feel the need to shoehorn the word “brat” into the line, whether or not it actually meshes with the rest of the words. Look, it’s all right to use the term “kiddie anime,” it’s not gonna hurt you.

“That van is probably heading toward the Shuto Expressway by now.”

Didn’t care to translate what these creepy neckbeards (i.e. my negroes) are saying.

But they translate the same fucking thing Kirino says here ┐(￣ー￣)┌

You can clearly hear some random neckbeards saying “Kawaii!” in this part, yet it’s not subbed.

 

 

Other Observations

 

As you all know, Mazui only TSes the “important” signs.

Final Grade: B- (Mazui), C (ANE)

I counted about 4 real mistakes in the main script while the rest of the issues I consider nitpicks. However, ANE will be getting a gentlmen’s C for not fixing the ED with the official lyrics. I don’t really fault TLers who have to transcribe lyrics by ear on the fly for hearing the wrong words and such because, truthfully, even an average Japanese person would have trouble getting all the lyrics right. But if the official lyrics are out, that’s a different story.  I felt the overall script flowed great, although the script does have some headscratchers here and there. So, by all means not a perfect release, but it’ll do.

 

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