Let’s see how much of this I can get typed up while my 3-year-old niece finishes taking her nap…
After this, I think I only have one other requested review ([Tsundere] Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, which is an add-on to my previous Railgun comparison). I have two other random reviews planned, but please ask if there’s something specific you want to see. I don’t mind pulling random shit out of my ass. I watch so much anime that I can definitely find something to put up.
This was a very interesting comparison for many reasons. You’ll definitely see them below.
Also, if you haven’t watched this show, it’s a very pleasant twelve episodes. I found myself impressed. Not to mention that it reminds me a lot of Touhou! (Must be Zakuro resembling Reimu. Weren’t they both voiced by the amazing Nakahara Mai as well?)
Polished
Filesize: 569mb (576p DVD)
English: British, honorifics
Karaoke
OP matches the credits. No complaints visually. Translation-wise, it’s extremely lacking, like in this line. What is “it”? The flower petals from the line before? Something else?
ED.
Insert. Both times it appeared, it was k-timed. The similarity of the border color to the fill color makes this extremely hard to read.
On an English note, “lipstick” is not a countable noun, at least not in this sense. You wouldn’t have the “a”.
Example of “this is impossible to read”.
Typesetting
I feel like this could have been done a lot better.
Couldn’t typeset the title frame.
Missing.
Eyecatch.
Missing.
Missing.
Script
The lyrics in this release are generally a mess. You can kind of form some sort of meaning, but it’s not very easy.
This is probably the best line of the entire OP. And it’s ugly.
This line makes no sense, and the TL note doesn’t fix it. The line following this is “Naru?” and then they go on about whether or not it’s related to the soldiers coming. I missed the meaning of this entire scene.
British spelling all over the place!
They also prefer to use “alright”.
“everyday” is an adverb. I believe you’re looking for “every day”.
Comma splice.
Comma splice.
This release suffers a lot from poorly phrased lines. The “naru” bit is by far the worst, though.
Also, they keep “youkai” and “youjin” untranslated, which may be confusing at first.
Underwater-Ryuumaru
Filesize: 348mb (720p TV)
English: American, no honorifics
Karaoke
Easy to read and it actually kind of makes sense.
I’m not exactly sure where the blue came from. It doesn’t match at all.
This is how the insert was treated.
Typesetting
Thank you for translating this, guys. I can definitely see the effort. Couldn’t you have increased the bolding on “Zakuro”, though? And had a darker shadow on the diamonds?
This looks much better than what Polished tried to do.
Missing.
Missing.
They didn’t do the eyecatches either.
But this was done.
Script
Nothing wrong with this. In fact, quite the opposite. After Polished’s major blunder on this line, I was wondering how Underwater-Ryuumaru would fare. And the answer? Extremely well! This is absolutely perfect.
My main problem with this script is that it doesn’t know what an em dash is.
will –> would.
I see this happen all of the time, so let me explain.
Will implies that something is going to happen in the future. There’s no “if” about it; it’s pretty much guaranteed.
Would implies that if certain conditions are met, it will happen.
So we have to look at this sentence. I see a condition here: “if he discovers that I’m afraid of spirits”. Thus, it’s not guaranteed that this will happen. But it would, as long as the condition is met.
Em dash.
No comma needed.
This was a very nice script, em dash issues aside. I do want to make a note, though. They translated “youkai” to “demon” and “youjin” to “spirit”. Whether or not that’s 100% accurate is up to the Japanese-speakers in the audience. However, it gets the point of this show across: racism against a non-human race. People treat them as “youkai” when they are actually simply “youjin”. Replace those words with what Underwater-Ryuumaru used and it makes perfect sense.
tl;dr: Underwater-Ryuumaru is the way to go. Polished’s script is clunky as fuck, including the songs. Underwater-Ryuumaru’s script is mostly solid with only a few tiny mistakes.
The show’s worth it for the songs alone. ^^
And it might be worth mentioning that you got the sources wrong:
polished is a 576p DVD rip.
Underwater-Ryuumaru is a 720p HDTV rip.
As far as I know, the studio never published any BDs for this series.
My bad! Will fix.
That’s a super shame btw. The show definitely deserves it.
Just a little remark:
Polished is only a DVD/BD-ripping group, not a fansubber.
The subtitles he (It actually is just 1 guy) used for this anime were taken from a group called Mango.
And this is why my “Things That You For the Love of God Just Should Not Do” post was necessary.
Wanna review the Ao No Exorcist Movie by Hatsuyuki?
Definitely! I do want to watch it.
The kanji in the ED was hardsubbed in the TV broadcast, so color-wise there wasn’t much that could have been done.
Beyond that, this release dates back to when I was doing CR rips completely by myself. While it’s an Underwater-Ryuumaru joint in name, it was pretty much just me doing my thing (with Ryuumaru providing the song translations). Underwater didn’t do any further script editing back then (since it was just me, and I don’t edit), so script-wise it’s pretty much exactly what CR had. Fortunately, as I mentioned earlier, Zakuro has basically one of the best scripts CR has ever done, so the lack of further editing isn’t much of an issue (and now that I think of it, all the CR shows I did by myself had great scripts – I wish I could say the same for the average CR translation today). Though you most certainly wouldn’t have that kind of em-dash issues in Underwater releases today!
I still hope they’ll release BDs for this one day.
Hardsubbed ED but not OP? Weird.
You tell me.
Also, considering that the most prolific BD/DVD groups don’t tend to do much (or anything) to the subs they rip (including not even giving things a watch-through – that’s the reason they manage to release so much stuff to begin with, really), I’d advice you to look up who actually did the subs they used (its usually mentioned on the sites of the groups) and also mention it in the reviews.
Yeah, you’re not the first person to call me out on it. For future reviews, it will be done.
Also, nobody in their right mind typesets eyecatches. If you don’t know what show you are watching by the time you reach the eyecatch… then I think missing typesetting is the least of your problems~
Some groups do typeset these, but they really are pointless unless they offer extra information like an episode title or similar.
http://www.crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FTW_Watashi_ga_Motenai_no_wa_Dou_Kangaetemo_Omaera_ga_Warui_-_05_720pFEB26141.mkv_snapshot_14.46_2013.08.10_03.14.17.jpg
http://www.crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/UTW-Mazui_Toaru_Kagaku_no_Railgun_S_-_09_720p5B391C31.mkv_snapshot_12.29_2013.06.22_09.37.14.jpg
http://www.crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/UTW-Mazui_Little_Busters_-_01_720p4521F7D8.mkv_snapshot_09.03_2012.10.07_01.34.44.jpg
Uh i don’t even bro.
You have:
*1 main title (LB).
*1 eye-catch with EXTRA INFORMATION > Episode
Title (Yes in this case it should be typeset). (Railgun S)
* 1 plain eye-catch (KmE a shit. Idk why he typeset this but w/e) (Watamote).
Unless the time stamps are off, those are all placed at the eyecatch spot, so their inclusion is valid.
If you really want to something to complain about, why not groups that arrogantly smear their names all over the show’s title? I can only think of two groups that regularly do that nowadays: Hatsuyuki and… oh, what was the other one?
Anime-Koi?
*I can only think of three groups that regularly do that nowadays
Mazui?
No, no, they were included in my cleverly veiled allusion to UTW earlier. I’ll give ya 3.5 as a compromise, but I’m running out of fingers to count with here.
Taka?
You guys suck. I’m going to sleep.
What has timestamp got to do with anything?
The Little Busters one is clearly from the Opening, which actually starts at 8m40s into episode 1.
The Railgun S one has the episode title present, which isn’t present anywhere else in the episode.
The only one you’ve presented that goes against my argument is > Watamote.
Let me paste you some irc conversation to back that one up:
<KME> watamote’s eyecatch was p. easy
<KME> i wouldn’t bother if it was some complicated shit
<KME>lol
PS: KmE is the typesetter for Watamote.
Timestamp has everything to do with things when you have a small sample size, look at images shoved in the middle of a typesetting review, and then throw out everything you can find with a title in it.
Even a sample size of one is enough to show hypocrisy, so I’ll take the self-admitted Watamote typeset to my sagey heart.
ar, I love you too.
Also D_S, the real reason why I typeset the eyecatch.
I was too bored at that time
>bored
>complains about 50+ TS’s per episode.
Wut.
I was waiting for the translator to show up dude. I complain about everything don’t mind it too much. ( ¬‿¬)
Must have taken you a while from the way ar hates it so much. It did, right? I mean, it seems like eyecatches would take any typesetter of skill a whole day to do.
Can’t really say that all eyecatches would be this easy to typeset. For Watamote I just needed to copy my title typesetting, decrease the font, and add \fad. For instance, iirc Nyarlko’s eyecatch typesetting would take a lot longer to decently typeset. I don’t really see a reason why an eyecatch MUST be typeset. After all, you know the title of the show you are watching even if you don’t see the translation of it in eyecatch, right?
Calyrica, could you try to review an overlooked anime (by both fansubbers and watchers) : Mouryou no Hako?
ep 1-4 : Norikumi (bluray)
ep 1-9 : Aero (HDTV)
ep 10-13 : AOI (HDTV)
I LOVE Mouryou no Hako. I can’t remember if its a 10/10 or 9/10 for me. Anyway, I can review it, but how would you like me to handle it? A review of each group?
Oh, I remember watching this. But I never finished, it’s a shame to hear that it doesn’t have BDs. Even more so for a pixel counter nazi like me.
Thanks for reviewing, I’ll download underwater then…
It’d be pretty interesting to see reviews for the various groups that did Detective Conan, if you’re willing to review something without watching the whole show.
I refuse to drop anything, so I’d have to watch it all… And that’s a huge commitment there!
Unless you don’t actually start it! Randomly watching, say, episodes 400 and episode 678 shouldn’t count as ‘starting’.
But how do I add that to my MAL? I’m too much of a listwhore~!
Just lie and say you watched every episode out there. That’s what everyone with DBZ on their list did.
B-b-but I did watch every episode of DBZ. 3 times!
…granted, I was 10 and didn’t know better.
Then look at it the other way: if you watch some Detective Conan, you can also add 20 OVAs and 17 movies for a huge list boost!
Or you could always, well, not add it. Or review just the OVAs, although some (or most) of the groups don’t have OVAs released.
Could you do Mushishi?
Whose subs?
moo-shi and maybe official subs if there’s any
There are official subs (a-S, Arigatou, ACX, Blitz…). Only other group of note would be niizk.
There’s also a dub~
I remember how one group had “hot” and the other group had “salty.” Was the saltwater scene where you drip water in the ears or something.
Maybe the original word was “karai” or something (it also covers salty in Osaka dialect, according to that one Detective Conan episode).
>Who knows what my father will say if he discovers that I’m afraid of spirits.
>> Will -> would
Also, discovers -> discovered.
Tense agreement and all that.
Yes, yes. That too. I was so preoccupied with the will –> would that I failed to mention that.
Hi Calyrica!
Could you do BroCon review of Katanako? Just so that we can improve :) it would be very much appreciated. I haven’t released episode 7 though which is the latest.
PS preferable episode 2 onwards, just pick on which one you would like to review. preferably script…
I don’t review shows not released on Tokyo-Tosho. It makes my job a bitch to do, and it hurts your promotion abilities. So fix that and it puts you on my radar (and automatically qualifies you for a review — I look at releases even if groups don’t want me to).
Just do be aware that however confident you are in your base translation, it’s practically impossible to score high in my reviews without a native understanding of the English language. So just a heads up.
I don’t do airing shows. You’ll have to ask D_S for that one. In the case that the show ends before he reviews it, i can pick it up then.