Fansub Review: [CMS] The World God Only Knows S3 (Episode 05)

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Table of Contents

Release Information

Visual Quality

Script Quality

Results

 

Release Information

Episode details.

Release format: MKV (323 MB, 10-bit)

Japanesiness: Honorifics. “Nii-sama”, “Oujo-sama” used to steal downloads from Chihiro.

English style: American English.

Encoding details: http://pastebin.com/reyw75jA

Speed: Slow (>48 hours)

 

External links.

Group website: http://colormesubbed.com/

IRC channel: #[email protected]

 

 

Visual Review

Karaoke.

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Opening. Everything fits perfectly. And by everything, I mean the colors.

Rating: Good.

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Ending. I want to like it, but I don’t get what they were going for here with their karaoke decisions. The colors match in the OP, but here it’s just as random as Vivid’s was. Maybe I’m missing something that both of these groups got, but I sure doubt it.

Rating: Okay.

 

 

Typesetting.

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That station typesetting… Wow.

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All in all, about the same as Vivid’s.

 

 

 

Script Review

Main Script.

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If consistency is king, then CMS is the French Revolution. Except with more corpse rape.

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What, is an comma and how, do I use it?

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1.
Okay, cool.

2.
2.

Oh yeah, baby. One more. One more!

3. ...?
3. …?

No! No, you stupid shitbards! You ruined it!

Lists are one of the few true, natural pleasures left in this world, and you tricked me into thinking I was going to get one with your sentence structure. Not cool.

Switch the second line to “And she behaves more like a player than a character.” to signify the thought naturally ends there.

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Ugh. Such a painfully generic and poorly phrased line. Vivid, gimme the good stuff.

“Katsuragi, in the past… did something happen between us?”

Aww yeah, that hits the spot. Well, as well as Japan’s intelligence-bereft scripts ever could.

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This release has… weird issues with… pausing.

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Provoke? What, you’re gonna poke it with a stick until it awakens?

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CMS No

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Uhh, no. Goddess-chan is acting surprised that Yui is actually a girl. The way these lines are written implies she’s surprised that Yui is telling everyone that she’s a girl.

Bad mistake to make.

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Taken from Vivid’s review. Similar issues.

“When did Earth’s male and female clothing styles reverse?”//”I’ll need to look into this.”

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“So you are scared.”

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No. Vivid, help CMS out.

“We can appeal to both souls by creating a scenario that mimics one of Hell’s plots.”

That’s right, Vivid. Because as CMS fails to realize, you can’t fucking mimic “Hell” itself with a scenario.

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You could take “currently” out of this line and it would change a damn thing other than improving its flow. That’s because “not currently” when combined with “used to be” is redundant.

 

 

 

Results

Watchability: Watchable.

Visual grade: B-

Script grade: C

Overall grade: C

By a full tier, Vivid put together a better release for TWGOK than CMS did. Pretty convenient it comes out so fast too. Hit up Vivid when your need your totally-not-a-harem-but-it-is-actually-a-harem hit.

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46 thoughts on “Fansub Review: [CMS] The World God Only Knows S3 (Episode 05)”

  4. D_S, only Vivid abandoned their principles in order to take downloads from Chihiro. CMS has stuck to their principles since day 1, and I can respect them for that.

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    • I’ve asked this before, but what exactly are these principles of mine that I abandoned? You seem to know them better than I do.

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      • IRONY MODE ON
        I believe it’s because you added second track to steal downloads from Chihiro.
        Surely you didn’t do it to quiet down people that complained about lack of them…
        We all know how wicked you are!
        IRONY MODE OFF

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          • Yep. I don’t remember what context that was originally said in, but I feel like having one restrictive policy when it comes to honorifics, localisation or whatever is bad for you in the long run because you end up having to make awkward decisions at times which annoy people, tanking your group’s reputation.

            I decided from the start that I didn’t want to end up in that same trap with Vivid, which is why we specifically have no policy regarding honorifics or whatever else, instead using whatever makes the most sense on a show-by-show basis. And that’s why I chose to do the extra work in giving people what they wanted instead of simply saying “screw you, no honorifics” and ignoring them.

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            • You were ̶c̶r̶y̶i̶n̶g talking about how it was unfair that people on MAL were “downvoting” Vivid with comments like “Rebranded Commie” “Commie 2.0” and things like that.
              But hey it’s nice to know at least Vivid is not backing it self into a corner with a stupid policy like no honorifics or “must localize everything doesn’t matter if it will kill the jokes or no”.

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            • Well now that’s admirable. I liked not excluding honorifics however I see Vivid as Commie v2 and it’s specifically on those very localization policy that get’s me to pause the video and delete it off my hard drive. I’m basically watching Commie with honorifics.

              I’ll stick to Chihiro or/and CMS for this show and any other show Vivid works on. I won’t be tricked again Commie v2.

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              • I have no idea what you’re talking about. I have no “localization policy”, whatever that is, and I edit for Vivid the same way I’d edit for any other group, be it Commie, gg, Underwater, UTW, or FFF.

                It’s an especially silly statement to make for this show since all groups are the same lightly edited CR script. I’ve seen a few comments like yours on MAL, but they baffle me.

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          • Muromi-san was a show chihiro had been talking about doing in February and March in our staff channel before I went ballistic and redid the staff. It is a known fact that there are spies in the Chihiro staff channel, so it makes sense that you would do so.

            But the fact that you aren’t mentioning these other shows until now just further proves that you targetted Chihiro in TWGOK. If it was you believe to do honorifics based on demand, you would’ve offered these up as examples immediately instead of arguing with whatever crap you were in the Chihiro thread.

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            • >It is a known fact that there are spies in the Chihiro staff channel

              it’s all a massive conspiracy to steal your p̶r̶e̶c̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶b̶o̶d̶i̶l̶y̶ ̶f̶l̶u̶i̶d̶s downloads

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            • I don’t know or care what shows you’re planning on doing. You seriously think I have spies in your channel telling me what you’re up to so I can plan everything I do around stealing your tiny download counts? Don’t flatter yourself. You cannot be this delusional.

              Except Muromi and c3bu did not have honorifics added to them based on demand because we used them from the start.

              Seriously, get the fuck out of here. You are pathetic.

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            • Except, you know, for the fact that Anime-koi is basically a “Cartel” group too, what with their C3-bu main script team being the same as that of gg’s Attack on Titan. So why would Vivid be targeting a fellow “Cartel” group? And honestly, the fact that they didn’t include honorifics as an option until after it was requested is a point toward them *not* targeting Chihiro. It was obvious Chihiro was going to do the show, since they did everything else of the series so far, so if they were really trying to target you, don’t you think they would’ve done it from the beginning?

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            • So let me get this straight.

              Vivid picked up Muromi-san because they wanted to sub the show, and they don’t have any specific stance on honorifics vs no honorifics, and went with honorifics for Muromi-san because it’d be a tricky show to edit with no honorifics when there’s characters like Hii-chan who are never referred to as anything else.

              But according to you, that’s not what happened. No, what REALLY happened was that Vivid is a bunch of evil conspirators and “targeters” whose goal is to steal downloads from honest and good groups like Chihiro. Because of this, they sent out spies to infiltrate Chihiro staff and found out that there were plans to do Muromi-san, which Vivid then promptly picked up and did with honorifics for the sole purpose of harming Chihiro and their plans.

              You know, one of these scenarios is much more realistic than the other one. I’ll give you a hint: Pretty much nobody actually cares about what Chihiro does. You should be able to solve this.

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        • Oh, and we made the decision to include honorifics in C3-bu when we released the PV, which was before any other group’s release of anything related to the show.

          But please, keep grasping.

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