Cthuko? More like Cthslowko. Zing!

Table of Contents

Release Information

Visual Quality

Script Quality

Results

 

Release Information

Episode details.

Release format: MKV (479 MB, 10-bit)

Japanesiness: Honorifics. “Youjo” as “girly”.

English style: American English.

Encoding details: http://pastebin.com/bZ7K1fkP

Speed: Slow (>48 hours)

Translation style: Original TL.

 

External links.

Group website: http://cthuko.nyaa.eu/

IRC channel: #[email protected]

 

 

Visual Review

Karaoke.

Opening. “If we add a symbol before each line, then we’ll be lauded for our ingenuity and forgiven for what is essentially a tired old blackXwhite karaoke format that doesn’t even fit!”

Rating: Bad.

Ending. Passable, but uninspiring.

Rating: Okay-.

 

 

Typesetting.

What’s there is fine, but they went out of their way to not go out of their way.

 

 

 

 

Script Review

Karaoke.

Hope you weren’t expecting quality English with your karaoke. Just sing along to the Japanese and ignore the translation like a good little leecher. Remember, these subs are free so you have to like them.

 

 

Main Script.

You don’t have beat around your wrists with a knife. But you should.

Oh god, if only we had an idiom that’d fit well here. You know, a commonly used phrase that gets the proper sentiment across while retaining a distinctive phrasing that endears it to native listeners.

Alas, if not even Cthuko (Kings of the Industry!) can think of one, it’s clear that none exist. Curse this ineffective language of ours!

The fuck are you doing, Cthuko? He flunked out of grade school. That’s the joke. Quit ruining this show with your needlessly obtuse translations. Fuck.

There aren’t nearly enough greater than symbols to sufficiently quote the retardation inherent in this line.

The scriptwriting in this release as a whole is rather poor. An example:

but not even the student council knows who they really are.
Not even the teachers or the seniors dare talk about them.
Even mentioning their name is a taboo.

And those lines were in a row. Fucking hell.

For more fun, check out how much these guys are about “about”:

class is about to start.
What are you so worked up about?
Dunno about that…
Then how about I show you around the school?
I don’t give a shit about honorifics!
Report in? About?
As for treasures, I learned about something interesting.
Have you heard about the Treasure Club?
Thinking about how long this ordeal might last has that effect on me.
Yeah. Heard about them?
We were hoping you’d know about them.
Not even the teachers or the seniors dare talk about them.
How about you switch off your “infiltration mode” when you’re here?
So what did it say about the ending of all this?

And then there’s this:

Said to allow its possessor to conquer the world,
it is the Udo Bride.

This shit makes me want to stab everyone involved in this release.

Have some more if you hate your sanity:

You’re quite the romantic, aren’t you?
>You think?
>I’d say I’m rather plain in that sense.

God, I hate fansubbers.

I wish you were tied to a board and then taken to a woodchipper.

>media classroom

Most people would call this the “media room”, since it’s just a room set up for presenting media. Then again, most people aren’t in a fansub supergroup like Cthuko! Guess they wouldn’t pass the QUALITY test.

Really, guys? “facetious”? I’d recommend you a thesaurus, but it looks like you’ve already been abusing one like a heroin addict’s veins.

Try, “And this goes without saying, but please excuse yourself now if you aren’t going to take this seriously.”

That wasn’t a question?

This is their translation for “youjo”.

You mean “part 1”. Hard to translate when you don’t have Roman numerals, huh, Vale?

 

 

 

Results

Watchability: Watchable.

Visual grade: B-

Script grade: C-

Overall grade: C

Even if Cthuko had a decent release schedule, and even if they could be counted on to not pull another “lol we dropped this show but surprise now we didn’t lol” stunt… Even then, you’d be stupid to go with this release.

Amateur mistakes everywhere. Go with FFF for the best show of the season.

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