Fansub Review: [ChihiroDesuYo] No Game No Life (Episode 05)

May 19, 2014 by Dark_Sage

This post was written by Dark_Sage. He is Dark_Sage.

Because Black Bullet is terrawful.

Release Information

Visual Quality

Script Quality

Results

Release Information

Episode details.

Release format: MKV (546 MB, 10-bit)

Japanesiness: No honorifics. Not sure if the Japanese script even had any.

English style: American English.

Encoding details: http://pastebin.com/fBq5XGz8

Speed: Quick (<48 hours)

Translation style: Crunchyedit.

External links.

Group website: http://www.chihiro-subs.com/ | http://damedesuyo.us/

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

Visual Review

Karaoke.

Opening. A cool mimic effect and a willingness to go the non-standard route (see the second image) add up to an impressive kara offering.

Rating: Great.

Ending. Pulled this from episode 6, since episode 5 (and 4) didn’t have a standard ED.

Loved how the effect changed as the song did. Would’ve been interesting to see if they could incorporate the credits’ color in their kara, though.

Rating: Good.

Typesetting.

Spoiler for

Avg.

Script Review

Main Script.

First thing that comes to mind with “idle game” is “lazy game”, which doesn’t make much sense. “idle” can mean worthless, so this line passes on a technicality, but why would you introduce needless confusion?

every day. everyday is an adverb.

I have to point this out every. goddamn. season. Fansubbers, get it together.

These subs are about as consistent as diarrhea. Weren’t you warned about drinking the water in Mexico, ChihiroDesuYo?

More consistency issues, except this time with English trivia!

fulfil/fulfiled/fulfilment = British English

fulfill/fulfilled/fulfillment = American English

While neither version is wrong, you should decide on one to go with. I suggest the AE version, since Obama is far sexier than the Queen.

Commonwealth, don’t deny what’s in your heart! You know it to be true!

*the power of the opposition

Or “the opposition’s power” if you’re into the succinct.

Top of her class at the most prestigious academies in the country? How many of them has she graduated from, then? Never took her for a career academic.

Steph, I believe you’re forgetting which joint released these subs. The answer is “no”.

No, on many levels.

“In other words, the Eastern Federation…”

“is an Eden made up of hot furry girls?!”

“Well, there are men and old women, too…” <- She’s refuting both his assumptions here: “young” and “female”. Just using “elders” doesn’t suffice.

Fail.

More like “Victory”, since she’s asserting her dominance. “Peace” makes no sense here for an English release, even though the symbol can be interpreted as either “peace” or “victory”… or “bunny ears”.

This line works just fine if you know what trope it’s in reference to. But what if your mind hasn’t been ruined by anime yet? Surely even the pure deserve to enjoy NGNL.

“I’m never going to be able to live this down, am I?” <- Similar sentiment, but now everybody gets it. If you wanna bitch about how sentiment isn’t good enough, then just write the shitty trope out and call it good enough. Do it yourself, though. I don’t write shitty scripts.

“They weren’t just playing around.”

Really, now.

Tumblr had it right. Keeping that retardation privilege unchecked was a bad idea.

Results

Watchability: Watchable.

Visual grade: B+

Script grade: C+

Overall grade: B-

The biggest problem with this release is that one halfway-decent QC would’ve made picking these subs a no-brainer. It’s rather disappointing that one doesn’t exist in either of the two groups on this joint.

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32 thoughts on “Fansub Review: [ChihiroDesuYo] No Game No Life (Episode 05)”

Solaristics

May 19, 2014 at 10:57 pm

Not a fan of the font, but what can you do. I don’t watch ChihiroDesuYo release, so let’s see how UW does whenever you do that review™
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- shcboomer
  
  May 19, 2014 at 11:08 pm
  
  Looks like we’ll see UW-FFF release soon.
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  - alt0
    
    May 20, 2014 at 4:18 am
    
    So, we’re just ignoring the EveTaku-Hiryuu joint for this show then?
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    - Fyurie
      
      May 20, 2014 at 4:26 am
      
      Eh, who knows. A lot of stuff is getting skipped in general.
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    - Solaristics
      
      May 20, 2014 at 3:58 pm
      
      Well, now you reminded me. I completely forgot.
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Fyurie

May 19, 2014 at 11:26 pm

Oh hey, a review. Maybe there’s hope yet!
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- Pelfmiester
  
  May 21, 2014 at 12:23 pm
  
  Halfway through the season and he’s still working on the first couple shows of the poll. I’d say this season of reviews failed.
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Fuwaa

May 20, 2014 at 6:03 am

In my opinion, calling girls with animal ears and tails “furry” girls deserves an F. Especially when the beast girl princess inevitably appears. I don’t know a lot of memes (like I don’t know the ruined forever thing or checking privileges thing) but I know what a furry is, and this is not a furry:

http://www.animecharactersdatabase.com/character.php?id=67073
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FalseDawn

May 20, 2014 at 7:50 am

Brit here. You’re wrong on the Britspellings – fulfil and fulfilment are, but we’d never have fulfiled or fulfiling because we generally double up last letters when making those types of words.

It’s fulfilled and fulfilling in Brit too.

>verb (fulfils, fulfilling, fulfilled)

from: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/fulfil
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- mints
  
  May 20, 2014 at 2:08 pm
  
  What’s more troubling here is that D_S thinks the Queen is somewhat sexy.
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  - AnimeNOw
    
    May 21, 2014 at 5:11 pm
    
    I’d fuck the Queen.
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FalseDawn

May 20, 2014 at 7:58 am

Also, living something down isn’t anywhere near the ruined forever concept. It’s not just an anime trope – it has its roots in classic English literature as well. The “ruined forever” is the idea that you’re ruined for marriage because you have this odd notion that someone seeing you naked or touching you inappropriately before you get married means you’re marked for life as damaged goods. If anything, it comes from Christian ideals than anything Japan made up (because they have randy businessmen who enjoy their “extracurricular” activities!). So yeah, you’ve pretty much ruined the humour of that line with your edit (though whether repeating that like every anime in history has done can be counted as humour is debatable)
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- FalseDawn
  
  May 20, 2014 at 8:08 am
  
  Well, thinking about the sociopolitical side of things more logically, the concept arises in Japan because women are still very much viewed there as growing up to be good little wives. So the idea that your wife might have been “sullied” (a frankly ridiculous notion) before you got to her is somewhat distressing to a swathe of Japanese men. It’s not a new concept, though, and many heavily Catholic nations have the same ideals. In fact, “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” by the late Gabriel Garcia Marquez is about a newly-wed husband who sends his wife back to her family in disgrace because she’s found to lack the necessary virginity on her wedding night.
  
  Nowadays, of course, we’re not so extreme, but immature female characters with lofty ideals of white weddings and being the proper little housewife who cooks, cleans and looks pretty still populate anime quite regularly, and to portray them as anything remotely realistic instead of the vacuous cardboard cutouts they are is something the writers and makers of this anime don’t deserve.
  
  Hm, okay, that may be a tad OTT, but still – we’re not here to make their product better :D
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  - FalseDawn
    
    May 20, 2014 at 8:10 am
    
    P.S. Can you tell I majored in English Lit? ^__^
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  - RealBirdy
    
    May 21, 2014 at 7:18 am
    
    Wow you’re smart. Do you attend a University?
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    - FalseDawn
      
      May 21, 2014 at 9:07 am
      
      Being of a cynical sort, I’m automatically assuming this is sarcasm, but I’ll answer all the same. Yes, I did go to uni. Many moons ago now, though.
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      - RealBirdy
        
        May 21, 2014 at 10:54 pm
        
        Not sarcasm, I’ve always admired people who are good writers, because I suck. I simply just really liked the way you explained yourself. It’s like a work of art. The irony is I love literature and rhetoric, but fail at them horribly.
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- Fuwaa
  
  May 20, 2014 at 6:36 pm
  
  Then why not say “ruined for marriage” rather than “ruined forever”? I can’t make out the exact wording, but I don’t think Steph is completely ruined in every way just because of what Shiro did to her.
  
  Also, she was pretty much ruined for marriage since meeting Kuuhaku, and what happens after that line is even worse, so…
  
  I agree that Dark_Sage’s idea doesn’t fit, but you’re taking the wrong tack by saying the current line is any better.
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  - Xythar
    
    May 20, 2014 at 7:46 pm
    
    Because she doesn’t say anything about marriage and not every joke and reference has to be explicitly spelled out for the viewer to grasp?
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    - Fuwaa
      
      May 21, 2014 at 4:47 am
      
      As it is, it doesn’t fit. “I’m ruined forever! … But I haven’t given up!”
      
      It doesn’t need to be spelled out; it needs to be changed to a line that isn’t quite so final so it makes sense in context…
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      - Xythar
        
        May 21, 2014 at 6:19 am
        
        I’m not sure where you’re getting that second line from.
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        Fuwaa
        
        May 21, 2014 at 8:59 am
        
        How long did it take her to challenge them to another game (and then another, and then another)? That’s a pretty short forever.
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        Xythar
        
        May 21, 2014 at 9:06 am
        
        Damaged goods are still allowed to play games, you know.
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    - RealBirdy
      
      May 21, 2014 at 7:22 am
      
      Exactly, it should just be translated to what’s being said. I really hope you’re a fansubber.
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  - FalseDawn
    
    May 20, 2014 at 8:02 pm
    
    I didn’t say either line was particularly great, just that Dark_Sage’s ‘edit’ ruined it forever.
    
    Without watching the actual scene, it’s not so easy to come up with a suitable suggestion, but I guess I’ve heard “you’ve ruined me for life” before in American media…
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Darais

May 20, 2014 at 11:09 am

>every day. everyday is an adverb.

>I have to point this out every. goddamn. season. Fansubbers, get it together.

So you’re saying it’s an everyseason occurrence?
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- mini-ezo
  
  May 20, 2014 at 12:07 pm
  
  No, it’s an every season occurrence. It happens everyseason.
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  - mints
    
    May 20, 2014 at 1:25 pm
    
    No. It happens everyseasonally.
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    - fnord
      
      May 20, 2014 at 5:31 pm
      
      You mean just like how things happen everydaily?
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      - mints
        
        May 20, 2014 at 9:36 pm
        
        Yes. Or everytimely even.
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begna112

May 21, 2014 at 8:24 am

Man, D_S, gotta say you have a knack for picking our worst releases. I was right in the middle of finals week so this was a pretty sloppy release. Anyway, glad to see real reviews happening now. Would have enjoyed seeing 06 reviewed. I edited that episode.
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- Solaristics
  
  May 21, 2014 at 5:43 pm
  
  ( ¬‿¬) He does that to everyone.
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