This post was written by Dark_Sage. He is Dark_Sage.
In this age of samey releases, it can be refreshing to have some actual options for a show. Of course, sometimes that means you only have one real option.
Same subs, different day
On the outset, you’d be forgiven for thinking Asuka Subs and Vivid would have Amagi releases of a similar quality.
Both groups have similar taste in anime…
Both groups have eyecancer banners…
And both groups used the same translation for Amagi Brilliant Park…
So can we really expect many differences between the two releases?
The Differences
(Comic-Sans used by request.)
Typesetting
Le Trollz
Honorifics
And just plain old English
Conclusion
Well, I think you can come to this one on your own.
Thanks, Asuka Subs.
>more of your DAT ASS
Haha, what a great fucking line.
Dark_Sage has risen from the grave! What manner of sorcery is this?
Had to save anime somehow.
Yup, Asuka subs is the clear winner here. Thing you (intentional) for providing such a comprehensive comparison.
I know I’m repeating myself on the issue of Asuka’s font, but man, does that exclamation mark look like an ‘l’…
I known, right?l
Haha I see what you did thereIII
Why would a group do this?
For the lulz of course. What else are a group of 15 year olds who are bored supposed to do?
How does making everyone think they’re mentally handicapped in any way generate “lulz”?
I dunno, but if a guy can play games and record himself screaming and acting like a retard, upload to youtube and make millions, anything is possible.
Hm, reminds me of my old roommate.
“and more of your DAT ASS, too!”
Tell me you didnt ‘lulz’ at that?
If I was going to waste my time putting out subs “for the lulz”, I’d at least try to make it funny… I mean funny intentionally. Taking another group’s release and just changing some lines to make them worse seems kind of like a waste of time.
How do you make a script that much worse? Holy shit, and that typesetting…
what typesetting? I’ve only seen subs all over the place.
>How are you start punching me
Thank you, Asuka subs
AotY needs the bestest of subs, naturally Asuka delivers.
>more of your DAT ASS
My sides, seriously though, how is this shit not considered a troll? At least Vivid fixed that on their release.
How exactly could vivid have ‘fixed’ something in an original translation?
Vivid is obviously an edit of Asuka Subs.
Vivid is the new horriblesubs
So vivid just straight up rips from crunchy now?
HS rips are used by other groups. Vivid’s subs are used by Asuka-Subs, therefore Vivid must be the new HS. /s
therefore Illuminati confirmed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P8Fix_I2FI
No, people just go straight up and rip from them now.
Ahose A’s in Asuka’s fonts make me never wanna get A’s in class ever again.
AsukaSubs are the “new” hadena. #cospiracy
At least Hadena didn’t steal scripts and make them worse. Not from other fansub groups, anyway. Their shitty TLs were their own work.
Speaking of Hadena, I thought I heard they were returning this season.
Didn’t they steal some of IB’s translation for episode 1 of Days Days S2?
Days Days? Do you mean Dog Days? Though I don’t know off the top of my head if IB worked on that.
just download torrents from nyaa.se , let’s see who has an A+ rating :)
Red is an objectively better color than blue, so I think Asuka wins the Nyaa comparison.
Nyaa is full of haters. . . bakabt is a better option.
heh
Or you make your own informed decision instead of downloading anime based on someone else’s opinion?
Yup can do… probably be the most satisfied that way
For the longest time, bakabt’s decisions have been based solely on what would cause the least amount of drama instead of actual quality. Though they are a better source than nyaa, yes.
By drama, what do you mean?
Stuff like http://underwater.nyaatorrents.org/?view=in-other-news .
See, prior to 5 years ago, most of bakabt’s releases were based on group name only. Chihiro came onto the scene, and in winter 2009, there were several releases where Chihiro was significantly better than the other options – Maria-sama ga Miteru S4, and Asu no Yoichi. Bakabt was going to reject them because Chihiro had a terrible terrible name at that point (our first 7 months were speedsubs), but I argued there about the need to look at the actual releases and they were approved.
After that point, various bakabt staff members joined Chihiro causing some potential conflict of interests, and more Chihiro stuff was approved. In September 2009, that was when problems occurred. There was a big argument over Chihiro vs. Eclipse Hayate no Gotoku S2, and another about Chihiro vs. Commie Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou. As in, over 300+ comments. Eclipse was eventually taken for Hayate, but there was no issue there. They elected to go with Chihiro for Gendai Mahou.
This caused tons of accusations of bias for Chihiro, such as Daiz’s post (which had a ton of comments which he has since deleted), and comments in bakabt. Bakabt reversed their Gendai Mahou decision. That was when bakabt implemented offer locking.
Since that point, their decisions have all seemed to be made in whatever direction is least likely to cause comment explosions. The only Chihiro releases they have accepted since that time (which had other options), were Asura Cryin and Fortune Arterial. And this is even though a very strong case could be made for shows like To Aru Railgun, Kamisama no Memo-chou, and Amagami SS.
Oh right I see… had no idea about all of that. LOL gotta love people on the internet and being right. Well like you agreed, at least its better than nyaa.
P.s thanks for the story/info.
Except all of that is 5 years ago?
What’s the point when none of that matters now?
There’s a whole different policy in place there.
After looking at those screenshots of Asuka subs I believe I lost some brain cells.
Just like Commie when editing CR’s script…