This post was written by Dark_Sage. He is Dark_Sage.
Normally I wouldn’t even touch this release with my ten-foot penis, but some people out there were thirsty enough to download these subs, so I guess the jeans are coming off.
When I say “some people”, I mean 4900 and counting.
Background
Funimation licensed a lot of titles this season, but due to either malice or stupidity (neither would surprise me), they decided to delay their “simulcasts” this week.
Because of licensing agreements, this means that everyone who likes to watch shows on-time, and prefers their subs in English, has to: watch a different language translation, wait for a decent English fansub group to pick the show up, or worse.
Worse
See, some fucktards from the German fansubbing scene thought it would be a great idea to translate the German simulcast subs into English. Yeah, that’s Japanese -> German -> English.
And considering the quality of the German translation…
…it’s basically a worst-case human centipede.
So what you’re about to see shouldn’t shock you too much.
Review
They’re flowers, not beets. Bit of an embearrassing start, but I’m sure Anon will come through.
Onomatopoeic translation is beary hard to screw up. Essentially, you have to come up with a word that sounds nothing like what’s being said in Japanese or what would be said in English.
Well, leave it to the Germans.
Much like the TL’s forebears, I bet it came over from the east side.
Ich’m afraid the damage has already bearn done.
Could you even come up with a dumbear translation?
Kumaria sounds like something I’d drink. And this Engrish seems like a bearitable excuse to drink one.
The release only gets bearable when you dramatically pause before each misplaced comma. Bonus points if you incorporate raising your eyebrows at arbeartrarily placed, imaginary cameras.
…screw you. Don’t judge my coping mechanisms.
Well this is a surprise! I think this may be the first original translation for “ganbearre” that I’ve ever seen. Points for trying at least. …And negative ones for failing so terribly.
You is a gift that keeps on giving, Anonymous. Didn’t know there was a class bearlow low, but you’re representing it exceptionally well.
No thanks. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I prefer seaweed with my sushi.
Half the lines in the release are fucking stock — you could leave them untranslated and most people would understand what’s going on. So when you translate them incorrectly, well it’s not exactly a huge confidence bearster, Anon-kun.
“Why are you being so mean?” is what you wanted.
First off, what the fuck is a fish pie? Secondly, don’t fucking answer that, because I don’t want to know.
Fucking hell, TL-kun. You do realize that this release is bearsically a crime against humanity, right? I don’t wanna imply anything about your people, but I imagine you’ve gone over in class why that’s not exactly a good thing. …right?
Ellipsis placement… language choice… TL-kun’s only bearying himself deeper with each line.
Is this supposed to bearly be English? Because while I always appreciate devotion to a joke, it’s getting a bit old, Anon.
Where do I even beargin? It’s like Romeo & Juliet, as performed by the translator’s special ed class.
Thanks to Anon’s delibearate assault, I think we all became victoms today.
I’m starting to understand why no tolerance policies exist. And eugenics. And euthanasia.
Turns out, TL-kun’s a rather solid cultural ambearssador. Sounds like a good back-up plan, since the TL gig probably isn’t gonna pan out.
You know what else would fit pretty well? TL-kun in a trash compactor. Bet if he tries it out, he’ll find a place he truly bearlongs!
The further I get into the release, the more I feel the cancerous Engrish bearing down on me.
Every fucking line bearates my ears with stupid. I don’t even know how I’ve gotten this far without medication.
We Italian now? Hell, we’re just one “w” away from Kenshiro. Keep going TL-kun, this level of trans-ethnic stupidity is a bear gift!
Are you just randomly throwing a bearrage of words from a dollar-store dictionary onto the screen?
Am I just asking rhetorical questions?
Ignoring the heterosexual imagery– …actually, sorry. I can’t ignore that. Let’s bearrel forward to the next line.
After this release, I only wish I could remembear what love is.
Fuck you, TL-kun. I can’t just grin and tolerate it anymore. I’m out.
Rating: F-. No, wait. F- -. Eat a ten-footer, Anon.
The same time you posted this, Asenshi released their version, too, lol.
Hot damn.
Is it sad that I almost look forward to these new reviews more than the actual new anime.
Only if you don’t remove the “almost”.
>looking forward to reviews
Expect to feel very disappointed. Reviews don’t come often.
Brilliant. Japan should hire you for the scriptwriting of Ika Musume S3.
Seems you have a beary polarized opinion on this release.
Watching this level of Engrish must’ve been quite the grizzly undertaking.
Oh, I get it now! Anon-kun must’ve been translating into code-iak.
I see Commie has rubbed off onto you, Dark_Sage. I must admit, the results are quite amusing.
Ursid to myself that watching this release would be opening a caniforms.
I love you. So much
Nothing was daijoubu.
Gotta wonder why this release wasn’t removed on sight when plenty others are, guess you aren’t a troll if you’re just stupid.
Commie’s not subbing this show. That’s why it wasn’t deleted. If Commie was planning to release it, this release would have been deleted on sight.
Just wow.
“some fucktards from the German fansubbing scene”
More like one fucktard from 4chan. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if it were someone from the German fansub scene as well…
Btw, the German CR sub was actually pretty decent and accurate, disregarding the funneh memes.
Yeah, I guess it coulda just been a random anon now that I think about it. Well, tis a mystery. And one that I’m not exactly dying to get solved.
Then some fail Spanish fansubber grabbed this… and translated it to Spanish. Japanese > German > English > Spanish, oh, gosh, why the world must be so sad.
Why would they do this? It was available on CR in Spanish to begin with.
CR is rubbish with anything other than English translations. In certain countries they hire local illiterate fansubbers that can’t even speak their own language properly.
You are right. The first German subs they had were utter garbage too. They had spelling mistakes all over the place and were phrased really poorly. It’s pretty okay now, although I’ve still set English as default language.
Today CR Latin American isn’t that bad, while still they aren’t that awesome, they have improved quite a bit and are near CR USA level now. The truth isn’t the same for CR Spain, that’s always garbage, though even they have done some steps forward.
A very limited amount of titles from CR latin america is not comparable to what we see in this review. Let’s say 2 or 3 titles carry less than 15 grave or mild mistakes. The rest is either full of memes or just unwatchable.
Just said it wasn’t that bad, it’s quality average D+ with some shows being E and others being even a B-. It’s still not good enough to be worth, but most shows are at least barely watchable (unless you can’t handle Latin American’s Spanish and/or lack of styles). Most CR Spain stuff (and most others CR it seems) goes from F- to D+ by other hand. CR Latin American started like that anyway, so most they firsts shows were unwatchable as well.
Yeah, I was talking about latin america’s portuguese, but seems like the same applies to spanish, too.
The most popular site for anime in Spanish, mcanime, have a contract with CR Latin America where they give em’ massive advertising and forbids fansub on publishing their shows. Well, Yuri Kuma Arashi was not took by CR Latin America but CR Spain, so mcanime allowed fansubs publishing the show, EXCEPT for CR rips in this case.
Now, why they used the trolls subtitles rather than CR’s one as base? I’ll bet that was because they used their video as base as well. Most Spanish failsubbers doesn’t know how to work times and they were forbid to use CR’s one if they wished to publish on mcanime, so yeah.
I have an alternative theory in that they just took the first thing available on Nyaa, in this case the troll’s one(because CR Spain’s rip was published an hour later) and they decided to just stick with it for a faster release.
I honestly think I would understand the show less with these subtitles. Much of this review hurs just to read. I watched raw and then with Asenshi, and have no regrets.
Also, >it-bears-repeating.jpg
Did this post get edited? I swear I had it “hurs” to watch, as in ursa, a particularly shitty bear pun.
Gaod dammit, Jimmy, that’s a painful pun.
I occasionally (VERY occasionally) will edit out spelling errors as a special service. Guess it backfired in this case. Changing back.
Admittedly, one of those downloads was my torrent client automatically grabbing it from my RSS feed because it matched my filter of “1st or 2nd episode of season 1 or 2” which I use at the start of every season …
I’ll forgive you. …this time.
I think there may be 4800 others who have their clients set up like that.
D_S, I respect you for actually watching the whole episode with these subs AND reviewing them. I wasn’t able to bear (pun not intended) more than 2 minutes
I’m surprised you didn’t say anything about the best line of all: “Everything is going to be daijoubo.” I mean, that sentence wasn’t daijoubo at all. It was the combo of that and “Ich will protect you” that made me stop watching this release after not even 2 minutes^^
PS: YURI APPROVED
Seemed like an intentional joke along with a few other lines in the release, so I resisted, knowing that if I put it in there’d be some dipshit pointing to it and going all “Wow, D_S, you just don’t get fine comedy. The whole release was a joke, why’d you even review it?”
Figured by pointing out only the lines that couldn’t be construed as jokes, we’d avoid that stupidity entirely.
(Also, I cheated and picked out the lines from the .ass, rather than going through the episode and doing screenshots like normal. I typically only do this when I can tell a release is going to be bad, and if I’ve already seen the episode.)
I can’t even bear puns now D:
English subs translated from a German Translation of a Russian Translation. HMMMM. The Russian translation quite possibly being a guessub.
Why should Crunchyroll translate from a Russian script? Where should they even get it from? They don’t have a Russian site, hence no Russian translators.
Uh, the anon-subs that were reviewed were tled from German tled from Russian. Where did you see me talking about CR? The hell?
Wait, so you’re saying that this was actually
Japanese -> Russian fansub -> German fansub -> English
and not
Japanese -> German CR sub -> English?
Quite possibly.
I think he want to say, that in russia groups translated with this shit subs here into russian.
you are quite possibly wrong.
don’t you know me I am the king of the fansub underworld.
And where’d you get this information? The Anon script uses all the fonts and naming conventions as the German Crunchyroll script.
Is Hadena dead or what?
Have been for a while.
stop watching this shit already! no wait stop buying BD’s in the first place. prevent shit from airing.
Hey Sage, if you ever feel like you haven’t suffered enough yet, you may want to take a look at [AnchanZSubs] Prisma Illya BD specials.
They’re only like 5 minutes each, but boy is it a special kind of shit spectacle.
I think Hadena pales in comparison and you can tell they’re not purposefully troll subbing it either.
And they’re the only subs available too. I think vol.4 is my favorite so far.
360p? Oh Jesus Lord…
“Ten thousand yen you say? If we fail we have to paid it. You should stopped her earlier.”
every single line is a gem. ESL bullshit