Fansub Review: [AnimeRG/Phr0stY] Dragon Ball Super (Episode 01)

July 16, 2015 by Dark_Sage

This post was written by Dark_Sage. He is Dark_Sage.

Oh my god.

Forward: Let me pre-empt the Autism and point out that I realize AnimeRG/Phr0stY aren’t “actual” fansub groups — rather, they were just the first to stick this Spanish->English guesslation on a shareraw and throw it up on Nyaa.

That being said, I ain’t reviewing a fucking .ass, and this has more downloads than any other fansub release this season, so by all rights it qualifies for a review. Just don’t expect a favorable one.

The Review

I’ve been out of the review game for a bit longer than I planned, so the timing of this release couldn’t be better.

…or worse (and the timing is this broken throughout).

Note that AnimeRG et al. didn’t standardize the font size, so while the subs appear in two lines with my lazy webm encode, they display as three lines in Media Player Classic.

…with pure Phr0stY quality of course.

Any release that starts out crediting the translator in Arial, immediately followed by an untranslated opening, deserves some kind of award for sheer testicular fortitude.

Luckily for humanity, said reward is the natural, sweet sterility of the fucknut who thought this’d be an acceptable translation. Yeah, I’m saying the TL probably has Down’s.

To get the low-hanging fruit outta the way first: tons of lines have random capitalization or are missing punctuation, and the line management is worse than a Daiz release.

Well, you probably get the point. But if you don’t, please know that I hate you, elspark15.

The following are the more “unique” aspects of this digital mistake:

No, TL-kun, Goku’s saying there’s no school on Sundays. Thanks for the watered-down dictionary definition of the day though, I guess. At least you learned something?

Elspark needs to encase his trachea in cement.

The best part is that the word “six” appears nowhere in the actual Japanese sentence.

It’s funny cuz of the bad English and also because the strongest female character in DBZ only ever existed to fill Toriyama’s vore fantasies.

Whichever route you choose, there’s no escaping this maze of Engrish. elspark’s truly a modern-day Daedalus.

The TL’s gotta be taking the fucking piss and just bathing in it. I mean, come the fuck on.

2much ;_;

Inspirationally incompetent.

I haven’t experienced dialogue this bad since DBZ Abridged. This is literary sadism at its worst.

Random lines are left untranslated — usually the easiest ones too. “Kirei, ja ne?” doesn’t exactly take a university education to hash out.

…Maybe?

There are no brakes on the fail train.

I wish I had.

End

Rating: F-

Since I know you’re gonna be looking for alternate options: SeNsUi’s release is just an edit of this one, and DBSuper is a direct copy of SeNsUi’s edit.

[SeNsUi]_Dragon_Ball_Super_-_001_(1280x720 x264)_[10Bit].mkv_snapshot_00.00_[2015.07.16_00.38.05] — Danger, Will Robinson.

DragonTeam and Unison are the only other choices, and based off a few spot checks I did on Unison’s…

…DragonTeam is gonna be your ~~best~~ only option for the show. Their 01 was at least watchable.

31 thoughts on “Fansub Review: [AnimeRG/Phr0stY] Dragon Ball Super (Episode 01)”

Eternal_Blizzard

July 16, 2015 at 2:21 am

Google Guesslate™ never fails to amuse.
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pi

July 16, 2015 at 4:17 am

dragon ball fans don’t need high standards, right?
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- PP
  
  July 16, 2015 at 9:09 am
  
  More like no standards.
  Reply
  - dude
    
    July 16, 2015 at 10:16 am
    
    http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=710876&showcomments=ec5006b5#c493847
    
    In fact, according to this cumstain here, they should be grateful elspark is taking the time to ram a dictionary up his ass for them.
    Reply
    - Puto
      
      July 16, 2015 at 10:56 am
      
      That comment offends me in so many different ways I don’t even know where to begin.
      Reply
    - PP
      
      July 16, 2015 at 12:40 pm
      
      “It has always been bad so there’s nothing to complain about.”
      Flawless logic.
      Reply
      - CoffeeFlux
        
        July 16, 2015 at 1:31 pm
        
        “i eat nothing but shit so why shouldn’t everyone else??????”
        Reply
Gary

July 16, 2015 at 2:56 pm

This is even better:
http://postimg.org/image/4ce9olp1v/
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- CoffeeFlux
  
  July 16, 2015 at 5:47 pm
  
  not like there’s an english word for that or anything…
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  - kokujin-kun
    
    July 18, 2015 at 9:42 pm
    
    I can say with authority that you are right, it’s completely untranslatable and doesn’t mean “dick chick”
    Reply
    - LotusGG
      
      July 18, 2015 at 10:22 pm
      
      don’t you mean torappu?
      Reply
Kajitani-Eizan

July 16, 2015 at 6:21 pm

This script is trash and I’m sure you enjoyed trashing it but

> No, TL-kun, Goku’s saying there’s no school on Sundays. Thanks for the watered-down dictionary definition of the day though, I guess. At least you learned something?

No, he’s actually saying what the subtitle says. (Or more colloquially translated, “Oh, so you have the day off.”)

> Random lines are left untranslated — usually the easiest ones too. “Kirei, ja ne?” doesn’t exactly take a university education to hash out.

Except that’s not actually what he says…
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- Dark_Sage
  
  July 16, 2015 at 11:01 pm
  
  I should really stop looking at Crymore’s comments before I go to sleep. I was in a really comfy spot in bed too.
  
  1. There’s nothing wrong with what I wrote. Learn to literacy.
  
  2. http://www.crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/kirei.mp3
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  - John Pierpont Morgan
    
    July 17, 2015 at 12:43 am
    
    That’s “da,” not “ja.” It’s an important difference, at least as important as the difference between “your” and
    “you’re” in subs…
    Reply
    - Dark_Sage
      
      July 17, 2015 at 8:03 am
      
      And 100% irrelevant to the point.
      Reply
      - John Pierpont Morgan
        
        July 17, 2015 at 9:16 am
        
        Yeesh, someone’s sleep-deprived and grumpy.
        Reply
        
        Dark_Sage
        
        July 17, 2015 at 10:00 am
        
        But who? This calls for an investigation, and Detective_Sage is on the case!
        Reply
- Kristen
  
  July 17, 2015 at 7:18 am
  
  After your high and mighty posts against me saying that I don’t have a right to say that “Hai means yes”, you post this?
  And to think I was actually taking you seriously…
  Reply
flipr

July 16, 2015 at 7:44 pm

>I haven’t experienced dialogue this bad since DBZ Abridged.

Are you implying that DBZ abridged isn’t infinitely superior to the original English dub?
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- dude
  
  July 16, 2015 at 8:28 pm
  
  I regularly take shits that are infinitely superior to the original English dub, so that’s hardly an accomplishment.
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- Dark_Sage
  
  July 16, 2015 at 11:03 pm
  
  The very best aspect of any abridged series still ranks lower than the worst aspect of any professionally managed release, and that includes 4Kids’s One Piece and Funi’s No-Rin.
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  - Gan_HOPE326
    
    July 28, 2015 at 9:27 am
    
    Yeah but the Abridged series also is rewriting the script entirely. I would understand criticizing the first season, it slowly picked up steam but started pretty poorly, but as of season 3 they’re doing spectacularly well for amateurs. Considering that their entire endeavour consists in stuffing jokes by cutting, pasting and re-dubbing material that didn’t contain them to begin with, using a dramatically understaffed voice actor team, so it’s make-do.
    
    As for the quality of the script… it’s funny, it’s not a translation so it can’t be wrong, and while it may not be 100% perfect English it doesn’t exactly need to be – it’s supposed to be colloquial and not always serious. I think asking for more would be reaching a bit too high. There are many abysmal Abridged series out there but TFS’s really isn’t one of them.
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    - Dark_Sage
      
      July 28, 2015 at 1:31 pm
      
      Point me to your favorite episode and I’ll tell you why you should kill yourself for liking it. I don’t have three seasons’ worth of time to piss away like you apparently did.
      Reply
      - Kajitani-Eizan
        
        July 28, 2015 at 4:12 pm
        
        > Did I just kill a gay clown
        Reply
      - animeisgaywatchgameofthrones
        
        January 26, 2016 at 3:46 pm
        
        Alright, pendejo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b65MLS6_w9Q
        
        Hit me up with your autistic excuse for a heuristic analysis, my email is set to notify.
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        Dark_Sage
        
        January 26, 2016 at 9:32 pm
        
        They spent the first however many seconds choking on Funi’s dick cuz they think Funi own Dragon Ball? Like their shitty facebook-tier “no it’s cool copyright infringement is fair use if I just say it is” description would save them from any legal onslaught? Fucking hell.
        
        I say “however many” cuz I turned the video off almost immediately. You’d have to be touched harder than an altar boy to stand more than a couple seconds of that middle school bullshit.
        
        Fuck them for making that video, and more importantly, fuck you for encouraging them. The real cancer was you all along.
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Tom_Servo

July 17, 2015 at 11:02 pm

Omg, this makes me beg for CabbageSubs (or whatever the fuck Hadena is now) to come and save this anime. Also, who the fuck watches anything from AnimeRG anyway?

AnimeRG, please stop trying to be DeadFish. It’s not working.
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KayDat

July 20, 2015 at 1:50 am

Gotta cut the TL a little slack, Chichi says “ちゃんと仕事して金稼ぐだ！” it could be heard as “半年仕事して金稼ぐだ！” with her accent. You’d still be missing a し from either the 年 or 仕事, and it still doesn’t quite make sense… so who am I kidding, they suck.
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Kintama

July 23, 2015 at 8:39 pm

I don’t really think this release sucked. I mean, yes the points you made were good to some extent. If I am right this was released really quick. And all the other TLs came like 6-7 hours after this release.
For a faster release, it was good. And as long as you get the meaning it’s fine.

and why is the review here? They are not a fansub group. Just bunch of uploaders, meh….
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- wat
  
  September 27, 2015 at 6:09 am
  
  no just no goddamnit shut the hell up, stop posting and cut your connection to the internet. there’s no reason this needs to exist, and the world doesn’t need chromosome-lacking special people like you that approve of this shitfest
  
  tl;dr – it’s bad and you should feel bad
  Reply
janice

July 24, 2015 at 11:55 am

DragonTeam has been doing a pretty good job IMO. A little awkward at times, but who gives a fuck, it’s DBZ.
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