[AraAraSenshi] Seitokai no Ichizon Lv.2
[HorribleSubs] Seitokai no Ichizon Lv.2
[Milky-Subs] Tantei Opera (The only option.)
[CR] Vividred Operation
Review Order (usually determined by the poll):
[CR] Vividred Operation
[Anime-Koi] GJ-bu
[EveTaku] GJ-bu
Translation Parties Left:
Spoiler for
Mondaiji-tachi
Oreshura
Senran Kagura
Translation Party Order (usually determined by the poll):
Oreshura
Mondaiji-tachi
Senran Kagura
Out-of-Scope (releases that I will not review for whatever reason):
Spoiler for
[Hadena] Maoyuu Maou Yuusha. Disqualified due to only minimal changes to the CR script. (Comparison)
[Commie] Maoyuu Maou Yuusha. Disqualified due to only minimal changes to the CR script. (Comparison)
[*] Hyobu Kyosuke. Would not be fair for me to review anyone whose subs we’re “competing against”.
[WhyNot] Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman. Disqualified due to only minimal changes to the CR script. (Comparison)
[Commie] Amnesia. Disqualified due to only minimal changes to the CR script. (Comparison)
[GotWoot] Tamako Market. I’m biased toward reviewing theirs favorably since I participated as an editor for this project. Will not review as a result. (Other Tamako groups are still on the table though. If I don’t review them honestly, this site will have no reason to exist, so be assured I’m going to do everything I can to look upon their releases like I do with all others — with the utmost disdain and contempt.)
[Samurai] Kotoura-san. Disqualified due to only minimal changes to the CR script. (Comparison)
[Anime-Koi] Maoyuu Maou Yuusha. Disqualified due to only minimal changes to the CR script. (Comparison)
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Neko reviews up tomorrow (since I have the day off). For now, I’m gonna be drinking a lot and watching Nise to catch up.
Well if I have my pem and Commie reviews super finalized by the end of the night and UTW still hasn’t released, I’ll just review episodes 2, 3, or 4 from UTW and release my reviews. But I have a feeling one group will bitch and moan if I give UTW the “advantage” of a different episode, so I’m going to hold out for UTW’s as long as I can.
I plan to have a Neko TL Party out for episode 2. UTW-Mazui, Commie, and pem. If another group decides to get in the game, I’ll just have to do another TL Party.
Getting it out tonight would be a stretch goal. You’re more likely to see it tomorrow.
Also if you haven’t guessed, I’m going to basically blog my fucking plans on this page like it’s Twitter.
You only did episode 1, it is in episode 60 now. Groups have left and come and quality has changed. It would be nice to have a new review, to decide what group work to archive.
Apparently, there was also released BDs.
Thank you!
p.s.: on your old-subs reviews, I would also like to suggest hunter x Hunter, but the 1999 one. Thanks.
I’m looking forward to this review. Hadena has vowed to improve themselves in 2013 (see their group website). Will Hadena in 2013 be any different from other years? Will DragonNumber be proud of Hadena’s work in his seat up in heaven?
Unrelated question:
You disqualify groups when they barely make any changes to the crunchyroll script. Did you have this standard when you reviewed Hadena’s Sankarea?
And FFF’s Maoyuu is the first release disqualified this season for not actually bothering to change the CR script. A round of applause for their “editing” team!
You can still review ours (Anime-Koi), when we release it. It should be tonight, but the editing…took a little time. 5 hours later, I’m fairly confident it won’t be disqualified.
Not significantly. v2 was to add a missing font and change the styling (plus one or two other minor revisions) and then v3 was to add the font for the new styling, which was missing from v2.
All I can say is, whatever FFF changed or didn’t change, they produced a much more enjoyable result than did Commie: FFF’s “To find that which I long to see, yet still have not. Be my eyes. Be my light. Be my blade! This, I ask of you” may place its first period where one of at least four other punctuation marks would serve better, but the anaphoral effect is WORLDS superior to Commie’s “To find that which I long to see, yet still have not. I want you to be my eyes. My light. My blade!” Ditto for “you may be a woman and you may be bouncy” vs. “it doesn’t matter if you’re a woman _or_ bouncy.” And FFF’s decision to italicize “King” in “why is the Demon King a woman?” is clearly the correct one, as is rendering “shou ga nai” as “I have no say in it” (instead of “it wasn’t my decision”) in this context. But maybe not everyone enjoys good anaphora as much as I do?
I believe the heart of fansubbing lies in the scripts. Therefore, I don’t consider groups which simply re-encode other releases as “fansubs”, nor do I consider groups which simply toss on karaoke and typesetting to be “fansubs”. Maybe “fanfluffers” would be a better term to use.
You have to actually deal with the fundamental essence of any release — the main script — before I can recognize a group’s contributions as valuable enough to warrant their own brand being placed on a release.
How about I give you a summary of everything you need to know about season one? I can go into detail about it.
What you need to know:
1. What Kirara are (and do)
2. What a centernova position means
3. Who Chieri’ and Nagisa’ fathers are.
4. Why it is difficult to become an AKB0048 successor
5. A little background info on the DES couldn’t hurt I guess. Don’t think this last point is too important but whatever.
I could save you the torture if I elaborated on each of these points. But if you truly believe that catching up is the right thing to do, I won’t waste my time writing up a summary.
I don’t know why you’d even have to review it; it’s a second season, only one group is doing it, it’s the same group that did it before, and pretty much the same staff is on it that worked on the first season.
I went to check Hadena’s site, and noticed they have “Trollsubbing at it’s finest” up there, and the “it’s” in that sentence makes it so much more funny.
Those are good filler. Considering I just made a filler post, I’d rather hold off until after I post something more substantial. Maybe tomorrow morning, then?
Hi. I’m wondering if you’ll review one of our recent releases of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (you’ve got most of the other groups covered). Our group is called [GetBack]. We’re not the fastest or the most thorough, but we do try to do a good job. We might be worthy of being tagged in your C-List, at least.
We’re picking up speed on our releases, and a review from you would be excellent feedback on how we’re doing.
I have no bigger regret. I was distracted by a stubborn desire to learn how to encode from square-one. Fortunately, I’ve wised up since then and finally got where I wanted to be. The last few weeks have been very productive.
The next hurdles are figuring out the details of distro.
Not to mention, working on releasing all of Phantom Blood as a batch. Hopefully by the end of the month.
English dub rips for 1-8 (assuming you can deal with dubs). Whoever ya want for 9 and then Sage for 10 (I edited for ’em, so I can’t say it’s a bad option). Otherwise, 1-9 with DGz for consistency and then sage for 10. Unless DGz releases before you finish marathoning (likely) and then you can just go with DGz straight through.
I heard DGz wouldn’t sub the 10th episode, that’s why I was going with sage. Otherwise, I will indeed just wait for them.
Also, who the hell can deal with dubs? There are very few good ones. And even those are normally inferior to their Japanese counterpart (in my opinion, at least).
dear dark sage
Can you translate Hakkenden: Touhou Hakken Ibun ??
I think it’s nice & good
In fact, I think it’s strange that no one translate it
realllly , I hope from u to think about it ….
^_^
I would like to ask that this release get priority over other releases (regardless of the poll results) because this is a new fansub group. Obviously, not many new groups pop up in any particular reason.
Mm, just because they’re new doesn’t mean I’ll prioritize them. If nobody’s interested in the show, I’m not gonna bump out something people *are* interested in just on the offchance the new group might see the review and improve from it. I’ll keep it in mind, but it’s not getting fast-tracked just yet. Of course, if you can argue me into it, that’s fine too.
I watched that episode (the HS version) and immediately found things I’d change, editing-wise. I wonder why you’d go to all the trouble of rereleasing something if you’re not gonna put any time and effort into it…
I find it sad that WhyNot changed ‘had’ rather than ‘all.’ I would of I would of changed the line to:
“and everything they had was stolen.”
I think it sounds better.
Don’t you kinda HAVE to review WhyNot since it’s the only group doing that show? Not that i’d blame you for skipping reviews on such a shitty show or anything.
I think you should consider reviewing the original CR script in cases where a lot/most fansub groups barely edits their script. There’s no guarantee that the end result will necessarily be better for the one group that chooses to edit the CR script to a larger extent, compared to the groups that more or less use the original script. Especially for archiving, this makes knowing the base quality of the CR script important. You could always mention whatever minor edits other groups made in the same review, kind of making it one big review for all groups who barely edit the CR script. Perhaps it’d even be worth doing a visual critique of the respective groups in the same review.
I think we all know how hadena’s Tamako’s going to turn up. I know; I work with them, I don’t have to love all their works or to exactly know what they’re doing!
I think I’m up to date with the list as of this post. If I’m missing a group, it wasn’t on purpose. Just lemme know and I’ll add them in. I’ll do a more thorough sweep in a few days.
Gotcha. I can do sweeps for new stuff when I wake up, as I usually do throughout the day. Was more wondering if anything older slipped through the cracks that anyone wanted to yell at me about.
Yeah, as a rule of thumb, if I do review v0s or Pre-Airs, it’s more of a preview and not for actual grades. And since I have a lot on my plate right now, I won’t bother.
Gonna have to finish the first season before I run into season 2. (I don’t usually finish shows once I’m done reviewing them, so my drop rate is pretty high.)
Haganai has no plot at all. You’d be fine skipping straight to season two without question. This applies to Minami-Ke equally as much. The sequels that are plot-based this season are AKB0048 and Chihayafuru (and Saki if you actually intend to review that).
Mind holding off on the [Hybrid] Amnesia Review? We’re gonna make a V2 of that once the official Lyrics for the ED are out, and some of the lines near the end are missing
All right, going to sleep. FFF Sasami whenever I wake up. I can’t write/think well when I’m about to pass out, so we’ll save that for when I’m functioning. I’ll try to get out some more reviews after that too, but it may be later in the night cuz I have shit I gotta do during the day.
Someone needs to fix the thing with the margins in the comments that keeps causing the last letter to be cut off at the end of lines (at least in my browser).
It’s the bloody hard limit of the sidebar— the same reason the comments can’t take up the blank third of the comments section. Not sure what can be done about it, but it’s been a problem since this theme was adopted (after the hacking).
Hmm, Hiryuu avoids simulcasts and Broken/Sugoi/Kira are BD groups.
AnimeTL is pretty much dead and she quit Hatsuyuki – am I missing something here? :p
Broken does the occasional airing show too, and was at one point considering Hyobu Kyosuke. And you’re actually missing Sigh, but I mostly just style and TS there.
There was (and might still be) one more “group” working on Hakkenden. Some girl is doing solo work on it, and did plan on continuing, but has also considered jumping ship since other groups are releasing it.
hey D_S, can you give the groups doing kotoura-san a review? ;_; apparently, im not familiar with the 2 sub groups doing it so i was thinking if i should just go with horriblesubs or their versions.
AnimeNOW’s is a Horrible CR re-encode with an unedited script. AnimeNOW is quite honestly the worst active group around. Yes, significantly worse than Hadena.
horriblesubs it is then. man, its such a shame that no group from the cartel(tm) or any other reputable group affiliated with them picked up this show. -.-‘
Kotoura-san reappeared on Commie’s schedule list a few days ago, so there still may be hope. Or maybe there’s been a mistake and it isn’t supposed to be on there.
Just go with CR. Their translation is very good and they got the signs down too, so you wouldn’t need to go with a fansub unless you want better typesetting or song translations or something.
It’s good enough because Kotoura-san is an easy show to translate, but one of the errors was a pretty critical misinterpretation that should not have happened in a professional subtitle.
Well, they managed to make CR’s Senyuu. worse, so…
Nah, but in all seriousness, going by name alone I’d expect JK > Commie > CR > Hatsuyuki-Hybrid.
Oh, by the way, Hatsuyuki also picked up DC with the words:
“Originally we were just going to do a CR edit, but the Da Capo series deserves a better fansub than that[sic] so I offered to translate it. Now, my Japanese isn’t what I would call excellent[..]”
Now that’s a review that will be fun.
Joint doesn’t matter to me. What I do not prefer is Commie’s liberal TL. I am especially put off when curse words are inserted when it’s not necessary. No disrespect intended with Commie that’s just my preference.
From those screenshots provided by Xythar I’ll get JK instead and HS for speed.
If swear words tick you off from subs, oh boy..
Most of the time when Commie inserts swear words into the subs it usually fits the characters emotion and reactions.
No. Swear words are fucking disgraceful, and can never represent the emotions of a character. I mean, you don’t hear people swearing in real life, do you?
I do believe you have fallen for my novel brand of sardonic witticism I have chanced upon. I think I shall refer to it as “sarcasm”. Perhaps my usage of such crude language in a comment protesting profanity should have indicated the jocular nature of my comment.
They were listing it as the facet of Commie’s style they most take issue with in general. I don’t really see the problem either, especially considering much of anime involves teens acting stroppy towards each other.
Review Queue will be updated for sure tonight. First up on my plate is Anime-Koi’s Maouyuu which will LIKELY be done sometime mid-Thursday night. Earlier if I become really efficient at editing the Hyobu [Unlimited] script (re-writing an entire script is a little more time-consuming than regular editing).
I voted in that poll of yours before the season had actually started. Can you (in spirit) retract my Vividred Operation vote and add it towards Kotoura-san instead?
A note about my Tamako Market reviews: There is a very small timeframe of ~12 hours for each episode where I feel I can review Commie/Mazui’s releases with the least amount of bias. (Since I edit for GotWoot and tend to be full of myself, I may be predisposed toward *my* choices for a given line, rather than what makes the most sense from a specific group’s standpoint. One way to minimize this bias is to review a release BEFORE I edit for GW.)
So, look for one Tamako review next Wednesday and the last Tamako review the Wednesday after.
<denpa>> hey Dark_Sage
<&Dark_Sage> Yo
<denpa> why did [hybrid] amnesia disappear from the review queue?
<&Dark_Sage> Accident.
<Novles> Dark_Sage doesn’t have accidents! He purposely left it out to confuse people!
Currently getting drunk and half-editing Hyobu, half-watching Nichijou. Not sure how this night is gonna turn out, but it looks like there’s gonna be an equal amount of potential and POTENTIAL.
If you want to argue that claymation is anime too, have at it. Personally I think it’s a bullshit argument.
Anime is a style of animation and I think it’s ridiculous that a person’s national origins should be the litmus test for whether or not they can create anime. Actually, haven’t we had this discussion before? http://crymore.net/2012/10/13/what-is-an-anime/
Doesn’t matter. I had a quick look at subcompare, so I’ll save you the effort
Cookie: Who the fuck thought that styling was a good idea? F, unwatchable.
Ruri-Saizen: Who the fuck thought that styling was a good idea? F, unwatchable.
I’d just like to say, I take full responsibility for dat green. I did it to match the company logo (makes sense with the show). In my defence, I probably would have been a little more conservative on the style if it was longer than three minutes, but I decided to push the boat out :D
Fixed. But Maoyuu is a clusterfuck on all sides. I’m going to give the groups another shot later on in the series so I can see if they really decided to lazymode it on all the episodes or just the first few.
It was pretty good. Maidbro fed lolinun some really fucked up shit and it was heavily implied lolinun thought very poorly of the experience.
So we get to this scene and it’s right after we hear that maidbro fed lolinun some really expensive and delicious food. And we finally get to hear lolinun’s opinion about that prior event, which is (at least in this translation) explicitly hilarious. It was probably my favorite scene in the show so far.
As for the show itself… terribly overrated. The characters suck.
I get that characters are supposed to have flaws, but in a light-hearted comedy series, those flaws are supposed to be endearing, not off-putting. Instead, we get a mean-spirited bully, a retarded bimbo, and an enabling main character. It’s not a recipe for success.
Not really. In OreShura, the bullying isn’t presented as a positive thing. It’s addressed as an issue constantly. But in Haganai, oh it’s just Yozora being Yozora.
I’m happy to have found someone likeminded on this subject. Sena is being bullied, plain and simple, and it makes me mad whenever Kodaka looks at the scene and just goes “it can’t be helped”. When the other person is being purposefully humiliated, that’s when it stops being funny. I don’t mind Sena’s dumbness too much, but I have to admit that I’d like to see her defend herself and win, for a change. Just like I’d want to see Tom eat Jerry or Coyote finally satiate his appetite and feast upon that fucking bird.
I guess I’m a masochist, because I like this show quite a lot. I have the same kind of love-hate relationship with violent tsundere characters.
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Since we’re on the subject in this comment chain here, seeing how Doki pulled a fast one *cough*not really*cough* and decided to sub DokiDoki too, will you review that release as well?
Just asking out of curiosity (since I just noticed the releases on their page; I watch their page for the last few BD/DVD projects I’m getting from them and I expect to jump ship for good until they shape up), if nothing else. I honestly can’t remember the last time I watched a show from them that they subbed themselves.
Thanks kindly, good sir… Somehow 2 typos got introduced when my QC report was implemented for Ep.06, so this week I’m going to ask to recheck the script before final release. Fansubbing!
I’ll have to look into that one some more. They were arguing with me that they changed enough of the script to count and that they handled the poem translation on their own. If a group’s confident they threw all they could into something and it’s not a case where they obviously didn’t -at all- I tend to lean in their favor.
Hmmm… fair enough. I only compared five minutes of one episode (there were very few changes and most of them didn’t improve the script) and probably should’ve compared a whole episode.
After looking at Commie’s post for episode 7, I do see that CR’s translation for this show can be lacking.
Possible of a TL Party (or some type) for the Movie “Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki” ? I know 3 groups that have done it:
>Zorori-Project
>Commie
>AnimeNOW
Heard bad stuff about Zorori’s. Commie is commie and animenow is… well animenow. Would be nice :P k thx bb
Not gonna happen, too much on my plate. Gomens. Movie looks retarded anyway, and you’re not a kid anymore, so I don’t see why you’d even want to watch it.
I double-dog-dare you to review Commie’s “My Sister Is An Osaka Momma”. Don’t let the fact that they strangely decided not to translate the title fool you.
Neko reviews up tomorrow (since I have the day off). For now, I’m gonna be drinking a lot and watching Nise to catch up.
I suppose I should amend this: Neko reviews up whenever UTW releases.
Neko reviews never.
Well if I have my pem and Commie reviews super finalized by the end of the night and UTW still hasn’t released, I’ll just review episodes 2, 3, or 4 from UTW and release my reviews. But I have a feeling one group will bitch and moan if I give UTW the “advantage” of a different episode, so I’m going to hold out for UTW’s as long as I can.
UTW is subbing it also? I didn’t see anything about that.
I plan to have a Neko TL Party out for episode 2. UTW-Mazui, Commie, and pem. If another group decides to get in the game, I’ll just have to do another TL Party.
Getting it out tonight would be a stretch goal. You’re more likely to see it tomorrow.
Also if you haven’t guessed, I’m going to basically blog my fucking plans on this page like it’s Twitter.
Sorry about that post, still figuring the site out, so UTW-Mazui and Commie tonight?
No prob dude. It’s a new policy I hid in another post~
Yes, I’ll have both reviews out tonight. Commie’s review is actually mostly done, but I want to watch UTW-Mazui’s to iron out a few things first.
Which episode are you going to be using for both groups?
01. TL Parties will likely be held for episode 02.
Did you hear Hatsuyuki’s going to do Nekomonogatari? But I probably wouldn’t bother with them because they’re too slow…
Neko TL Party out tonight. But for real I have to get some fucking work done now to keep my job so I’m gonna avoid Crymore until I get off.
Could you please review Hunter x Hunter again?
You only did episode 1, it is in episode 60 now. Groups have left and come and quality has changed. It would be nice to have a new review, to decide what group work to archive.
Apparently, there was also released BDs.
Thank you!
p.s.: on your old-subs reviews, I would also like to suggest hunter x Hunter, but the 1999 one. Thanks.
Maybe if I get realllllly bored. Cuz I’d have to catch up on the eps because I’m broken like that.
Okay, then. Don’t hurry.
But please, don’t forget too!
Thanks
Maoyuu Yuusha tonight? Or are you waiting until episode 2 is released before you start your reviews?
Ask Hadena.
I’m looking forward to this review. Hadena has vowed to improve themselves in 2013 (see their group website). Will Hadena in 2013 be any different from other years? Will DragonNumber be proud of Hadena’s work in his seat up in heaven?
Unrelated question:
You disqualify groups when they barely make any changes to the crunchyroll script. Did you have this standard when you reviewed Hadena’s Sankarea?
I don’t think I checked when I reviewed their Sankarea.
Sankarea wasn’t a Crunchyroll show to begin with so I’m not sure why you’d ask that.
So they earned a B grade without using Crunchy as a base? Interesting.
And FFF’s Maoyuu is the first release disqualified this season for not actually bothering to change the CR script. A round of applause for their “editing” team!
http://crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/FFF_Maoyuu_Maou_Yuusha.jpg
http://crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/FFF_Maoyuu_Maou_Yuusha_2.jpg
I think ours is about the same, so you can probably just move onto the next show.
Fansubbing!
You can still review ours (Anime-Koi), when we release it. It should be tonight, but the editing…took a little time. 5 hours later, I’m fairly confident it won’t be disqualified.
Yup you were right.
My, if every group was of Commie’s, FFF’s, and Hadena’s caliber, I could spend my time doing episodic blogging instead.
Of the three disqualified groups, it looks as if Hadena made the least edits.
Apparently Commie released a v3, did they actually changed the script or it’s the same? I didn’t bother downloading it.
Not significantly. v2 was to add a missing font and change the styling (plus one or two other minor revisions) and then v3 was to add the font for the new styling, which was missing from v2.
Got it, thank you.
1v3 + 2v2… fansubbing! No seriously, it’s nice to admit you’re not perfect… RHE…
And another fake fansub group to add to the pile.
http://crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Hadena_Maoyuu_Maou_Yuusha1.jpg
I think you have those backwards unless Hadena added info to the actor field.
:X
Fix’d.
EVERY. EDIT. IS. WRONG.
Lol, and of course the ~2 changes they made were for the worse.
All I can say is, whatever FFF changed or didn’t change, they produced a much more enjoyable result than did Commie: FFF’s “To find that which I long to see, yet still have not. Be my eyes. Be my light. Be my blade! This, I ask of you” may place its first period where one of at least four other punctuation marks would serve better, but the anaphoral effect is WORLDS superior to Commie’s “To find that which I long to see, yet still have not. I want you to be my eyes. My light. My blade!” Ditto for “you may be a woman and you may be bouncy” vs. “it doesn’t matter if you’re a woman _or_ bouncy.” And FFF’s decision to italicize “King” in “why is the Demon King a woman?” is clearly the correct one, as is rendering “shou ga nai” as “I have no say in it” (instead of “it wasn’t my decision”) in this context. But maybe not everyone enjoys good anaphora as much as I do?
What about the all-important typesetting and karaoke?
I believe the heart of fansubbing lies in the scripts. Therefore, I don’t consider groups which simply re-encode other releases as “fansubs”, nor do I consider groups which simply toss on karaoke and typesetting to be “fansubs”. Maybe “fanfluffers” would be a better term to use.
You have to actually deal with the fundamental essence of any release — the main script — before I can recognize a group’s contributions as valuable enough to warrant their own brand being placed on a release.
So, when should we be seeing reviews?
When the fansub groups release something. rori just released Oreshura, so expect an Oreshura review tonight.
AKB0048 subs are also out I would like to add.
Ugh. I’d have to watch the first season then. Blegh, no thanks. I’ll do AKB later.
How about I give you a summary of everything you need to know about season one? I can go into detail about it.
What you need to know:
1. What Kirara are (and do)
2. What a centernova position means
3. Who Chieri’ and Nagisa’ fathers are.
4. Why it is difficult to become an AKB0048 successor
5. A little background info on the DES couldn’t hurt I guess. Don’t think this last point is too important but whatever.
Oh my god I want to vomit already. I can’t take that list.
Fucking hell Japan. No more. Please. Just give me a chick with an addiction to nicotine and a penchant for violence and we’ll be fucking good to go.
I could save you the torture if I elaborated on each of these points. But if you truly believe that catching up is the right thing to do, I won’t waste my time writing up a summary.
I have to do this on my own. It’s not something I can pass off to others. Tis the sacrifice I must make as the darkest of sages.
I do it for you, and I do it for everyone. ;_;
I didn’t think you’ll have a hard time getting to S2, this anime is really nice. :)
don’t*
But I guess my comment is pretty much pointless right now anyways. (-_-)
I don’t know why you’d even have to review it; it’s a second season, only one group is doing it, it’s the same group that did it before, and pretty much the same staff is on it that worked on the first season.
Hadena’s doing it with slowsubs, apparently. They didn’t do s1 so I have no clue why they’re doing s2.
I went to check Hadena’s site, and noticed they have “Trollsubbing at it’s finest” up there, and the “it’s” in that sentence makes it so much more funny.
It’s also on CR, apparently 8 days late (unless they air 2 eps tomorrow, which will make it only 1 day late).
It’s a race to see who’s slower~
But yeah, I’m not sure why it’s on D_S’s list either. ‘_’
[rori] Oreshura (episode 01) review canceled. They have things going on. Safer to wait for episode 2 or later.
That means I don’t have anything planned tonight unless some other group releases something.
You have Hadena’s Minami-ke? Automatic “F”… lol
That may not be true. We’ll see. I’d much rather see Hadena improve and get a good score than another “F”.
Hadena review delayed.
[&InfectedPathogenVirus] torrent got pulled
[&InfectedPathogenVirus] editors mucked up the release
UTW’s is out too!
For those of you wondering, I was halfway through before they announced a v2. It was still an “F”, but not a Hadena-tier “F”.
Commie just released their Oreshura. Are you gonna review it?
Plan on it. Going to sleep right now though.
Why not some of the shorts, like Ai Mai Mi, Yama no Susume, Mangirl, and others I might have missed?
Those are good filler. Considering I just made a filler post, I’d rather hold off until after I post something more substantial. Maybe tomorrow morning, then?
Hi. I’m wondering if you’ll review one of our recent releases of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (you’ve got most of the other groups covered). Our group is called [GetBack]. We’re not the fastest or the most thorough, but we do try to do a good job. We might be worthy of being tagged in your C-List, at least.
We’re picking up speed on our releases, and a review from you would be excellent feedback on how we’re doing.
Vale gave us a favorable review on our broken v1 of episode 1, a few months ago.
http://notredrevie.ws/2012/10/15/translation-review-getback-jojos-bizarre-adventures-01/
You left out 9 episodes. At first I was waiting for your release because I didn’t like gg or commie but seriously.
I have no bigger regret. I was distracted by a stubborn desire to learn how to encode from square-one. Fortunately, I’ve wised up since then and finally got where I wanted to be. The last few weeks have been very productive.
The next hurdles are figuring out the details of distro.
Not to mention, working on releasing all of Phantom Blood as a batch. Hopefully by the end of the month.
Yeah, I can review your JoJo (along with other groups’ for the second season).
Okay, now that Hellsing Ultimate is complete, what would you say is the de facto way of watching it?
I was thinking of [DGz] for episodes 1 to 9 for consistency and [sage] for episode 10, since it’s the only decent one available.
What is your opinion?
English dub rips for 1-8 (assuming you can deal with dubs). Whoever ya want for 9 and then Sage for 10 (I edited for ’em, so I can’t say it’s a bad option). Otherwise, 1-9 with DGz for consistency and then sage for 10. Unless DGz releases before you finish marathoning (likely) and then you can just go with DGz straight through.
I heard DGz wouldn’t sub the 10th episode, that’s why I was going with sage. Otherwise, I will indeed just wait for them.
Also, who the hell can deal with dubs? There are very few good ones. And even those are normally inferior to their Japanese counterpart (in my opinion, at least).
dear dark sage
Can you translate Hakkenden: Touhou Hakken Ibun ??
I think it’s nice & good
In fact, I think it’s strange that no one translate it
realllly , I hope from u to think about it ….
^_^
While I wouldn’t mind the fangirl approval boost, I don’t have a TL for it.
Pretty sure it’s on CR as Eight Dogs of the East or whatever.
And just saw Anime-Koi is doing it.
Please review this:
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=390789
I would like to ask that this release get priority over other releases (regardless of the poll results) because this is a new fansub group. Obviously, not many new groups pop up in any particular reason.
Mm, just because they’re new doesn’t mean I’ll prioritize them. If nobody’s interested in the show, I’m not gonna bump out something people *are* interested in just on the offchance the new group might see the review and improve from it. I’ll keep it in mind, but it’s not getting fast-tracked just yet. Of course, if you can argue me into it, that’s fine too.
Review Queue Updated.
How much greater were the changes in the Anime-Koi and Hatsuyuki Yuusha scripts to qualify them for a review?
I haven’t seen them yet. They won’t be reviewed until I compare the scripts. And if they didn’t change anything, they won’t get reviewed either.
I suppose I should do my checks now…
Jesus Christ, what is wrong with “fansub” groups this season? http://crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/WhyNot_HorribleSubs_Gijinden_Comparison.jpg
The show’s not worth editing?
Then maybe they shouldn’t release it.
I watched that episode (the HS version) and immediately found things I’d change, editing-wise. I wonder why you’d go to all the trouble of rereleasing something if you’re not gonna put any time and effort into it…
Why put effort into making a quality fansub when you can just take Crunchyroll’s script nearly word for word, amirite?
Ebaumsworld and FunnyJunk should get in the fansubbing game.
I find it sad that WhyNot changed ‘had’ rather than ‘all.’ I would of I would of changed the line to:
“and everything they had was stolen.”
I think it sounds better.
Don’t you kinda HAVE to review WhyNot since it’s the only group doing that show? Not that i’d blame you for skipping reviews on such a shitty show or anything.
I don’t think I “have” to review anything. But I think I might do something with either it or the HorribleSubs release.
I think you should consider reviewing the original CR script in cases where a lot/most fansub groups barely edits their script. There’s no guarantee that the end result will necessarily be better for the one group that chooses to edit the CR script to a larger extent, compared to the groups that more or less use the original script. Especially for archiving, this makes knowing the base quality of the CR script important. You could always mention whatever minor edits other groups made in the same review, kind of making it one big review for all groups who barely edit the CR script. Perhaps it’d even be worth doing a visual critique of the respective groups in the same review.
Just FYI, Maoyuu, Oreshura, and Tamako will have review delays for most of the groups until episode 2 or later. Reasons vary.
But I suppose I could check out Hadena’s Tamako 01 after I finish up Commie’s Senran review.
I think we all know how hadena’s Tamako’s going to turn up. I know; I work with them, I don’t have to love all their works or to exactly know what they’re doing!
Darn, GJ-bu so low on the poll :@. Wanted to see how Anime-koi did for that release because it’s the only group doing the show.
Slowtaku’s doing it too. First episode should be out today if people are done jerking off.
Probably not. Typesetting will be slow for this episode and possibly the rest of the episodes. I seem to be the only one working on it right now.
brb yelling at puddi and lunr
hey it all worked out in the end
I think I’m up to date with the list as of this post. If I’m missing a group, it wasn’t on purpose. Just lemme know and I’ll add them in. I’ll do a more thorough sweep in a few days.
[JK], mysterious Gotwoot-Evetaku joint, released Vividred.
Gotcha. I can do sweeps for new stuff when I wake up, as I usually do throughout the day. Was more wondering if anything older slipped through the cracks that anyone wanted to yell at me about.
Can I yell at you anyway?
Too cruel!
It’s probably better to wait for their actual release instead of the dumb v0 they probably just released to get downloads…
Yeah, as a rule of thumb, if I do review v0s or Pre-Airs, it’s more of a preview and not for actual grades. And since I have a lot on my plate right now, I won’t bother.
Can’t wait to see your review of Haganai NEXT. Sadly only Mazui picked it up so far cause it would be nice to have some other groups to compare to.
Commie did it too!
Gonna have to finish the first season before I run into season 2. (I don’t usually finish shows once I’m done reviewing them, so my drop rate is pretty high.)
Haganai has no plot at all. You’d be fine skipping straight to season two without question. This applies to Minami-Ke equally as much. The sequels that are plot-based this season are AKB0048 and Chihayafuru (and Saki if you actually intend to review that).
Mind holding off on the [Hybrid] Amnesia Review? We’re gonna make a V2 of that once the official Lyrics for the ED are out, and some of the lines near the end are missing
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All right, going to sleep. FFF Sasami whenever I wake up. I can’t write/think well when I’m about to pass out, so we’ll save that for when I’m functioning. I’ll try to get out some more reviews after that too, but it may be later in the night cuz I have shit I gotta do during the day.
Someone needs to fix the thing with the margins in the comments that keeps causing the last letter to be cut off at the end of lines (at least in my browser).
It’s the bloody hard limit of the sidebar— the same reason the comments can’t take up the blank third of the comments section. Not sure what can be done about it, but it’s been a problem since this theme was adopted (after the hacking).
Uhh, not entirely sure what the problem is (because I don’t see it on my browser). OS/Browser/Version/Screencap?
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 / Chrome v23.0.1271.97 m / http://puu.sh/1MV6e
Er, maybe this would be better http://puu.sh/1MV95
I know it’s technically from the previous season, but are you planning on reviewing CR’s Little Busters now that they’ve picked it up?
Btw EveTaku did GJ-Bu, so you can probably add that to review que next to Anime-Koi’s.
Sad no one else is doing Kotoura san.
It had the best first episode this season.
HeavenlyArmed was looking for a show to sub with one of her groups that no one else was doing. If you can find her on IRC, toss her your thoughts.
Hmm, Hiryuu avoids simulcasts and Broken/Sugoi/Kira are BD groups.
AnimeTL is pretty much dead and she quit Hatsuyuki – am I missing something here? :p
Broken does the occasional airing show too, and was at one point considering Hyobu Kyosuke. And you’re actually missing Sigh, but I mostly just style and TS there.
1. [Anime-Koi] Maoyuu Maou Yuusha
2. [Commie] Vividred Operation
3. [UTW] Minami-ke Tadaima
Good line up there.
There was (and might still be) one more “group” working on Hakkenden. Some girl is doing solo work on it, and did plan on continuing, but has also considered jumping ship since other groups are releasing it.
haganai next ep1
mazui:
>9 dives
commie:
>9 lives
fansubbing.
hey D_S, can you give the groups doing kotoura-san a review? ;_; apparently, im not familiar with the 2 sub groups doing it so i was thinking if i should just go with horriblesubs or their versions.
AnimeNOW’s is a Horrible CR re-encode with an unedited script. AnimeNOW is quite honestly the worst active group around. Yes, significantly worse than Hadena.
horriblesubs it is then. man, its such a shame that no group from the cartel(tm) or any other reputable group affiliated with them picked up this show. -.-‘
Kotoura-san reappeared on Commie’s schedule list a few days ago, so there still may be hope. Or maybe there’s been a mistake and it isn’t supposed to be on there.
No, it should be happening, it just got held up a bit.
Just go with CR. Their translation is very good and they got the signs down too, so you wouldn’t need to go with a fansub unless you want better typesetting or song translations or something.
There were a few translation errors in ep2 that we fixed for our version, actually. Thanks to lyger and Futsuu for pointing them out.
A few is to be expected. I’m pretty sure I noticed some too, but it’s good enough overall that the few errors wouldn’t make too big a difference.
It’s good enough because Kotoura-san is an easy show to translate, but one of the errors was a pretty critical misinterpretation that should not have happened in a professional subtitle.
http://animenow.vacau.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/kotoura.jpg 100% re-encode
CR fucked up and didn’t IVTC the first episode. That seems to be a thing for them this season, actually… -___-
It looks like Hatsuyuki is subbing “Amnesia” too.
Also they Hatsuyuki-Hybrid (join) is doing vividred.
Dream team~
Sweet! Now I can forget about getting anything else from Commie. If only another group would do Chihaya other then them and HS.
>implying the joint is better than Commie
You serious, mate?
Well, they managed to make CR’s Senyuu. worse, so…
Nah, but in all seriousness, going by name alone I’d expect JK > Commie > CR > Hatsuyuki-Hybrid.
Oh, by the way, Hatsuyuki also picked up DC with the words:
“Originally we were just going to do a CR edit, but the Da Capo series deserves a better fansub than that[sic] so I offered to translate it. Now, my Japanese isn’t what I would call excellent[..]”
Now that’s a review that will be fun.
Joint doesn’t matter to me. What I do not prefer is Commie’s liberal TL. I am especially put off when curse words are inserted when it’s not necessary. No disrespect intended with Commie that’s just my preference.
From those screenshots provided by Xythar I’ll get JK instead and HS for speed.
Commie and JK release days before HS, actually.
If swear words tick you off from subs, oh boy..
Most of the time when Commie inserts swear words into the subs it usually fits the characters emotion and reactions.
No. Swear words are fucking disgraceful, and can never represent the emotions of a character. I mean, you don’t hear people swearing in real life, do you?
Actually, yes I do? Who the fuck doesn’t swear, I sure as hell do in real life; especially in a state of depression.
I do believe you have fallen for my novel brand of sardonic witticism I have chanced upon. I think I shall refer to it as “sarcasm”. Perhaps my usage of such crude language in a comment protesting profanity should have indicated the jocular nature of my comment.
I assumed you were being sarcastic at first, but I didn’t really care whether you were or not.
You just felt like acting indignant, eh? :P
Abso-fucking-lutely.
There haven’t even been any swear words in Vividred so I’m not sure what the big deal is but whatever.
They were listing it as the facet of Commie’s style they most take issue with in general. I don’t really see the problem either, especially considering much of anime involves teens acting stroppy towards each other.
They’re the last to release by far, so I’m not sure why you wouldn’t just get JK in that case.
Also lol @ third-last screenshot http://www.subcompare.com/vividred_operation/
Is the Commie line a Star Fox 64 reference? If so, all my love to Malarious.
Hey, Dark sage, sorry to bother you but when can we start seeing reviews again?
Today or tomorrow.
Meaning tomorrow. The Ohayocon post is just a clever ruse so we won’t notice that there won’t be any today. ;)
Perhaps. Depends how long of a nap I take when I get off work. Only got 2-3 hours of sleep last night.
Okay, well are you going to go by the review queue? Because I really want to see Anime-Koi’s Maoyuu Maou Yuusha…
I will need to update the queue first.
Review Queue will be updated for sure tonight. First up on my plate is Anime-Koi’s Maouyuu which will LIKELY be done sometime mid-Thursday night. Earlier if I become really efficient at editing the Hyobu [Unlimited] script (re-writing an entire script is a little more time-consuming than regular editing).
I voted in that poll of yours before the season had actually started. Can you (in spirit) retract my Vividred Operation vote and add it towards Kotoura-san instead?
Well, I can modify the numbers on my end if I want, but I’d rather not do that unless for comedic effect.
In spirit, sure.
Queue Updated.
Translation Parties added to the Queue.
A note about my Tamako Market reviews: There is a very small timeframe of ~12 hours for each episode where I feel I can review Commie/Mazui’s releases with the least amount of bias. (Since I edit for GotWoot and tend to be full of myself, I may be predisposed toward *my* choices for a given line, rather than what makes the most sense from a specific group’s standpoint. One way to minimize this bias is to review a release BEFORE I edit for GW.)
So, look for one Tamako review next Wednesday and the last Tamako review the Wednesday after.
No love for Amnesia?
<denpa>> hey Dark_Sage
<&Dark_Sage> Yo
<denpa> why did [hybrid] amnesia disappear from the review queue?
<&Dark_Sage> Accident.
<Novles> Dark_Sage doesn’t have accidents! He purposely left it out to confuse people!
Currently getting drunk and half-editing Hyobu, half-watching Nichijou. Not sure how this night is gonna turn out, but it looks like there’s gonna be an equal amount of potential and POTENTIAL.
How’s Nichijou?
Terrible. I’d rather just watch Azumanga Daioh again.
I didn’t like Nichijou either. There were a few scenes that I thought were funny, but that was about it.
>Reviews 3 min shows
>Doesn’t review Line Offline: Salaryman
We are even caught up with the airing ;_;
It’s not a Winter 2013 show, so I don’t care. ;_;
Line Offline: Salaryman started airing on the 8th of January, 2013.
Just looked it up. Yeah, I don’t review cartoons. Anime only~
http://myanimelist.net/anime/16906/Line_Offline:_Salaryman
?
http://myanimelist.net/anime/7510/Shisha_no_Sho
If you want to argue that claymation is anime too, have at it. Personally I think it’s a bullshit argument.
Anime is a style of animation and I think it’s ridiculous that a person’s national origins should be the litmus test for whether or not they can create anime. Actually, haven’t we had this discussion before? http://crymore.net/2012/10/13/what-is-an-anime/
Doesn’t matter. I had a quick look at subcompare, so I’ll save you the effort
Cookie: Who the fuck thought that styling was a good idea? F, unwatchable.
Ruri-Saizen: Who the fuck thought that styling was a good idea? F, unwatchable.
Xythar, best thar.
I’d just like to say, I take full responsibility for dat green. I did it to match the company logo (makes sense with the show). In my defence, I probably would have been a little more conservative on the style if it was longer than three minutes, but I decided to push the boat out :D
I thought cartoons produced in Japan were anime.
And didn’t you say Adventure Time was an anime?
So, no Inferno Cop or Gdgd Fairies reviews?
I could do Inferno, sure. Don’t see Fairies as an anime though.
“[Anime-Koi] Maoyuu Maou Yuusha. Disqualified due to only minimal changes to the CR script. ”
So why’s it still listed under Fansub Reviews Left?
Fixed. But Maoyuu is a clusterfuck on all sides. I’m going to give the groups another shot later on in the series so I can see if they really decided to lazymode it on all the episodes or just the first few.
Haganai S2 reviews when? Would love to find out if Commie is worth waiting a week for.
I need to finish s1 first. 6 episodes in!
Good stuff: http://crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Coalgirls_Boku_wa_Tomodachi_ga_Sukunai_08_1920x1080_Blu-Ray_FLAC_058E9D00.mkv_snapshot_06.45_2013.02.03_21.48.06.jpg
4 episodes left to go now yay.
Hard to remember if that scene was funny considering that I completely forgot the context
It was pretty good. Maidbro fed lolinun some really fucked up shit and it was heavily implied lolinun thought very poorly of the experience.
So we get to this scene and it’s right after we hear that maidbro fed lolinun some really expensive and delicious food. And we finally get to hear lolinun’s opinion about that prior event, which is (at least in this translation) explicitly hilarious. It was probably my favorite scene in the show so far.
As for the show itself… terribly overrated. The characters suck.
I get that characters are supposed to have flaws, but in a light-hearted comedy series, those flaws are supposed to be endearing, not off-putting. Instead, we get a mean-spirited bully, a retarded bimbo, and an enabling main character. It’s not a recipe for success.
The bullying in Haganai does less to off-put the viewers than that seen in OreShura
Not really. In OreShura, the bullying isn’t presented as a positive thing. It’s addressed as an issue constantly. But in Haganai, oh it’s just Yozora being Yozora.
YoSora is S
Meat (Sena) is M
btw, IB Mondaiji. thx.
That may have been the intent on the drawing board, but it’s not how it came across in execution.
Anyway, glad to see IB’s doing Mondaiji. Added.
I’m happy to have found someone likeminded on this subject. Sena is being bullied, plain and simple, and it makes me mad whenever Kodaka looks at the scene and just goes “it can’t be helped”. When the other person is being purposefully humiliated, that’s when it stops being funny. I don’t mind Sena’s dumbness too much, but I have to admit that I’d like to see her defend herself and win, for a change. Just like I’d want to see Tom eat Jerry or Coyote finally satiate his appetite and feast upon that fucking bird.
I guess I’m a masochist, because I like this show quite a lot. I have the same kind of love-hate relationship with violent tsundere characters.
All right finished it. Time to write up an article for people like us~
An article, you say?
Well apparently my Anime Opinions threads have been quite popular. Surely Boku’s Tomo’s deserves the same treatment.
Don’t go to sleep yet. We have three reviews coming up tonight. o/
I’m waiting.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
FalseDawn ([email protected]) Quit (Quit: Getting the hell outta Dodge)
<%Matsumae_Ohana> Fansub Review: [IB] Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo (Episode 04) http://crymore.net/2013/02/09/fansub-review-ib-mondaiji-tachi-ga-isekai-kara-kuru-sou-desu-yo-episode-04/
Shoulda waited~
Will you be reviewing CureCom’s release of DokiDoki as well?
Yes.
Since we’re on the subject in this comment chain here, seeing how Doki pulled a fast one *cough*not really*cough* and decided to sub DokiDoki too, will you review that release as well?
Just asking out of curiosity (since I just noticed the releases on their page; I watch their page for the last few BD/DVD projects I’m getting from them and I expect to jump ship for good until they shape up), if nothing else. I honestly can’t remember the last time I watched a show from them that they subbed themselves.
Yeah, I’ll review it.
Hey D_S, when you do the TL Party for Mondaiji, could you possibly use episode 6 or later?
Amanatsu> We got a new QC who actually knows English yay
I QC this show for IB now, so the awkward language you noted in your review is rectified, beginning with Ep 06.
You got it.
Thanks kindly, good sir… Somehow 2 typos got introduced when my QC report was implemented for Ep.06, so this week I’m going to ask to recheck the script before final release. Fansubbing!
QC changes phrasing? Who QCs the QC, then?
The editor, when implementing (or discarding, or reinterpreting) the changes & fixes suggested in the QC report.
That’s less exciting than I had hoped.
Fansubbing!
Three weeks until Spring anime season starts!
Oh fuck, what?
OreShura is still at episode 7, so… no. A few NicoNico streams are starting in early March, but the TV airings of the show are later.
I think it’s mostly pre-airs airing this March.
So you’re saying that “Date A Live” and “Red Data Girl” are going to be nico streams?
Just went and looked it up myself. Both shows will stream on niconico.
So if groups edit the show from nico rips, is Dark_Sage going to review em? Or will he only do fansub reviews for TV airings?
Nico counts in my book.
Da Capo reviews canceled because that show is a cancer.
More like, your tastes in anime are cancer.
Are you actually watching the show? It’s legitimately terrible.
No, Da Crapo is just inarguably a steaming heap of failshit.
Fine. At least review Love Live! and have good and lots of “Eri” screen shots.
Commie’s Chihayafuru should be disqualified for making very few changes to the CR script.
I’ll have to look into that one some more. They were arguing with me that they changed enough of the script to count and that they handled the poem translation on their own. If a group’s confident they threw all they could into something and it’s not a case where they obviously didn’t -at all- I tend to lean in their favor.
It should also be noted that Commie added some perspective in their latest release post:
http://commiesubs.com/chihayafuru-2-07/
Hmmm… fair enough. I only compared five minutes of one episode (there were very few changes and most of them didn’t improve the script) and probably should’ve compared a whole episode.
After looking at Commie’s post for episode 7, I do see that CR’s translation for this show can be lacking.
Possible of a TL Party (or some type) for the Movie “Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki” ? I know 3 groups that have done it:
>Zorori-Project
>Commie
>AnimeNOW
Heard bad stuff about Zorori’s. Commie is commie and animenow is… well animenow. Would be nice :P k thx bb
Not gonna happen, too much on my plate. Gomens. Movie looks retarded anyway, and you’re not a kid anymore, so I don’t see why you’d even want to watch it.
Because Hosoda Mamoru.
I hated Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. They’re movies for the casuals who like Ghibli’s whitewashed Disney garbage.
I’m 95% certain that Commie is the best choice anyways.
I double-dog-dare you to review Commie’s “My Sister Is An Osaka Momma”. Don’t let the fact that they strangely decided not to translate the title fool you.
Will you review Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: The Movie 2nd A’s?
Commie and HorribleSubs released it already and I guess others will follow…