So many ~fansub~ groups doing the show — How’s a person supposed to know which is best? Well, hopefully this TL Party will help you decide that.
Translation Party House Rules:
1. Translation Parties are intended to help you make the best subtitle choice for a given anime. Choose which line(s) you liked best by selecting them with the checkbox.
2. If you didn’t like any of the lines, choose the “N/A” option. The results for “N/A” won’t be automatically tabulated, so you’ll have to do the math in your head. Have my gomens and nasais.
3. A “>” indicates that another character has begun speaking. If there are three characters in a line comparison, I will indicate the third with a “>>” and so on for more characters.
4. Group order is randomized for each screenshot, every time you refresh the page. However, the “N/A” option will always appear at the bottom of the screen.
5. Your results will be summed up when you click the “Get your results” button. Feel free to vote in the poll at the end/post in the comments to let others know how you did and to compare your results with them.
6. Party hard.
Maoyuu Maou Yuusha – Episode 02
Comparisons: 13
For Maoyuu Yuusha, I highly recommend choosing only ONE option per screenshot. You’ll enjoy the results a lot more.
Participants:
Anime-Koi
Commie
FFF
Hadena
Hatsuyuki
Codes:
{\i1} indicates the start of italics
{\i0} indicates the close of italics
1.
Meat/Meido talking to Yuusha.
Anime-Koi :: We need education.
>Education?
>>The act of instructing another in things of importance.
Commie :: We need education.
>Education?
>>The act of instructing another in things of importance.
FFF :: We need education.
>Education?
>>The act of instructing another in things of importance.
Hadena :: We need education.
>Education?
>>The act of instructing another in things of importance.
Hatsuyuki :: We need to educate them first.
>Educate?
>>The act of instructing another in things of importance.
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
2.
Yuusha talking to Meat.
Anime-Koi :: But I’m the Demon King.
>You’re being very modest.
I-It’s part of my plot!
Commie :: But I’m the Demon King.
>You’re being very modest.
I-It’s part of my plot!
FFF :: But I’m the Demon King.
>You’re being very modest.
I-It’s part of my plot!
Hadena :: But I’m the Demon King…
>You’re being very modest.
I-It’s all a part of my plan!
Hatsuyuki :: But I {\i1}am{\i0} the Demon King.
>You sure are being modest.
I-It’s part of my plot!
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
3.
Meat talking to Yuusha.
Anime-Koi :: Your hair is so soft.
>Your thighs are soft, too.
Are they?
They aren’t too fat?
Commie :: Your hair is so soft.
>Your thighs are soft, too.
Are they?
They aren’t too fat?
FFF :: Your hair is so soft.
>Your thighs are soft, too.
Are they?
They aren’t too fat?
Hadena :: Your hair is so soft.
>Your thighs are soft, too.
Are they?
They aren’t too fat?
Hatsuyuki :: Your hair is very soft.
>Your thighs are soft, too.
Are they?
They aren’t too fat?
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
4.
Yuusha talking to Meido.
Anime-Koi :: There are slaves here?
>There are slaves everywhere.
No!
There aren’t slaves in the human world!
Commie :: There are slaves here?
>There are slaves everywhere.
No!
There aren’t slaves in the human world!
FFF :: There are slaves here?
>There are slaves everywhere.
No!
There aren’t any slaves in the human world!
Hadena :: There are slaves here?
>There are slaves everywhere.
No!
There aren’t slaves in the human world!
Hatsuyuki :: There are slaves here?
>There are slaves everywhere.
No!
There aren’t any slaves in the human world!
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
5.
All Serf B.
Anime-Koi :: We’ll make it the rest of the way!
We’ll go to the capital and live together.
Commie :: We’ll make it the rest of the way!
We’ll go to the capital and live together.
FFF :: We’ll make it the rest of the way!
We’ll go to the capital and live together there!
Hadena :: We’ll make it the rest of the way, too!
We’ll go to the capital and live there together!
Hatsuyuki :: We’ll definitely make it the rest of the way!
We’ll go to the capital and live together.
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
6.
All Meido.
Anime-Koi :: I’ll say it once more.
One incapable of determining their own fate is an insect.
I dislike insects.
Commie :: I’ll say it once more.
One who is incapable of determining their own fate is no better than an insect.
I dislike insects.
FFF :: I’ll say it once more.
One incapable of determining their own fate is just an insect.
I dislike insects.
Hadena :: I’ll say it once more.
One incapable of determining their own destiny is an insect.
I don’t like insects.
Hatsuyuki :: I’ll say it once more.
One incapable of determining their own fate is an insect.
I dislike insects.
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
7.
Meido sexily admonishing Serf A/B.
Anime-Koi :: Apologize.
>I-I’m sorry for the trouble
>we’ve caused the nobles of this house…
>I apologize.
Commie :: Apologize.
>I-I’m sorry for the trouble
>we’ve caused the nobles of this house.
>I apologize.
FFF :: Apologize.
>I’m sorry for the trouble…
>we’ve caused the nobles of this house.
>I apologize.
Hadena :: Apologize.
>I’m sorry for the trouble
>that we’ve caused the nobles of this house…
>I apologize.
Hatsuyuki :: Now, apologize.
>We apologize for the trouble
>we’ve caused the nobles of this house…
>We’re sorry.
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
8.
Meido talking to Serf A.
Anime-Koi :: Is that all?
>Please make us human.
Commie :: Is that all?
>Please make us human.
FFF :: Is that all?
>Please make us human.
Hadena :: Is that all?
>Please make us human.
Hatsuyuki :: Is that all?
>Please make us human!
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
9.
Yuusha talking to Meido-chan B.
Anime-Koi :: Just what is she teaching you?
>My sister and I are learning lots of things,
>so we can do lots of things!
>We’ll make it so there’s plenty of food and no fighting!
Commie :: Just what is she teaching you?
>My sister and I are learning lots of things
>so we can do lots of things!
>We’ll make it so there’s plenty of food and no fighting!
FFF :: Just what is she teaching you?
>My sister and I are learning lots of things,
>so we can {\i1}do{\i0} lots of things!
>We’ll make it so there’s plenty of food and no fighting!
Hadena :: Just what is she teaching you?
>My sister and I are learning lots of different things,
>so we can do a lot!
>We’ll make sure there’s plenty of food and no fighting!
Hatsuyuki :: Just {\i1}what{\i0} is she teaching you?
>My sister and I are learning lots of things,
>so we can do lots of things!
>We’ll make it so there’s plenty of food and no fighting!
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
10.
Meido-chan A asks Meat a question in class and Nobleman follows up.
Anime-Koi :: What about the Crusade of the Holy Key?
>That’s an exception.
>How is it an exception?
>>Yes!
Commie :: What about the Crusade of the Holy Key?
>That’s an exception.
>How is it an exception?
>>Yes!
FFF :: What about the Crusade of the Holy Key?
>That’s an exception.
>How is it an exception?
>>Yes!
Hadena :: Um, what about the Crusade of the Holy Key?
>That’s an exception.
>How is it an exception?
>>Yes!
Hatsuyuki :: Um, what about the Crusade of the Holy Key?
>Yes, that is an exception.
>Why is it an exception?
>>I know!
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
11.
All Nobleman.
Anime-Koi :: In the last fifteen years, there have been two.
They destroyed two important demon cities,
but despite their divine blessings,
they were unable to seize the demon capital.
Commie :: In the last fifteen years, there have been two.
They destroyed two important demon cities,
but despite their divine blessings,
they were unable to capture the demon capital.
FFF :: In the last fifteen years, there have been two.
They destroyed two important demon cities,
but despite their divine blessings,
they were unable to capture the capital.
Hadena :: In the last fifteen years, there have been two forces.
They have managed to destroy two important demon cities,
but despite their divine blessings,
they did not manage to capture the demon capital.
Hatsuyuki :: In the last fifteen years, there have been two.
They destroyed two important demon cities,
but despite their divine blessings,
they were unable to capture the demon capital.
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
12.
Meat lecturing the class and getting interrupted by this fucking jerkoff.
Anime-Koi :: Humans need to eat, or they’ll starve and die.
>But, ma’am, you can’t fight a war by fiddling with an abacus!
Commie :: Humans need to eat, or they’ll starve and die.
>But ma’am, you can’t fight a war by playing with an abacus!
FFF :: Humans need to eat, or they’ll starve and die.
>But, ma’am, you can’t fight a war by playing with an abacus!
Hadena :: Humans need to eat, or they’ll starve and die.
>But, ma’am, you can’t fight a war with numbers and statistics!
Hatsuyuki :: Humans need to eat, or they’ll starve and die.
>But, ma’am, you can’t fight a war by playing with an abacus!
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
13.
Yuusha talking to Meat.
Anime-Koi :: Here.
How’s that?
>Acceptable.
You’re pretty haughty.
>I’m so glad I made you mine, Hero.
Commie :: Here.
How’s that?
>Acceptable.
You’re pretty haughty.
>I’m so glad I made you mine, Hero.
FFF :: Here.
How’s that?
>Acceptable.
You’re pretty haughty.
>I’m so glad I made you mine, Hero.
Hadena :: Here.
How’s that?
>Acceptable.
You’re pretty haughty.
>I’m so glad I made you mine, Hero.
Hatsuyuki :: Here.
How’s that?
>Not bad.
You’re pretty haughty.
>I’m so glad I made you mine, Hero.
to mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing :: N/A. They all sucked.
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Sort of seems like a lot of the lines are the same.
Hard to pick one when they’re identical.
That’s the point.
FFF vs. CR
Hadena vs. CR
Commie vs. CR
Anime-Koi vs. CR
props for good usage of notepad++
>Looks like your best bet is Hadena
wwwww
xaxaxaxaxaxa
Anime-Koi: 0 times
Commie: 2 times
FFF: 1 time
Hadena: 6 times
Hatsuyuki: 4 times
Looks like your best bet is Hadena
You are not alone. :(
Anime-Koi: 0 times
Commie: 1 time
FFF: 2 times
Hadena: 5 times
Hatsuyuki: 5 times
It’s a tie between Hadena and Hatsuyuki.
Wowie, I did not expect that.
The one that stood out most to me was the 11th ‘All Nobleman’ question.
Only one group had the horse sense to write this: “In the last fifteen years, there have been two.
In the last fifteen years, there have been two forces.”
The rest of the groups wrote: “In the last fifteen years, there have been two.”
“Two” what? Specify something dammit!
>It’s a tie between Hadena and Hatsuyuki
Although I chose “they all suck” more times.
I’ve already taken a look at all the releases to decide and I have to say FFF is my favorite
I rolled a five-sided die and got Hatsuyuki.
be honest, you rolled a six sided die, and re-rolled if you rolled a six
Welp.
You know too much.
Hatsuyuki… wow, too bad they’re slow :V
We’re only slow because Naru is drunk half the time in chan.
>It’s a tie between FFF and Hadena
hoho
Hadena won.
http://puu.sh/1JGG2
ROFL.
Anime-Koi: 4 times
Commie: 3 times
FFF: 2 times
Hadena: 1 time
Hatsuyuki: 2 times
Looks like your best bet is Anime-Koi
“But, ma’am, you can’t fight a war with numbers and statistics!” <- Anyone else agree that this edit is terrible?
Anime-Koi: 2 times
Commie: 1 time
FFF: 4 times
Hadena: 4 times
Hatsuyuki: 2 times
It’s a tie between FFF and Hadena
>> FFF it is. looks like it will all boil down on to group preference when most lines are just similar with each other. -.-“
>But ma’am, you can’t fight a war by playing with an abacus!
Looks like Commie’s the only group who knows how to use commas properly. Here’s a tip: You NEVER put a comma after a conjunction. Even if you follow a conjunction with something you’d normally put commas around, like here, you don’t put the first comma.
(For the nonbelievers, I have already googled it for you. Look at the second paragraph after the second rule at http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm )
http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/punctuation/comma/14/comma-use-around-interrupters/
Yes, you put commas around interrupters. But you ignore the first comma in the case of conjunctions. That’s what the site I linked was stating. It’s an exception to the rule. Your site doesn’t have a single example where there is a coordinating conjunction immediately before the interrupter because like I said, that case is an exception. Instead of googling “commas around interrupters”, try googling “comma after conjunction”. You’ll get hundreds of sites explaining it.
“ma’am” here is a direct address.
Spoiler alert: they’re all the same.
FFF won, but wow such little script changes.
Hay guyz, this is a fanfic we @ #whine-subs wrote.
http://piratepad.net/swbipMehUg
Started by Dark_Sage! ^____^
OMG! Someone raped Dark_Sage’s beautiful creation. This is his magnum opus, though.
http://piratepad.net/ep/pad/view/swbipMehUg/rev.3036
I have nothing to do with that.
He’s just a little too modest~
^___^
Hatsuyuki is the clear winner here.
Anime-Koi: 0 times
Commie: 0 times
FFF: 4 times
Hadena: 3 times
Hatsuyuki: 7 times
They’re all pretty much the same though. Kinda disappointing.
Guess I’ll just stick with Horriblesubs. =/
http://puu.sh/1SMRP
It’s just like t-ball, everybody gets a ribbon and a juicebox.
And yes, I use Explorer, blow me.
Nothing wrong with the newer versions of Internet Explorer.
Actually, both 10 and 09 suck. I do like 8 though.
IE6 will always be my one and only~
Overall scores…
Anime-Koi: 1 time
Commie: 0 times
FFF: 1 time
Hadena: 2 times
Hatsuyuki: 2 times
It’s a tie between Hadena and Hatsuyuki
pathetic…
Anime-Koi: 5 times
Commie: 2 times
FFF: 3 times
Hadena: 2 times
Hatsuyuki: 1 time
Looks like your best bet is Anime-Koi
i don’t haven’t watch maoyuu yuusha from anime-koi ( ‘-‘)
you should probably pick hadena with that english
I don’t haven’t see any problems with it.
I don’t haven’t seen what you did have done there.
I just wanted to add to this troll chain!
Uh right,
I don’t see anything wrong with it either! (I just ruined the chain! yey :) )
What not have you done?!
Maybe is because of this: http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/double-negatives
@herkz
Ha ha wow, thanks for that comment! I haven’t LOL’d that hard in a while.
Overall scores…
Anime-Koi: 0 times
Commie: 0 times
FFF: 1 time
Hadena: 0 times
Hatsuyuki: 2 times
Looks like your best bet is Hatsuyuki
Clearly fansubing at its best. ~_~
This is probably the best script Hadena released in a long time.
Overall scores…
Anime-Koi: 0 times
Commie: 3 times
FFF: 0 times
Hadena: 5 times
Hatsuyuki: 4 times
Looks like your best bet is Hadena
Welp, I’m glad I dropped this.
Btw, which group did the statistics edit?
…oh, Hadena. Figures.
You even took time to make this TL Party XD
This topic is pointless.
Where’s mah review?
v(” )v
Anime-Koi: 0 times
Commie: 2 times
FFF: 2 times
Hadena: 2 times
Hatsuyuki: 7 times
Looks like your best bet is Hatsuyuki
Woo, random chance. Glorious fansubbing future.
Anime-Koi: 0 times
Commie: 1 time
FFF: 1 time
Hadena: 1 time
Hatsuyuki: 2 times
Looks like your best bet is Hatsuyuki
CR wins.
Overall scores…
Anime-Koi: 1 time
Commie: 1 time
FFF: 2 times
Hadena: 4 times
Hatsuyuki: 9 times
Looks like your best bet is Hatsuyuki
horriblesubs it is.
Anime-Koi: 1 time
Commie: 1 time
FFF: 1 time
Hadena: 2 times
Hatsuyuki: 7 times
Looks like your best bet is Hatsuyuki
I never watch Hatsuyuki release ==”
Anime-Koi: 1 time
Commie: 1 time
FFF: 0 times
Hadena: 1 time
Hatsuyuki: 7 times
I picked the lines which appeared to be different when compared to the original CR subs. I downloaded the FFF release, but now I guess I’m going with Hatsuyuki. Oh, wait. I don’t actually watch this show.
Didn’t bother voting because it’s all CR. Show’s shit anyway so why bother doing any work whatsoever?
Overall scores…
Anime-Koi: 0 times
Commie: 1 time
FFF: 2 times
Hadena: 4 times
Hatsuyuki: 5 times
Looks like your best bet is Hatsuyuki
Close call between Hadena and Hatsuyuki :(
Anime-Koi: 4 times
Commie: 3 times
FFF: 4 times
Hadena: 5 times
Hatsuyuki: 4 times
Looks like your best bet is Hadena
Somewhat surprising, but the difference was definitely negligible. Why 5 separate teams felt they had to throw their hardly edited CR scripts into the fray is beyond me (well, frankly it’s not, but it’s still fucking stupid). Besides that, how were we supposed to pick one option there were only two different versions of the lines half the bloody time?
More like why are all the slow groups with bad typesetting wasting their time. They get like 2k downloads.
I assume it’s because most fansub groups have half-decent to sucky translators or they just can’t find any new ones, so they just give up and default to CR.
It’s not a bad thing sometimes, but they should at least try to edit the damn scripts better.
No, it’s quite intelligent to edit a CR script. I think some people just have some stupid preconceived notion that CR is terrible and always needs heavy editing.
CR IZ DE WERSTIST EVA NZ I H8Z DEMZ BCUZ DAI SAK
This was pointless.
Right off the bat you rule out Anime-koi for their improper use of italics and Hadena for the added mistakes. The other groups, except Hatsuyuki, barely did any editing on a script that was mediocre at best.
As far as I know, Hatsuyuki is always at least one episode behind, so Horriblesubs may be everyone’s best bet, assuming speed is of importance to you.
There’s still the encode factor, which always rules HS out.
I’d take either Commie or AnimeKoi if I still watched this. I’d be curious about some screenshot comparisons.
Besides the lack of IVTC on some shows this season, that’s not :usually: the case at all.
The (main) point of the party was that there’s no real difference between the groups’ scripts so why bother with them if they’re not gonna put any effort into it? (Though I’m gonna look at some of the later episodes and determine if the groups actually decided to start editing them for real.)
So yes, the post had a point, and you got the point, you just didn’t think I was making it.
I got the point while I was checking out the translation party and after I was done writing my comment. For some reason ”this is pointless” was stuck in my head, so I just wrote it.
On the downside, though, this may bring more harm than originally intended. At some level, people will believe the results of this party reflect the average quality of a group’s releases. People will think better of Hatsuyuki (maybe a good thing) and even worse of Commie (maybe a bad thing).
You should always think badly of commie
Oh, you’re right, if popular groups release a really derpy and stupid release, we shouldn’t poke holes at them because they are popular…
Where’s the really derpy and stupid release here again?
You missed my point.
First, what does popularity has to do with anything?
Second, bad releases? There are 13 fragments of the script posted above and they aren’t ”derpy and stupid.”
My point was that for the most part all the lines are the same, and should you randomly vote for any of those, the results would serve no purpose. But people, knowing this, would still mold their biases as if they were prove of quality rather than luck of the draw.
idk maybe there are other things to a release than editing
I didn’t know the post had a point. I thought it was for the ‘lols.’
“Is our children learning?” (sic)
The problem is not lack of editing so much as it is bad editing. Three of my preferred ‘edits’ were non-unanimous ties, i.e. they were unedited scenes. Several groups seem to have taken serviceable, if awkward, lines—and fucked them up.
Take the first question. I didn’t like either form of the script, but only Hatsuyuki took a character’s uttered definition for a noun and changed the word they referred to into a verb; ironically that word was ‘education’. The other groups left the original script unedited there, but they failed similarly elsewhere.
Particularly annoying for me was where inappropriate italics (emphasis) was applied on words. Used judiciously, italics provide clarity and contrast, but sometimes a scene should to be left alone {\i1}or{\i0} reworded instead.
Overall scores…
Anime-Koi/Commie/FFF: 4 times
Hadena: 7 times
Hatsuyuki: 6 times
Looks like your best bet is Hadena
WTF?!
>As far as I know, Hatsuyuki is always at least one episode behind
That’s true for some shows, but they don’t seem to be suffering from those kinds of delays for this show.
“Hatsuyuki is always at least one episode behind”
How is it possible to be behind on a show when all you do is apparently spend half an hour looking over the CR script and say “yep, looks good”? Are they years behind on the stuff they do from scratch?
They just released episode 11 of Code Breaker.
Anime-Koi: 2 times
Commie: 1 time
FFF: 0 times
Hadena: 3 times
Hatsuyuki: 7 times
Looks like your best bet is Hatsuyuki
>Use FFF anyway for the style
>Give no fucks
You should give your opinions on font choice and typesetting in a single post, though I admit that I laughed after the first comparison set.
Anime-Koi: 0 times
Commie: 0 times
FFF: 1 time
Hadena: 2 times
Hatsuyuki: 3 times
Mourn/celebrate the death of fansubbing: 7 times
I guess I shouldn’t have chosen Hatsuyuki earlier because the end result wasn’t much different from HorribleSubs’s release.
Luckily I only made it through 2 lines before I realized that they were all the fucking same, so I saved myself a ton of time by abandoning this translation party early.
Anime-Koi: 0 times
Commie: 1 time
FFF: 1 time
Hadena: 1 time
Hatsuyuki: 5 times
Looks like your best bet is Hatsuyuki
Yeah, they are the only ones who showed any signs of competence. Will use them unless I need the show at exact moment and they’re late.
This “translation” party left bad aftertaste. Thanks Dark_Sage.
Whomever voted for Hadena should fucking kill themselves.
Sorry, that was me
Should have compared the TL of the OP and ED between the groups (before the “official” lyrics came out). Hatsuyuki butchered the OP TL
Didn’t even think of looking at the kara; good idea.
Miss this gem.
And some retards above still thinks their release’s better than the others. xDDDDDD