Fansub Review: [Asuka Subs] Kyoukai no Kanata (Episode 02)

October 16, 2014October 15, 2013 by Dark_Sage

This post was written by Dark_Sage. He is Dark_Sage.

There are but two certainties in this world: death and Asuka Subs making me wish for it.

Release Information

Visual Quality

Script Quality

Results

Release Information

Episode details.

Release format: MKV (326 MB, 8-bit)

Japanesiness: I think they want it to be Japanesey.

English style: American English.

Encoding details: http://pastebin.com/pnAhBSw1

Speed: Quick (<48 hours)

Chapters: None, of course. Chapters are for the literate.

Translation style: “Eh, fuck it.”

External links.

Group website: http://asuka-subs.blogspot.com/

IRC channel: N/A. IRC’s too confusing for them. (Yes, I still have that how2IRC post coming in. Don’t worry.)

Visual Review

Karaoke.

Opening. I guess we’ll pass it.

Rating: Okay, but the English isn’t.

Ending. So retarded it somehow works.

Rating: Okay, but the English isn’t.

Typesetting.

Spoiler for

Script Review

Main Script.

Actually, it is not eye.

Oh wow, a pun that is completely irrelevant (read: wrong). Nice try though.

Then stop trainwrecking.

Two too many.

I often get the feeling that groups like Asuka Subs are a ploy by the governments of the world to trick aliens into thinking there’s no intelligent life on Earth.

I thought a bottle of vodka would be enough to get through this release, but at this point I don’t think even Russia has enough to dull the pain.

While I’m sure Asuka Subs will rejoice that variates is technically a word, I do believe they will have the wind knocked out of their sails when they realize it’s not exactly what they wanted.

Aww, who am I kidding? There’s a reason they call it “retard happy”.

Audio: [mp3t track="http://www.crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/asukasubsareacancer.mp3" play="Start audio" stop="Pause this shit" volslider="y"]

I suggest the latter.

NTR! NTR!

Youtube, help me understand this.

Thanks, Youtube.

If only.

Brain pain-hurt.

I don’t know what of itself is, but I do know if Asuka Subs is providing it, I probably don’t want it.

Cyanide: try it.

Asuka Subs’ translator strikes me as the kinda guy who’d drink a bottle of bleach and claim it was his favorite anime.

You don’t say.

Your thoughts are more than enough.

Yes, Sentences End With Punctuation

If a genie offered me three wishes, I’d make all three of them this.

No, wait, I’d make my third wish for Taco Bell to bring its breakfast menu to Minnesota. But yeah, the first two wishes stand.

Let’s Word Mouth!

All right, I’m sure you’re getting bored of all the one-line mistakes. How about Asuka Subs’ interpretation of a conversation?

What, you want to get back to the one-liners now? Too bad. You’re gonna get a whole scene of Asukaglish.

Asuka Subs is like a modern-day Descartes. Well, a modern-day Descartes who shits himself and frolics in his own excrement while screaming about how banzai Japan is, but hey, not everyone can be perfect.

Inspiring.

Worse Cat Puns Than Commie (Somehow)

I do not suggest clicking this spoiler.

Spoiler for

tl;dr

Why not let Asuka Subs explain the issues here in their own words?

Spoiler for

Results

Watchability: Unwatchable.

Visual grade: C

Script grade: F

Overall grade: F

Don’t even make eye contact with these subs lest you want the cancer to infect your eyes. It’s too late for me, but you can still save yourself. Avoid.

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28 thoughts on “Fansub Review: [Asuka Subs] Kyoukai no Kanata (Episode 02)”

Docoda

October 15, 2013 at 9:32 pm

Why F??? I see no wrong? Is good English, what u talk about?

Best catspeak ever, no?

DS, sadly the screenshots gave us eye contact already with these subs. I hope you are ready to pay the bills for my cancer threatment…
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- Justinnnnnn
  
  October 15, 2013 at 11:59 pm
  
  Yeah, I think DS doesn’t understand greatness when he sees it. Asukasubs’ waste is DS’s sunshine!
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2ColouredEyes

October 15, 2013 at 9:35 pm

> Why not let Asuka Subs explain the issues here in their own words?

I don’t have any brilliant words to say.
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Anon

October 15, 2013 at 9:37 pm

But the question is, are they worse than Hadena?
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- Dark_Sage
  
  October 15, 2013 at 9:39 pm
  
  http://www.crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Hadena-Shinsekai-Yori-01-720p-CE6597FF.mkv_snapshot_08.12_2012.10.05_10.33.37.jpg
  
  No.
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  - Anon
    
    October 15, 2013 at 9:44 pm
    
    Oh man, that article had me literally on the floor in tears.
    
    More shitsub reviews when?
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    - Dark_Sage
      
      October 15, 2013 at 9:53 pm
      
      I had a special one planned, but then life hit me like a sack of fansubbers. Maybe this weekend, no yubikiris.
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      - Anon
        
        November 2, 2013 at 10:21 am
        
        pls
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stgmefly

October 15, 2013 at 10:02 pm

Warned you i did
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Enamelthyst

October 15, 2013 at 10:06 pm

http://imgur.com/I9dzUbZ
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Solaristics

October 15, 2013 at 10:08 pm

Good laugh. A+ Material.
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Pelfmiester

October 15, 2013 at 10:34 pm

I’m going to take a wild guess and say they had a Japanese TLC, who sucked at English, and absolutely no editor or QC. If this crap was edited/QCed somebody needs to quit fansubbing. No, wait… Somebody needs to quit regardless.
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- Ambulator
  
  October 16, 2013 at 12:53 am
  
  I’d guess Chinese.
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  - Pelfmiester
    
    October 16, 2013 at 1:34 am
    
    Chinese translator and no editing… That could explain so much.
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    - Erik
      
      October 16, 2013 at 12:48 pm
      
      No editing is the ONLY thing that can explain this mess.
      Reply
Nyangoro

October 15, 2013 at 11:23 pm

And I hear they’ve been doing wonderful things with medical technology lately.
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Ash

October 16, 2013 at 12:50 am

Asukasubs: Whoa, these show are is subbeddd by Curnchyrowl! I bearly understanding Japanaise or Anglosh!! I shuld transleat end edot show mysefl! Now how I turn on terebee!?!
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RaccoonGoon

October 16, 2013 at 2:18 am

I clicked the cat puns spoiler and now I can’t unsee it…
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Vanth

October 16, 2013 at 2:39 am

Ah, this review was such a pleasant surprise.
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TouToTheHouYo

October 16, 2013 at 3:08 am

So, what you’re saying is…

…

I need to watch through Nichijou again? I can dig that.
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fohfuu

October 16, 2013 at 3:50 am

Oh mang, this release
And over 500 people leeched this shit? Wow.

At least one or two of the cat “puns” worked, but then we have shit like “headnyaaed”, like they saw where the nyaa was in Japanese and just shoved it in there.
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AnimeNOW

October 16, 2013 at 9:29 am

how how do do they they let so much of that get past…?
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returnity

October 16, 2013 at 3:51 pm

I cannyaat take much more of this. For fucks sake, they can’t even spell ‘nyaa’ consistently in their catsubs (I refuse to dignify that with the term ‘puns’)– ‘nyasome’? I thought things couldn’t possibly get worse, then they hit me with ‘eatnyaaing’ and ‘headnyaaed’, and I blacked out.
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Mahjong

October 17, 2013 at 4:25 am

I found this on their chat.
> Like I care what he says. The whole point of his “fansub review” sitre is to cry about every little detail. Every group makes mistaks. we try to avoid them, but as a speed sub group it happens. I just ignore it. If i let it get to me I would have quit long ago.

It speaks for itself in a lot of ways.
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- Dark_Sage
  
  October 17, 2013 at 4:56 am
  
  Ah Asuka Subs…
  
  I’d actually say that guy handled it better than most fansubbers, since the majority of them immediately jump into whining about me specifically rather than even deigning to consider they might have possibly ever made a mistake.
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  - puddi
    
    October 17, 2013 at 10:29 am
    
    DEAR MISTER D_S,
    
    VERY OFFENDED BY YOUR REVIEW OF SHOW ***, EPISODE ***, BY GROUP ***. PLEASE WRITE FORMAL APOLOGY AND POST.
    Reply
- rwn
  
  October 17, 2013 at 12:40 pm
  
  Oh look it’s Hadena all over again.
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- Erik
  
  October 17, 2013 at 5:42 pm
  
  “Every group makes mistaks. we try to avoid them,”
  
  Man, I’d hate to see Asuka subs RUSHING a release then.
  Reply

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