This post was written by Dark_Sage. He is Dark_Sage.
Up until Attack on Titan (which I still haven’t finished), The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was my favorite anime. So you could say I care about this spin-off getting touched by the right hands.
Well, at least I did care until I watched the show and forgot I ever liked the series in the first place. Even Drakengard treated its characters better than this.
Translation Party House Rules:
Yuki-chan – Episode 01
Comparisons: 8 or 15
Participants:
caffeine
DocDoc
Funimation
Codes:
{\i1} indicates the start of italics
{\i0} indicates the close of italics
Essential 1.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya both parodied and redefined genres (anachronistic storytelling FTW). This is just… slice-of-life moe played straight. I wouldn’t even hate this if they managed to keep Yuki-chan emotionless, but with her uguu-ing at every fucking thing? Christfuck.
Audio:
caffeine :: Oh? It looks like she’s sleeping.
Gosh, that girl…
I’ll wake her up in the most painful way possible.
DocDoc :: Oh? She’s sleeping
What a girl
I’ll wake her up the painfully
Funimation :: Hm? Looks like she’s napping.
Geez, I can’t believe it… I’ll go get her up… using a painful method.
to drop this and just rewatch S1 like you should have done in the first place :: N/A. They all suck.
Essential 2.
Yeah, I should be explaining the context behind the scenes, but this is Crymore, so I’m gonna spend the entire post bitching about how awful Nagato Yuki-chan is. Again, I could have coped if Yuki was an apathetic mute. And of course Kyon would have to be a combination of composed and freaked-out. This is just… Why? WHY?
Audio:
caffeine :: How much did you see?
>Really?!
>Shouldn’t you take a moment to assess the situation
>and figure out the other person’s intentions, Nagato?
>Wait, I doubt Nagato is that perceptive anyway…
DocDoc :: How much did you see?
>Shit
>People don’t normally ask that except when checking the other’s intentions, Nagato!
>No, she isn’t the scheming type
Funimation :: How much did you see?
>Strike! In this kind of situation, shouldn’t you throw a couple of trial pitches
>to see the batter’s intention before you throw your winning pitch?!
>No, I guess she wouldn’t come up with such a scheme…
to drop this and just rewatch S1 like you should have done in the first place :: N/A. They all suck.
Essential 3.
This show is ecchi for asexuals. I am not intrigued.
Audio:
caffeine :: What did you think of my stomach?
>That question reeks of a trap!
>I think I’m screwed, no matter what!
DocDoc :: How was my belly?
>This is a landmine… One that will surely explode
Funimation :: What’d you think of my stomach?
>This question is a total land mine!
>No matter how I answer, I know I’m gonna die in an explosion!
to drop this and just rewatch S1 like you should have done in the first place :: N/A. They all suck.
Essential 4.
This… why would they use the Haruhi universe for this? It feels like I’m watching Non Non Biyori except without the dank music.
Audio:
caffeine :: An honest girl like you deserves a reward.
>Thank you very much!
>>Like feeding pigeons…
DocDoc :: Good, you get this for being an honest girl
>Thank you!
>>She tamed her
Funimation :: Since you’re honest, I’ll give this to you.
>Thank you very much!
>>She was taken in by food.
to drop this and just rewatch S1 like you should have done in the first place :: N/A. They all suck.
Essential 5.
This is a callback to the previous comparison. Never mind that though. How you liking the animation so far?
Audio:
caffeine :: What a brilliant ploy!
The carrot and stick?
Someone’s cleverly using their persuasiveness.
DocDoc :: Ho-ho, that’s a nice trick
The carrot and stick?
You’ve handled her well
Funimation :: Wow… what a splendid trick!
A carrot-and-stick approach, huh? She won her over quite well.
to drop this and just rewatch S1 like you should have done in the first place :: N/A. They all suck.
Essential 6.
This one also needs context. Tsuruya just offered to share some of the turkey her family bought for a Christmas party with Yuki. Yuki’s hype because the entire point of this episode (series?) is about getting turkey to eat for a Literature Club Christmas party. And Asakura’s trying to prevent Yuki from getting fooled by Tsuruya. What a fantastic plotline!
Audio:
caffeine :: What’re you thinking, gladly accepting handouts from their dumpster?
The world isn’t as pure as you think!
It’s dirty!
I said something cool!
DocDoc :: Such a naive girl… Why accept something that’s too good to be true?
The world isn’t that good… That’s true
I said a good one!
Funimation :: You’re such a gullible child!
Although she’s acting nice to you, she’s our enemy! Don’t be happy about it!
Life isn’t candy and rainbows– it’s salty, like turkey!
Wow, that sounded clever!
to drop this and just rewatch S1 like you should have done in the first place :: N/A. They all suck.
Essential 7.
The only good line is the guesslation’s, and they don’t know what a sentence is, so all of these fail. I’m not even giving you a choice here; this vote’s pre-loaded.
Audio:
to drop this and just rewatch S1 like you should have done in the first place :: See? There’s always fine print in an appetizing proposition.
to drop this and just rewatch S1 like you should have done in the first place :: See? There’s always a catch
to drop this and just rewatch S1 like you should have done in the first place :: See?! There’s always a catch behind every good deal.
to drop this and just rewatch S1 like you should have done in the first place :: N/A. They all suck.
Essential 8.
Yuki’s trying to plan out the Christmas party, but she’s such a blonde lol that her suggestions are -record scratch- silly and infeasible! Thanks, Japan. This is what I get for being an anime fan? You know, I could have been normal. It would’ve been so fucking easy. Please, stop making me regret that choice more and more with every fucking season, cuz it’s too fucking late for me to go back.
Audio:
caffeine :: What’s this about a four-layered cake?
>We’re cutting that down to two.
And snow in the club room?!
>We’ll have to make do with just Yuki.
>We can’t have both snow {\i1}and{\i0} Yuki!
You’re making a pun like that now?
DocDoc :: Why a four-layer cake?
>I changed that to two-layers
And the snow in the club room?
>It’s a no go
What?!
>It’s a… no snow?
You should’ve said “I let it go”
Funimation :: Yeah? Then, what’s this about a four-tiered cake?
>We’re gonna change it to two-tiered.
What about snow in the clubroom?!
>Her name is Yuki, right?
Huh?!
>So “Snow” is the name of the game?
>You have to make a bad joke like that now?
That was terrible.
to drop this and just rewatch S1 like you should have done in the first place :: N/A. They all suck.
Decision Point:
- I know I said I’d support Haruhi forever, but this… Not like this. It’s a joke, right? Haha, Japan, you got me this time! (Click the spoiler. Sometimes people have to see the corpse to accept the death.)
- I wish I died before this aired. (Truly we exist in the darkest timeline. Head down to the results and try to forget this ever happened.)
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Which group had which line (unformatted, lazy-mode Sage):
Why did they make this and not a season 3?
Before season 3, I would like a season 2.
touche
There was a season 2, it was just 2ep long…
caffeine: 4 times
DocDoc: 1 time
Funimation: 1 time
Fuck this shit: 2 times
Adjusted for the rigged line. None are exceptional by any means, but I’d say caffeine’s is at least entertaining enough to be the obvious answer here.
And after expanded:
caffeine: 7 times
DocDoc: 2 times
Funimation: 2 times
Rewatch S1: 4 times
Sticking with my original assessment. Only caffeine has any flavour at all, even if at times it tasted kind of funny.
Overall scores…
caffeine: 5 times
DocDoc: 2 times
Funimation: 5 times
N/A: 3 times
It’s a tie between caffeine and Funimation
I watched it with Funi’s subs originally, so that’s always a tilt in that release’s favor. I still voted N/A though, cuz… Why not?
caffeine: 1 time
DocDoc: 4 times
Funimation: 1 time
Looks like your best bet is DocDoc
>> N/A. Good thing this show sucks or I might’ve had to suffer one of these shitty releases. (34%, 14 VOTES)
I want to cry/scream over what they did to Yuki. She should have been quiet and timid. She was not like this in the movie’s alternate world like that said it would be.
>She was not like this in the movie’s alternate world like that said it would be.
I haven’t watched it just yet, but what does the movie have to do with anything? This is based on the spin-off manga by Puyo, and it seems faithful enough to that.
The manga is meant to be based on the timeline of the movie.
True, but there’s a key difference: in the movie, Kyon joins the literary club on the 18th and (vague to avoid spoiling the last three people on earth who haven’t seen the movie yet) leaves just a couple of days after.
In the manga (and presumably the TV show), the story begins a week after Kyon joins the club. It’s only natural that Kyon interacting with alt-Nagato more frequently over a longer period of time (and with an entirely different set of motivations) would result in this version differing from the movie version.
There’s also the bit about how Kyon meets alt-Nagato in the movie (on the day he joins the club) and manga (half a year before he joins the club). I would hope/think that several months of interaction with someone they liked (in either sense) would be enough to cause someone to be at least a little less withdrawn.
A little less is one thing complete opposite is another. The way she is animated is pretty bad too.
Overall scores…
caffeine: 4 times
DocDoc: 2 times
Funimation: 8 times
Looks like your best bet is Funimation
It’s weird, you’d expect FUNi to be the one to overlocalize and the fansubs to weeb it up (it’s too bad fansubs nowadays have dropped being weebs for being memers) but that’s kinda the opposite here, caffeine should have left some lines alone, “lackadaisical”?
I had to watch 45 seconds of this fucking video to even learn how to say that, I still can’t say it, fuck everyone involved.
<D_S edit: shitty youtube link removed>
I did watch FUNi’s release so maybe that’s playing a role here but I do prefer them overall, I guess, I’ll still go with caffeine though, because I can, and stuff,,,
What’s wrong with using the word lackadaisical? Don’t be like /a/ and blame your lack of vocabulary on the ‘memesubbers’.
Overall scores…
caffeine: 3 times
DocDoc: 0 times
Funimation: 3 times
It’s a tie between caffeine and Funimation
No need for expanded since I don’t watch the show at all. But hell, looks like Funi’s doing just fine here. Or is it me having such a bad taste?
That’s about what I got. The real takeaway here is that caffeine should have swept but their incompetence caused them to actually have to compete with Funimation on the script of all places. That’s not the position a fansub groups wants to be in in this environment.
I think it’s more on Funi’s stepping up their game, ‘coz this is not the Funi that we used to know. BTW, caffeine is doing an Original™ TL, right?
Overall scores…
caffeine: 4 times
DocDoc: 0 times
Funimation: 3 times
Looks like your best bet is caffeine
I’ll just go back to my LNs I think. This show’s dialogue is hurting my brain…
Overall scores…
caffeine: 7 times
DocDoc: 0 times
Funimation: 4 times
Looks like your best bet is caffeine
A lot of skips as well… FUNi was okay, but caffeine was still better despite some bland lines.
caffeine: 8 times
DocDoc: 4 times
Funimation: 8 times
It’s a tie between caffeine and Funimation
Overall scores…
caffeine: 3 times
DocDoc: 0 times
Funimation: 4 times
Looks like your best bet is Funimation
Still not watching this.
caffeine: 5 times
DocDoc: 0 times
Funimation: 2 times
Looks like your best bet is caffeine
Whew, I thought Funi was going to start making subs that I would like for a second.
http://puu.sh/hgLSP.png as you can see the results give one question more, i.e, question 1 is question 2, 2 is 3, and so on…
but the choices were right if you use that previous logic.