Fansub Review: [gg] Ben-to (Episode 01)

C-Tier, Fansub Review — By Dark_Sage on October 9, 2011 11:46 pm

This post was written by Dark_Sage. He is Dark_Sage.

If you download gg’s subs with any expectation of quality, you’re an moron.

Yes, that was intentional.

Release Format: MKV (10-bit, 404 MB)

Japanesiness: Western name order. No honorifics. Extremely localized language (I don’t usually make note of this, but they handled it very poorly).

Karaoke.

Opening. Faux-cursive: For when you want the benefits of appearing smart, but don’t want to appear too pretentious. I dunno, I’m kinda just bitching here. It works fine.

Insert song. What effort they put into this.

Ending.

Typesetting.

Though this is an unflattering screenshot, it actually worked pretty well.

Some things they did.

Some they didn’t.

It’s not like the name of the store the anime revolves around is important.

You know, when it takes up the entire screen, that’s a good indicator of when you should typeset it.

Script.

Moving it down a bit would take up valuable seconds. Can’t have that.

When gg comma splices, they make sure to do it in the most annoying ways possible.

“You know, I wish you could be just a bit more attentive.”

Amazing.

Well, this is a stupid line. I bet they just forgot something and meant to make it “Leave that store alone from now on.” or “Leave that store alone now.” Surely they don’t think this line is actually right.

I… stand corrected.

Drop the “it”.

Come on. These lines are only five seconds apart.

What is this line supposed to say? It’s not proper English, but that’s all I’m certain of.

This is just phrased poorly. You could make it so much better if you just…

“I find it hard to come up with an answer when you ask me out of the blue like that.”

This is a great example of how gg tries so hard to make their subs seem natural but fails it. They literally just shoehorn swear words in like it’s going out of style. “Pathetic” is really the only word to describe it.