Fansub Review: [Doki] Zetman (Episode 05)

B-Tier, Fansub Review — By Dark_Sage on June 16, 2012 12:21 am

Heard Doki’s gonna come back in full force next season. It’ll be interesting to see how they fare.

Release format: MKV (290 MB, 8-bit), LQ MKV (173 MB, 8-bit)

Japanesiness: Honorifics. “Onii-chan” used.

English style: British English.

Group website: http://doki.co/

Encoding details: http://pastebin.com/s1RGwAbW

8thsin’s translation critique: http://8ths.in/spring-2012-fansub-comparison-reviews#ZETMAN

Ji-hi’s screenshot comparisons: http://www.ji-hi.net/sp12/zetman/

 

Table of Contents

Visual Quality

Script Quality

Timing

Results

Visual Quality

Karaoke.

Opening. It’s sufficient.

Ending. Pretty good.

 

Typesetting.

 

Other.

Goddamn sponsor screen bullshit.

Script Quality

Karaoke.

They didn’t say “zed”; they said “zet”. Know how I can tell? It’s part of the fucking anime’s title. The opening line right here is retarded as well.

When the song is called “dots and lines” and one of the last lines in it references “dotted lines”, perhaps you’d think to translate this as “dotted lines” instead of “dead lines”…

 

Main Script.

ATTENTION STUPID FUCKS

ITS IS THE POSSESSIVE OF IT

IT’S MEANS IT IS

THIS IS HOW SHIT BREAKS DOWN

GODDAMN

This is a question, isn’t it?

The event happened in the past, so guess which tense to use. No really, go ahead and guess.

I’ll give you a hint: it’s the past tense.

Do -> Did

What a mouthful of fail.

“If you want to figure out what he wants, you’ll just have to wait and see what he does.”

How do you not know how to use a question mark? Really, this is fucking first-grade shit. I’m not even fucking exaggerating.

Tenses are also fucking basic shit. “that thing” died, so use the fucking past tense when describing it.

“That thing wasn’t my brother or anything like that.”

His transformation doesn’t occur based on probability; it’s not like he’s walking around with a .01% chance at every second to transform. Rather, he has to hit 100%. So, it shouldn’t be “higher rate”; it should be “quicker rate”.

 

Timing Review

Incoming. When “Timing Critique” is added as a category, you’ll know this part is done.

Results.

Watchability: Watchable.

Timing Grade:

Visual grade: B

Script grade: B-

Overall grade (timing results not factored in): B-

It’s about as good as WhyNot’s version, but the visuals are definitely better here. Choose the release of whichever group you like better and you should get a similar experience.

Tags: Doki, Fansub Review, Spring 2012, Zetman