Fansub Review: [DameDesuYo] Love Lab (Episode 08)

F-Tier, Fansub Review — By Dark_Sage on September 14, 2013 9:07 pm

This post was written by Dark_Sage. He is Dark_Sage.

These subs suck, but at least I could understand the plot of the show with them. So even though they’re getting an F, think of it as better than Hadena’s F.

Release Information

Visual Quality

Script Quality

Results

Release Information

Episode details.

Release format: MKV (266 MB, 8-bit)

Japanesiness: Honorifical.

English style: American English.

Encoding details: http://pastebin.com/zS5Q3v1Y

Speed: Slow (>48 hours)

External links.

Group website: http://damedesuyofansubs.wordpress.com/

IRC channel: #[email protected]

Visual Review

Karaoke.

Opening. Hearts show up when the lines come in and then you get a rather pink karaoke for the rest of it. I liked it; fit the theme very nicely.

Rating: Good.

Ending. The karaoke complemented the credits all nice and good-like. Enjoyable.

Rating: Good.

Typesetting.

The typesetting ain’t terrible, but they do have a questionable fondness for throwing away the Japanese signs.

Script Review

Karaoke.

This is not a sentence. I refuse to accept it.

There are a lot are a lot of issues with needless with needless repetition in the ED.

Main Script.

A lot of DDY’s issues could be solved if their editor just learned a few key things (for the sake of my sanity, even though most of these quarantined lines had other things wrong with them, I just shoved them in these issue ghettoes to save some space):

Commas tend to come before “but” in these contexts.

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Stock phrases aren’t good.

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Commas are quite useful.

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Question marks exist.

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Apostrophes actually have rules governing their use (a surprise to many a DDY staffer, I’m sure).

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Non-translations are non-good.

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Don’t be dumb.

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Results

Watchability: Unwatchable.

Visual grade: B+

Script grade: F

Overall grade: F

DDY, if you’re going to put out subs of this quality, then you either need to improve or just sub faster than everyone else and hope it’s good enough for most idiots. As-is, you’re not offering any value to your viewers other than “we’re not Hadena”, and that’s not much to be proud of.

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