Fansub Review: [Underwater-Commie] Kaiji Season 2 (Episode 05)

Thankfully, U-C have taken it upon themselves to take a quick break from not subbing Maria+Holic in order to sub Kaiji.

Expect me to post tons of content tomorrow when I finally have a bit of free time. Not just fansub reviews, though there will be a good amount of them. Even I’m getting bored with teaching newfag fansubbers how to English.

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Translation Party: [U-C – GotWoot – Doki – Mazui] Denpa Onna

You know, sometimes my opinion isn’t enough. But how about some objectivity? In this post, I compare each group’s translations. Four groups. Which has the worst translation? Well, I think that’s gonna be pretty obvious, but the call’s up to you.

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Fansub Review: [Underwater-Commie] Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko (Episode 01)

Awww, man. Denpa’s being subbed by newfags, one and all. The editing in this is slightly better, but I put money on these being guesslations. You’ll see why I think that in a future post. For now, let’s make fun of their editors! This is what happens when Commie doesn’t edit from nearly-perfect Crunchyroll scripts.

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Translation Face-Off: [Underwater-Commie vs. Doki] Nichijou (Episode 01)

So I got quite a bit of heat in some channels for not pointing out how different Doki’s translations of Nichijou were from Commie’s translations. Where there are differences this large, they deserve to be seen. As an editor, I can only competently speak about English quality, but I decided to post a side-by-side of the translations for Nichijou.

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