Fansub Review: [Commie] Golden Time (Episode 02)

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Figured I’d knock out a Golden Time review since there’s only one group actually putting an effort into it.

Table of Contents

Release Information

Visual Quality

Script Quality

Results

 

Release Information

Episode details.

Release format: MKV (239 MB, 10-bit)

Japanesiness: No honorifics.

English style: American English.

Encoding detailshttp://pastebin.com/yFAVfDxt

Speed: Quick (<48 hours)

 

External links.

Group website: http://commiesubs.com/

IRC channel: #[email protected]

 

 

Visual Review

Karaoke.

[Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_01.43_[2013.10.13_01.50.21] [Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_01.57_[2013.10.13_01.50.46]

Opening. The colors match the credits and work just as well on the clean scenes. The positioning is also solid.

Rating: Good.

[Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_22.27_[2013.10.13_02.22.08] [Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_22.56_[2013.10.13_02.22.43]

Ending. See above comments. It doesn’t take much to make me happy.

Rating: Good.

 

 

Typesetting.

[Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_00.47_[2013.10.13_01.49.19]

Did you notice the subs on the bottom? Good old Commie.

[Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_05.40_[2013.10.13_01.57.04] [Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_07.45_[2013.10.13_01.59.33]

[Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_13.50_[2013.10.13_02.11.42] [Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_14.10_[2013.10.13_02.12.07] [Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_18.40_[2013.10.13_02.17.06] [Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_23.27_[2013.10.13_02.21.18]

At least the preview sign looks good…

 

 

Other.

[Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_10.43_[2013.10.13_02.03.17]

You know that one guy in school who constantly talked over people and thought repeating jokes made them funnier? Yeah, that guy is Commie.

What you have here is an attempt to outdo the inherent comedy of this bit by matching a scream with size-increasing subs. It doesn’t really do much for the scene other than get in the way.

 

 

Script Review

Main Script.

[Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_05.17_[2013.10.13_02.43.18]

Most people wear branded clothing. What they’re saying here is that she wears name-brand “stuff”.

[Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_08.14_[2013.10.13_02.45.49]

Absolutely no American student would call a class compulsory. The word we superiors use is “required”.

[Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_12.44_[2013.10.13_02.05.22]

le hilarity. For you non-natives, this line reads “Come fuck us.”

Obviously, that’s not what they’re saying. Sasuga Commie, the funniest fansubbers around.

[Commie] Golden Time - 02 [F2B01C6A].mkv_snapshot_16.20_[2013.10.13_02.14.39]

Someone tell me how to inherit hospitals. I could use the money.

 

 

 

Results

Watchability: Quite watchable.*

Visual grade: B

Script grade: B+

Overall grade: B+

*so long as you don’t care about being trolled.

Commie staff are utterly incapable of taking a show seriously, which makes it all the more unfortunate they did a pretty good job on this release. If you can handle their ham-fisted attempts at being funny, you’ll find decent subs here. Otherwise, you’re best off sticking with HorribleSubs or one of the fakesub releases like Chihiro or FFF.

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34 thoughts on “Fansub Review: [Commie] Golden Time (Episode 02)”

  1. I guess complaining about “matching a scream with size-increasing subs” goes along with your personal policy that “the subs shouldn’t draw away the viewer’s attention” (I think I remember you saying something similar, correct me if I’m wrong).

    I for one like all those changes in size, fading in/out, alpha-timing (is that what it’s called?), movement and non-standard placement that Commie/Vivid sometimes do. It just works for comedies and the like. I remember the crazy stuff that happened in Commie’s Horizon, when the scrolling japanese text rolled on the screen – those were the times!

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  2. Diddle can also mean “to waste time”. You could make the argument that they were writing a double entendre into the script, rather than rewriting the line completely. In fact, the sex meaning is transitive; if she’d been saying only “come fuck us”, she wouldn’t have said “with” (unless maybe she were saying the three of them should go and practice mutual masturbation). It’s still stupid, wrong and sounds retarded, of course, and this didn’t occur to me until I was making coffee ten minutes after reading the review.

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      • When will you allow us to edit our comments, DarkSage?

        There’s nothing worse than catching a typo 5 seconds after posting a comment and being unable to do anything about it.

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      • It’s extremely uncommon in the non-sexual sense (at least among young people/non-squares). And in the context of this line it can’t really be interpreted as anything else.

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        • >It’s extremely uncommon in the non-sexual sense (at least among young people/non-squares).
          Agreed, which is why it’s a stupid, shitty joke, on top of not being in the show in the first place.

          >And in the context of this line it can’t really be interpreted as anything else.
          Because you say so? The “second” one is retarded and transparent, but it does have two possible meanings. Look at the dictionary meaning of the word (Merriam-Webster, Oxford, Wiktionary). “To waste time” = “to diddle” or “diddle around”. It’s pretty simple. And like I said, the sexual sense of “to diddle” is transitive. Would you like to come and fuck with me, Dark_Sage? I think it’s at most a 1/10 joke, but it can be considered a joke.

          (For my part, I’ve never heard it in any sense other than female masturbation before today.)

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        • ok, honestly, who uses the word diddle? i don’t know if I have ever heard it used in conversation and certainly not by drunk people.

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    • This is why I would always replace diddle in that sense of the word with the very similar dawdle, which doesn’t have the potential sexual interpretation.

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    • “Commie staff are utterly incapable of taking a show seriously, which makes it all the more unfortunate they did a pretty good job on this release. If you can handle their ham-fisted attempts at being funny, you’ll find decent subs here. Otherwise, you’re best off sticking with HorribleSubs or one of the fakesub releases like Chihiro or FFF.”

      read.

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      • I read it and I didn’t think it was clear enough.
        Basically, if there was a HorribleSubs review, there would be definitive values to argue, rather than “it was okay, but there were too many jokes” or “EVERYONE STOLE THESE GUYS SUBS”

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        • I operate under the assumption fansubbers are competent enough to improve on a release when they try.

          When they get a B- or below, I’ll take a look at where they screwed up and see if the Crunchy script had mistakes as well… and I’ll report the results of those sagey investigations. But generally at B+ levels I’m not gonna be worried about if the CR script had one less mistake then Commie’s. B and above is a slightly different playing field.

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  3. Is Kaga asking to be diddled in the OP? If not, “But I can’t move on unless there’s something inside me,” should end with “inside of me.” Either way, the line is awkward.

    “Diddle around with us” would be the correct idiom, not “diddle with us.” If Commie had to be suggestive, they would have been better off using “screw around with us.”

    It could be correct to say that Kaga is “heir to that famous major hospital.” “Heir of” sounds like the hospital is bequeathing itself upon its disincorporation. Also “a world-renowned” sounds more natural than “that famous major.”

    PS the English signage on your 2nd and 6th typesetting examples are apparently the studio’s.

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  4. It looks like FFF is starting to put a little effort in this show. I did a quick script compare of their Ep 2 and HS’s, which yielded more than a handful of reworked lines and numerous small corrections and edits beyond just punctuation.

    Given the sparseness of this Commie review, I wonder does FFF merit a reconsideration?

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    • I’m glad I shamed them into doing something, but I dunno if I have enough time to spend on groups that will fuck over their viewers if I don’t call them out on it. Maybe. We’ll see how the rest of the season goes.

      The review was sparse because I didn’t have much content to talk about. It was a solid release but nothing stood out as excellent or inspiring. A B+ is high praise though. I’m not seeing a need to recommend something else at this point. Let me know when Commie goes full retard and we’ll see.

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  5. “Absolutely no American student would call a class compulsory. The word we superiors use is “required”.”

    I’d also suggest “mandatory.”

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