Fansub Review: [Asenshi] selector infected WIXOSS (Episode 02)

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One fundamental problem with this show is that all their issues could be solved without wishes. Chick wants to fuck her brother? Just go for it. Ronery girl wants friends? Visit Crymore and you qualify to be mine, megane-chan! We need some Geass-level ambition in this shit.

Also, they could just like… buy the best decks. It’s not like this is YGO where gods beat money.

Table of Contents

Release Information

Visual Quality

Script Quality

Results

 

Release Information

Episode details.

Release format: MKV (460 MB, 10-bit)

Japanesiness: Honorifics.

English style: American English.

Encoding details: http://pastebin.com/2WDZkda3

Speed: Quick (<48 hours)

Translation style: Funi edit.

 

External links.

Group website: http://asenshi.net/

IRC channel: #[email protected]

 

 

Visual Review

Karaoke.

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Opening. Fairly standard. Colors are sensible and the font ain’t terrible.

Rating: Okay+.

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Ending. Not a fan of how the font meshes with the visuals. Too much fuwa fuwa for my grimdark card show ED.

Rating: Okay.

 

 

Typesetting.

Spoiler:

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The signs were typeset with a degree of effort that suits the show.

 

 

Script Review

Main Script.

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Have her respond with a “Right.” or something similar. “Yeah” is not an adequate response to that question.

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Really, Asenshi? Do any of you have friends? Common parlance is “C’mon, let’s race!”

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You’d wanna use “glance” over “look” here. Reason being, “glance” is a quicker action, and the point of this line is to show how the cardgirls can immediately recognize Selectors.

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Does the mark have a restraining order on you or something? Cuz you aren’t within even 200 yards of it.

“She was in that one drama, and she’s about to release a new single too.” {Drama could be replaced with “show” if you don’t wanna pander.}

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I understand fansubbers don’t rest at the top of relevance tower, but holy fuck you guys what the hell?

While calling someone a “‘zine model” might have flown 3-4 decades ago, there’s no fucking way it holds up today. And giving this dialogue to a high school girl, who you’re trying to make hip with your “Like, seriously?” line, just calls more attention to your poor choice of words.

Here’s a hint for how normal humans speak, guys: a “magazine model” is just a “model”. Call her “famous model” in this line and you’ll get the right sentiment across.

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I know Japanese names are difficult to remember, but these lines are back to back.

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Up your kawaii levels: it should be stampy-stamp. Similarly, for the “starty-starty” line, you’d want “starty-start”.

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Have you guys ever played a TCG before? Unless you’re actually ready to end your turn, don’t use words like “finally”.

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There’s no emphasis, interruption, or change of thought here. So why the fuck did you use an em-dash?

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really, really

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Poor Megane-chan. Maybe if she hadn’t been slitting her wrists during English class, she’d have enough blood left for another period.

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Standards.

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“This is too cruel.”

She’s only talking about the battle as a side note. The real issue here is Aki’s being a cunt to megane-chan.

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You just don’t double just lines that just come after each other just like that.

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Yeah, no. We’ve been over this issue before. Learn how to converse.

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“I’ve got to plan ahead!”

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While I’ll give you a pass on the line, most humans would go with “Isn’t that the girl who works at the card shop?”

 

 

 

Results

Watchability: Watchable.

Visual grade: B

Script grade: C

Overall grade: C+

Your options are Funimation, or wait one day for this. Since this is a Funi edit, and Funi is Funi, I’d recommend waiting the day. Though, a better option would be to avoid this terrible show.

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21 thoughts on “Fansub Review: [Asenshi] selector infected WIXOSS (Episode 02)”

  1. You have to remember that not every parallel dimension has the luxury of Crymore. Some people have to make friends, like, IRL and stuff. And that shit’s hard for people who like TCGs.

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  2. Yeah the basic premise is rather lol. They can use mundane cards in their supernatural deck so it goes back to the richest wins. They are taking the Madoka “I have no wish” route to make the main char not seem greedy. The only reason it worked for Madoka was the cost of the wish. If you seriously have NOTHING you want in life then I would say your lack of ambition is unnatural and would ask for a new protag who I can give a shit about.

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