I like to avoid blog “dorama”, but I know some people have been in a tizzy lately about some misleading fansub or other (I don’t need to link, you all know where to find it!) Well, I too think it’s a good public service to warn everyone about the dangers of bad subs, so in that spirit I will now expose five fansub groups that are far worse than anything yet covered in the blogosphere! These groups are so bad they should cease operation immediately and every good otaku should delete any files they may have downloaded from these groups so that it will be like they never existed!
We begin with the group clannad-harem-subs. There are two problems with this sub. First the obvious misspelling of the common Japanese word “sensei.” But that’s not the worst of it, because these words were not uttered in this scene! Clearly this subber has completely misunderstood it. Just because it takes place in a classroom and Nagisa is up in front of the blackboard, with Tomoya sitting down with his hand raised, an assumption was made that she was the teacher and he a student asking to go to the bathroom!
Now this is really bad! You don’t even have to know Japanese to realize there’s a mistake here! By everyone’s common sense and personal experience it is known that cats go “meowww” and not “uguuu.” TaiyakiLove subs must be obsessed with Kanon’s Ayu, I can think of no other explanation for this.
I regret to inform everyone that our crazy friend over at the Yaoi Paddle blog (whom I’ve mentioned before) has expanded into fansubbing. She clearly has yaoi on her brain and has completely changed the “character” of this scene from Shugo Chara with her yaoi-obsession. Those pink subs are hard to read as well!
Song lyrics are often misheard, even in someone’s native language. But here they got the Japanese correct, but still translated it wrong! I actually emailed this group, and the guy said he thought people only wanted to sing along in nihongo and he didn’t think anyone paid attention to song translations anyway! So he had his brother, who just started studying Japanese last month come up with something. This will be fixed soon, so I won’t name the group in question.
I’m quite sure this translation is accurate, ;) but lotsaYURIsubs has used such a difficult font to read, it has undermined all of their fine translation efforts. I hope they change soon, because as it is now, the font makes me dizzy! So those are the worst fansubbers out there: avoid them at all costs!
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Honestly, In the (just shy of) decade i’ve been watching anime, I’ve found it good practice to skip any of the following group name templates:
- Anything with ‘yaoi’ or ‘yuri’ in the groupname title
- Anything that’s an obvious glomp of 3 or more words which make NO SENSE
- Anything to do with ‘annonymous’
- Any group without an IRC channel
- Any group named after a show/character from a show (although a COUPLE, and i mean a COUPLE have turned out ok in this genre but look really stupid subbing other stuff later)
- Anything mis-spelt.
Before actually reading your comment, I thought that animal on the picture was a seal saying “Uguuuu…”, maybe the subbers too :)
I’ve never even heard of those groups. Lucky me?
Yaaaaaaaaaaay satire. ;)
Ugh, cop out!!
omg stop starting drama. These guys just want to fansub so why do you gotta get up all in their grill and stuff? Just leave them alone! *cries*
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!
ALOOOOONNEEEEE!!!! :lol:
I think I only understood what you were doing after seeing the second screen cap. XD
I want real dorama, damn it!
Haaaaaah…..
HA Ha Ha Ha…
first with clannad and now this
your world is really wide xD
The yaoi fantasy one HAS to be a fakesub lol
> like to avoid blog
You forgot Philanthropy Subs.
I hope everyone realized they are all fake, lol
I have never heard of these people :P
Damn it, I knew I shouldn’t have downloaded those sketch looking subs! All those precious bandwidths gone to waste!!