Comments on: Rant about crappy anime subtitles

by: mrdeus

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:18:36 +0000

I actually threw the Love Hina box and Princess Mononoke DVD in the trash when I moved to my current apartment. I did, however, buy Princess Mononoke again, but a different release (from Hong Kong I think).

by: Chewi

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:39:38 +0000

duesy i couldn’t agree more. While I despise western dubs atl least they usealy come with a decent sub of the jp audio. But subs straight out of Japan can be realy poor, poor enough to spoil it.

by: mrdeus

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:25:13 +0000

Hi there. Glad you like the site. I bought a Korean TV-series once that had Chinese and English subs. I think it might have been a bootleg. Very low quality anyway. I can’t say how good the Chinese subs were, but the English subs looked like they’d just taken each Chinese character and taken one English meaning for it, like it was machine translated. It looked worse than if you’d put the subs through Babelfish. It made no sense at all, and I don’t know Korean, but I know that’s not what they were talking about. It was like “heaven elephant lovely tree nurse dog”, where nurse was the only word that actually fit in the context of what was happening in the show.

by: A

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:48:52 +0000

Hey there, Love this site, and Yui. that’s how i discovered this site, when i was searching for yui. Anyway, i have a similar story. I was excited to purchase this Japanese drama “1 litre no namida” 1L of tears. So I bought it from this asian dvd/cd shop in chinatown, Sydney. I popped it in the dvdplayer. The subtitles were literally translations of what was being said and had no sentence structure whatsoever, just words stringed together. I couldnt be bothered to return it, so i just watched it online, with better subs. Anyway thanks for the MV’s u upload. Keep it up~! Al from Syd