Comment on Crunchyroll Users Report Use of Controversial 'Hard Subs' on Platform + New Video Player

• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m retranslating the English subtitles into Portuguese (done) and Venetian (WIP).

  I know this is dirty, and there’s no way I’d do it professionally (I’d simply refuse the job), or if this was some actual release. But given my goal is to allow my family to enjoy the series, that’s good enough. And context helps a lot, the series in question is Yoru wa Neko to Issho, you can get 90% of each episode by the animation alone.

  Plus, well… weeb vocab helps a lot too. For example, you don’t need to speak Japanese to know what a “yame— ah!” means, as the cat drops a glass of water on the floor.

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  • Unboxious@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s not ideal, but I’d agree it’s a lot better than nothing.

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• NineSwords@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  JP -> EN EN -> DE, ES, PT, etc.

  might be different for anime, but at least that’s how it works in the sector I’m involved with. It’s a lot easier to get a translator for English into language X than getting one for Y to X.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Downside: Joke was lost in translation.

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  • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    ay yo, what u get whun you pipe this?

    说曹操, 曹操到

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    • NineSwords@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “Speak of the devil and he appears” (Literal translation: “Speak of Cao Cao, (and) Cao Cao arrives.”)

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      • shani66@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I know literal translation can’t work 100% of the time, but the cao cao version of that saying is way more fun and a good example of why we should strive to have subs/dubs be a accurate as possible. Getting the foreign culture is just so nice.

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      • AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        oh, it has idiom checks‽

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