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All the cool effects, honorifics, translator notes that explain references that you might miss as non-japanese viewer… Whoever put this much effort for free more than 10 years ago, thank you! It was so refreshing seeing this in the era of corporate sloppy subtitles!
I once watched an anime where the translator added a “fun facts about this ep” part at the end of each ep (and it was always a list with at least 10 points), that was great
I love this kind of thing! When I was reading Kaguya-sama I discovered that each chapter had a blog post from the translation team about all the fun stuff included in the chapter that the average reader might not know. Even though I own paper books it made me reread everything in digital just to appreciate what I missed.
Yeah, so many scanlators do this, it’s amazing.
There far too little fun in fansubs these days
Well clearly the problem is you’re getting fansubs and not funsubs like OP said!
Yup, the best “funsubs” right now are just remixes of official subtitles that for example add honorifics. I still appreciate this work but it’s a far from the golden days.
brings me back to yakitate! japan, where every goddamn sentence had a pun in it and the subtitler had gone through the effort of explaining all of them in little fact boxes. like, they literally had to subtitle a horse eating bread because it makes the sound “horse”, which is a homonym for “delicious”. a fact i learned from those very subs.
This is one of the best reasons to really learn a language. Nowadays many translators just give up on puns. Hard to blame them, some things you just can’t translate but at the same time official translations ban TL Notes.
Just by learning a little bit of Japanese you can catch so many jokes that got lost in translation.
My introduction to fan subs was the made in abyss movie. It is probably also the reason it was the last time…
Made in Abyss is fairly recent, didn’t know it has proper funsubs. I’ll check it out. It’s been almost 10 years since the TV show aired, might be the good time to rewatch.
Just according to kekkaku.
TL Note: keikaku means plan
Not a fansub, but the pop-up references on the Excel Saga DVDs were great. It’s like reading two rapid fire shows at once!
I didn’t know the official sub had references! Well to be fair older releases had less money involved so there were less strict guidelines and more people with passion so I guess it’s not impossible.
whysteria@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 minutes ago
I was watching Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity and the subs would get blurry when the character wasn’t paying attention/zoning out, I was amazed