What exactly is wrong with TV-Nihon subs?

[Herman the German]

Not everyone is a walking encyclopedia of tokusatsu knowledge. In this same regard, not everyone is a fan of Super Sentai either.

Nevertheless, they point out the error RIGHT UNDER THE PICTURE.

 

[KingRanger]

Not everyone is a walking encyclopedia of tokusatsu knowledge. In this same regard, not everyone is a fan of Super Sentai either.

If a group is fansubbing a show dedicated to past Sentai's, and said group can not even take the time to get the name of a group correct.... :redface2:

 

[Herman the German]

If a group is fansubbing a show dedicated to past Sentai's, and said group can not even take the time to get the name of a group correct.... :redface2:

Especially when said name is SAID OUT LOUD. Even accounting for the sometimes odd way how Japanese people pronounce English derivative terms, you'd think there's a bit of a difference between hearing "Liveman" and "Fiveman" :B

 

[Hobo ODST]

(that reminds me, was it TV Nihon who translated Marv's "hade ni ikuze" as "let's make this flashy"?)

No, they translated it as "Let's make it showy."

 

[Hidden Masta]

Not everyone is a walking encyclopedia of tokusatsu knowledge. In this same regard, not everyone is a fan of Super Sentai either.

Yeah but the Gokaiger transformed into Fiveman in their series and TV-N never mess it up there.

 

[LaZerwolfX]

Let me tell you this, in the professional field, not knowing subject matter is not an excuse for a poor translator.

Yeah but neither TV-N nor O-T are professionals...

 

[Herman the German]

Yeah but neither TV-N nor O-T are professionals...

That shouldn't be an excuse to be slacking off. When doing something, one should generally strife to do something as professionally and well as possible. :B

 

[TheLPFan1997]

That shouldn't be an excuse to be slacking off. When doing something, one should generally strife to do something as professionally and well as possible. :B

Especially with all the flashy text and having to change font for every single series they're working on obviously going for a sense of professionalism.

 

[Shynilyte]

Uh, flashy text doesn't really give a sense of professionalism. Do official DVDs have that kind of thing in subtitles?

 

[LaZerwolfX]

He was being sarcastic.:redface2:

Also maybe the flashy text is more a signifier of TV-N wanting toku to just be fun. Which I'm okay with. Because for me Toku isn't about being serious even in the darker series for me its about having fun, being entertained and seeing some great design work. And its definitely not about bitching about fonts and subtitles, ive got better things to worry about and I honestly feel that its exceptionally petty to spend as much time as we have complaining when we could just watch the group we wanna watch and let that be okay.

instead we've had both sides trying to force their priorities and preferences onto the other and i dunno about you guys but as far as subs are concerned im over talking about it and i think it would be best if we just all agree to disagree because no one is ever gonna "win" this argument.