#fansubber

[perths]

CHASER GAME W EPISODE 05

#there is a fansubber translating this too and she's said that some of the gaga translations are a bit off so #i might remake this if there is more context depending on their translation idk #chaser game w #jdrama #jdramaedit #jdramasource #wlwsource #girlslovenet #wlwgif #gif

[hibanny]

it keeps getting worse

#fansubbers please come back #i've never subscribed to crunchyroll because i'm smart #but even if you pirate anime chances are it'll have their subs #crunchyroll #anime

[aquarterasian]

Newer precure fans will never understand the pain of having to pray a fansubber picked up the newest season of precure and if they did having to sometimes wait a week or more for subs 😔

#precure #pretty cure #thank you for all your hard work fansubbers you kept us alive 🙏

[banqanas]

Was going around the jdrama fansub groups looking if any group is going to pick up any 3 4 fanta dramas coming out next month (oppan, rikon shinai, konkatsu 1000)

and the result :’)

#banantxt #ue ue ue #all of their dramas look interesting and the cast are well known names #but unfortunately theyre not the genre most fansubbers do #:’)

[xnoel]

#this nearly made me cry #kimi no hana ni naru #i wanted to post the whole scene but it was too long #i will be your bloom #i will be your flower #and for context about the triangles circles and flower marks - check the fansubber's site (blitzfansub) #jdrama

[whataboutfractions]

hey i'm about to make a post using self-subtitled blu-ray caps rather than the original low-res fansubs but i just want you guys to know that's because they refuse to let thunder grieve without fucking sukiyaki up top

#i waited the entire shot for those fansubbers to take it down and they did not.

[flyingthesky]

for the record i personally think that if i had to learn the difference between miss, mrs, and ms, then anime fans can suck it the FUCK up and learn the four basic honorifics. or at least can you fucking translate them and not just drop them entirely?

(i'm still mad about the bnha thing. every time someone reblogs it and it shows up in my notes i get newly angry about it.)

#who lets reili make text posts? #i! hate! modern! anime! translation! #i hate it!!!!!! #i am literally at all times one fucking step away from becoming a fansubber bc i hate them so much #what for are the fucking jjk subs like that #why tf does the bnha team make half the choices they do #this is not simply 'i would have worded that different' shit bc i could live with that if that's all it was #it's 'the people watching this straight up don't understand the product you've put out AND THAT IS YOUR FAULT' #takes a deep breath #ok i'm better now #my wabi sabi life

[emotionallychargedtowel]

9 People You’d Like to Know More

tagged by @wen-kexing-apologist and @thewayofsubtext  <3

Tumblr keeps eating every draft of this post that I write, argh! 

Last Song I Listened To

When I started writing this, I was being lazy and letting the YouTube algorithm pick songs for me and I was listening to this song, Unfucktheworld by Angel Olsen. I've been exchanging song recommendations with a friend for a while now and I guess she has gotten to know me pretty well because this is way up my alley.

But then another song came on--We Ride by Brave Girls (a.k.a. BB Girls)--and that became the new last song I listened to. It's another song that a friend recommended to me. This time it was a friend I've been emailing with back and forth about East Asian pop music. He's a big fan of City Pop, a genre that came out of Japan in the 80s, and he sent me a list of some recent kpop songs that are influenced by/reminiscent of City Pop, including this one. I took to it right away, and it was a big hit with my daughter. 

Currently Watching

I Told Sunset About You - I’m just one episode in to this one and I can already tell it’s going to hit me where it hurts. I took a break due to family visits and related stuff but I’m fixing to dive back in. 

Moonlight Chicken - I got stalled out on this one just as it was getting good, thanks to some life stuff. I need to pick it back up!

Star Trek: Discovery - I’m a big Star Trek fan and recently rewatched everything from TNG through Voyager, but I hadn’t kept up with any of the newest series in years. I’m so glad I decided to start Discovery because it is shaping up to be one of my favorite Star Trek series. There are a lot of reasons for this. Really great LGBT+ representation is a factor. This is also is the first Star Trek series that has inspired more actor crushes in me than DS9. Michelle Yeoh in a corset! Tig Notaro as a cranky engineer! I’m dying over here. 

Minato's Laundromat season 2 - I was looking forward to this as soon as it was announced, but with the usual anxiety that comes with a second season of a BL. I wasn’t 100% sure about the direction of the season at first, but now it’s settling in with some really interesting themes. 

Reservation Dogs - I wasn’t entirely sure about this show when I first started watching during the first season. But not only did it grow on me, it has also been getting better and better. The latest episode, which focused in part on an abusive government-sponsored boarding school (of the sort designed to rob Indigenous kids of their culture), was one of the best of the series so far. 

Edited to add: I forgot about Kamen Rider Geats! My family has been catching up on it and we're almost caught up just in time for the finale. I'm liking it a lot more than I thought I would when I watched the first few episodes, but not as much as my partner (who said he thinks it's one of his favorite Kamen Rider series he's seen). I'm really impressed with the cast, though. I'd especially like to see the actors who play Keiwa and Buffa in more things in the future.

Currently Reading

I’ve been listening to the audiobook version of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler for a while now, but I’m having an annoying situation where it keeps getting returned to the library even though I’ve renewed it. I could just start another book, but I don’t want to! This one is really interesting. 

The vast majority of people spend a significant amount of their time watching (non-documentary) movies and TV series, which involves watching actors engage in this specific art form. And we have opinions about what constitutes good or bad acting. Yet most of us know so little about how acting is done, what kinds of theories underpin acting practice, how actors prepare for roles and scenes. I wanted to not only find out more about that, but also dig a little deeper into the differences between approaches and how they’ve branched off and clashed and so forth. 

So far I’ve gotten a lot of good background and plenty to think about, even though I’m just getting to the point where the Method/System/whateveryoucallit is starting to take on in the US. I’m guessing it’s going to get even more relevant from there.

Current Obsession

I’m always obsessing about lots of things so I’m probably never going to be able to identify just one. Some currents ones are:

waiting for Utsukushii Kare: Eternal to be available with English subtitles somewhere, somehow

foraging blackberries, making jelly out of them, and baking biscuits to go with the jelly

waiting for it to be fall already because I hate sweating and I love wearing layers

finding my Animal Crossing character some decent glasses

thinking about possible BL/Jane Austen parallels for tumblr posts

finishing a post about psychological aspects of Utsukushii Kare that I’ve been writing off and on for months and that has gotten so long it will probably have to be split up into 3-4 posts

Serge Lutens Jeux de Peau perfume (my beloved)

I didn't tag anyone. It makes me anxious and I think pretty much everyone I know on here has been tagged! Except @porridgefeast, who's welcome to do it if she feels like it but (of course) no pressure.

#9 people meme thing #uncharacteristic self disclosure #not that I mind self-disclosure but it doesn't come up that often with the stuff I do here #angel olsen #brave girls #bb girls #isaac butler #The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act #blackberries #biscuits #serge lutens #jeux de peau #go utsukushii kare fansubbers go I believe in you #itsay #moonlight chicken #star trek discovery #reservation dogs #minato's laundromat 2 #minato shouji coin laundry 2

[dengswei]

gentle reminder to support jdrama fansubbers by watching their subs via how they release them and not on sites like dr*mac**l and k*ssas*an because those sites steal from fansubbers and make money off of other people’s work

#lex waffles #just saw someone promoting a drama on KA that was fansubbed and like please don't do that #it's really easy to access fansubbers work once you know how #please just ask it's so easy #and there are fansub websites that make them easy to find as well

[tigwex]

does anyone have a good site to read trimax on that isn’t the crusty version with like. slurs and grammatical errors and excessive profanity? /gen

#trigun #trigun maximum #seeing knives rattle off slurs kinda put a bad taste in my mouth and it's definitely the weird ass fansubber that did that

[5-pp-man]

#girl where are they. #they were in the ed and nothing else. so far. hello. its so dark in here. #if they showed up in ep 11 then disregard this. i havent seen it yet. #kyuushi #kyuuketsuki sugu shinu #tvdint #the vampire dies in no time #also what is the general consensus on adam. is it w 2 ps or just one. i did 2 because i think thats how fansubbers did it #also heehhee peepee in his name. ok sorry. #tedpost #tedit

[magical-demigirl]

I was watching episode 13 of max heart and I think they made a mistake (no hate towards the fansubbers)

#precure #pretty cure #max heart #precure max heart #opps #no hate towards fansubbers #just something I notice #and got pluzzed for a second

[banqanas]

also talking about translations, I thought it's fun to go and compare my translations to oshiroen fansub's for Sukiwaka! (since it's rare to have someone subbing the same thing)

note: this post is made for fun and educational reasons

(mine is literal and has no filter lol)

(literally the same translations LOL we both used the common fansub translation sentences)

*ペラペラ perapera meaning

#banantxt #sukiwaka #it's really fun to see how someone translate something #that last one from oshiroen isnt exactly right but this isnt a comparison of who's correct or better #i just subbed a 1:30 minute video #fansubbers sub 30 mins of content and its normal to make mistakes #and thats why you shouldnt steal translations especially if you dont know the language well #and dont take translation out of OP's reach so if they post corrections people would know

[crabcrabcrabmeat]

Ough I wanna tell ppl to watch Ideon but idk if there's any good translations of it out there

#i cant confirm it myself but at least the most significant 'bad writing' moments were deliberate defamiliarization choices #that became muddled from poor word choice in bootleg subs #in terms of how i experienced it anyway #theres at least one example of that 'bilingualism turned redundant by translation' iirc wrt 'alien' as loanword #the subs i saw used alien quite a bit actually tho i think '宇宙人' is only used on occasion in ideon and as more of a slur lol #i assume it also dosent have quite the same double meaning as 'alien' either #wrt generally invoking SF creatures but also a descriptor of actual ppl in regards to immigration laws #ough moments like this make me miss the era of fansubbers having copious footnotes lol #its delightful reading translation notes in general imo #bc u get a glimpse of how shifting the boundary making of understanding can be #and thats kinda the theme of it all #abs blabs

[whataboutfractions]

the beginning of an era

#always kinda wild to see the first time the fansubbers just gave up and left niichan as is

[andmaybegayer]

I don't even speak Japanese and I can tell that the Netflix subtitles for Cyberpunk Edgerunners were garbage. So many unnecessary substitutions. Why are they like this.

#i got lucky knowing one of the fansubbers for Great Pretender who pointed me at their fansub group #the Netflix subs for that are absolute garbage