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Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny


12:57 AM on 07.30.2008
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo





First, let me just say that fansubs are art; in fact I predict in a thousand years people will look back to this time and remember us for our fantastic and utterly wonderful artists known as fansubbers. Or maybe this is all just an excuse so that I can do a post about our favorite moments in fansubbing history. I now present to you a gallery of such images, though some of them are just subtitles out of context, but those can be funny too!

Fansubs are funny, but fansubbers are funnier; especially when they assume the viewer has the same amount of Japanese language power as the translator. This hiccup in the translator’s brain gives us such classics as Light’s “Just according to Keikaku.” Yes, fansubs are messed up, but you can’t bite the hand that feeds you, so just laugh it out.

Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo
Featured Fan Art: Fansubs are funny photo





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And people wonder why I watch dubs.
"What was that?! It sounded like a homo being strangled" and "I'll now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish" are my two favorites. The rest cracked me up too, even that exceptionally long one near the end.

Well, they are fansubbers so you can't expect them to be perfect or professional. As long as they're free, I'm sure no one (besides the owners of the original work and maybe licensors) really mind. XD
Ahhhh, these make me happy.
Thank god I've never come across any that horrible in my time... but holy jeezus that made my day
very funny.
But i can see how it would be easy to get confused and just write romanji
Sadly enough, sometimes "official" translations aren't any better. Remember the SF4 trailer that helpfully let us all know that "Shoryuken" is "Shoryuken?"

Man, that sure cleared up a lot! ;P
THIS IS SUGOI!!
wwwwwwwwwwww

[T/N: SUGOI MEANS GREAT]
[T/N: wwwwwwwwwwww MEANS LOL]
can't expect high quality when it's free...

remember...beggars can't be choosers....although i do run into some crappy choice of words on some of the DVDs i buy...

i only remember one incident top of my head...

on Fafner, the mechas were numbered in German but the translators either didn't catch it or just felt lazy, the unit numbers were spelled out phonetically which looked like badly misspelled German words...

but mostly i trust paid translators who had far better Japanese education than fansubbers that does it as a hobby...
This is the greatest Japanator article .... ever! It's like the sound of a homo being strangled!
the monitor should be to their left, not right. fools.
Thanks for the hott pic of Kokoro's ass. and lol I thought I was the only who noticed when those School Day's subbers subbed it as "*orgasms*".
Those pictures remind me of GITS 2.
And the Evangelion movies audio commentaries.
Just as yours truly has masterfully orchestrated according to this one's personally written agenda.
@ Redzie;

I loved those two images. Very funny. XD
I always wondered that. I looked at the chess board and went wtf is schneizel doing. I also wondered what zero was doing because even if the king runs away, it will still be check mate because the soldier is still in the same place. so this move should be corrected by moving the king back. It is an illegal move in chess.
It's a chocolate man.
I think it's okay to bite the hand if it mostly feeds you BS. Like with fanfics, the hilariously bad ones tend to be buried in a sea of turd.

These pics are proof that magic happens when things go horrible enough, though.
[orgasms]
so many comments, but I don't want to spam. I love that fansubbers put their own commentary into their work, I know I certainly would.

also, there's this one Macross 7 dub that frustrated me to no end, mostly cause I know enough japanese to know that they had no clue what they were saying, though I can't say I wasn't entertained

also, "lol rules of war"
The aarinfantasy one was put at the start of boku no pico, can't blame them for putting a disclaimer on a shota hentai.
This article is only good if you're aware of the "mass naked child events" occurring in the country

But seriously, this made my week complete.
"Get in the car"

This one made my day.
They know we're watching, but they don't know their right from their left.
Brilliant strategy!
Yes!! Moo means Moo!
The sad thing is I would rather laugh at a lazy sub than listen to a shitty dub.
Now if you'll excuse me, I must proceed to pleeasure myself with this fish...
I wonder how many of these were intentionally bad... I've seen quite a few parody fansub groups out there, and usually they're quite funny. I have seen a few of these legitly before though...and damn it's funny when you catch it.
This is why I refuse to watch Fansubs. I have plenty of friends who watch them and say they are very accurate but here is the kicker. IF you don't speak Japanese HOW DO YOU KNOW THE FANSUB IS ACCURATE? You can't and I have seen horrible differences between fansubs and subs that were on the DVD's i purchased later.
You have to be careful, there are so many awful subs out there.
Holy good god, this one is my favorite
I'm guessing I missed a recent epic fansub thread on 4chan.
The "get in the car" got me, but to be honest Japanese are so enthusiastic to translate their own stuff in Engrish, we shouldn't blame foiegners who usually don't have enough knowledge in Japanese and enough time to to a good job.

It's ok to mess a line when you're a student in Japanese, but when you're Toyota, the biggest car-seller in the wolrd and you come up with "more than best" as a punchline, give me a break ! ;-D

Those subs, at least have a good spelling. I've watched French subs and EVERYTIME they spell their own language like they don't know it, it's just pathetic.
You know what's hilarious. This shit is free, but people actually spend their hard earn money for subs/dubs just as bad or worst than this.

I love how people are saying, this is why i listen to dubs...........really???? You listen to dubs because you hate reading subtitles, thats all if not, fansubs are actually higher quality than their expensive non-free counterparts. Seriously people get paid and they still fuck it up.

Keep in mind there are such things as bad fansub groups and everyone knows who they are *cough*shinsen-subs*cough*your-mom*cough*. Anyone remember the group anime-junkies, their shit was horrible, but at least their shit was free. I've bought my fair share of anime dvds with worst subbing.
This is a good example of the range of quality of subs.
Some get it right, some don't, but the fact that quality subs exist means that I feel they're worth watching, if you go to the right subbing groups.
Oh wow. Just wow...
I'm certainly glad I don't get these subs, talk about damaging the impact of a scene.
Nice work on this Len, I've never seen subbers go this far into the ridiculous.
Holy cow! Moo means moo. I now speak fluent Cow.
so true love is eating her poo.hmmm..
these are funny. I just hate people getting mad at fansubs for making mistakes.these are free and you don't have to watch them. and remember to give your rod a rest once in a while.
hahaha

Thanks for the laughs, God Len ^_^
whuuuuuuuuuut is this? source please :P
@ Zeouterlimits

This explanation wasn't crammed into the actual scene.
It was added after the credits/next episode preview, as a possible explanation for why the illegal move occurred earlier in the episode.
Or they could've just said "Sunrise".
People die when they are killed
@ Remioromen, looks like School Days, could be a School Days OVA as well..

What about Elfen Lied..
"Come out with your pants down" (instead of "come out with your hands up") I believe thats what the sub group put..
I have tears in my eyes from laughter. And yes I have seen some bad subs, including some of the ones you used, but you get what you pay for and I love the fansub community for all there hard (and sometimes very funny) work.
My funniest bit was the 20,000 dollars a month rent. Just look at the protagonist's face when he hears this.
This stuff is just great! ROFL! XD

There certainly are some bad subs out there, but bad wording, jokes being trashed in the translation, are things you find in the official subs as well. In the end I prefer the free stuff, comparing different translations, than just accepting the official translation as the only one.

And dubs are no alternative, after all they are also translations. You don't get around the issue that way. You just miss out on the original voice acting, actors who actually partook in the making of the anime.
Yes, yes, no-one is allowed to complain about fansubs because they're "free". You know what else is free? Spell-checkers and online grammar guides.
holy God, these are real?
"I'll now proceed to pleasure myself with this fish"????!!!!

What the?!

How dare they murder Suzaku's line..

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