Yeah, there are so many Japanese shows out there that only have subs because people liked them so much that they wanted to share them. It's basically the reason that anime and manga even became relevant in the west.

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.zip 11 points 21 hours ago

Yeah I still rely on fansubs for all my jdramas that don’t get official releases outside Japan (which is still most of them). The quality is instantly obvious compared to machine-generated crap.

Cultural context and an understanding of tone and narrative coherence is critical for subtitles if you want to do justice to the quality of the writing in the original language.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 9 points 21 hours ago

ML will never throw an explanation on screen because it doesn't know there needs to be one.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah the irony of it all is that professionally subtitled shows were already inferior to fansubs, because the fansubbers were a self-selecting group of people who were fans of that show specifically. I guess Crunchyroll realized that their subs sucked anyway so why pay money for them?

[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Don’t forget that those fansubbers also want the watchers to get the feeling of the Japanese dubs, switching out sentences to match the voiced lines and still bring you the message, while non-fans just translate it.