Criticism of Modern Fansubbing

Nick — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:07:34 -0500

I just watched this documentory titled THE RISE AND FALL OF ANIME FANSUBS. Here you go:

PART 1

More parts and my opinions after the cut.

PART 2

PART 3

PART 4

PART 5

The narrator makes some very good points; I especially agree with the points about keeping honorifics, not translating words, and putting excessive liner notes on screen. I less agree about translating signs, but I do think putting the translation seamlessly into the animation is over-doing it. I do agree with the over-use of colors, karaoke, and other special effects, especially for opening and ending pieces.

Well, at least the fansubbers are doing this for free and I do get to see alot of anime that I'd normally wouldn't get to see otherwise, but I do prefer buying R1 DVDs for the reason that I think the translations for the subtitles tend to be much better.

fansubs

Criticism of Modern Fansubbing