It’s been another week and nothing about Soul Eater even mentioned on the site.

T_T

Please be patient. Our editor has been busy with his work. Thus, he was unable to work on the episodes.

I see.

I was wondering what happened to Soul Eater. After watching your release of Episode 1 & Episode 2 (LATE NIGHT), I have to say that the quality is definitely top notch.

I guess I’ll continue to wait, and watch newer episodes by whoever releases them first, and then get the AnimeYoshi version for definitive archival purposes.

@Zatty: Any more Late Shows coming? I really enjoy your style and only want to follow the Late edition…

Please be patient. Our editor has been busy with his work. Thus, he was unable to work on the episodes.

>_<

I don’t really mind how fansubbers choose to go about including or not including things like honorifics. It’s really up to them to decide.

Personally, i prefer it when the subs are as accurate to what’s being said as possible, with translations notes catering for differing cultures, or anything else, which may change the meaning.

I also prefer it when translations leave in the honorifics in names (even if i understand that someone foreign to it will see it and be utterly confused). Either way for this, i just listen to what they say in the audio.

There’s lots of other things that i do prefer as well, but most are pretty small, and in the end I’m just happy to be able to watch and understand the series.

P.S. When it comes to the example above, i personally had no problem reading and understanding both translations used. Maybe i was self-interpreting it, but to me for AnimeYoshi’s one, “anyone” was a comparison to “over a short-and-ugly like you”, not a reference to “for guys”.

P.S.S. Nice implementation of the [Open↓] thing, it was getting a bit long

(I hope you’re happy, Thomas.)

I won’t say which I prefer, as I am in AniYoshi and know people in various other Soul Eater groups, thus making me all kinds of biased. I will, however, say that from watching AniYoshi’s, A-E & Saizen’s, and S9’s all at once, there were aspects of each version that I liked and disliked. I can’t recall seeing any line where the meaning was different between the three groups, and thus my liking/disliking came down to the editing. I came to my own personal conclusion that no group is doing a “perfect” sub of this show.

Further bickering is a waste of time for everyone involved, and I’m sure we all have better things to do.

I’ve already addressed this issue with citation of the original and the definition of “translation.” I’m not going to repeat myself for you. Web-browsers have scroll-bars a reason.

“Seriously, you’re just making yourself look silly now.”

Not only are you making yourself look silly, but you’re continuing while blatantly ignoring every single thing that I’ve pointed out that you’ve botched. If I were to assume, I’d say that’s somewhere approaching masochism.

“That made me chuckle.”

I don’t chuckle when people shove argument-crushing facts into my face… like the fact that “awkward” is a matter of opinion. You have to think that something is awkward for it to be awkward — form the opinion that it is awkward. Hearing Japanese names for the first time, people who are starting to get into anime probably think that they are awkward. Enough time later, however, they wouldn’t give a such passing thought. I was having a discussion with one of my old students exactly about that over lunch last month before he left for Japan.

Again, there is a saying as to ignorance.

“So you’re providing a translation that’s hard to read (native English speakers have even told you this) when subtitles rely on the viewers’ abilities to read the text onscreen. Yeah, that sounds like a great way to sub…”

So you’re providing a mistranslation that matches a single style of English that differs from that of the majority of your viewers when they rely on subtitles to read the on-screen text? Yeah, that sounds like a “great way” to sub.

Funny how your little awkward argument of opinion goes both ways, isn’t it? Opinions do that. They differ, you know?

You’ve proven that you lack a basic understanding of English sentence structure (the difference between independent and dependent clauses [read: “comma splice” for “interjecting clauses”) and that you also lack a basic understanding of the difference between opinion and fact (read: “awkward”). I suggest that you take a learning to what you decide to communicate upon before the next time you that communicate upon it.

For the record: Having been fluent in both Japanese and English since childhood, I also consider myself to be a native English speaker.

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Kazuki, I’ve already said my piece and cited as to translation. As I’ve noted to FalseDawn time and time again (let’s hope he’ll muster some reading comprehension soon), I’m not going to repeat myself — especially not when all you have to do is scroll up.

“What you are saying is that if you translate it, there’s no need of editing since it should be perfect already.”

Your words — not mine. As for me, believe it or not, I do recall making mention as to “PROPER ENGLISH” in multiple instances.

“I just can’t seem to agree with that, especially after looking at your own example.”

I can’t seem to agree with those words of yours either, so I guess that makes two of us.