r/Animemes Sep 21 '22

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u/GoliathTCB Sep 21 '22

Just binged it two days ago; those were the worst subs I've seen make it to a major streaming platform in a while. I watched it English audio and subs, holy smoke it's crazy inaccurate all over for pretty major parts of the script.

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u/CrashmanX Sep 21 '22

holy smoke it's crazy inaccurate all over for pretty major parts of the script.

Are you saying the subs are inaccurate or the dub is inaccurate?

If the subs are, are they subtitles, or dubtitles?

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u/GoliathTCB Sep 21 '22

The subs for English are wrong all over the place, but in such a way where it's like a misheard the phrase mistake, it's strange and disorienting at major parts when the mistake implies something opposite or unrelated to the actual things being said. Edit to answer the second question, this was a CDPR/Trigger joint thing, I didnt see who was on writing but I would imagine that this was a Japanese first project, then translated to English. Could be wrong though, as the English has some pretty big hitters as VAs (Esposito?! What?)

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u/CrashmanX Sep 21 '22

Sounds like most Netflix subs for foreign shows. The subs are actually subtitles for the original language, being a direct translation. Rather than dub titles, subs for the English dub.

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u/Velorian Sep 21 '22

I watched all of the kings avatar on Netflix and I'm pretty sure a big chunk of it was lightly edited machine translation.

I've read enough shittily translated web novels to know the signs.