I once watched an anime where the translator added a "fun facts about this ep" part at the end of each ep (and it was always a list with at least 10 points), that was great

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The commie fansubs for monogatari series second are so peak.

For the koimonogatari arc the opening switches between modern/classic art styles. During the classic style portions, the fansubs change to that hideous yellow with black outline font prevalent during the VHS era.

And it's glorious.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LLlytsgLcr4

brings me back to yakitate! japan, where every goddamn sentence had a pun in it and the subtitler had gone through the effort of explaining all of them in little fact boxes.

like, they literally had to subtitle a horse eating bread because it makes the sound "horse", which is a homonym for "delicious". a fact i learned from those very subs.

There’s far too little fun in fansubs these days

Counterpoint: They are not commercial products, and there is nothing stopping groups from just abandoning series mid-season. For example, Komi Can't Communicate got a sub that translated all her written text in place and then just dropped it after a couple of episodes.

I've seen two arguments during that time.

1. as fan subs, those are entirely done voluntarily and the people behind it owe nothing to the community

2. they shouldn't have started the series if they weren't committed to completing the season. Other groups sat out on the series because of that.

yeah back in the 90's anime clubs had people doing their own subbing. Many folks learned japanese just to do subbing and they would meet and discuss how best to translate and such.

Fun to see this while messing with subtitle translation!

I picked the three seasons of Nights with a Cat to watch. Thought "my mum would love this", so I'm translating subtitles into Portuguese. (She loved the first two seasons, by the way.) And wow, it made me see the effort the group (pspspsps) poured into it — replicating the cat and Moon logo, animating everything, a thousand gradients, so goes on. I had to sacrifice a wee bit of the aesthetics (not much though) for the sake of making the translation viable, plus because I was merging the files, but it was clear the group did that as a work of love, I've seen plenty professional translators (incl. myself) doing a sloppier job.

I've never finished bleach because dattebayo stopped subbing it and the official subs are just trash to me in comaprison

Not a fansub, but the pop-up references on the Excel Saga DVDs were great. It's like reading two rapid fire shows at once!

I was watching Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity and the subs would get blurry when the character wasn’t paying attention/zoning out, I was amazed

Do you have a list of groups who do subs like these? Or at least a few group names to look out for, after watching Bleach with subs like these I’ve become spoiled 😂

My introduction to fan subs was the made in abyss movie. It is probably also the reason it was the last time...

It was so refreshing seeing this in the era of corporate sloppy subtitles!

That never went away. But fansubbers who do it as a hobby are a great addition to the community.

I watched the first 100 or so episodes of naruto with funsubs. I was so disappointed when I went back and watched the official sub. (The dub is absolutely terrible and if you like it i do not trust your opinion on any piece of media at all)

I love ts Anime sm