Fansub "Review": [XF] Puchi Puri Yuushi - 11 [21314840].avi
Introduction
This is another episode of XenonFansubs Yuushi from my notes, this time episode 11, as I felt that the contents of the episode’s translation would be worthwhile to document publicly. Same as with Episode 24, this is less of a review and more a collection of notes on the subtitles to document any errors, mistakes, or oddities. Like with before, ADV’s translation is included at the top of all screenshots for reference.
Release Specifications
Release Date: 2003-02-17?
Video: BS2 TV-Rip, DivX3 23.976fps (minor brightness issues on some scenechanges)
Audio: 128kbps Constant Bitrate MP3
Credits:
| Role | Staff |
|---|---|
| Translation | MirageIllusions |
| Song Translation | BlOodyAngeL |
| Translation Check | Magus |
| Editing | Kinderfield, PnG & Hibiya-san |
| Timing | Renegade R |
| Typesetting | Renegade R |
| Karaoke | Renegade R |
| Encoding | marinersp |
| RAW Provider | Hibiya-san |
| Special Thanks | XenonQC Team |
Subtitles
For some reason at some point XF decided that this was the best way to handle stutters.
Both her lessons and her classes? The poor thing.
Don’t think this is how title case works, but go off I guess.
The audio here is “Grenda-tachi wa?”
I’m sure that the full moon was beautiful, but my understanding is that it was specifically a night with a full moon.
While not inherently wrong, I don’t like this wording.
What are you going to do? She says this after she throws a pillow at Grenda. I still have no idea what “it” was supposed to be.
This is the eyecatch, marking the halfway point of the episode. While nothing is wrong with this eyecatch, I am including it to note that the episode is halfway through, as the translation quality changes dramatically after this point.
I think this is an oversimplification of what he’s saying, but it’s far from the most offensive thing in this episode.
This line is not only extremely unnaturally written, it’s also extremely incorrect. All other things aside, he’s not even looking at her. This is also a good time to bring up some important context for the episode.
Last episode, Arc, a boy who Yuushi has a crush on, gave her a kiss as a farewell while on the run. The premise of this episode is that Yuushi is now trying to think through her feelings,
and decide if he has the same feelings for her as she does for him, or if he was just messing with her, as he has been known to do. Her friends watched the kiss unfold, and earlier in this episode confronted her on it,
with Grenda trying to convince her that she should just forget it ever happened. This sequence was not included in screenshots, as XF’s translator actually did get the contents of it correct.
This marks the start of a very long and very incorrect sequence in the translation. Yuushi meets a mysterious girl on the beach who she talks through her feelings with, and so the entire episode hinges on this sequence being
correctly translated. We begin by losing that she was talking about what her friends said today in this sentence, and not what happened the previous day.
Continuing on, since we got the previous line incorrect, the fact that she’s describing what Grenda thought is now lost.
I believe that the line here is completely wrong.
Don’t worry about what? ADV has the same thought as XF’s previous line, but the correct subject that ADV is referring to is clear.
At this point, the translation is bordering on nonsense. “Because you still have that person in your mind” doesn’t really make sense at all. And while Yuushi hasn’t fully decided for sure that she loves him,
I don’t think that her saying that “You don’t even know if you like him.” prompts the next line.
No, she said that you might even love him, not if he loves you.
The felling, huh? Also the entire meaning of the line seems to have been completely lost in the translation. The “felling” of what?
To culminate the entire scene, the girl gives Yuushi this speech about how she shouldn’t worry about what the guy thinks of her, and should decide and focus on her own feelings first.
Unfortunately, XF subtitled her lines with this text, which seems to have absolutely nothing to do with what she is saying, and barely even makes any sense in English. “Even if I like someone, I feel I can do it.”
I remember while watching this episode I was hopelessly lost on what the girl was even trying to say, but then when I checked ADV’s translation everything became clear. This was by far the most important scene in the entire episode,
and the translator completely messed up almost every line in it.
Moving on from that, at some point before this, the robot butler Barizan sunk into the water after crashing into their boat. We know where he fell in, but not where he ended up. I don’t think that XF’s line conveys this properly.
Generally on things like this where XF and ADV have completely different meanings, I’m more inclined to believe whatever ADV says.
Well said, Cube.
What is?
I think the robot talks too robotic, a feat that I didn’t think was possible. I think the third sentence is the worst offender.
You should of taken responsibility.
This is a follow up to the long-winded incorrect sequence from before. XF’s translation of this line makes about as much sense as the lines its referring to, which is to say it doesn’t make any sense at all.
The phrasing of the first sentence does not go well with the “Right?” as a follow up.
One of the earlier translators wrote a TL note for this in a different episode, but the translator here takes the time to explain it again in case you forgot.
I don’t even know anymore at this point. I have no idea what actions XF thinks that she’s referring to.
What?
XF missed the final line of the episode. Because the translator screwed up the line about being tan, the entire preview was already made into nonsense. They then gave Gunberd’s followup line to Cube, and skipped the last line entirely.
A fitting end to the episode, really.
Final Thoughts
The first half of the episode seemed above average for this show, with only some minor mistakes here and there. Unfortunately, after the halway point, the quality takes a spectacular nosedive, and the entire episode falls apart.