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   Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 05:58:54 JST Polychrome :blabcat:
   Official #anime subtitles:
   - Subtitles
   - Intro/Outro song subtitles (optional)
   - Translator notes (optional)
   
   Fan made anime subtitles (#fansubs):
   - Subtitles
   - Fancy animated intro/outro song subtitles (mandatory)
   - In-depth translator notes (mandatory)
   - Different text colors per speaker
   - Different font for special voices/lines
   - Fun text positioning for funny situations
   - Special subtitle animations for special attacks
   - Occasional memes and scene in-jokes
   - Weirdly obsessive in-show lingo translation choices (often)
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     Koz Ross (koz@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 06:00:14 JST Koz Ross

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     @Polychrome That last one... "we left this untranslated for weeb flavour reasons".

     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: and Polychrome :blabcat: like this.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 06:00:41 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • Koz Ross
     @koz anything by TV-Nihon :blobcatgooglyshrug:
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 06:18:58 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @Polychrome
     Also fansubs:
     - Translation of in-video text (like teacher's blackboard, newspapers, …)
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     doll! (hierarchon@inherently.digital)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 06:23:09 JST doll!

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     @Polychrome I remember I saw a scene from Symphogear S3 and it had fancy animations, colors to indicate who was singing a line (and gradients for multi-singer parts!), and then the official sub is just... normal text.

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 06:23:52 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • doll!
     @hierarchon I want to support creators but it's really hard to go official after experiencing that level of dedication.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 06:25:00 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • hramrach
     @hramrach so do fansubbers! Just instead of an angry boss it's angry forum posters :blobcatgooglytrash:
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     hramrach (hramrach@stranger.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 06:25:04 JST hramrach

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     @Polychrome Official translators are professionals. They have deadlines 😜

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 06:25:40 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan I've seen these in more modern official subs but not often yeah
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     Jernej Simončič � (jernej__s@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 19:59:06 JST Jernej Simončič �

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     • hramrach

     @hramrach @Polychrome Those hours include typesetting (including animating all the moving signs) and at least one QC pass (or at least they did back when I was doing this).

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     hramrach (hramrach@stranger.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 19:59:07 JST hramrach

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     • Jernej Simončič �

     @jernej__s @Polychrome Can you imagine the 'productivity' drop if 'professional' translators took hours to translate a single anime episode? 😜

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     Jernej Simončič � (jernej__s@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2023 19:59:08 JST Jernej Simončič �

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     • hramrach

     @hramrach @Polychrome And yet fansubs manage to be released within hours of the episode airing…