Haikyuu Sentai Subs question

Mar 5, 2016 2:55 PM

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So I'm a big fan of Haikyuu, but I noticed a review for Haikyuu on Amazon said that the subs were awful.

Here's the review

Let's make this clear: This show is a 10/10, 100% A+ Sports Anime perfection. You should watch it. Now. Yesterday. But Sentai...

I'm sorry Funimation. I'm so so sorry that I spoke ill of you in previous reviews. Will you ever forgive me? Because the winner of subpar domestic releases is undoubtedly Sentai Filmworks.

I watch everything subbed, so I didn't care about not having an English voice cast. I would have never heard it anyway, and it would have greatly delayed the release. However, Sentai's releases are just... laughable. The packaging is always flimsy and awful. There are never any special features to speak of. And that would be all well and good, except they still charge more than Funimation. EVEN THAT I could look over, because in the grand scheme of things, whatever. But the subs... their subs are the worst in the industry.

I'm still learning Japanese. I won't pretend to be perfect. But some of the choices Sentai made while subbing were just bewildering. Easy example; in one scene they use the words for bird, "tori." They translated it as "duck."

Okay, weird choice. Whatever.

A few scenes later the character use the word for crow, "karasu". It's their team's mascot. They were referring to it in such a sense. They translated it as "bird."

WHY, THOUGH???? The inconsistencies are just...

Then they translate Hinata cursing when he wasn't using foul language, and they don't translate Kageyama actually using foul language. At that point you're screwing with the character's personalities. I would recommend watching this on Crunchyroll first so you get accurate subbing.

On the bright side, and for anyone who knows Japanese and doesn't need subtitles, the picture is beautiful. And the sound-- wow. It blew me away. It sounded like someone was spiking in my living room. Sentai needs to hire some new subbers. I'm backed against a wall because I want to support the industry and my favorite franchises, but it's not like I can give Funimation money instead of Sentai. I wish I could.

I suppose I should just be happy that this got licenses over here in the first place.

Does anybody know if the subs are really bad? I don't know if I can handle the subs calling "karasu" duck amongst the many terrible mistakes mentioned in the review. I want to support the animators/mangaka, but if Sentai did a really horrible job I'd rather not blow $70 on crappy subs...

TyrelMar 5, 2016 3:45 PM

Mar 5, 2016 3:46 PM

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The subs are extremely awful. Sentai is a very big fat mixed bag when it comes to translating anime. Crunchyroll's subs are also awful just so you know. Lots of mistranslations and grammar errors.

Mar 5, 2016 5:32 PM

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Tyrel said:
The subs are extremely awful. Sentai is a very big fat mixed bag when it comes to translating anime. Crunchyroll's subs are also awful just so you know. Lots of mistranslations and grammar errors.

Thanks for the help. Are there any good official good subs out there? I watch everything in sub, but there are one or two that I watch dubbed because that's what I saw them in first. I have the DVDs for Attack on Titan and I thought the dub was decent, but I haven't yet watched both the fansub and the funimation sub yet

TyrelMar 5, 2016 6:10 PM

Mar 5, 2016 6:10 PM

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Teyuga said:

Seeing as how Sentai/CR is the only official subs, and seeing as how Sentai is the only one who released it in hard-copy, the answer would be no.

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