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Episode 2 has finally been released, despite Assmo's many and varied attempts at screwing up the encode. Enjoy your lolibattles, and the dreaded forbidden technique, the inverse washboard chest grope.

On another note, some of you have wondered why we didn't karaoke the song lyrics. The reason is because karaoke is gay and anyone who demands it likes taking it up the poop chute.

In all future Triad releases, we will be doing away with karaoke, and will instead simply time the songs as we would any other line in the show. If you are one of the many idiotic leechers who judge a release by the l33tness of the karaoke, fuck off and don't download our shit. God forbid you actually judge a release by something that actually matters, like, oh I dunno, the readability of the subtitles. Allow me to paste some quotes made by your peers.

This one was posted by a "Mikademus" on Anime-Planet's forums, regarding EP's release of Shakugan no Shana: I've watched EP's version and it seems like solid work. It features absolutely gorgeous karaoke -fantastically well made, one impressive feature in the ED is that the romaji text floats BEHIND the animation- and a good enough encode. I generally couldn't care less about "frills" like karaoke, but this is very slick. Some lines are phrased somewhat ankward and once in a while I spotted grammatical or editing errors, and due to long lines with short on-screen time or convoluted construction I had to rewind a very few times, but nothing that irritated me. [...] I've got no prior experience of Eval Powar but this seems like a good release.

He had trouble reading lines because of shitty timing and poor grammar to the extent that he had to rewind and watch multiple scenes again, but this seemed like a good release to him. WHAT THE FUCK. Apparently "slick" karaoke can make anyone ignore a halfass sub job.

This little gem, composed by "Haseo" on Tokyo Toshokan's sewer of a discussion board, reads as follows: And just so you know any fansub I have seen that doesn't have karaoke tends to have Horrid editing, crappy encoding, questionable translations just to name a few things. When they don't bother with karaoke 99% of the time it just means the group is question is doing a speed sub or just doesn't know what they are doing.

Now, I'm not saying that Triad doesn't make mistakes, because we make mistakes often. However, saying that we're either a speedsub group (a laughable concept at best) or that we don't know what we're doing seems a little harsh. I think a more reasonable explanation for this quote is that Haseo is a fucking asshat (or, as Anime-Blitz would no doubt call him, a level 3 asshat).

The problem is that Haseo is not alone in his opinion. We know you bitches are out there, and we hate your guts. In the past, we have done simple karaoke for most of the songs, but we still get complaints from people because it's not flashy enough, there's no flying bullets, where are the explosions and bouncing pantsu, etc. Apparently you do not watch the openings and endings for the songs, you watch it for the eyecandy. We don't sub for the eyecandy, we sub for the anime. If you're not there to watch the goddamn show, don't bother with our releases.

And for those of you who like to sing along with the songs and need the karaoke, you disgust me.

So please, next time you see a release from us, hop on our torrent, download the file, and shove the episode up your gaping collective ass.

Posted by LordBrian on Tuesday, October 25, 2005  
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No. 5515

Anonymous
March 10, 2008
15:04
No Subject

Triad, you bloody rock. Thank you :-)

No. 7215

bootabootafacialavenue
April 15, 2008
19:42
kareoke

fuck u biatches. Keep dat shit too ur selfs.

No. 7696

blue
May 15, 2008
20:03
karaoke subs... who cares?

Personally, I'd just prefer to have good subs that are as accurate as translations can be. Flashy karaoke really doesn't float or sink my boat... fact is, I could care less. If I want to do karaoke, I'll do it in English, on a karaoke machine... why else would I watch a fansub if I actually knew Japanese and can sing along...?

Even typing it, I felt the utter uncoolness of requiring flashy karaoke - not a reason I'm watching fansub to begin with - seeping into my brains. Keep up the good work! (People who actually want to watch anime for anime sake really could care less about this type of bs. At least I am that way. I'm not responsible for fools who think otherwise. Thank goodness.)

No. 7700

Anonymous
May 15, 2008
20:48
karaoke subs

This article made my day. Especially after watching Menclave butcher Macross Frontier by filling dogfight scenes with 3 lines of hardsubbed karaoke bullshit with sparkle explosion effects is too much to bear.

You're 100% on the money, we're here to watch a show, not masturbatory self-congratulation in the form of flashy text effects.

No. 7825

HisshouBuraiKen
May 21, 2008
20:22
You said it

A more recent karaoke we did featured like, arial black or some shit with no extra gay effects. But the translation was awesome. Any dumb shit can throw in 50 aftereffects.

By the way, Labaamen's translations in Kaiji? Fucking beautiful work. Namen na yo = go fuck yourself brought a tear to my eye.

No. 7936

Anonymous
May 27, 2008
23:22
No Subject

FINISH "GUNSLINGER GIRL IL TEATRINO"

No. 7974

Anonymous
May 30, 2008
11:26
No Subject

Triad, everything about you is perfect. I fully support every decision you've made up until this point. There is nobody better than you out there. Not only are you great subbers, but you aren't utter morons, like, well, 99 % of all other fansub groups.

No. 8106

lol
June 6, 2008
17:56
a.f.k.

wow someone actuallybitched abouta.f.k., got it from anidb, lucky star

over all a below average sub

nothing bad though, just doesnt live up to bar set by other quality subbers

the karaoke OP

sucked...

wasnt karaoke timed

one line

no kanji

video quality wasnt great

either bad raw or encode, it got gritty when played at full screen

sound quality was fine

trans was fine

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No. 8258

Anonymous
July 6, 2008
23:44
No Subject

I'll admit: I sing along sometimes. It's just a bit of fun while I wait for the show to start or when I want a small break before I move on to whatever I'm doing next. But I don't need or want flashy karaoke. I liked the way you did it with Bokurano: very plain font that was there for those who were interested but didn't intrude too much into the picture.

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