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Re:Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? by akimbostrawman on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @08:18AM (#45502202)
https://boundingintocomics.com/?s=Localize

https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2021/04/23/localizer-goes-on-...

That's only one show from one localizer and they and many others have been doing this for almost 10 years.

Re:Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? by perching_aix on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @08:47AM (#45502452)
I checked both links (until the start of 2024). I see a number of examples for the jokey-joke type translations, but not for the political ones. The only politically charged mistranslation I see there is the Blue Box one from April, which honestly looks accidental. The Twitter gloatings screenshotted seem to squarely pertain to the jokey-joke type stuff too at a skim.

Gonna stand by this angle being way overblown. Thanks for at least bringing receipts though nevertheless.

Re:Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? by akimbostrawman on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @10:05AM (#45503208)
if censorship, subversion and cultural rewriting is not "political" then i don't know what "political" is. stop enabling this behavior by making excuses and assuming good faith when they literally tell you to your face there bad intentions.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220717182807/https://twitter.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220218214341/https://twitter.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210410233042/https://twitter.c...

Re:Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? by silicon5 on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @11:01AM (#45503961)
*their