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Bought a bootleg copy of 'Akira' and the subtitles were a mess
I found a cheap Blu-ray box set online for $25 and thought it was a steal. The video quality was fine, but the English subtitles were full of wrong words and bad grammar, like they used a free online translator. It ruined the whole movie for me and I had to buy the real version anyway. Has anyone else gotten burned by fake anime releases?
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nora_dixon18h ago
Ever think about how those bad subtitles can totally change what the story is even about? I got a fake copy once where the subtitles made a serious conversation into a joke because the words were so wrong. It's not just missing a line, it can flip a character's whole meaning and you walk away with a totally different idea of the film. That fake version becomes the real story in your head, and that's hard to undo. You paid for a story but you got a broken telephone game instead.
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