Pokémon TV's sub-titles need to be human-checked

Prince_Ludwig · October 21

Yay, today's upload of "Hot Springing a Leak!" broke the trend of really bad sub-titles. Thanks! Keep it up, TPCi!

Edit: "Riding the Winds of Change!" also continued that CHANGE of now having good sub-titles again.

Prince_Ludwig · October 29

The sub-titles were going so well… Well, "Sleight of Sand!" didn't even have an official English sub-title track, but "Lost Leader Strategy!" and "Crossing the Battle Line!" had high-quality, official sub-titles, with the speaker names and everything.

And now the climax of Veilstone, "A Triple Fighting Chance!" has… official, iffy sub-titles. Nooo!

There is "only" one inappropriate word in these sub-titles (that's the best we can expect?), but they do repeatedly call Maylene "Meen" (I don't think she's mean!) and Cross Chop as "Crosschia" and a lot of other things. Or Staravia as "Stravia" or "Spavia" or "Stavia" or "Star Avia" or "Stabia" or "Aravia" or… "Davia". And Meditite is all over the place, like "Metatype". Or Confusion was "you guys" at one point?

Force Palm became "force pal" when it's anything but. Aura Sphere got messed up many times. And there are more examples.

I really enjoyed the official, high-quality sub-titles while they lasted…

Prince_Ludwig · October 31

Well I can tell the sub-titles in Enter Galactic! are gonna be no good when the opening translates "On a road, far from home, you don't have to feel alone." to "Come home. You don't have to feel alone."

And Maylene continues to be mistranscribed as "Meen" or even "me", the latter is funny when Ash says he didn't beat "me" fair and square.

I dunno I kinda gave up on trying to pay attention to the episode.

Prince_Ludwig · November 1

Crossing Paths! is an important episode, since it's the last one with Jessie's Dustox. Sadly, the so-called official English sub-titles don't do Dustox justice, referring to it with names like "Dust dogs" or "Dust Ducks" or "dust docks" or "Dustto" or "Dusttocks" or just "Dust".

Not having the sub-titles in this episode also means that the viewers never learn the correct name/spelling of Astin (Jessie's flashback crush) / Austin (current boy with the Shiny Dustox). They also claim that flashback Jessie's bawling as she's chasing after Astin's bus is "laughter", which is pretty cruel.

Prince_Ludwig · November 2

Today's "Pika and Goliath!" episode was actually checked by a human, I think—my impression is it was made with auto-generated sub-titles and then edited, instead of made professionally from scratch like some of the earlier episodes in other seasons. There are still some errors in the sub-titling ("Phone Tackle" or "Vault Tackle" instead of "Volt Tackle", or "Show" instead of the character's name, "Sho"), but there are still far less errors than in the previous episode.