More errata, this time regarding the seiyuu who plays Kou Korou.

His name isn't Okiayu Ryuutarou, but rather Okiayu Ryoutarou. I should have read his bloody Aoni Productions profile instead of just blindly assuming that the kanji 龍 in his name has the usual reading of "Ryuu".

ごめんね、置鮎さん…-_-;;;

(This errata is brought to you by the word 'Ass', as well as viewers like you and me.)

Some quick errata: It sounded to us like it should be Official Rou (with a long o sound), but closer inspection of the novel (bearing in mind that things are rarely written phonetically) reveals that it should just have been Ro.

It's been a while, but it's errata time. In episode 9, Ensei said he had tried to take the 'junshi', which we translated as Ten Day Exam. This is because there's a word 旬試 pronounced junshi that means ten day exam. This is an actual word. In working on episode 10, we found that the characters used in the novels were 準試. This is not an actual word. As an added bonus, the novels explain the difference between 準試 and 国試 (kokushi), whereas the anime leaves it as an exercise to the imagination. (The difference is that the 国試, the Imperial Examination, is meant for those seeking high level positions in the imperial government, as well as other high positions like provincial governor, whereas the 準試 is for those seeking lower level positions.) After juggling some possible translations that would have been technically correct in a vacuum but that might have had some unintended implications, we've decided on Basic Examination as the translation we'll use going forward, and as the errata to that line in episode 9.

こんにちは、皆さん。虹色衝動(arcImpulse)どぇす。
I am the translator for Tale of Saiunkoku - although Torgen has helped me a lot with translation checking. (Do not be fooled by his 'Misc:' credit in the group credits ticker that he's only doing bit parts on this series.)

Saiunkoku has been a great series so far (one can never have too many severe hottie bishounens kicking around), but since I'm starting out and I have a full-time job, traditional We Suck speed is not guaranteed.

Now that I have gotten the self-introduction out of the way - I have some errata to announce for Episode 1, regarding Kou Shouka's job.
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Note to self: Never over-rely on online Japanese dictionaries, as reliable as wwwjdic and goo.ne.jp's Japanese-Japanese dictionary is...

(Ninja-edited for correctness...)

Errata being what they will, as usual corrections will be retroactively made in the script file packs we will release. Which means you can watch Uninhabited Planet SURVIVE (1-14) DVDs with the full errataed scripts, despite not having subtitles on the DVDs themselves! So preorder now!

Uninhabited Planet SURVIVE 33 is on the torrents?

I wish I didn't have to errata names so often, but when they wait such a terribly long time before giving us an official spelling and it's not the obvious one, it doesn't leave me much choice. Jilba? Try Zilba.

Quick errata: They apparently don't spell 'Brindo' with a 'w' like we had been.

I just got off the phone with the Haiyuuza theatre troupe in Japan, and as a result of that phone call I have some errata to announce. (And it's a doozy.)
I'm sorry, Kinoshita Nahoko. I'm sorry I misread your name as Kishita Naoko for so very long. At least it'll be correct for the last almost-half of the series, and for the DVDSubber script files. I'm also sorry, my viewers. I know translated credits and such aren't very useful if they're not right. However, I am now very confident that the regular cast and production credits are all correct.

The problem with a language where just about any part of a sentence can be implied is that people don't use pronouns very often, and it doesn't help that people use langauge constructs that don't have partcularly natural-sounding counterparts in English. By which I mean, there's errata, but it's not so much for a translation error as for an assumption I made incorrectly that I couldn't really have gotten out of making one way or the other. The person on the ID card Kaoru carries around is a male. Please gender-switch all pronouns I used which referred to him.
Maybe next time one of these situations comes up I'll just force you all to learn a set of non-gender-specific pronouns, like 'hir' or 'ou'.
And Survive episode 26 might be a little delayed becase I'll be moving, and I don't know how long it'll take to get internet access set up at my new place.
My BPS discs are still 'searching from suppliers', so that's why no scripts yet. I guess this means there was an unexpectedly high level of demand. I hope I know why...

There's some errata to episode 15. Menori's line near the end, "A ship?" should read, "Ruins?" Basically I heard "iseki" as "isseki". I mean, it made sense as a ship, and it looked sortof like a ship, so I didn't really question it, but in 16 more different people are saying it, and it's more clearly Ruins. And since that makes sense too, it's not really a problem. I'm just warning everyone because it's gong to be different in 16, and I don't want you all to freak out.

Today is the 6-month anniversary of We Suck. In the past half-year we have released all 12 episodes of Popotan, all 15 airings of Battle Programmer Shirase, 9 episodes of Uninhabited Planet SURVIVE, and 5 episodes of Takahashi Rumiko Theater, before we dropped that project. So that's 41 releases in all, which doesn't seem too bad considering it's just the three of us. Hopefully you'll stick with us for a while to come.
On a less positive note, as errata to episode 9 of Uninhabited Planet SURVIVE, the line:

Vocal Perfomers
(insert per-episode cast here)

should read:


Yes, blank. Because the timing of the ending sequence including credits doesn't change from episode to episode (although it may shift a few frames), I copy it in from another file every time. This time I neglected to comment that line out.

All that errata, eh?

Some of it shows up in our latest release, Battle Programmer Shirase 03-3. Enjoy your leeching. Yoriko kawaii~!

I've seen some discussion in the forums of other anime sites regarding people being disappointed in groups releasing a version 2, or sometimes a version 3 or higher, of an episode. Rest assured that we will not release a version 2 unless there is a drastic problem with our version 1. The file we distributed not being a valid AVI file is a drastic problem. Just about any number of lines being incorrectly translated is not. Even a line being entirely missing wouldn't warrant a recall, since we could just post the translated line here as errata. It's not like we don't know that some of our episodes have translation errors, where those errors are, and what the correct translations are, although we avoid releasing until the ones that we know about at the time are fixed. We don't don't have any particular qualms about admitting to our mistakes, either--you may remember our correction in 01-2 regarding the name of the company Akizuki was working for. I'm not even the only translator who had a chance to catch that mistake, although I'll spare the other(s) the embarrassment of being named. This also points out our basic policy on the matter--each episode is at least internally consistent, so we'll correct the mistake in a later episode if the same topic comes up again, as Eibin Electronics did. We also do fix translation errors when we release the scripts to go with the DVDs. If you've watched your Popotan DVDs with our scripts(And we hope about 200 of your have), you may have noticed some translation differences between our TV versions and our scripts, including the OP and ED, which were in one case wrong, and in the other case absent from the original release.
To this end, as errata to episodes 01-1, 02-1, and 03-1, in the previews when Misao and/or Yoriko introduce themselves, their school is not High Average Academy, but Greater Narashino Academy. Narashino (習志野, if you have asian text support enabled) is a city WSW of Tokyo in the Chiba prefecture of the Kantou region of Japan. Even before releasing 03-1, I had become suspicious that this was in fact where Shirase and Misao live, but because I wasn't positive (The show's official website is not too helpful in this regard, plus it uses a positively horrid font in the information sections, which use flash; also, we've never seen the school's name plaque, even though we see Misao outside the school a few times) I was reluctant to change it, because I was worried I might have to change it again later if this too turned out to be incorrect. I only reconsidered after 03-1 had been released, by which point it was too late. There is an error in the preview attached to 01-3 which is obvious if you've seen any of 02 (I chalk this up to the announcer not being a very clear speaker), and in 02-3 I confused yuusei (遊星, wandering star or planet) with Akizuki's actual line, ryuusei (流星, shooting star or meteor), when he speaks after Shirase describes his Meteoric Three Sisters attack. Akizuki simply repeats the attack name in Japanese, although we might have put Three Shooting Star Sisters to distinguish it. Also, the opening monologue by the announcer in 01-1 has a mistake which we later fixed, I think somewhere in 02, when we noted that it was transcribed on the show's website. I think that's most of what we know about.
An advance warning: Due to two exams in two days with a family event between, episode 04-1 of BPS may be delayed until hopefully the Tuesday of that week at the latest. Don't think that we're falling behind and use that as an excuse to download another group's version when they started six weeks after us instead of subbing one of several shows currently airing which no other group is working on. (I hope that was subtle enough.) The 60 hours following BPS's air time are in general the hours when I'm most free to work on it.
The Amagata Naomi album still hasn't shipped, making it basically impossible for it to arrive in time for 03-2 unless there's a tremendous delay in us getting the raw episode. I'm still hopeful that it will arrive in time for 03-3.
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(edit: wow, did blogger not like Kanji.)
(edit 2: wow, I must have been Mr. Typo that day. Note that v.3 of a Blog post is a lot less troublesome than v.3 of a 100M file.)