Are Reichu and the others willing to do a fan geek commentary of all four Rebuild of Evangelion films, with subtitle translations that are accurate as possible? If there is a Rebuild FGC already with accurate translations, please let me know.

Reichu is no longer involved with any of the Evageeks projects. If you want more of her stuff, you can find it here.

As for the FGC, there are currently no plans of extending it even to span the full series. The project is unfortunately more time and labour intensive than feasible to do the whole series with who we currently have working on it

Blockio wrote:Reichu is no longer involved with any of the Evageeks projects. If you want more of her stuff, you can find it here.

As for the FGC, there are currently no plans of extending it even to span the full series. The project is unfortunately more time and labour intensive than feasible to do the whole series with who we currently have working on it

Is there at least any plans to make subtitles for the four movies that are as accurate as possible?

That's pretty much the official subs in the latest releases. Those were done by professional, in-house translators; they have knowledge and access to production material that most of us here couldn't even dream of. The amount of things that might realistically need changing are in the single digits pretty much.
The days of dubious ADV subs are thankfully over, and what we currently have is so close to definitive that it doesn't justify the tremendous effort of making a new subtitle track for all of them

Blockio wrote:That's pretty much the official subs in the latest releases. Those were done by professional, in-house translators; they have knowledge and access to production material that most of us here couldn't even dream of. The amount of things that might realistically need changing are in the single digits pretty much.
The days of dubious ADV subs are thankfully over, and what we currently have is so close to definitive that it doesn't justify the tremendous effort of making a new subtitle track for all of them

To be fair, as the Prime English sub and the Prime English sub [cc] have differences, it is difficult to say these subs are so good.

Also, it isn't really good that the Prime English sub are literally the Prime English dub. So the meaning can be sacrificed to make the words sound good.


PS: I agree that the effort for more accurate subtitles would be too much. I just want to point that the Prime subtitles are so good either.

Konja7 wrote:

Blockio#934550 wrote:That's pretty much the official subs in the latest releases. Those were done by professional, in-house translators; they have knowledge and access to production material that most of us here couldn't even dream of. The amount of things that might realistically need changing are in the single digits pretty much.
The days of dubious ADV subs are thankfully over, and what we currently have is so close to definitive that it doesn't justify the tremendous effort of making a new subtitle track for all of them

To be fair, as the Prime English sub and the Prime English sub [cc] have differences, it is difficult to say these subs are so good.

Also, it isn't really good that the Prime English sub are literally the Prime English dub. So the meaning can be sacrificed to make the words sound good.


PS: I agree that the effort for more accurate subtitles would be too much. I just want to point that the Prime subtitles are so good either.

I know a little bit of Japanese, and sometimes, the subtitles translate wrongly to what is said on screen. For instance, at the beginning of 1.0, the English subtitles say "Nuts." when Shinji says "Damedayo"(It's no good) in Japanese. Also, in 3.0 + 1.0, Rei can be heard saying "Ikari-kun ga sukidakara" which should mean "Because we like you, Ikari", while the subtitles say "Because we like you".

BoogerPoo2002 wrote:

Konja7#934554 wrote:
To be fair, as the Prime English sub and the Prime English sub [cc] have differences, it is difficult to say these subs are so good.

Also, it isn't really good that the Prime English sub are literally the Prime English dub. So the meaning can be sacrificed to make the words sound good.


PS: I agree that the effort for more accurate subtitles would be too much. I just want to point that the Prime subtitles are so good either.

I know a little bit of Japanese, and sometimes, the subtitles translate wrongly to what is said on screen. For instance, at the beginning of 1.0, the English subtitles say "Nuts." when Shinji says "Damedayo"(It's no good) in Japanese. Also, in 3.0 + 1.0, Rei can be heard saying "Ikari-kun ga sukidakara" which should mean "Because we like you, Ikari", while the subtitles say "Because we like you".

Well, no sub is ever going to be one for one, that's part of localization. It comes down to weather the subs convey the meaning of dialogue without straying into inserting jokes or lines that were never there like old subs/dubs used to. In both examples you use, I still think the meaning of the lines are intact, although the "nuts" line might be pushing it a little.

BoogerPoo2002 wrote:Also, in 3.0 + 1.0, Rei can be heard saying "Ikari-kun ga sukidakara" which should mean "Because we like you, Ikari", while the subtitles say "Because we like you".

Assuming that it’s normal for Japanese people to say the person’s name rather than saying the equivalent word for “you” -- as it's considered rude -- it’s unnecessary to put “Ikari” in the translation, so Ikari = you. As for the “nuts” one, i don't know.

It is also necessary to remember that there’s an adaptation in the script for dub, in order to be compatible with the mouth flaps, which obviously reflects in CC subs.
However, I believe you want as literal a translation as possible.

BoogerPoo2002 wrote:a fan geek commentary of all four Rebuild of Evangelion films.

Volunteers creating the framework (images, cuts, dialog) would always be welcome.

That would also be true of End of Evangelion, which is a major omission from the existing project. At one point there were outline pages for One More Final, but those seem to have been lost to time.

Mr. Tines wrote:That would also be true of End of Evangelion, which is a major omission from the existing project. At one point there were outline pages for One More Final, but those seem to have been lost to time.

IIRC, all the cuts from the commentary pages were uploaded to the wiki's commentary page using a bot. To this day, I have no idea why the bot didn't upload the pages for End of Evangelion, because those were indeed meant to be a part of the commentary project (Along with Death & Rebirth). There was even a segment of Episode 26' that landed up being translated.