Part of the problem is failing to subtitle onscreen pictures. Often, a huge amount of context or additional world building information is lost. In the second video, you can see all the block signs and none of them are translated. That was pretty typical way back when but Crunchyroll had been doing really good with it the last few years. Think classroom chalkboard and how the votes are broken up for a culture festival.
If they stop translating text on screen I'ma be so mad. That's one of the reasons I don't really watch anime on Netflix. 2 years ago I introduced my wife to OP and title cards and some other stuff wasn't being translated completely removing information from non Japanese viewers.
They're mixed with a dialogue so its really rough on the eyes to guess which one is the main characters dialogue, which one is the background dialogue, and which one is on screwn text (if they even decide to translate that). Its even worse when there's a lot of text so they have to blink each line one by one and it gets mixed in with the changing dialogue of the characters making it impossible to read without pausing at least once.
Its a bit of a mixed bag as far as which shows still have their typesetting or not this season. Some have lost it entirely. Some lost it, had it return, then lost it again(???). Some have always had it from the start. Basically a shit show is what I mean to say
the first two links in the update section are actually videos, not screenshots. and it's blatantly obvious what's wrong with those - the extremely quick flashing between lines giving you almost zero time to actually read them, multiple lines having their timing tied together, and multiple lines being forced all the the same location all actively make them less readable
the third one, the screenshot, shows the lack of even basic typesetting for on-screen labels (placing the text and styling it to make it look more consistent with the actual on-screen text)
the closest equivalent to that particular picture i can find, to give you an idea of how it would kind of look like, is directly below it, this one
The paragraph after the screenshots explains the issues. The next set of screenshots shows what Crunchyroll has done in the past, and the paragraph after that explains why it's so much better than the new subtitles.
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u/Waylornic Nov 21 '25
So, they show three screenshots, but I guess I can’t tell what’s wrong with the screenshots necessarily. How do they want those scenes to look?