Well, after a few hours of gameplay, I’ve managed to complete this little Nintendo DS game called Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends (which is actually the third one on the series since a sequel for the Wii came out before this one), and now I guess I can safely this: if you really enjoy cooking… avoid these kind of games!

At first, it feels like it’s gonna be a lot of fun since you’ll be able to cook a lot of different international dishes and stuff, but the truth is that most of the time you’ll find yourself feeling either tired of doing the same things over and over again, or annoyed at how the food always ends up looking like total crap no matter how well or badly you did on the minigames.

Also, Mama seems to think that pounding my own hand while making mochi is reason enough to give me a silver medal… even if I managed to complete the minigame on time. Maybe a little blood fell into the rice without me noticing and that ruined the whole dish, or maybe Mama is actually judging my levels of stupidity, but I don’t really care anymore since I’m finally done with this game.

Whatever. I think it’s about time for me to move on to better stuff… or at least better games (like the upcoming Higurashi no Naku Koro ni DS remake or that one JP-only game that’s actually like a recipe book and it shows you how to cook for real).

First, we have that horrendous karaoke thing that’s commonly placed in both the OP and ED sequences. Seriously, even if I think that Doraemon’s OP theme is cool and spicy, I’m sure I will never feel like singing it since I’d most likely look like an idiot. Also, let’s not forget that fansubbers tend to use these animated, coforful, distracting fonts that often prevent us from enjoying all these fanservice shots that most opening sequences usually have on them nowadays.

Now, can you find what’s wrong with the picture above? Exactly, that smiley at the end of the translator’s note! Seriously, I think that using these is a serious offense towards the old anime fans who in their days didn’t have any of these fancy smileys and at most they’d only be able to come up with things such as :) or :-(

Next we have the annoying stylish fonts that fansubbers just love to use in their so called professional works. Really, just imagine if your favorite mediocre JRPGs were translated like that! OH THE HORROR.

Get these TL notes out of my gore and yandere action, please!

Translations in actual art?! Now that’s what I call blasphemy!

Here’s an example of what a good fansubbing job would look like. The text is barely noticeable and everything is completely translated to English!

Seriously, if we don’t do something about it soon, all fansubs will probably end up looking like this:

…Or not. But, yeah, just be sure to remember this: The present is past and our past is the new future! Say no to horrible fansubz and just watch the god damn RAWs!

Inspired, obviously, by this.

P.S. Happy Valentine’s Day. ^^

Unsatisfied with having CLANNAD as their only home, dangos have decided to go explore a much darker anime called Shigofumi. They’ve been spotted hiding in different scenes from this new series making use of some truly impressive cloaking techniques.

Or probably not. Whatever… it’d be nice if they win, since this is the year of the dango and all, but… everybody knows they don’t stand a chance against true manly characters such as Rika, Rena, Konata, Kyon, etc.