The translator would have to know enough Japanese to not just step in, but to verify every word that gets translated. At that point you’re not really saving much on either skill or time by using machine learning tools.

Any 2-bit translator can crank out what they are putting out with raws, screenshots, and voice to text

Have you tried? These tools might not be up to the standard you think. Not even Youtube’s autotranslate stuff is actually any good.

I only ever watched the original series. Is any of the rest of it any good?

Honestly N1 is probably unnecessary. I think most people who’ve passed N2 could do a great job with most shounen stuff. It’s not like they need to do it in real time.

Now that Thanksgiving is past, it’s properly Christmas season - and that means it was time for me to pick up Sanda. Seems properly unhinged, and perfect for the month of December. I’ve only watched the first episode though, so who knows whether it’ll be able to keep that up.

No, it’s you and the soulless husks in charge of Amazon!

Now, LLM localization is the greater challenge. I highly doubt those, including the classic machine-learning models, can reach N1-level localization quality.

There’s no chance it’s happening any time soon. Many manga and anime lean heavily on visual context as well as the context of the story in general to clear up situations where the language would otherwise be ambiguous, so until the translation software can also use all of that context it’s basically impossible.

You may be underestimating how bad these AI dubs are.

Sick, looks like that’ll be a good season for fantasy.

I don’t see a date here. Is there a date?

The biggest issue with Eureka Seven is that it starts really slow, but unfortunately plenty of people have bounced off because of that. Very unfortunate.

Redline is one of my favorite anime, but I’ve never seen it described as “emotional” before.

Medalist (sports comedy)

I always looked at it as more of a sports drama with some really good comedic moments. Either way, top-tier show. Looking forward to Season 2 this January!

Looks great; this is definitely something to be excited for!

Definitely the ending of the whole story I’m afraid.

Code Geass’s story really is just that great, but if you don’t like the main characters I can’t really recommend you resume - I don’t think they fundamentally change much by the end. It’s not like there’s a shortage of other great anime to watch after all.

I think maybe you misunderstood something about Kaguya-sama as a result of having watched just the very beginning. What the narrator says the show is about and what the show is actually about are two completely different things. The narrator tells you the show is about these two using bullshit tactics to try to make a relationship happen. What the show is actually about (among other things) is those two learning to lay down their pride so they can actually be happy. So yes they’re extremely prideful, but the story treats that as each of their greatest flaws. There are still bullshit tactics sometimes of course, but one of the themes of the show is that those never get the characters anywhere and obviously never will. I promise you that as you see more of these characters you’ll find that they really are easy to cheer for - even if they just come across as prideful jerks at the beginning.

Worth noting that the Legend of the Galactic Heroes remake has far worse music and character designs, so I recommend people go with the older one.

But sort of requires some meta-knowledge of pre-2010 anime to really be elevated.

You also have to be comfortable with an average of around 1-2 mosiac’d dicks and other things on-screen per episode.

Probably .hack//SIGN but tbh the atmosphere and the music are that show’s only merits. I can’t really recommend it.