Re: Amazing subtitles

Ben Bullock wrote:
I just wonder why they do this kind of thing - is it
because the Japanese translators actually don't understand the English
or is it because they are just putting things there at random because
translating it correctly would be too much trouble?

I suspect it's the former.

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