Japanese (Original) Subtitles for Japanese Dramas

Last edited by rokonoko on Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:05 am; edited 53 times in total

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:31 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Added Atsuhime episode 6 subs

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Added Sasaki Fusai no Jingi Naki Tatakai episode 4 subs

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:30 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Added Bara no nai Hanaya episode 5 subs

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:47 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

rokonoko: i am disappointed more people have not shown appreciation for your subs. as i see it, there are at least two audiences that can immediately benefit. japanese hearing-impaired individuals, or even older jp people who cannot hear well. AND students studying jp that want to READ and SEE kanji rather than just listen to it.

best of luck in your venture, and thanks for contributing.

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Actually, i think it's pretty Decent of you. As a student of the language, i'm sure they will come in handy.

ありがとうな！

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

btw, i tried opening the japanese subs into subtitle editor programs, but it wont work~~ can this be fixed?? anybody could help me?

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:19 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I think these can be a big help for translating purposes and also for people studying Japanese. Thank you for posting these subs. Big Smile

I looked at the subs for Lost Time Life and they seem to be exact word-for-word subtitles, rather than abbreviated subs. Does that seem to be true for all the subs you're posting?

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

wow, these are fantastic~ Wub

They're a great help, since my reading skills are so much better than my pathetic listening skills.

Abbreviated subtitles? The description in the individual drama posts imply that these are the Japanese broadcast close-captioned subs and would therefore contain word-for-word dialog, similar to American CCs.

Edit: I've discovered VLC isn't very good with subs, these work great with Media Player Classic and ffdshow. Also, my attempts to add ruby destroyed the time codes, which was the problem. But, then I don't really need the reading for 'haha' that much... Notepad always works as a .srt editor. ^^;

Thank you again~ thumleft

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:39 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Thanks, have been looking for Japanese subtitles awhile ago. Couldn't find any.

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

This is the first time i came across your thread and i really appreciate your work. As someone learning Japanese, these will come in handy *_* Arigatou :3

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Thank you very much for posting these subs. They will come in handy for me too. Wub

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Hey, Thanks a lot!

As a japanese student, I really think this is going to help me practice both listening and reading. Great job! cheers

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

@furransu, Catslaughing
The files are in Unicode 16 bit Little Endian (UTF-16LE) encoding. VobSub renders them just fine (my version is 2.23). If you want to edit them it's better to convert them to SHIFT-JIS encoding. For this purpose I use MadEdit (http://madedit.sourceforge.net).

@Phoenix
As the origin of the subs which I am posting is TV closed captions I wouldn't say they are exact word-for-word subtitles. You see, already in CCs there are sometimes diffierences with the actors words. But they are usually minor and subs are almost word-for-word subtitles. Just check subs for Chiritotechin - I was very impressed by how close subs are to the audio.

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0