Forum:Trustworthy Translations

An open question to you all: which manga/anime translations do you think are the most accurate to Oda's work? I know many of you on this wiki know Japanese and don't have to rely on translations to acquire information but myself and probably a lot of the others get most of their one piece experience from some form of translation, be it fansubs, scanlations, or official translations. Personally, I mostly rely on the guys at mangastream for the manga and the funimation simulcast for the anime currently. Up to about the start of the new world saga, i followed kaizoku fansubs to ep. 307, vegapunk/whatever i could find until 380s and yibis up to roughly 500. I've checked out kousei but I feel like their subs are off because i watch the simulcast.

TL;DR: which scanlating groups/fansubs/translators do you guys prefer/are most accurate to Oda's work.98.148.124.224 18:20, June 30, 2013 (UTC)

Mangarule for the manga. Mangastream takes too much liberty with their translations.

Yibis or Kousei for the anime. The FUNi simulcast isn't really that good, and translates plenty of things wrong. The DVDs don't have these problems though. 18:24, June 30, 2013 (UTC)

Don't use Yibis. They localize too much. Kousei has the same lesser issue but they are much better than Yibis. It's a lesser of two evils kinda thing since K-F is so slow. Also as Galaxy already said Mangastream are terrible so use Mangarule. For older translations look for Franky-House or later releases of Null/KEFI. SeaTerror (talk) 18:36, June 30, 2013 (UTC)

For the manga, the best active translators whom I know of are Carlos and CCC (the translator of Mangarule and Batoto releases).

For manga Mangarule>Mangastream>Mangapanda since mangastream over-localizes and mangapanda is very inaccurate and has even removed text. 19:52, July 1, 2013 (UTC)

Mangarule seems to have become pretty inconsistent over the past couple months, their last release being over four weeks ago. Mangastream has also gotten worse with their translations, with characters pointlessly swearing all the time. Check out pages 8 and 9 of chapter 720. I liked Mangapanda's chapter more this week which should never happen. I guess I'm just lost on who I should be reading now. Breterbie (talk) 12:20, September 7, 2013 (UTC)

Powermanga is essentially Mangarule and has released all chapters since Mangarule's demise. 12:36, September 7, 2013 (UTC)