The first episode of The Four Sons of the Yuzuki Family, the television anime of Shizuki Fujisawa’s Yuzuki-san Chi no Yon Kyōdai, was inaccessible on Crunchyroll on Thursday, following complaints about the episode’s poor subtitles The movie spread on social networks and Crunchyroll’s own website. Crunchyroll did not announce or explain the episode’s removal, nor did it say if or when the episode would return.
Update: Crunchyroll restored the episode with the same subtitles in the United States later on Thursday, but not in some other countries and territories. As of Thursday, the series was also not listed on Crunchyroll’s “List of Fall 2023 Anime Seasons” page or the “Newly Added Anime” page in those other countries and territories.
Update 2: Crunchyroll told ANN on Friday that it is “working with the licensors of the series The Four Sons of the Yuzuki Family to update the subtitles and we hope to have that version available on our platform soon.” .”
Ani-One Asia, the anime streaming company in Southeast Asia also licensed the anime and episode 1 is still available in their region with different English subtitles and fewer errors.
Woof, no idea what happened here but Crunchyroll’s subtitles for The Four Sons of the Yuzuki Family are clearly unprofessional. 4 out of 5 sentences have no punctuation, are translated too literally, and possessive words are confused. It was a mess. pic.twitter.com/0aM3zmfHq3
— Yami ReiRei, JK (@LossThief) October 5, 2023
OK yes, this is completely machine translation. No human could mistranslate a character’s name like that. This sucks. pic.twitter.com/zW8AeWFp0w
— Yami ReiRei, JK (@LossThief) October 5, 2023
Anime News Network reviewers criticized the translation quality of the first episode’s subtitles today in its fall anime preview guide. As of press time, Crunchyroll has not responded to ANN’s request for comment.
© 藤沢志月・小学館/ 「柚木さんちの四兄弟。」製作委員会
The anime premiered on Thursday, with Crunchyroll streaming the series overseas as it aired in Japan.
Mitsuru Hongo (Gunma-chan, Ascendance of a Bookworm) is directing the anime at Shuka (Natsume’s Book of Friends seasons 5-6), and Orie Tanaka (Natsume’s Book of Friends animation director) is designing the characters and serving . as animation director. Yoshikazu Suo (Magical Project S, The Melody of Oblivion) will compose the music. Aoi Kubo performed the ending theme song “Sasakure” (Splinter).
The coming-of-age story follows four brothers — from oldest to youngest, breadwinner and school teacher Hayato, the aloof and beloved Mikoto is perhaps too much about Minato, the meek Minato and Gakuto, the First graders are confident.
The manga has been serialized in Shogakukan’s shoujo manga magazine Betsucomi since 2018. The manga won the shoujo category in the 66th Shogakukan Manga Awards in 2020.
Update:anh> Grammar error fixed. Thanks, AdamW.
Source: Crunchyroll service via @LossThief, Mike Toole