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FFX Silly Subtitles: The Madness Continues
Last time, we left the heroes of Final Fantasy X heading towards Chaucer Temple, near the river of hallucination lights. What strange and wonderful things will we discover about the world of Stila next?
For those just tuning in, these are screenshots from a recorded play-through of FFX that I purchased on eBay. I thought it was an authorized movie edition, but it turned out to be bootleg. The translations range from awkward to incomprehensible-- and the results can be very amusing.
Despite the bad translations, this part has spoilers to the later parts of the story. Final Fantasy X a great game, so if you haven't played it yet... do. Even my sixty-year-old parents love it.
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Final Fantasy X Funny Fansub: Hallucination River
You Got Any Consciousness?
Yuna is only moonlighting as a Summoner until she can get a supervisor's job at Target?

Dona offers sound career advice.

You're one to talk, Wakka!

Now we know what these translators were smoking.

Watch where you aim that thesaurus! (Herbert!?)

Has your mind come to blank?

"Guess I'll just have to be the most jollified!"

Quick! Haul translator #1 out of the closet and make him invent a new name for "Yijie."

Especially if it's a girl with "frightening fists."
Final Fantasy X Fansub Fun: Rename the Farplane!
Your Turn!
Evidently the Farplane was called "Yijie" in Japanese. For once, the guys who brought you "Wendy" and the "Albert Saksy" were stumped. Let's help our erstwhile fansubbers invent a new name for Yijie that will sound familiar to English-speaking audiences!
Please offer your suggestions below. Spam, advertisements, and naughty stuff will be chucked in the catbox, so don't bother!
Sionainn In the vicinity of the Frampton zone
Posted April 07, 2008
Iwakura Souls Resting Village
Posted March 08, 2008
Berethor "The Dead-Zone" or "The wonderful land of Pies and dead people"
Posted February 17, 2008
Chewy Plane of magnificent pie hallucination powder.
Posted February 13, 2008
Assamite "Weird World". That's what it says in Chinese!
Posted January 30, 2008
Final Fantasy Fansub Fun: On to McIarney Temple
Why Are You Clapping?
I sense the smell of Yijie.

He's confused? You're the ones calling him Mr. Jessica!

There's always valium, I suppose.

Aren't you supposed to be the cheerleader?

Can't be. We haven't even started disk 2!

It's good, but it's not Perrier.

He's clapping while holding a camcorder? Slick.

Boys just wanna have fun.

Icky poo!

Ignorance is bliss.

Lulu's suspicions confirmed.

Happy happy, joy joy.

So quit it with the Jenny Craig flyers, okay?

Walter always was a pain in the pitoot.

So was Yalong, apparently.

Oh no!
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Ain't No Other Man
Not fansub-related, and mostly not for laughs, but it's a fun fanvid for anyone who knows Final Fantasy games. Footage is largely from FFX (and X-2, eep) and Advent Children. A few spoilers to X-2... but if you haven't played it yet, you're not gonna, right?
FFX Fractured Fansub: On to St. Bell
Caught in the Twirl of Death
We gotta cross the desert with our eyes shut?

He is? Then why are the Chubbies attacking his base?

I'd be weirded out if a strange kid walked up and asked me this.

Dona attends church revivals?

Yuna must be utterly deaf.

Uncut line from the All Your Base video?

Tidus wants Cid to deck him again.

Or maybe Spira is just very relaxed about gender.

That may be asking a lot, gramps.

Down, Cid. Down!

Looks fairly visible to me. But then, I don't wear dark glasses indoors.

Alfred?!

For some people, that's the definition of marriage, y'know.

He's creepy, even with bad subtitles.

Maester Mika's a Dead Head!

Er...?

Twirl of death!
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Opinion Poll: Gender Bending in Spira
This edition of FFX clearly challenges gender stereotypes and traditional roles. So let's think about this.
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Final Fantasy X Funny Fansub: Into the Nigel Plains
Xing is the Destiny Beard
Tidus' extremely cutting insult to Seymour:

It's X-treme Yuna! Now a contact sport!

Personally, I call it "dark."

Tidus flunks out on his first date!

What, me worry?

Lady Ginnem joins the gender-bending squad.

Let's have another cheer for our favorite team!

Yuck.

Stars are filled with fluorescent worms?

Er... that's grand. I think.

Pope Yunalesca!

Sounds kinky.

I kid you not-- this is their translation of, "Sin is an inevitable part of Spira's fate."

"'Atone' for our crimes? Shoot, I thought you said 'get stoned!'"

Lulu, blunt as usual.

Jecht attempts to keep it PG.
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Final Fantasy X Fractured Fansub: Zenakent and Beyond
Launch Face!
The Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut was called "His Majesty, Herself," after all.

Is that like fudge ripple?

You gals keep blowing this page's PG rating all to hell.

I looked it up, and the second definition for "jupon" is "petticoat."

How dare he just gibber and run!?

Yet more evidence that the American version of this game was censored.

Now we know who handles the baggage at Chicago O'Hare.

Gently poke it with tactical nukes!

Oh, no! I'm really intimidated.

Tidus' stirring speech.

Quick! Put Mr. Potato Head in the torpedo tube!

Brother's vocabulary has improved awfully fast.

Jecht pulls no punches.

Nor does Tidus. (This is "I hate you," by the way.)

Touching last words... or was that a parting insult?
Pop Quiz: The True Nature of Sin
Fans of FFX endlessly debate the nature of Sin. With this special literal translation of the original Japanese, we have more evidence at our disposal. So let's put our thinking caps on, and decide...
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Rockstrel After 'Twirl of Death' I fell off my chair. Actually literally. This is straight up the funniest thing i've ever read. Thank you for this :D
Posted April 12, 2008
feathered donkeyz wow. i never knew final fantasy was so funny!
i like your comment after the 'no other way is availible now. lets launch a face' Mr potato head, really...is jupon really a petticoat?
Posted March 02, 2008
J. M. I'm dying. Really. You deserve a medal. And a celebratory replica of the Masamune (the real Masamune, not Auron's maypole on a stick) to wound the translators (all three of them!) severely.
Suggestion: Poke. Hard.
As in stab them.
Posted January 18, 2008
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Ophie: Let me wipe the egg off my face; somehow I'd read that as "flatigious." Flagitiosus is a perfectly good Latin word, as is its derivative! However, it's amusingly erudite after Lulu's swearing.
Posted January 15, 2008
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Ophie I looked up "flagitious" and found a dictionary that has it (which was the first dictionary I turned to, actually). It means "criminal" or "villainous."
Posted January 15, 2008