> Most of the mistakes I see seem to stem from the fact that the translator didn't understand the original content. I assume they are an individual Japanese nat

> Most of the mistakes I see seem to stem from the fact that the translator didn't understand the original content. I assume they are an individual Japanese native speaker, or a team with no English native speakers. I'd rather assume that people are doing the translation without having seen the film at all. I've noticed that by watching wrong translations that don't come from cultural misunderstandings, but plainly not matching what is seen on the screen (maybe by using the wrong gender of people, or misidentifying who's doing the talking, or having words with two meanings using the one which doesn't match the current scene at all). The economics of subtitle translation (either commercial or fan-made) favor uploading as many films or episodes as soon as possible, so it's likely that some people are just downloading the original text dump, run it through an automated translator, and editing it by hand to make it sound natural. I assume people who get regular commissions from established platforms will behave a bit better, but sometimes it still makes you wonder...