Swearing Off Yakuza Shows

As I said in my previous post, Orphan is done with Yakuza shows, at least for a while. That means we won't be subbing Abe George Kattobi Seishun Ki: Shibuya Honky Tonk (familiarly known as Shibuya Honky Tonk), even though we commissioned a shiny new set of encodes from the R2J DVDs.

This is an anime version of Abe George's troubled adolescence and his run-ins with  yakuza.

However, the gangster argot is almost impenetrable. The scripts we have, though workable, would require specialized checking. In addition, the translator thought that the portrait of 50s Japan was romanticized. In the 1950s, Japan was impoverished, still reeling from World War II, and wracked by social unrest. Here, it looks more like London in the swinging 80s, with plenty of sex and violence to spice up the story.

The encode is by an anonymous friend and looks very nice.

So if you have a team that would like to take a run at this, feel free. Or if you're a translator with the experience (hopefully not personal experience) to handle Yakuza argot, get in touch. In the spirit of "Never Say Never Again," it's always possible that Orphan will return to this.