Pachinko (2022– )
Captions critical -- and not competent
9 April 2022
This work absolutely lives or dies by captioning. Unless you are fluent in both Korean and Japanese, you cannot know what is happening without reading the captions.

Captioning is not a rare skill. Yet for "Pachinko" captions were not professionally done.

In these episodes, captions sometimes appear for a tiny fraction of a second -- so fast that no one would be able to read even a word. In many other cases, they are kept on the screen so briefly that readers will miss parts of the dialogue.

This is.a fine story, but there is no excuse for poor captioning -- it is a skill found easily everywhere in the world.
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