I've been looking for Japanese subtitles for Naoki Urasawa's Monster, but haven't had any luck. I've checked kitsunekko, d-addicts, and dramanote and haven't found it. I was wondering if anyone around here might know if this has been done?

This is my favorite anime series as of now, and I'd love to use it as a deck later. If it doesn't exist, does anyone know if any of these sites that do transcripts take requests?

it probably follows the manga closely? so look into that.... I mean if you want to make it easier for yourself, just learn from the manga?

also I would look into korean subs in the sense it's the closest thing to what you're looking for. It's not perfect but it's definitely helpful and i would assume that show has lots of kango so i think it would work out and you'd able to figure 90% of the lines?

here's the link on the korean subs
http://choronghi.wordpress.com/2010/11/1...-for-study

I pasted an example..... for the ainme occult academy, here.
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid160817

ALSO if you search with "" quotes in google... the exactly line then you might find blogs that transcribe the lines though i doubt they transcribe all the lines. Cause you know how some people write out the lines of a scene from an ep that they like on their blog...
like i found it for mop girl's last episode when i did this... and that ep had parts where i couldn't catch aything for the life of me...

so like i found these kind of blogs
http://ameblo.jp/cm215408081/entry-10060049050.html

http://ameblo.jp/hagumi/theme-10005670038.html

I'm not sure what I searched but basically you put the japanese text word for word (syyllable for syllable) in between the quotes and the google finds exact match.

I probably searched ' mop girl "some line i heard on the show written word for word" '

monster isn't obscure or anything so maybe there are blogs that trasncrbe lines from it.

There have been handful of threads recently (least it seems that way to me) about subtitles. Assuming ファブリス doesn't actually have a problem with it. Someone really should create a general "Post for subtitle related topics."

Thanks for those ideas howtwosavealif3. I think my best bet will be to grab the manga. While searching for Korean subs like you suggested, I came across a forum post somewhere where people were talking about 'shots in the show that didn't appear in the Manga' and making other comments that suggested that the anime sticks pretty close to the comic.

Still... would be quite a pain to turn that into a deck anyway. There's such a lack of Japanese subs on Japanese shows... I sometimes wonder if the Japanese entertainment industry thinks that deaf or hearing impaired people can just screw themselves?

Slimmjim, I know it's probably not what you want to hear but I'd encourage you to rip the audio of your favorite episode of Monster to date and go through it with audacity or something to slow down the harder to understand bits. You might be surprised with dedicated focus and listening how much you can understand, especially if you have some context with the story, character names, english subs etc -- Maybe endeavor to write the script yourself for one episode and then post it here, see if you can get a following. Monster is a famous series and people might be down to try and write the script for it. You'd hone your listening skills and build some vocabulary at the same time. What the folks on the RtK forums did with "The Last Wave" podcast was pretty impressive, I think it'd be wonderful to see some similar projects blossom from interested parties.

Just my two cents.

K

Kodorakun, thank you. I'm still in RTK-ville at the moment, just trying to look ahead and figure out what I'll be using for material later. This series would be my ideal.

My hope was to make a subs2srs deck with audio or audio/video of the whole series, but I don't think that's going to happen . From what I've found out so far:

- Only 15 episodes ever made it to DVD (and no Japanese subtitles), and very unlikely any more will be released.
- Entire series IS streaming on Hulu and Netflix, but again, only English subs.
- The anime is an almost shot-for-shot copy of the manga, and it's likely the dialogue is exactly the same or very close.

For this to happen, someone would have to transcribe like you say (my Japanese is nowhere near ready for that...). The only other way would be to have both the English and Japanese versions of the manga and use something like copy2text, and rip the audio from the online versions. A lot of tedious work, I think. I don't want to get bogged down spending so much time creating cards when I could be using that time to study them.

I might try my hand at one episode at some point just for an interesting project, we'll see. I'd really like to see a collaborative project on this take off... I love this show and it would be a lot of fun using it for more than listening practice. But at the same time, there's so much more material out there that is so much easier to create decks out of and the real point is to be studying Japanese not creating cards.

Getting good at listening will start when you start practicing your listening

Of course, spending a year building your vocabulary will help you identify more words easily and thus make parsing larger phrases a bit easier, but still, START LISTENING NOW!

If you're studying Japanese seriously that means you like challenges and aren't afraid of challenges (most likely). It also means you might just like getting your ass handed to you. On that note, go for the gold, try to transcribe an episode of Monster RIGHT NOW. If you get 3 sentences out of 30 minutes it'll still be worth the focused listening practice.

k.

The moderators might not like this, but I'm bumping this topic because I myself am looking for the exact same thing: Japanese subtitles for Monster. Nothing on Kitsunekko it seems. It's hard to search for it on Google because of other movies named Monster.

I looked for standalone subs too a while back, for sub2srs purposes, didn't find any. But the hard coded subbed version is everywhere, even youtube.

There's also an mkv version, on a certain evil site that kicks ass, with optional subs and dual audio. Those seem like they might allow the subs to be extracted into standalone files somehow. But I never looked into whether it's actually possible.

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Stansfield123 Wrote:There's also an mkv version, on a certain evil site that kicks ass, with optional subs and dual audio. Those seem like they might allow the subs to be extracted into standalone files somehow. But I never looked into whether it's actually possible.

I always thought the hardsub was the only copy of this, so that's nice to know. That should be possible with the right tools.

The anime was meant to be almost identical to the manga, so if you wanted to transcribe an episode I'd keep a copy of the manga to hand.

Are you talking about Japanese or English subtitles? Because I looked on the certain evil site that kicks ass, and all I see is dual audio with English subtitles.

Just checked Youtube and I'm lucky to find episodes that are subtitled in English. Are we on the same page here? I am looking for Japanese subtitles.

Cyborg Ninja Wrote:Are you talking about Japanese or English subtitles? Because I looked on the certain evil site that kicks ass, and all I see is dual audio with English subtitles.

Just checked Youtube and I'm lucky to find episodes that are subtitled in English. Are we on the same page here? I am looking for Japanese subtitles.

Oops. Yes, I was talking about English subs, didn't realize you were asking for Japanese ones. I scan a lot...

This is a shot in the dark but...

Perhaps you could transcribe a sentence or two from an episode. Then google it as a quote. That might not help you find a srt file, but perhaps someone transcribed an episode or two.

EDIT: I see you mentioned dramanote, but you didn't mention searching any Chinese sites, which is why I offered my suggestion.