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That was actually the line that caused me to find out there was such a big push against the current state of official manga translations (at least for SJ stuff).

Normally I assume that the people complaining about translations are the...delightful folks obsessed with stuff being 100% literally translated (Unicorn Overlord fiasco), but the current state of manga translation discourse actually seems to be the opposite? Stuff is getting translated TOO literally and feeling stiff. JJK is far from my favorite series at the moment, but even I can't help but raise an eyebrow comparing some of these official translations to the fan ones.

But that's still preferable to literal machine translations. People lost their shit when Ancient Magus Bride said they were moving to AI translations for good reason, but now it's popping up more and more, very depressing.

Anime won't be far behind, they already tried it a couple seasons ago with that Brothers show and backed away when they got caught with their pants down, but I doubt they means they've given up.