Actually Viz has done quite a bit when translating to subtitles; in Japanese, the verb goes at the end of the sentence, with the modifiers in front of any nouns, so the translation can become quite convoluted. For the really long sentences (like explanations and such, and descriptions of their techniques) I've noticed several times that Viz rearranged the whole sentence so it makes more sense in English.
If people want to blame anyone about the "bad english translations" it would have to be Viz's translator's editor, rather than the translator.
@TaylorEatWorld, if you bought a fansubbed collection, keep in mind that since they don't make any money at all off of anything except selling the physical copies you're really doing them a favor by buying it. Most fansub groups do it in their spare time, which is why the quality of the translations is generally better and more entertaining / informative than the company-funded ones. Since it is a fan group that does the translating they usually take the time to actually learn the language they translating into / from, along with any useful background info that could possibly be shared with their fellow fans. Personally, I love reading the extras that fansub groups put in, but since my computer is incredibly slow it takes forever to torrent episodes.
So, since Hulu owns the rights from the production company rather than any fan group, we get the boring, less-than-awesome subbing as a tradeoff for the episode being readily available, and in fairly high quality. (yay hulu!)   See 26 other replies

bleah stop complainig and watch.   See 26 other replies