That's my problem with most "official" subs. They often seem worse than the fansubs. Not to mention they loose any feel for the character and turn everything in to prim and proper english.
There are very good reasons why companies do that.
Official subtitles have to follow specific guidelines where every letter counts.
The subtitles may contain
no more then 36 letters per line over 2 lines and the subtitles have to be in sight long enough for slow readers to read.
Placing them at a limit of no more then 140 words a minute.
Putting honorifics in there is wasting space they need for that 'proper english translation'.
Fansubbers aren't bound by those guidelines and can do whatever they want.
So most of them do just that.
Which results in subtitles that feel more 'complete', but aren't always readable for everyone.
As for the mistakes, unfortunately the editors do not want to pay the quality checkers, nor give them any credit.
So there's hardly anyone that wants to do that job.
I used to do that for a Dutch company a couple of years ago, but I quit because they didn't even want to put in my name in the ending credits for the 2 hours of work I needed per episode to fix those mistakes.
You can say that the translators should be paying more attention then, but tell me.
Do you see clear when you've worked on
one episode for 6 hours?
