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masa's tend to be more literal, giving more exact results.
I take these to be my favorite, because it's easier to understand.
After all, when they're more poetic, you kinda start getting into people's own interpretations and their views on grammar and english and stuff...and I just think it gets a lot more messy, even if the translations might sound more beautiful.
I think the people in the best positions are those who understands both japanese and english grammatical structure and metaphors/slang. Therefore, it's a little easier to make a more accurate translation, without being biased. Or you could be someone who understands a bit of japanese, but uses masa's translations as help. So you get the literal meaning, plus the little extra that can't really be expressed in English.
This happens all the time with translations. I encounter it a lot in books.
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