What is the best approach regarding manga or anime translation? Direct with notes or localization?
What is the best approach regarding manga or anime translation? Direct with notes or localization?
Kevin Harris
Gavin Allen
>localization
There is no such thing as "localization." There is and only ever will be translation. Anything else is smoke and mirrors to justify a lack of skill in the language, or simply making shit up.
Luke Cox
English food is fine as long as it's not cooked by bongs in bongland.
Michael Hughes
Why would anime need a different type of translation than other works? Not to mention localization is not even translation but a rewrite.
Isaiah James
>Direct with notes
see: official sayonara zetsubou sensei release
this is clearly the way to go
Cameron Lewis
Direct with notes.
Colton Price
languages don't translate one-to-one and there's room for interpretation. Ideally every show would have a few different translations with varying degrees of localization. I personally prefer direct with notes, keeping words that don't translate well into japanese. But I'd rather they just rewrite dialogue completely than translate "onee-chan" to "sissy"
Kayden Thompson
Translate every name like 4Kids would
Nicholas Anderson
Fuck off, tripfag.
Jace Scott
End of volume glossary tl notes for manga/novels
Multiple sub tracks for Anime(with/without notes)
Brandon Wright
if you're going to ruin it, at least make it into something new. i don't get why the old 4kids stuff got so much hate.
Isaiah Hill
No. newshit.
Nolan Nelson
>English food is fine as long as it's not cooked by bongs in bongland.
No it's not. It's weither tasteless or tastes so bad it has to have been made by someone tasteless.
The closest to OK food they have is the pub food.
Christian Jones
Which is why you usually have a not explaining when there is a difference. And why you can't localize something, you are taking away the cultural context at best, at worst it is something completely different.
Carson Collins
>pub food
pub food is literally just generic British food, thats the idea.
Julian Jenkins
Localization is not translation, it is fanfiction.
Nolan Jenkins
Name one food.
Christian Turner
Wtf I love localization now??
Angel Watson
Don't care as long as the intended meaning is conveyed
Jaxon Johnson
Is there any situation where we would see the return of fansubs?
The only way we'll ever see direct with TL notes again.
Alexander Rivera
Japanse literally can't be translated into English, everything you watched/read has been localized