• unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    that’s so fugly. gotta love it when stuff gets not lost, but thrown out in translation because some snobby corporate idiotfucker is too condescending to tell you the truth. How many other times has that happened in the last three thousand years, I wonder rhetorically.

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      5 months ago

      I’d like to take a moment so sit right there while we discuss most of the history of anime localization.

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        5 months ago

        Some things, like honorifics, dont translate well to English.

        For example, the -chan, -sama, -kun etc suffixes are super annoying when the English voice actors try to use them.

        They’re fine in the English subtitles against the Japanese audio though

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          5 months ago

          All of this is true, but I think what I was replying to was more concerned with censorship and rewriting things to fit a more Puritan or at least prudish outlook on the world.