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Megathread Poor Localization Compilation Thread

luisizqui

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Hmm ok, but how do I make a thread?
you go to the section that you want to post the thread on and click in thread tittle
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Fennec_fox

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Didn't take long for Crunchyroll's translator to ruin this show.
Pretty dumb ngl. It's not this bad, but man they couldn't even stop with putting memes for Nagatoro hm? I guess we're gonna see more bullshit as the new episodes come out.:hana-disgust:
 

namedoesntfi

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As I read through this thread, my blood boiled. :miku-anger:

Maybe I am just out of the loop in the LN localization censorship, but the example of the removal of the rape in Mushoku Tensei really shocked me. Not only it is the actual removal of content, but changes the scenario completely. The thing that pisses me off is the level of hypocrisy of the people that do/support this shit. Most time (I would say always, but let's be "fair") of these people are the same insane people that complain about "muh colonialism". How much of a hypocrite you need to be to complain about that and butcher the content created by someone from another country with the excuse of cultural differences. I would much rather leave the content as it is and at the most add translator notes at the end to explain certain things. Even that I have my doubts if it would work correctly.

As someone also mentioned here, there are terms which could be left untranslated. Seven Seas only decided to fix (aka maintain the original content) because they got caught. I think someone also mentioned here (sorry for not quoting anyone), but it would be a very small percentage of people that would dislike content being simply translated as is. No bullshit "localization".

These people want to be the thought police. Dictate what is and isn't appropriate for people to read, watch, play, etc.. I will use a quote I heard recently in a video, these hobbies are not for everyone, but for anyone. You didn't like certain aspects of this anime? Too bad, guess it is not for you! Didn't like how women are portrayed in this game? Don't play it.

It is because of all this crap that I actually started learning Japanese after years of just saying that I wanted to learn it.

Sorry for the rant, but the examples shown here really pissed me off. :uni-scare:
 

AK-12

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What the fuck is this shit
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Are they Reddit-obsessed teenagers? They seriously couldn't be professional and not inject trending memes for the first episode?
Oh fuck I swear to god IS IT SO FUCKING HARD TO JUST TRANSLATE NORMALLY? THOSE FUCKING MEMES WILL BE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN IN 2 MONTHS. Fucking fatass Reddit normalfag translators I swear to god.

Examples like this one makes me wanna build statues/shrines for fansubbers who actual do the translation as it should be. God bless the fansubbers.
 

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AK-12

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Well looks like we're gonna have more political bs coming out from funimation. Does anyone of you guys remember that pedestrian female youtuber who was simping for the american localization industry? Well, Funimation got you covered with their latest cringe:
They literally managed to fucking change a scene into a Netflix moment. Watching this mutilated cringefest of a Dub gave me Netflix Original flashbacks.

REJECT WESTERN MIDDLEMEN. LEARN JAPANESE AND/OR SAIL THE SEVEN SEAS.
 

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As I read through this thread, my blood boiled. :miku-anger:
You have my reaction here when understanding I've been had by stuff being removed (related to bullying, central to the story) in Classroom of the Elites.
The editorial process censored that.
The worst thing? The translator of the story is a real pro otherwise, it's very good and well done, and a pleasure to read.
It's just that part, and it annoys me to always double check any official translation to verify that nothing was "adapted" or censored.
 

AK-12

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You have my reaction here when understanding I've been had by stuff being removed (related to bullying, central to the story) in Classroom of the Elites.
The editorial process censored that.
The worst thing? The translator of the story is a real pro otherwise, it's very good and well done, and a pleasure to read.
It's just that part, and it annoys me to always double check any official translation to verify that nothing was "adapted" or censored.
Same, I just bought the first book for Date A Live (translated by Yen Press) and I am really skeptical. Yen Press did quite a good job with PsyCome, but I still was pissed by the change that they removed honorifics and instead of Yen used USDs in the story. I bought PsyCome back in I think Fall 2018/Winter 2019 and since then I did see them suck off Black Lies Matter on twatter when Fentanyl Floyd got the heart attack and so far I haven't seen or heard about them censoring anything so disgustingly like Seven Seas but I am still skeptical. When the book arrives, I will go through both the Official and Fantranslated versions with a magnifying glass. If it's censored or has a WOKE translation I will either give it to someone or throw it in the furnace, and go buy Japanese Raw books straight from Japan. After 6 years of all this woke bullshit fucking up my hobbies, I've fucking had it.
 

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namedoesntfi

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Well looks like we're gonna have more political bs coming out from funimation. Does anyone of you guys remember that pedestrian female youtuber who was simping for the american localization industry? Well, Funimation got you covered with their latest cringe:
Funimation is just so full of shit. It can be... shocking (maybe not the right word), but it is not surprising at all.
Same, I just bought the first book for Date A Live (translated by Yen Press) and I am really skeptical. Yen Press did quite a good job with PsyCome, but I still was pissed by the change that they removed honorifics and instead of Yen used USDs in the story. I bought PsyCome back in I think Fall 2018/Winter 2019 and since then I did see them suck off Black Lies Matter on twatter when Fentanyl Floyd got the heart attack and so far I haven't seen or heard about them censoring anything so disgustingly like Seven Seas but I am still skeptical. When the book arrives, I will go through both the Official and Fantranslated versions with a magnifying glass. If it's censored or has a WOKE translation I will either give it to someone or throw it in the furnace, and go buy Japanese Raw books straight from Japan. After 6 years of all this woke bullshit fucking up my hobbies, I've fucking had it.
I didn't buy yet for exactly this reason. I have been waiting years for an official translation of Date a Live to come out.
I do appreciate if you could provide some feedback on the comparison between Official and Fan translations (either a thread or DM). :gurayaya:
 

AK-12

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Funimation is just so full of shit. It can be... shocking (maybe not the right word), but it is not surprising at all.

I didn't buy yet for exactly this reason. I have been waiting years for an official translation of Date a Live to come out.
I do appreciate if you could provide some feedback on the comparison between Official and Fan translations (either a thread or DM). :gurayaya:
Probably will respond in this thread if it will still be alive. The damn book will arrive somewhere between 30. April and 23. May... seriously WTF is going on with Amazon? They are acting as if they need to go on foot into an African shithole and then fight their way in, get the book and then GTFO.
 

Mandrake

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Same, I just bought the first book for Date A Live (translated by Yen Press) and I am really skeptical. Yen Press did quite a good job with PsyCome, but I still was pissed by the change that they removed honorifics and instead of Yen used USDs in the story. I bought PsyCome back in I think Fall 2018/Winter 2019 and since then I did see them suck off Black Lies Matter on twatter when Fentanyl Floyd got the heart attack and so far I haven't seen or heard about them censoring anything so disgustingly like Seven Seas but I am still skeptical. When the book arrives, I will go through both the Official and Fantranslated versions with a magnifying glass. If it's censored or has a WOKE translation I will either give it to someone or throw it in the furnace, and go buy Japanese Raw books straight from Japan. After 6 years of all this woke bullshit fucking up my hobbies, I've fucking had it.
Well, classroom of the elite translation isn't even woke, so it felt really weird to axe crucial tidbits for the sake of it.
I hope that's a lesson learned for the company, at least they didn't double down, and actually promised to re-release the censored content, which is way better than the usual reaction.
 

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I dont really care as mutch about the Sus one, I think it's more a matter of bad timing. Sus has been a short hard for some time so it's only painful due to current trendy memes

this on the other hand can fuck right off
Well looks like we're gonna have more political bs coming out from funimation. Does anyone of you guys remember that pedestrian female youtuber who was simping for the american localization industry? Well, Funimation got you covered with their latest cringe:

there is no fucken why changing shit like this should be in any way acceptable.
 

namedoesntfi

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Well, classroom of the elite translation isn't even woke, so it felt really weird to axe crucial tidbits for the sake of it.
I hope that's a lesson learned for the company, at least they didn't double down, and actually promised to re-release the censored content, which is way better than the usual reaction.
But part of the issue is that the trust is at least partially broken. It can be hard to trust them to not censor more serious content like bullying, rape, etc.
I dont really care as mutch about the Sus one, I think it's more a matter of bad timing. Sus has been a short hard for some time so it's only painful due to current trendy memes

this on the other hand can fuck right off


there is no fucken why changing shit like this should be in any way acceptable.
Yeah, the "sus" thing is bad but it is more of a cringe than anything else.

The other thing is plain bad.
 
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Narbray

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I speak Spanish and I watch anime sub in Spanish, and unfortunately in Spanish this shit happens too. Deplorable.
I hate changes in the sub, luckily I understand Japanese quite well and I need to use subtitles less and less.
Definitely the best thing is to learn Japanese and stop buying these shits from western companies that do not seem to think about the importance for fans of keeping a work in its original state, Japanese companies lately fight a lot against piracy, but how the hell not to resort to If the companies that distribute the licenses are dedicated to modifying the original material, I wonder if they can sell a limited modification license? so that they can translate the work but not modify it at will.
I think I should spend more time learning Japanese, writing and reading is very complicated and I don't know if one day I will be able to do it at a respectable level :anime-think: :satania-cry:
These companies need more competition, if they think a little more about their customers and if not, go bankrupt, the saddest thing is that most people who could criticize the content that they censor generally do not buy LN and they only limit themselves to criticizing. And yet these people think more of them than of us ... just deplorable.
 

AK-12

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I dont really care as mutch about the Sus one, I think it's more a matter of bad timing. Sus has been a short hard for some time so it's only painful due to current trendy memes

this on the other hand can fuck right off


there is no fucken why changing shit like this should be in any way acceptable.
Non-binaries are dangerously mentally ill menaces to society that should be locked up in mental asylums
 

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