Megathread Poor Localization Compilation Thread

JX475

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"I(Manly/Boy version) am an Otokonoko however" The irony is the Japanese Script spells it out, but the Translator is too much of a coward and decides to go the route of "Actually" "Technically" than to just state they are an Otokonoko. The Trans always try to co-opt these terms but have the weirdest worldview of it as a whole. They either have to be Male Or Female, no ambiguity, no Newhalf, no Gender Bending, and even when there is and it's obvious that it's ambiguous they always have to say it's Male or Female. So much for progressiveness of "Gender can be fluid" "LGBTQ+" etc. It's worthless if Trans do not like the fact Sexuality and Gender is on a spectrum and not one way or the other. They are liability to Cross-Dressers, Lolicons, Shotacons, and even those who are Bisexual. Even to those with Brown Skin because they only see the world through a narrow lense and perspective.

Not sure difference between crossdressing and 男の娘 is. One looks like a girl because all physical characteristics are feminine and the other doesn't, or is it the shota age metric?
Which one is Badora? I can tell he's boy from the screenshot.
Otokonoko is usually a cross-dressing boy aka males who do not just cross-dress but express themselves in a feminine way. It does not mean they are Trans, it means it's ambiguous. Bhadra is the Pink/Red haired one with Horns on their head.
 

ジエントP

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"I(Manly/Boy version) am an Otokonoko however" The irony is the Japanese Script spells it out, but the Translator is too much of a coward and decides to go the route of "Actually" "Technically" than to just state they are an Otokonoko. The Trans always try to co-opt these terms but have the weirdest worldview of it as a whole. They either have to be Male Or Female, no ambiguity, no Newhalf, no Gender Bending, and even when there is and it's obvious that it's ambiguous they always have to say it's Male or Female. So much for progressiveness of "Gender can be fluid" "LGBTQ+" etc. It's worthless if Trans do not like the fact Sexuality and Gender is on a spectrum and not one way or the other. They are liability to Cross-Dressers, Lolicons, Shotacons, and even those who are Bisexual. Even to those with Brown Skin because they only see the world through a narrow lense and perspective.


Otokonoko is usually a cross-dressing boy aka males who do not just cross-dress but express themselves in a feminine way. It does not mean they are Trans, it means it's ambiguous. Bhadra is the Pink/Red haired one with Horns on their head.
So the metric is that it's the mannerisms that's the difference between the two?
I don't understand why you use "they" when refering to badora, is badora a group of people?
He refered to himself as male child 男の子 as I took it from the screenshot, it's different from 男の娘 which are homonyms. Unless it's the japanese subtitles that are incorrect and it's just play on words and the JP subtiles being misleading. So I took the interpretation that he's refering to himself as a little boy. :shrug: Unless there is something I'm missing here and he's refering to himself as a "daughter" and not child. or that the otokonoko term is a crossdessing boy who's feminine that emcompasses both terms? Is there a more normal way of calling yourself a boy/kid?
Tangental question but I wonder if his breasts are pads or not. and maybe some context into this dialog, what was he saying this in response to?

Regardless, I support artistic expression so I don't mind characters like this being here, I kind of like spice like this in fiction.
 

s8n

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this is a cross-dresser / okama
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this is an otokonoko
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any further questions?
 

Brazio

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Not sure difference between crossdressing and 男の娘 is. One looks like a girl because all physical characteristics are feminine and the other doesn't, or is it the shota age metric?
Which one is Badora? I can tell he's boy from the screenshot.
to my knowledge crossdressing is a male who dresses as female and vice versa, while otokonoko is a male who's so feminine he just appears to be female.
 
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ジエントP

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to my knowledge crossdressing is a male who dresses as female and vice versa, while an otokonoko is a male who's so feminine he just appears to be female.
I see, so a otokonoko can me mistaken as female at all times with exception of exposing his private parts while a crossdresser can only plausibly be mistaken as female when dressing. Ottokonoko could even be mistaken as a women even when dressing as masculine as possible. I think I understand now.
 

spectresofmercury

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Ok i came across this on the falcom subreddit and theres faggots who are dicksucking the semen, out of nis for this kind of fucking retardery.

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There is a serious mental health crisis on social media going on right now, that really needs to be adressed and the only solution is this, involuntary confiement to the asylums for all these mentally ill retards on normalfag mainstream social media.
 

OkazakiTomoya

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I'm posting it here, because I'm almost sure it's forced by localizers. Apparently Xenoblade X won't let you switch the voice language for about first 30 minutes. You're forced to listed the dub, create the character with dub voices and then listen to few cutscenes dubbed.
It doesn't work like in other games that had this kind of crappy solution.
First of all, the option menu is accessible when you're launching the game for the first time. You can switch any option EXCEPT the voice language.
Skipping the cutscenes, and setting original voice and starting anew game won't do the trick because the game is switching back to dub. So you're basically locked with dub no matter what you do and you'll never be able to heat original voice acting in the beginning of the game. It's ridiculous. There's zero technical reasons to do this. I'm really sure it was forced by localizers.
 

JX475

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Ok i came across this on the falcom subreddit and theres faggots who are dicksucking the semen, out of nis for this kind of fucking retardery.



There is a serious mental health crisis on social media going on right now, that really needs to be adressed and the only solution is this, involuntary confiement to the asylums for all these mentally ill retards on normalfag mainstream social media.
Trails fans are the worst. In all honesty they are up there with the Guilty Gear Strive Audience as those who will make excuses to any censorship because of the whole buyers remorse of "I did not play the real game it's censored" and are using the whole reasoning as to defend their own Ego or Franchise as to why it's worth keeping in these Localizations and Projecting their own Bad Faith Arguments and Group Movements themselves to protect the fact it's awful. I mean look, I can enjoy a game despite not the best translation being available.

Danganronpa comes to mind, even The Hundred Line, Xenoblade Chronicles X. But you will never ever see me defend the Translations and say "They brought LIFE to those characters" "Censorship was NEEDED" and Downvoting comments criticizing the issues with the Franchise and the Accuracy, Authenticity of the Translations themselves. Because by the end of the day that would not make me a fan of a Franchise, A Video Game or even apart of the Community. It would mean i am a Fake Fan, and a Trend Chaser who never plays the games, let alone cares about the Franchise itself. If I care about something, I am going to make sure no Censorship exists, no "Localization" stuff happens or Justify it as a whole and get it as close to 1:1 as possible. Anything less than that, is just those who should go play Chinese Gacha instead.

I'm posting it here, because I'm almost sure it's forced by localizers. Apparently Xenoblade X won't let you switch the voice language for about first 30 minutes. You're forced to listed the dub, create the character with dub voices and then listen to few cutscenes dubbed.
It doesn't work like in other games that had this kind of crappy solution.
First of all, the option menu is accessible when you're launching the game for the first time. You can switch any option EXCEPT the voice language.
Skipping the cutscenes, and setting original voice and starting anew game won't do the trick because the game is switching back to dub. So you're basically locked with dub no matter what you do and you'll never be able to heat original voice acting in the beginning of the game. It's ridiculous. There's zero technical reasons to do this. I'm really sure it was forced by localizers.
Currently playing it on an Emu thanks to the leak. I do believe this is because of the Update of 1.0.1 not working right now. It's in the Menu settings. 32443232.png

But I think this was until you reached NLA you can change the VA's which is easy. We need more information because if it's 1.0.1 that allows this and to give more options for the Character Creator then we are golden.
 

s8n

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I see, so a otokonoko can me mistaken as female at all times with exception of exposing his private parts while a crossdresser can only plausibly be mistaken as female when dressing. Ottokonoko could even be mistaken as a women even when dressing as masculine as possible. I think I understand now.
yeah if your friend were an otokonoko you would force him to wear a t-shirt at the pool

if your friend were an okama you'd be trying to get him to not wear a bikini at the pool
 

Ronnie21093

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Looks like the translation of Xenoblade X is Xenoblade 2 tier bad = just a rewrite.
It's really sad. Even if XX is my least favorite Xenoblade game, it's still a good game.
More than half of this scene is plain rewritten.
The following examples in this thread are following this pattern.
Welp, hopefully someone takes up the mantle to retranslate it. Or even better, fan translate the original Wii U Japanese release.
 

rsc-pl

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Looks like the translation of Xenoblade X is Xenoblade 2 tier bad = just a rewrite.
It's really sad. Even if XX is my least favorite Xenoblade game, it's still a good game.
More than half of this scene is plain rewritten.
The following examples in this thread are following this pattern.
Xenoblade X translation is almost as bad as Xenoblade 2. They didn't fix anything it seems. It was like this in Wii U version too.
 

ZX-Gear9881

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Xenoblade X translation is almost as bad as Xenoblade 2. They didn't fix anything it seems. It was like this in Wii U version too.
Yeah. A lot of these changes were also on the WiiU release. A side quest with the Thunder Cat Wrothians had you help a Wrothian pick a new life as a pattisiere and the humor whilst I found amusing at the time has aged poorly with what I know now.
 
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