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While I get why the exaggerated "all according to keikaku" is poor translation, I've always been a fan of things like translators notes and not trying to transl
by djtango 3y ago
While I get why the exaggerated "all according to keikaku" is poor translation, I've always been a fan of things like translators notes and not trying to translate things like jutsu and rasengan (anyone remember spiral blast????)
Maybe commercially it sells better to localise, but when you're consuming foreign media you're also sub/consciously discovering their culture. So having little notes about the little sneezing trope brings the world a bit closer one step at a time...
- alexvoda 3y agoToally agree. I vastly prefer to be imersed in the cultural context when enjoying a media artifact rather than have it adapted. Explain the joke first and next time I'll get simmilar jokes. Don't replace the joke with one you think I already know.
- ecshafer 3y agoThere's some anime and manga that you can't localize, you can just explain. Monogatari has so many cultural references and language jokes that its impossible to localize without losing everything that makes it what it is. Or something like Azumangha Daioh which has a character with many jokes built around their accent, you can't localize that.
- gwern 3y agoAs I recall, they localized Osaka with a Texas accent, which worked perfectly - the same drawling and also associated stereotypes about businessmen/greed/money/nouveau-riche/big-things.
- kmeisthax 3y ago"Localization sells better" is downstream of having a properly translated work. Deliberately not translating "jutsu" or "rasengan" only works because Naruto is a show about ninjas... debatably. If we translated everything in Naruto then everyone would realize that it's actually a show about ramen.
- djtango 3y agoI think you mean pullnoodles /s