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Although your comment is unnecessary strongly worded, you raise some very serious points. Especially Japanese - English entertainment media translations, it is
by SunlitCat 2y ago
Although your comment is unnecessary strongly worded, you raise some very serious points.
Especially Japanese - English entertainment media translations, it is very often pretty apparent that there is some kind of agenda behind translation of such works (even with translators admitting it them self doing so in comments / messages on different social media platforms).
Something I just wonder is, why does especially this niche part of this profession (translating Japanese entertainment media) attract people doing so and even let them admit to make it more culturally appropriate for western markets?
It's really an interesting phenomena.
- Dalewyn 2y agoJapanese entertainment is among the more popular entertainment venues in recent years, and that means it's also a useful tool for political espionage. People interested in pushing political agendas would be fools to not exploit this as they would any other. Hell, the distribution of Japanese entertainment across the world is in large part a Japanese government agenda[1] for diplomatic ends. It's all politics. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Japan
- SunlitCat 2y agoHah! That "Cool Japan" thing! I remember some (lesser known) people to advertise for it. Dunno, it (cool japan) came to a halt in 2020 and never took off again afterwards.
- soundnote 2y agoI don't think Japanese translation is all that well paid, and if people don't get money from their work, they'll go for the job for other forms of payment (eg. status), or extract payment in other ways (half-assing things, being a petty tyrant like reddit mods, etc.)