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> anybody engaging with the medium beyond surface level would know. I'll readily admit to not caring about the people or the process behind how anime are made.
by perching_aix 1y ago
> anybody engaging with the medium beyond surface level would know.
I'll readily admit to not caring about the people or the process behind how anime are made. I consider that a separate side of the hobby entirely. It is an unfortunate side effect of social media that I can less and less ignore these aspects, including VAs blackwashing characters and other utterly puzzling antics. It's not something I seek out myself, I watch the shows for themselves. 0% apologetic about this too
That said, if there's such an influence on the translations, I'd prefer to be rid of it of course. Which brings us to...
> Then you have not paid attention at all. Almost every season there is a case like this
That is entirely possible. Do you maybe have like a short list of examples? From the last few seasons then, at least a handful. Cause "infamous anime localizers that are gloating on Twitter how they fix anime by pushed there political agenda" sounds very readily bad, and yet a quick search (via AI, of course) left me completely empty handed beyond the high profile case of "Dragon Maid", and the lesser but still talked about "My first girlfriend is a gyaru" (which didn't do much other than namedropping SJWs iirc, a now outdated term).
- akimbostrawman 1y agohttps://boundingintocomics.com/?s=Localize https://boundingintocomics.com/?s=Localize https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2021/04/23/localizer-goes-on-tirade-defending-use-of-sus-and-cringe-in-anime-subs/ https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2021/04/23/localizer-goes-on-... That's only one show from one localizer and they and many others have been doing this for almost 10 years.
- perching_aix 1y agoI checked both links (until the start of 2024). I see a number of examples for the jokey-joke type translations, but not for the political ones. The only politically charged mistranslation I see there is the Blue Box one from April, which honestly looks accidental. The Twitter gloatings screenshotted seem to squarely pertain to the jokey-joke type stuff too at a skim. Gonna stand by this angle being way overblown. Thanks for at least bringing receipts though nevertheless.
- akimbostrawman 1y agoif censorship, subversion and cultural rewriting is not "political" then i don't know what "political" is. stop enabling this behavior by making excuses and assuming good faith when they literally tell you to your face there bad intentions. https://web.archive.org/web/20220717182807/https://twitter.com/katrinaltrnsl8r/status/1382842883040956419 https://web.archive.org/web/20220717182807/https://twitter.c... https://web.archive.org/web/20220218214341/https://twitter.com/tacticalfiend/status/1402535271955042304 https://web.archive.org/web/20220218214341/https://twitter.c... https://web.archive.org/web/20210410233042/https://twitter.com/ragingrei/status/1381026709013635076 https://web.archive.org/web/20210410233042/https://twitter.c...
- silicon5 1y ago*their