>>286214425
Goumon Princess Jikan

>>286214425
Demon Slayer, how fucking lame, there are so many cool variations on something closer to the original name they could have done
>>286214435
Do you really hate the title or do you hate that the existing fanbase told you to fuck off when you kept demanding we start referring to it by a totally different title than the one we had spent years using

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>>286214435
'tis time for torture is a perfect title, you're a retard

>>286215097
Roll over and die

>>286214435
>>286215097
Yeah, that localization is great.
You're just dumb.

>>286214425
Grand Blue DREAMING
MISS Nagatoro
Chained Soldier
Wagnaria

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>hey let's translate the title but keep the foreign word literally no one in US has ever heard

Attack on Titan

>>286214425
Thats why you should use romaji titles exclusively

>>286215691
probably because chuunibyou is a concept otaku are familiar with you retard
>>286215658
miss nagatoro is fine.

>>286215691
And lets also misspell it while we are at it

>>286215691
That's way better than freestyling and interpreting instead of proper translation, learn some jap culture you consooming nigger

>>286215691
>Love, Autism & other Delusions!

>>286215691
Ok, translate chuuni without being a trannylator meme word of the day

>>286215740
Miss Nagatoro sounds like she's a teacher not a JK

>>286215658
>wagnaria
this really baffles me when the original title already works in english. Must be some licensing issue

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Higurashi When They Cry

>>286215795
Might be the same for Grand Blue Dreaming

>>286215740
miss=/=san

>Attack on Titan

>>286215755
>>286215769
Childish fantasies.

>>286215795
Working!! Might refer to anything to someone not well-versed in anime

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this one still pisses me off

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>>286214425
There was no winning going from Doku Doku Mori Mori into English, but Toxy Noxy Woodsy Woods would have still been less awkward if who had to keep the pattern they went with.

>>286216062
>who
*you

>>286216006
Again, not the same and that's interpretation theory. Chuunybyou it's not exactly a childish fantasy and it's deeply depending on japanese and otaku culture

>>286216087
interpretation territory*

>>286215769
peter pan syndrome

>>286216048
but did they catch some hands?

>>286215769
S;G translated it as "pretentious hipster bullshit"

>>286214425
Delicious in dungeon. Seriously fuck off

>>286215691
Should've translate it as cringe

>>286216108
>peter pan syndrome
I'm the guy that replied "childish fantasies" and even I think this is completely wrong.
Peter Pan syndrome is almost the opposite. An adult that wants to be a child. While chunibyo is about being a child who believes they're more important and mature than they are.

>>286215702
>>286215912
Fucking this
>Buddy tells me this new manga is pretty good
>Oh wow thats a cool title I need more space manga
>Huh I'm talking about this
>It's just fucking SnK
Thanks and go fuck yourself

Eotena Onslaught

>>286214425
Sono bisque doll got the title meaning inverted

youjo senki has historically bad localized title where they invent words that dont exist in canon

>>286215702
>>286215912
It was called War of the Titans here which works bit better I suppose

>>286215691
>Love, Middle School Syndrome & Other Delusions!

>>286216142
Luncheons and Dragons was right there

>>286216142
>>286216422
Dungeons, Dragons, and Dives

>>286216406
That would be the most literal translation, yes

>>286215795
There's an American sitcom from the 90's called Working so that's probably why

>>286215769
The few instances of chuunibyou I come across makes the whole magical power/demonic seal seem kinda important to the syndrome and that's something pretty unique to Japanese tween rebellion. However I really don't know if that's just really exaggerated for the specific times I've come across it in weebshit and the few times kids do this IRL if it's just close to little shithead im14andveryenlightened types that happen in NA.

>>286216142
Dungeon Deli.

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the only way they could've redeemed themselves was by funding a sequel called Bat Planet Booties but alas

>>286214425
i was thinking about this the other day but i couldn't remember the title
sex with the cat

>>286216006
I think romeo tanaka had an english term for it

>>286214425
All of them.

>>286220026
No, Gushing Over Magical Girls is perfect.

>>286216465
This would have been really fucking funny

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A new jump series has terrible localization name. Kinato's Magic

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>>286215798
>Poor english locutor don't have perfect translation boo boo.
Meanwhile in frogland.

>>286215691
>nobody points out that a proper title would be closer to "Even if I have chuunibyou, I still want to fall in love"
Why do you guys always pinpoint one thing and ignore everything else wrong with translations?

>>286215658
>Chained Soldier
they didn't want to use the word "slave"

>>286216142
That's what the english blurb under the actual Japanese title was, so when some translators get that they just go with it

>>286215825
Mr. Nagatoro

>>286214694
'tis fanbase is retarded, then

>>286215691
>My Cringy Schizophrenic High School Life!

>>286220026
"neon genesis evangelion" > "shinseiki evangelion"

B-Gata H-Kei
Translates to: B-cup H(hentai/pervert) slut.
Dub title - Yamada's First Time

>>286215658
If we're complaining about changed honorifics for me the king is Jahy, in theory it's not so bad on the cover but downstream of that all the translation does the same great Jahy thing, which is fine for some characters but it really doesn't work with Kokoro

>>286215691
That's a bad translation but not for the reason you stated. "Even with Chuunibyou I want to love" is actually meaningful and tells you what the anime is about. Love, Chunibyou, & Other Delusions is nonsense.

>>286223604
That's me by the way, I took my wifes name

>>286223235
Meanwhile Japan has Slave in giant English letters in the logo
Snowflake white execs thinking black people will be offended
Same for current Star Wars pretending Boba Fett's ship is unnamed

Otaku elf, It's not technically wrong but there's a reason the actual title is about her age. Could have been worse though, could have been nerd elf

>Cat Planet Cuties

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>>286215691
This is a good thing, actually. Some cultural concepts that can't be translated should be kept intact as loanwords.

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>Original name: Weiß Kreuz
>Original name in English: White Cross
>Official English name: Knight Hunters
Huh?

>>286214425
>>286214694
by shit do we mean this suck or is just inaccurate. So I'm a Spider, So What? Is a bad title that is always confusing and weird to say but Demon Slayer is a not close to the original but is way simpler and gets the point across to the audience its aimed at well.

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>>286215702
You mean The Eotena Onslaught?

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>Ruri Rocks (Japanese: 瑠璃の宝石, Hepburn: Ruri no Hōseki; lit. 'Ruri's Jewels')
I think swapping out the imagery of beautiful stones, glassy gems, and shiny rubies for alliteration of RURI and ROCKS is lame.

>>286227454
Calling it Ruri's Jewels would make it sound like she has testicles.

>>286214425
My Dress-Up Darling

Should have gone a bit more literal and made it Sexy Cosplay Doll.

>>286227547
If that is what you immediately thought, it simply means you are terminally ill in the same way localizers who ruin everything else are.

>>286227454
A geologist is only ever gonna call them "rocks" or "minerals". Maybe "crystals" if they're talking about form or shape but they will never say "jewels" or "gems".

>The Apothecary Diaries
>No mention of diaries in the original

>One Piece: Sea Adventures
>Naruto: Ninja Underdog
>Bleach: Samurai Ghost Stories
Hire me, localizers. I think I got the hang of it.

>>286215658
Chained Soldier is fine, it gets the point across. Yuki isn't a sle by any metric anyways, he's a soldier.

>>286227905
Nah, Sea Adventures sound too generic.

>>286227993
Sea Shanties
Ocean Origins
Island Hoppers
Tales from the East Blue (Uh change the title to GRAND LINE later we had no idea they'd be leaving)

My teen romantic comedy SNAFU
Welcome to the classroom of the elite

>>286227611
Pervy euphemisms and idioms are extremely common in titles for pervy manga. When you put sexpots on the cover with a potentially euphemistic title you're asking for trouble. You can call it a mental illness and I won't argue with you, but the website you're posting on is dominated by that particular disease.

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If you're gonna share any examples, at least say what the original name is and what the accurate translation would be, guys.
Anyways, as mentioned already in this thread, Mato Seihei no Slave (Slave of Mato's Elite Soldiers) being changed to Chained Soldier is fucking stupid. Completely made up title aside, Yuuki is in no way a "soldier", he isn't officially part of the brigade and can't be because he's male.
In most of the world it's just called Demon Slave, which isn't that accurate but it's way better. The original Japanese version uses "Slave of the Hell Soldiers" which sounds nice, but it's also quite inaccurate and honestly not all that fitting.

>>286227454
should have been Nagi's Boulders

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>>286228071
for OP manga, I think the seven generation part should've also been included

>>286216062
it’s painful especially because the original title has such an ominous feel
“Doku” means poison and “Mori” means forest, but “dokudoku” means “gushing out in a copious stream” as in the way blood gushes from a slashed vein, and “morimori” means “heartily, energetically, enthusiastically”
the phrasing is cute but there is an implication of monstrous horror, which is a great fit for the manga if you know what happens
the official translated title is so fucking dumb, like orders of magnitude worse than the “poison poison forest forest” that the scanlators halfassed.
the title is impossible to translate accurately but come on, this is embarrassing. This is worse than Viz level.

>>286214425
I was really disappointed when the localizers changed Dog Nigga into Dog Ningen

>>286228702
i wonder what's with the aversion of just using the original JP title. if they don't think the JP title can introduce the story (as if toxy forest actually means something), back cover exists.

>>286228780
it's meaningless and arbitrary
i'm saying this as someone who can understand jap. when the titles are in romaji it's the worst of both worlds for everyone

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>>286223581
I hate when nips who can't even do kindergarten english decide to add some absolute retard tier english title under the completely irrelevant Japanese title. I don't know if its their editor forcing them to add it or what but it makes it seem like they don't give a single fuck about their own work.

>>286228780
I'd like to say that Dokudoku Morimori sounds too much like baby babble, but it's still better than what they did.

>>286227884
>The Apothecary's Soliloquy/Monologue
Sounds better desu.

>>286227650
JESUS MARIE, THEY'RE MINERALS

>>286228881
>Your Cruddy
This is absolutely hilarious
Crud is basically slang, how would a nip even come across this and think to use it

>>286227454
Ruri means lapis lazuli in japanese, a jp person reading the title without context may not know immediately if the Ruri in the title refers to a person's name or the jewel itself and that change's the meaning of the title slightly.

That tiny bit of wordplay gets lost in translation since Ruri is 100% perceived as a japanese name (and translating it would have been retarded), so I guess they wanted to replicate the same nuance by moving the double meaning to the 2nd word on the title instead, thus "rocks".

What I'm saying is it's a lame pun but I get where they were coming from.

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>>286229027
no, fuck you

>>286229027
The Wife is One of Five

>>286228902
The Vagina Monologues exists so they could have gone with Monologues plural

>>286229069
That sounds like five wives. One of the Five is the Bride/Wife

>>286229091
Wife semi rhymes unlike bride

>>286214694
>Demon Slayer,
like what?

>>286229115
Little Sister To Go

I expect way more of this thread, there is barely any humor and then there is people posting translations without even comparing with the original, let alone explaining anything.
>>286229148
there was an attempt here

>>286229115
The Blade That Guards My Little Sister’s Box

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

>>286229179
>EOP thread full of people doing EOP things
imagine my shock

>>286216062
I wonder what they'll make with Mane Mane Nichi Nichi

>>286229179
I will say that Fist of the North Star was a much better title than the literal “Fist of the Big Dipper” which sounds like some kind of weird gay porn

>>286215702
It's not a localized title though, the Japanese tanks have "Attack on Titan" written on them in English since before it was ever published overseas so you can blame Japan for that word salad.

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>>286229229
heh

>>286229236
I see, you're right

>>286229187
That's not by localization but forced by the editor to help sales. The japanese title is also that.

>>286229256
there's hoping that the actual transistors wouldn't make that mistake with Mane at least

>>286229002
It's quite simple, we change Ruris name to Ruby.
My god I have the talent to be an awful localizer

>>286229377
No one man should have all that power

>>286229115
Sword of onis bane
or if they insist on changing oni to demon
demon slaying blade

>>286229377
Nah, changing names is gay, also, Ruby sounds like a stripper name (no offense to the Love Live)

>>286215740
If you're aiming your release at otaku you may as well just keep the Japanese title.

>>286223235
"Chained Soldier of The Elite" would've gotten the point across.

>>286227909
It's also significantly shorter.

>>286216791
NA chuunis are (or were) basically edgelords that think characters like Shadow the Hedgehog are the coolest shit ever and make edgy deviantart OCs and the like.

>>286229945
>changing names is gay
It'd fit right with the show then.

>>286214694
>the existing fanbase
the reddit fanbase? people have complained about the english title for years

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>>286215691
You're going to faint when you hear we use Japanese words like emoji, tsunami, and karate in everyday language.

>>286224571
>Same for current Star Wars pretending Boba Fett's ship is unnamed
Excuse you, that is Jango/Boba Fett's Firespray Gunship.

>Dangers in My Heart

The only "danger" suffered by the MC in the entire series is die for excessive masturbation

>>286230126
Firespray is the ship model

>>286229236
Ghost in the Shell

>>286230336
It makes a better English title than Assault Exoskeleton Riot Police
especially since the movie doesn’t even include the fuchikomas/tachikomas

/a/ proving once again it's an esl board

Frieren Attends the Funeral turns into Frieren Beyond Journey's End.

>>286230435
Yes that's what I meant

>>286215769
it used to be translated back in the days as 14 year old syndrome, but people had no clue what it was supposed to mean
so chuunibyou was probably just easier. kind of like hikikokomori, there's not really any good english translation for that as well. shut-in or loner doesn't really cover it

>>286227547
as if "rocks" doesn't also means testicles
and stones too

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Fucking HORRENDOUS localized title for what is originally "Asper Kanojo"
The Japanese title has everything you need to know, it's a girl with aspergers. That's it.
The English title on the other hand is a fucking disaster, they had a perfect setup with "Asper Girl" but no, they went with a something that looks straight out of a fucking 80's American sitcom title "That's My Atypical Girl" like she's a little quirky, just a little unique not like the other girls, haha. No! She fucking kicks dogs, and tries to kill herself, and yells at strangers in public over slight inconveniences, and showers 6 times a day, and doesn't understand ethics or morality, she has fucking Aspergers

>>286231991
b-b-b-but that would be offensive!

>>286231991
That sounds like moderately functional autism to me rather than aspergers

>>286214425
As an ESL my pet peeve is """"translating"""" JP title to english instead of using our country's language. Gave us such baffling decisions such as Sono bisque doll becoming "Sexy cosplay doll" for some reason, at that point just keep the original title ffs

>>286232019
Her condition is worse than how I described it

>>286232142
Low functioning then, does she even count as human at that point?

>>286221082
While it may not be 100% accurate it's a great title

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>>286232052
English's "My Dress Up Darling" is also pretty stinkin' bad
"The dress-up doll that fell in love" would be way better as a localized title, but it would be way better if they just left it as "Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru" if I could have my way

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Nobody else gives a single shit about this movie besides me, but I was pissed off by the fact that Ganbatte Ikimasshoi got translated as "Give It All" like they're robbing a bank or something, so I put matters into my own hands and added subtitles to fix it into "Give It Your All"
The problem is that this is the official subtitle for the book that came out in 1996, so there's no way it can be officially changed, and I'm the only person who even cares

>>286228881
It's 100% a marketing thing.

>>286232309
I admire your dedication.

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>>286223644
kek the classic. God damnit IVREA, it truly is a love/hate relationship with you fuckers
>>286228702
What the fuck, is this another Made in Abyss or something? I'm scared yet interested, i guess i'll read it later

I wonder then if it would be more acceptable then to keep the original untranslated title, and the add these translations inmediately in the first page of each volume as a side note, a clarification of sorts
>>286229229
I was just thinking the same thing. Japs and their "repeated words = whole new meaning" bullshit can be difficult at times

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Tonikaku Kawaii turned into "Fly me to the Moon" despite the fact they even had an official English subtitle "Over the Moon for you"

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"Debby the Corsifa is Emulous"
What the fuck is a Corsifa, and who the fuck has ever even heard the term "emulous" before. Like shit dude, even auto-correct doesn't think it's a correct word and keeps underlining it in red whenever I write it. Debby the Corsifa wa Makezugirai should be something like "Debby, the Girl Lucifer, Hates to Lose"

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I'm still debating in my head whether "A Silent Voice" is better or worse than "The Shape of a Voice" for "Koe no Katachi"

>>286223991
Fullmetal Alchemist is way cooler than Hagane no Renkinjutsushi

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In the same vein as Asper Girl and Bisque Doll, "Suki Demo Kirai Amanojaku" turned into "My Oni Girl" instead of something more literal like "The Demon I love and hate."
It's kinda funny because the title has "Amanojaku" in it, but in the actual movie they're just called "Oni"
It's not as bad as Bisque Doll or Asper Girl, but I still find it annoying that translators keep turning things into shitty english sitcom-tier titles

>>286232355
It’s about little tiny mushroom fairies that live in the forest
specifically the aokigahara suicide forest
I will leave the more horrifying parts for you to discover yourself

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>April Showers bring May Flowers
FUCK YOU, it should be "Bouquet for an Ugly Girl." The translated title is completely meaningless too. The Japanese title is even a pun and explained the plot pretty fucking concisely, but the English one just has nothing

>>286215751
Erm, you're not supposed to translated choonpu's, that's bad form. Didn't you read the translation guidebook? And also you're not allowed to put diacritics anywhere because I said so.

>>286230077
Did you know that the Japanese invented the terms
Uncanny Valley 不気味の谷
Timeskip 時とばし
Cherry Boy チェリーボーイ
Death Flag 死亡フラグ
Fan Service ファンサービス
Cosplay コスプレ
Freeter フリーター
Murder Hornet 殺人スズメバチ
Goblin Shark 天狗ざめ
Bullet Train 弾丸列車
Power-up パワーアップ
Ring out リングアウト
Eyecatch アイキャッチ
and such terms like OP, ED, BGM, EP, OVA, and ONA

>>286232813
so what
half of your list is translations, half of your list is just the japanese word in romaji
what's your point

>>286216048
What’s wrong with this? It perfectly conveys what the manga is about.

>>286215063
>I'm now your sister
That sounds more like a story about adoption, or a new step-sibling from a parent remarrying.

>>286227001
Still find it funny how wrath of the titans was pretty much age of mythology: the movie

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>>286216204
What's wrong with SNK?

>>286232949
The japanese invented a bunch of words we use, that was my whole point, I just wanted to share some words

>>286232423
Such an uncommon word as Emulous sticks in your mind though don't it

>>286214425
So who the hell dictates the official English localized names? Do manga authors not get a say in the English names if they care enough?

>>286233194
Do you truly believe the mangaka of all people would ever have a say in how their work is handled overseas?

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>>286214425
>Shiro to Kuro ~Black and White~
They were calling it "Black and White: Tough Love at the Office" but then they dropped the original title for "The Complete Yuri Collection" omnibus

>>286233274
in fairness, the Muricans would have a thermonuclear melt down over the literal title
hard to blame the translator here

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>>286233194
I'm no expert, but the basics are that the English version is licensed by some English publisher
so it will be often up to them to suggest the English title, in the event that the Japanese owners don't have anything in mind
but the Japanese can demand something specific or overrule the suggestion, since they are they side holding the power in this agreement

>>286233419
When they released Boku dake ga Inai Machi here, someone at the higher up (don't know if it was nips or someone else) demanded that the title must contain Erased so it was pretty much called Erased - Erased

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>>286229980
If they really didn't want to keep the word slave, I feel like servant would've been a much better replacement. Servant of the Elite Soldiers is closer to the original (you can leave out the Mato part since without the kanji it doesn't tell you much) and fits better with the original title and what's shown in the manga.

>>286233194
They probably do if they care enough, but the reality is that they are already entrusting the rest of the work to the localizer. Unless they are well versed in English (almost no nips are, certainly not your average mangaka) they are just going to say OK to whatever is suggested.
Also it seems like most of them don't give a shit about the foreign market to begin with outside of the money. They probably know its being butchered but they keep getting to write the story they want at least on the Japanese side if the sales are good enough so they'll approve a shit version if that is what it takes to not get axed.

>>286216048
>THESE HANDS
>THESE DIRTY HANDS!

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Yeah, it's a reference to the American version of the series it's based on, but it's a fucking lame reference.

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what were they thinking!

>>286231991
Deserved
horrible title for horrible manga

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I guess it's a classic but
>Ken - the great bearfist (or bearknuckle/bearfist)
At some point some dude in 80s Sweden called Pelle or something decided to sit down and go "hmm, it's about the great dipper, so ursa... bear! i'll call him bear fist, that'll be hip!"
The dub fucking sucks too, it's comically bad and not abridged-tier like the French one.

Also, the title english "Fist of the North Star" itself is kind of bad too because the North Star is Polaris which belongs to the Tentei/Heavenly Emperor in Hokuto no Ken, the actual "Fist of the North Star" in Hokuto no Ken is fucking Gento Koken which protects the Heavenly Emperor and belongs to Falco, not Kenshiro. Ideally the franchise should've been relocalized to "Fist of the North Stars" to refer to the constellations or "Fist of the Great Dipper" or a multitude of other titles that make more sense.

I feel like a localized title would have to reference PR in some way since that's the face of Toku in america, for better or worse.

>>286216142
Dungeons & Delicacies would have been better desu

>>286231928
stone's I've heard but I've never heard anyone use rocks to refer to testicles

>>286234716
>Ideally the franchise should've been relocalized to "Fist of the North Stars" to refer to the constellations or "Fist of the Great Dipper"
see >>286229236
I think it's ultimately the fault of old English astronomers
they failed to give the Big Dipper a sufficiently badass name, which is why translation now has to suffer

>>286234832
Get your rocks off.

>>286234786
probably skirts too close for comfort, WotC are litigious assholes

>>286234834
While true, even just calling it "North Stars" instead of "North Star" would work way better.

>>286232813
>Cherry Boy
>Freeter
Wow who would of thought that these terms no one outside of japan uses were invented by the japanese

>>286233124

Wrong SNK. The company's acronym is short for "Shin Nihon Kikaku". SnK the anime and manga is short for "Shingeki no Kyojin".

>>286232813
>Uncanny Valley 不気味の谷
That was a surprise.

>>286234843
I stand corrected but I think that set phrase is the only example
you never hear someone say "I got hit in the rocks" or "my rocks are itchy" or "she licked my rocks" or anything

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>>286234843

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>>286234917
Actually it stands for Souten no Ken

If I recall, the french title for Elf-san wa Yaserarenai is
>50 nuances de gras - L'elfe qui aimait trop les frites
which in english reads
>50 Shades of Fat - The Elf Who Loved French Fries Too Much
I couldn't make up this shit if I tried, the fuck are the french doing over there lmao.

>>286236115
>50 Shades of Fat
KEK

>>286236115
Of course they had to namedrop their national food

>>286215751
That's just a matter of what romanji standard they use. Hepburn is most common but sometimes they don't use it for whatever reason like in Watannare's subs.

>>286224571
It's SEO poison so I get why they're averse.

>>286231160
It's a double meaning title since it also reads as her Epitaph among demons, Frieren the Undertaker(or Slayer as the anime subs sue)

>>286214425
Most seven seas titles, they need to flay whoever is in charge of that

>>286234735
Meant for >>286234220

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In order to combat the recent poor quality of English localization efforts, Four leaf Translations has announced new series! !
>>286231991
Retard Girl
>>286232175
Cosplay Copulation
>>286232360
Moon
>>286232423
Loser Demon!
>>286233274
Lesbo Brawl!!
>>286229027
Fifth Wife
>>286227454
Nagi's Butt

>>286236825
>Cosplay Copulation
That's actually a great title kek

>>286233146
stop derailing

Brazilian title for DanDaDan is É Assim Que Um Amor Começa, which translate to "That's How A Love Begins", lmao

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>the Eoten Onslaught

>>286238027
>he has... the Onslaught Eoten
yeah I guess it still works

https://commiesubs.com/shingeki-no-kyojin-01/
Witness the arrogance

>>286231991
This one is a strange choice. Trying to make an inoffensive name for a manga which contains a fairly honest potrayal of disability seems unnecessary. I guess they were trying to avoid some sort of uproar (from people that won't even read the manga), but I think they were being too careful.
The other examples ITT seem mostly fine to me tbdesu. I don't really mind the title being changed into something a bit more 'selling', especially the ones that are difficult to translate, as long as the content itself is translated faithfully. Hopefully the liberties taken in the title don't reflect the TL as a whole.

>>286239240
He's actually got a good point that eoten would have been a really cool term for them desu
but actually keeping the inflection and whatnot in there is ridiculous

>>286215691
Chuuni shit is an Asia thing. No real translation besides "being a retard", but that would get cancelled.

>>286234363
I think My Monster Secret is a better title than literally translating it to Actually, I Am...
But you and I and everyone else here are going to call it Jitsu wa Watashi wa, not only is it the actual title, it's also just more to say

>>286214425
>new manga comes out
>gets a fan translation
>gets published officially with a retarded title
>mangadex replaces the fan translation of the title with the retarded one

>>286240557
mangadex is dead now tho

>>286234854
nah, it wouldn't
plurals generally lack the punch of a singular
they're awkward to say too

>>286214425
Is she mobbin with moloch or is she ballin with baal?

>>286240557
There's enough cases where the "fan translation" made up a retarded title and the official publisher ends up using it as well.

>>286223581
Figures, that's the same kind of awkward grammar as "attack on titan" and that was also the JP side's doing.
Whenever I hear that series mentioned by someone irl they just say "Dungeon Meshi", I think with popular series that get a lot of hype beforehand, just keeping the Japanese title works fine as long as it's fairly short and easy to remember. Like Jujutsu Kaisen and InuYasha.

>>286227454
>Rock Hard for Ruri

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>>286214425

Are there any tranny publishers who change the dialogue that I should stay away from?

>>286232455
It's trying to be more clever about it than the original title. It's not terrible but that doesn't mean it was a good idea.

I think you can't judge the ones with english on the Japanese volumes, Delicious in Dungeon, and Attack on titan are done deals and the same amount of people would be arguing on they they didn't keep the author's intended english name.
In general I think Japan's and anime's slice of pop culture has grown so we as an industry can trust the viewer with more non-translated titles. Jujutsu Kaisen is one of the most popular anime ever and that name is entirely foreign.

>>286243953
Delicious in Dungeon is probably straight up better than Dungeon Meshi.

You can really tell who doesn’t understand marketing by some of these complaints. Japan is to literal with their titles so you can’t do 1-1

>>286243997
It is just jarring to see a verb being used as a noun.
If they translated it into Dungeon meals or even Delicious Dungeon I doubt people would care but I personally think it is good practice to keep English titles if the author (or whoever) has placed it on official releases.

>>286244261
But then you don't get the "D in D" wordplay.

>>286244181
Marketing is just astrology for idiots

>>286221082
This is actually really clever.

>>286244373
>astrology is for the smart people

>>286234220
This is the worst one. Genuinely gets under my skin

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>>286239240
>or it is indicating that “Titan” is a place

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Nothing will ever top this

>>286244407
>>286221082
it's also really fucking cool

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>>286244407
This is what i meant but my english isn't bery goot.

>>286239240
staged as fuck

>>286244776
To be fair that was due to a legal issue involving conan the barbarian. Trademarks are finnicky

>>286240212
wouldn't a tryhard poser or wannabe badass work for it?

>>286244776
I don’t really understand why Detective Conan wasn’t appropriate enough of an English title for a series about a detective named Conan. It’s not like it was some kind of overly complicated, very Japanese title

>>286236115
Kekaroo, I remember that. Another one that I can't take seriously is Nagatoro's french title which was translated to "Arrête de me chauffer Nagatoro !", not that it's a far fetch from the original but it can either mean "to incite" or "to excite" depending on the context
>>286245096
Agreed, Higurashi's french TL is great and soulful

>>286232423
the localizers need to flex their thesaurus, otherwise they'll get fired and replaced with ai.

>>286244373
just like philosophy is astrology for nerds

>>286233222
they would have to handle 20 different languages, and no author wants to deal with that

>>286237687
neener neener

>>286242549
name 597 examples of this happening in the next 12 seconds or I will curse your bloodline for the next 1000 generations

Tengoku Daimakyou into Heavenly Delusion is even worse than Attack on Titan imo, since Daimakyou has much more meaning than simply "Delusion" while Attack on Titan is just a simple, poor translation. It's even worse considering how daimakyou was used in the context of one of the recent chapters. Heavenly Delusion sounds cool at least though.
>>286220865
This is an example where the translation didn't just go with what the Japanese author chose, which was "Atelier of Witch Hat". There's nothing wrong with Witch Hat Atelier. Unless you wanted "Pointy Hat Atelier".

>>286247198
joke's on you, this is his last generation, therefore it's reflected back at you.

>>286247286
Pinhead Atelier lol

>>286231061
what should it be?

>>286232544
is this movie good?

>>286248819
No, it kinda looks pretty sometimes but the story sucks balls

>>286215063
The Japanese title is a pun (sounds like お兄ちゃんはお姉妹) and they translated that. As usual EOP complain without knowing SHIT

>>286247286
I mean something like "The Pointy Hat Atelier" would be right at least. The most glaring issue with them changing it to witch hat is that now the retarded localizers are just using witch in place of a word that will be said like a hundred times during the show at least and would be better translated as mage.
Locamalizing mahoutsukai to witch is only reasonable if the character is a girl, but they are literally localizing it to make everyone a witch which is very blatantly well beyond the scope of what they should be doing even under their own bullshit localization job. Not that I really approve of localization in the first place but this is still the kind of shit that will actually create retarded drama that extends beyond the content of the show.

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>>286214425
I still think Food Wars sounds awful. It's too close to "food fight" and therefore unserious. Something like Battle Kitchen Soma would have captured the original Japanese title and tone better
Then again, given the literal clown shit that went down in the manga's home stretch, maybe it was the perfect localization. Joke's on me I guess

>>286250848
The mangaka has the term "witch hat" on the cover of the Japanese version of the manga, so the relation is clearly intended. The term majo isn't used specifically because it has the kanji for woman in it and there are males. You could say the term witch being primarily used for women in English is similar but witch is sometimes used for men as well, and there's the term witch doctor too.

>>286245452
"Conan" is a normal real name used by actual people irl, I find it hard to believe that Conan the Barbarian's trademark somehow meant no other works could ever have the name Conan in their title, especially when it's a work with zero similarities. If they made a case out of that there's no way it would hold up in court.

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>>286251073
Mandated english titles do not count, saying the relation is intended is beyond retarded, they will put literally whatever there just look at any other japanese title. If your going to die on that hill though then whatever, like I said if they just made the title that its fine. To bad sloppalizers only seem to argue like this whenever its convenient, but for something like picrel they will never utter a word(though obviously this english title is just as shit for likely the same reason because nips can never dekiru english).
Using it as an excuse to localize magic user or mage to witch is still retarded and dying on THAT hill and trying to justify it just makes you an unbelievable faggot.

Sometimes it's inevitable like "The Hungry Succubus Wants to Make Him Come" becoming "Wants to Consume Him"

>>286251272
It's still a trademark that covers comics, it's not worth risking a lawsuit and it's not worth -not- filing a lawsuit either. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

>>286251467
I'm not dying on any hill. The term mahoutsukai is vague as fuck and I've seen it translated as literally every term for a magic user that exists. And the fact that you think calling males witches will lead to "retarded drama that extends beyond the content of the show", as if that isn't already the case anyway, is retarded.

If I was into Mahou shoujo ni akogarete I maybe would have more of an opinion on the localized title. Gushing over Magical Girls is obviously another instance of trying to shove alliteration into the localized title. Looking Up to Magical Girls seems better to me. And I know you're bringing it up because you think I would say you should keep the English title the mangaka came up with, but I hope you realize the difference between your example and Witch Hat Atelier.

>>286251272
Yeah but the vultures who own the rights to Conan the barbarian are overly litigious faggots. They 100% would have made a court case out of it if they could have

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>>286236115
You win the internet today frogfags

indonesian release either follows english title or indonesian when it's so easy to translate
very very boring

>>286230321
Yes but since they can no longer say the name from fear of backlash, every appearance in the Disney canon has awkward cringey lines like "I need to retrieve my Firespray Class Gunship" and similar. It's like in RPGs that let you name the protagonist despite all the dialogue being voiced, so no character is ever allowed to refer to the main character by name no matter how stilted and fake it sounds.

>>286252195
>the generic term for magic user is vague so we must classify it down and incorrectly at that
Dead on the hill and there is no resurrection from this retardation. Get this man to the mental asylum.
>as if that isn't already the case anyway
well kind of true but who cares about the mangakas personal beliefs if they make something interesting. If the manga had sucked then nobody would enjoy it.

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>>286252902
>If the manga had sucked then nobody would enjoy it.
Not that I think this is the case with WHA (though the manga has long gone downhill imo) but this is patently false and people like all kinds of shit anime and manga.

>>286252968
>only my own taste is good!!!!
ummm thats nyot how this works

>>286253027
Every manga is enjoyed by someone. People liking something doesn't mean it's good. Unless you think bad manga don't exist.

>>286253027
that's exactly how this works

>>286253053
I mean...are there even any bad manga? I can't think of any...some are just less good than others

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>>286243997
>Delicious in Dungeon is probably straight up better than Dungeon Meshi.
however it might seem true logically, in practice that's clearly incorrect, since everyone calls it Dungeon Meshi anyway
the japanese name just works better for whatever reason
maybe it's the cadence, maybe it's better to have it begin with dungeon, maybe everyone has already accepted the original
it doesn't really matter why

>>286244350
>But then you don't get the "D in D" wordplay.
why is everyone so adamant to make a DnD reference?
the manga has completely nothing to do with DnD
there's zero overlap either linguistically, tonally, or mechanically
it just happens to be in a dungeon and to have a dragon
if anything the title should reference Wizardry, although that still would have been a bad idea
shoving a distinctly western association into the title is exactly the sort of forced, marketing-driven localization that otherwise gets lambasted by anons, so why does it get a pass here?
it seems like the allure of alliteration is just too strong for even the nitpicky nerd

>>286255190
Dungeon Mealtime

>>286255190
>why does it get a pass here?
It doesn't. We still call it Dungeon Meshi. I think English titles tend to be less direct than Japanese ones, and marketers/translators have it in their heads that they have to match that feel rather than translate directly.

>>286250959
"Battle Chef Soma"

>>286244261
But when we get that or official word on what the author actually requested (like in dungeon meshi's case) people still complain because it sounds awkward

>>286244592
Title gets across being a Sentai send-up though, in a way Ranger Reject doesn't. And I'm honestly sad the Japanese title doesn't have the Sentai naming scheme.

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>go with this lame as title instead of the fan-translated "Ranger Reject"
>Several chapters later, turns out the fan-translated version was the correct one all the time because thats literally what the protagonist is, a failed experiment Reject

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>Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer

>>286256339
>official word on what the author actually requested (like in dungeon meshi's case)
so Delicious in Dungeon was requested personally by Kui? source?
because all other signs point to her not knowing english

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I think even google translate can come up with better title names sometimes. Sorry it's gookshit. But for me, its "if it's red, it's red".
Google translate either likes throwing in the word FUCK or koreans just use it a lot in their titles.

>>286215691
>one in US has ever heard
skill issue

>>286215691
Now I remember Polish tittle and it's far worse
"Miłość, gimbaza i kosmiczna faza"

>>286257325
dear lord
or rather, chryste panie

I'm always partial to
>romaji title: english tl subtitle
myself, as long as the original title is short enough

>>286257325
sounds like they didn't even bother to do it themselves and just stole the english title to translate.

Been hating on fakku titles lately, see cute/funny romcom title and it turns out to be full of ntr and not apply to story

>>286248713
The town where I got cucked