I'm a little late to the party, this apparently happened last year, but holy shit. The Japanese Government apparently got fed up with Americans misrepresenting their culture internationally, and are now making it Illegal to mislocalize Japanese media, including games.This could not just improve the quality of the versions we get in the West, it could legit put Japan back on the map as a serious producer of video games.It's still not clear if the law will apply retroactively or only for future releases, and what the punishment will be for those that break it, but it's definitely a step in the right direction.What franchises are (You) looking to being saved, /v/? And if the law is retroactive, what fixed game will you be playing first?
shitpan hasnt produced a good videogame since 2006
>>746930173Part of that is because of localizers, though.
>>746930063How will it be enforced?Will the US extradite localizers to Japan for trial? Will the bosses be held responsible? What about unofficial localizations?
>>746930063Next time, post the actual source instead of whatever was regurgitated by your eceleb.https://0115765.com/archives/155825
sounds basedI hope they do it
>>746930063is this just gonna rape fansubs
>>746930063I highly doubt any gov would try to do something actually good, but here's hoping
>>746930063Or it could shift the overton window among normies just hard enough seeing the full extent of degeneracy and cultural differences coming from Japan that their products either won't be sold overseas or they install psyop actors in Japan to change their laws and criminalize things like not just rori, but high school anime girls with large breasts.
>>746930987>Is "new law" going to impact "already highly illegal practice"I really doubt this would be the deal breaker instead of the tons of IP protection laws.
>>746930987Fansubs are generally much more accurate than official translations though, so no.>>746931061Yep, it's a long shot, hopefully it turns out well though.>>746930438Probably extradition.
>>746931123That's grim as fuck but with the amount of zoomer losers with bowel cancer raised to be karen right out of school I can see that happening.
>>746931232Would the USA really extradite someone to a foreign country for free speech? Doesn't that go against the Bill of Rights?
>>746930063I guarantee you're misrepresenting whatever the law actually says and you're just regurgitating whatever slop you heard from your favorite antiwoke youtuber
>>746930063lmaojaps keep seething
>>746930173>>746931887troon melty
>>746931997*reclines seat*KEEEEK
>>746930063Too little too late now that the Japanese companies have been infiltrated and things get shit up at the source.
>>746931805pretty much, and it is an anti-woke twitter user. the article is from last year and nothing has happened since
>>746930063Japan themselves can't make faithful translations to begin with.
>>746930987No, UNLESS the fansubber is literally a government agent or a JET program drone and does something weirdly political. The fansubber would have to get noticed by the federal government, and the last time that happened, it was Chinese communist students making deliberately inflamatory translations for the mandarin market.
>>746931061This is more about influencing policy softly. There's actually a directive to "not talk about the work", which even though it's not a law with penalties, is not friendly to trannylators who can't stop shitposting publically.
>>746931727No, and you don't understand the bill at all. Just lurk this thread.
>>746931805This is the Japanese legal system. What the law says isn't too important at all.
>>746930987Fansubs barely even exist these days, there are a few fan translations for vidya, but for anime the only fansubs you still see are made by /a/nons, like with Dodge Danko this season getting fansubbed by 2 separate /a/ posters (one being an anon, the other being PT, a tripfag).
>>746930063>are now making it Illegal to mislocalize Japanese media, including games.[citation needed]
>>746930173Insane bait
japanese game developers have been thoroughly infiltrated. there is no need for localizers to "censor" anything anymore.
>>746932126Pretty much this, they just fuck shit up right at the source now.
Good. The state of translation being so bad that we need to distinguish between "translator"/"translated and "localizer/localization" and often only 1 is contracted, is horrible. I'll be glad when the latter is correctly labeled as "fraudster/fraud".Someone pays you to translate their work and you just make up your own words and meanings independent of the author, and the author has no way to verify so you just rip them off and get away with it. It's criminal and shitty.
>>746934280I agree with this to a degree. What we have nowadays is nothing compared to what was normal in the 90's and 00's. This means nothing to me. Also, Japan has been lacking in general lately (by lately, I mean the last decade.) I really don't think this going to change anything.
>>746930063>Ghost stories is now illegalOwari da....
>>746930687Basically according to this then pantyshots are back since no more interference from nip gov unless they're fucking actively self censoring again.
>>746930063Too late, most games are already censored on the original language.But its a move in the right direction though.
>>746930063>make bad translation>tokyo metropolitan cops show up at my door
>>746934280>>746934312This gives some federal leverage against only two cases via the risk of losing "cool japan" type funding. One is Thomas Locksley. The second is that one crazy greek girl.If you're acting as a "political agent", you might get NOTICED here. There's no actual enforcement mechanism. Just peer pressure it seems.
>>746934541More like a suit from the departement of education asks if you have some time to talk about politics.
>Vic Ireland and Alex O'Smith are now international criminalsTook them long enough
>>746934409depends of how it interacts with the tokyo bill, can someone translate?
>>746934734carefully though. translate incorrectly and its the noose for you
>>746934373you talk like they would ever use words like "fag" even in a joke dub today, even abridged series started avoiding the fun stuff.
>>746934280This is wrong. Just few months ago we had rouge american localizers inserting pro trans/anti fascist messages into YunYun Senpai Syndrome English translation. It was so bad the developer had to apologize(using AI translated post), directly called out the worst cases and went over all the lines to check for more bullshit they tried to sneak in.This should be illegal. There should also be an awareness campaign to encourage Japanese developers to properly check the translation and construct the contracts in a way where such vandalism would be grounds for big compensation to deter the practice.
>>746930063Good. Now unfuck the FF7 remake "translations".
>>746934373>SerpicoMost of 4chan is too young to get that reference.Hell most of 2003 4chan was too young to get that reference.Still funny tho.
>>746934958>YunYun Senpai SyndromeYunYun Denpa SyndromeWeird autocorrection
>>746934734Show me the bill.>>746934853I'll take the risk. I can apologize in keigo faster than they can prosecute.
>>746935007>Show me the bill.not the bill, this new one
>>746930173fpbp
>>746931997Seething ricecel
I remember when /v/ was praising Trump over allegedly saving loli porn from credit card companies when what he was really doing was trying to ban any bank from not wanting the reputation hit of associating with a criminal like himselfThis shit with the Japanese "banning unfaithful translations" is as much of a lie, which started going about around the same time.
This faggotry has been going on for ages, even outside of games I loosely recall some light novel where the main character was a cross dresser and the translator being a tranny reworked it to say he was a tranny which got the writer seething when he(she? no idea don’t care) found out about it and had the books retranslated again
it's interesting how leftoids like to act so noble regarding art and then constantly piss all over others creations, though i suppose they do that with literally everything
>>746935385>This shit with the Japanese "banning unfaithful translations" is as much of a lieBased on what?
>>746935783It's not even banning translations. It's encouraging quality translation with funding that can be withdrawn, maybe.
>>746935930>fundingWith what money?
>>746936084A whole 10,000 yen per translation, an incredible sum, do not look up the exchange rate
>>746935783It's about the Japanese government preventing *itself* from dictating anything for any media projects it funds. Quite literally the exact opposite of what OP is talking about. This was explained and then conveniently ignored the last time OP made this same thread seven months ago.
>>746934875ghost stories is funny beyond its use of cuss words, retard-kun.
>>746930173Ninja Gaiden 4 was good...
>>746936272That wasn't me, I literally just found out about this.>It's about the Japanese government preventing *itself* from dictating anything for any media projects it funds.Nope, look up Mangs' video on it.
>>746936391the freedom to use any words or any edgy/racist joke is what makes it funny, they wouldnt do the black guy joke now, nor the rape ones, the abortion ones and jew ones.
>>746930438They will try the Japanese companies for not enforcing faithful localisation. Basically, the era of nips just giving their media to liberals to do whatever they want with it will be gone.
>>746936562>We took away their free speech
>>746930063Good, but they should execute every localizer and translator.
>>7469300635 years too late
>>746936726Nips never had free speech and in fact find the very idea strange.
>>746935124>>746935168troonoid melty
>>746936898>took him half an hour to come up with this replylol
>>746934373No, it wouldn't be. The contract was literally, "You can have them say anything you want, just don't change the names of characters or the basic storyline." It wouldn't be a mislocalization or deliberate mistranslation at that point.
>>746930173But Persona 2: Eternal Punishment came out in 2000...
>>746930063>are now making it Illegal to mislocalize Japanese media, including games.Cool. Can we make this retroactive and drag all the localizers out into the street to be publicly beaten?
>>746936391
I'm playing Okami right now, the most Japanese game in existence, and there is zero chance this dialogue would have any character to it if it was a direct translation
I'm glad we got Ghost Stories before this kicked in, at least.
Retroactive laws are unconstitutional in Japan, and most countries, moron
You are all gullible retards
>>746937585 >>746937301Forgot to reply, sorry, I'm new
>>746937515Yeah man I'm glad we got Ace Attorney before this kicked in haha so quirky chungus
>>746930687Japanese entertainment has clearly been hijacked by Western leftists, using sellout Koreans as a buffer.
>>746937585>replying as if this was a genuine question.ESL or just autistic?
>>746938032What's it like having no sense of humor? You must be a blast to hang around.
>>746930063>unfaithful translations
>>746938327American humor is such a fuckin BLAST
>>746938049who cares about xbox
>>746938393>trannyslop translations
>>746930063>unfaithful translationsNOOO SEVEN SEAS, YEN PRESS, CR AND VIZ ARE IN DANGER!
>>746930063TTYD remake, tomodachi life: living the dream
>>746934986is Serpico a good movie btw?
All this means is that less Japanese media will be in English at all because no one will want to risk a 100% guaranteed chance of picking a militant leftist infesed 'localization' house and get fined for the deliberately vandalized localization they get.
we're 100% getting incomprehensible MTL translations that Tanaka-san put through ChatGPT without context.
>>746938819>All this means is that less Japanese media will be in English at allHoly basedIt's time to stop the EOP menace. Bring back gatekept video games.
>>746930173Not wrong>>746930987Fansubs have been dead for years
>>746934373No, the studio literally gave them carte blanche to do exactly what they did.Whether or not they regretted that choice later, no one knows
>>746938972I trust GPT 6 Astra and Claude Fable more than your average localizing retard and you should too. It's not 2010 anymore.
>>746930438It wont. Japan is currently being ass raped by Indians and the US government
>>746938978This honestlyRETVRN to the days of fan translations and imports
>>746937586Yeah, lmaoPeople really think the country that doesn't know English (which is why they're deep in this dogshit in the first place) and STILL doesn't know English is going to do something about localizations. Not to mention how passive they are, considering they're one of the most "vegan" cultures out there. Literally "tf takeshi gon do"
>>746938743It's considered a classic for a reason.
