Forum - View topicEP. REVIEW: Yona of the Dawn
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lys
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SweetCoconut, you can go on spelling the names how you like (for what it's worth, I agree and am doing the same), but if others prefer to use the official Funi/CR spellings, they're not wrong unless the mangaka comes along and says so. I think the intent is to make the names more Korean-sounding, but I don't know enough about the language to say how that works or if they've done it correctly (I was already confused about Korean romanization and pronunciation before this series). It's not really worth getting mad at other fans over though...
(still, Funi's script is clearly not flawless, since it refers to squirrel-Ao as "him" even though Kusanagi-sensei has stated she's a girl. like, duh guys. why aren't you stalking her twitter/manga sidebars for these random tidbits of information??? :) ) |
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KidaYuki
 Posts: 129 Location: North America |
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Hahahaha I bet you had my face when they introduced Zeno: Look it's Zeno!!  Wait they just called him..... "Jeno"?  Oh well I'm going to keep writing Zeno 
I mostly don't like how they can't make up their mind on Soo-won, Su-won, Suu-won, and So-won. This week he was "Su-won" even though when you look him up on google he's Soo-won according to all the summaries |
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Weazul-chan
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you have to remember the English scanlations aren't official and the translators have to go with their best guess as to how to romanize names, they can't get any input from the mangaka on how to romanize the names unless the mangaka makes a public statement in a character guide or something. meanwhile official translations DO have a chance to ger the creator's input on how the names are intended to be romanized and sometimes the creator will actually say themselves that THIS is how they want a name romanized. as to how it sounds compared to how it's romanized, well, the names aren't meant to be Japanese, they're names meant to fit in a Korean based fantasy setting, and sometimes it's hard for people who speak one language to properly pronounce names commonly used by those who speak other languages. and then think about how silly it would be if you applied the logic "it sounds like this so it should be spelled like it sounds" to every anime and how awkward it would be then to spell, say, Edward Elric's name based of the Japanese pronunciation of it. |
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Desslok
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I'm only up to Episode 15 or so, but I've been loving the hell out of the series. Have we heard any word about when the show will be released on DVD/Blu? This is the first 'watch as its being released' show I've been up with, so I don't know what sort of lag time we usually get with these things.
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Alan45
 Village Elder Posts: 9872 Location: Virginia |
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@Desslok
Currently 15 months seems to be a minimum. Longer if there are complications, sometimes a lot longer. Funimation seldom explains the reason for delays. |
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SweetCoconut
Posts: 44 Location: Philippines |
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Thanks guys for the clarification. Though I am still annoyed by the thought of the spellings *sighs*
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Crisha
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Thanks for the explanation, Weazul-chan. Before your explanation I assumed that was the reason for the names, and I have since started using them. Funi would have had to get approval from the committee and if these were the name spellings they approved, then I'm assuming there's a good reason. I prefer the accuracy based upon the setting and intention even if it does sound off a little in the Japanese due to the pronunciation.
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hyojodoji
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As to the name 'Kija/Gija', as I have said in another thread, probably it is related to whether you transliterate a Korean letter in the McCune–Reischauer system or the Ministry of Culture 2000 system.
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zensunni
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This thing with the spellings of the names reminds me of the Spice and Wolf "Horo" vs. "Holo" thing. It is amazing how many people continue to use Horo, even though she signs her name as Holo in the 2nd season of the anime. (In the original Japanese version, mind you.)
In this case, I usually fall on the side of the official translation that has access to the creator and his or her agents when working on the project. There is a much higher probability that they have it the way the creator intended. In any event, I was a bit late to the party on Yona, but I am so glad I picked it up and started watching it. I am sad that it is over and hope there will be more at some point in the future. |
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lys
Posts: 1010 Location: mitten-state |
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Okay, one last thing I have to say in defense of my name spelling choices (I'm sorry to have become one of Those People; in my defense I too usually do follow the official word in these cases...).
I understand there's a difference in consonant pronunciation between Japanese and Korean, but the -ea spellings are just wrong, right?? Jea-ha, Geun-tea (with a tacky unintentional pun to boot on that one...), Tea-yeon, Heang-dea (ugh that one ugh ugh ugh) etc. There is no "ea" vowel in either Korean romanization system, as far as I can determine (while "ae" seems pretty common), and "ea" in English pronunciation suggests a more "eee" sound than the "ay/eh" JP pronunciation. So I do get upset every time I see that show up. Grrrr~~~ |
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mdo7
 Posts: 6280 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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I agreed with you, that's also going to be an issue if MBC (or any Korean network) were to adapt this show into a K-drama. How the name will be called you'll have to leave that to the Korean since the character's name are Koreans if ever in the future this was to be adapted into a live-action K-drama. So it looks like the name could be "tweak" to fit correct standard Korean letter and pronunciation if that was to happen. |
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