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EP. REVIEW: High School DxD BorN

There's no way to know short of asking whoever's in charge of approvals on script adaptation. But a bad call is a bad call - my intention wasn't to say "you should be fine with this because the licensor said it was fine", it's "don't be so quick to blame this on a rogue funimation employee, all of this stuff goes through a heavy approvals process".

The idea that Americans get their hands on anime and screw up all the names via poor localization is ingrained in the mind of fandom and I try to disabuse people of that notion when I see it pop up. It just doesn't happen that way anymore.

The idea that Americans get their hands on anime and screw up all the names via poor localization is ingrained in the mind of fandom and I try to disabuse people of that notion when I see it pop up. It just doesn't happen that way anymore.

I'm really at a loss for why all of this is such a big deal. I can kind of understand it in the case of "Yubafy" vs. "Uberfy" in Punch Line, as the correct version does both clarify the nature of the power and make it sound less patently silly, but I don't get why "bilingual" vs. "booblingual" matters unless you're just being extremely particular about the subtitles sticking to what's said in Japanese. And even then, there are plenty of other occasions where the Japanese dub says a word in English but that word isn't actually used straight-up in the subtitles.

It is more like a lot of older dvd releases where you'd hear one character say something short like a name with the subtitle giving you a whole sentence.

Really like to see specific examples cited on this, as I have a lot of older DVDs (in fact, I bought my first DVD player back in the late '90s specifically to buy/rent the earliest anime DVDs, as I knew that they were the trend of the future) and don't recall ever seeing this.

How could the licensors let a thing like this pass, I wonder? (Let alone, how could the people at Funi not understand that the name actually meant something...)

It is more like a lot of older dvd releases where you'd hear one character say something short like a name with the subtitle giving you a whole sentence.

Really like to see specific examples cited on this, as I have a lot of older DVDs (in fact, I bought my first DVD player back in the late '90s specifically to buy/rent the earliest anime DVDs, as I knew that they were the trend of the future) and don't recall ever seeing this.

Probably because they had absolutely no idea it was a reference to something either. I mean even in a show with bible references everywhere, Ophis isn't that obvious. The LN actually said that is where it was from, but otherwise I'd have no idea. I'm admittedly not very familiar with the bible, but I doubt many Japanese licensors are either.

That could be. Though I'm wondering, how did the english dub deal with the bible references? (For example, the part about God being dead)

You're scaring me. Some one please tell me we are past censored dubs...

I can't really help with that as a guy who thinks that most dubs sound inferior to subs, we require an expert here... Maybe you should ask Answerman, heh.

I kinda just assumed that stopped when the original toonami got taken off the air. Even that stuff like Gundam W had uncensored dvds. It would really shock me if anyone other than maybe 4 kids censored their discs, especially something recent, but I'd rather not find out some of my stuff is censored, lol.