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EP. REVIEW: High School DxD BorN

I knew that the anime was going to stray from the LN but it really didn't bother me as much from the previous episodes until this one.
My main issue with this episode was that spoiler[Issei doesn't get out of Juggernaut Drive from hearing Rias's voice, he gets out of JD with the help of the Oppai Dragon song What's the point of using the Oppai Dragon song in the promotional video if they were never going to use it]


Other than that it was a decent episode, though I'm not sure where they're going with the series at this point since they're making it up as it is

Then please enlighten us ignorants about what the correct translations are in the latter two cases.

I have to admit, with Bilingual, it comes more down to opinion. "Booblingual" is fine in a sense, but I think "Bilingual" sounds better (and well, since the romaji for it is "Bairinguaru", the direct translation would be "Bilingual").

For Ophis and why adding an r is stupid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpents_in_the_Bible#Ancient_serpent

It would be like translating Lucifer as Lurcifur. I mean unless you can find me a version of the bible that uses Orphis... I'll happily accept an alternate english spelling if there is a logical explanation for how an "r" got added when going from the origin of the word to english. I'm not seeing it though.

Gonna disagree. I don't see how changing it is fine in any sense for a subtitle. You hear the word said in english. Maybe if it was just some engrish that didn't mean what the person using it thought it meant (like why the hell couldn't they fix Attack on Titan which clearly was suppose to be Attack of the Titans like the japanese part of the title), but that clearly isn't the case here. The fact that changing the meaning isn't the job of a translator in the first place aside, I find it incredibly annoying when I clearly hear one thing and see something entirely different.

In a dub, I wouldn't really care that much, but you freaking hear him say something else entirely. The point of a subtitle is to allow you to read what was said in addition to hearing it in case you for whatever reason couldn't hear it. It isn't suppose to be different. You wouldn't see subtitles on a hollywood movie just randomly use different terms than what you can hear the actors saying.

Gonna have to utterly disagree about "Bilingual" here. Yeah, that's what is said in Japanese, but it's a lame and inaccurate name for what Issei is doing - in effect, bad Engrish. "Booblingual" is a vastly more appropriate term (I have to think if the original writer knew that boob was English slang for breasts, he would have used that instead) and totally in line with the way Funimation has translated/interpreted things over the course of the series.

I was under the impression that Orphis is a nickname for Ouroboros, the World Serpent that eats its own tail and is a symbol for Infinity (which is what we see on the palms of some of the members of the Chaos Brigade.)

Gonna have to utterly disagree about "Bilingual" here. Yeah, that's what is said in Japanese, but it's a lame and inaccurate name for what Issei is doing - in effect, bad Engrish.

I have to think if the original writer knew that boob was English slang for breasts, he would have used that instead

The case of Attack On Titan is simple - that is what the mangaka chose as the "english title" for the series. But we all know how Japanese work with the English language, and the title ended up kinda wonky.

Gonna have to utterly disagree about "Bilingual" here. Yeah, that's what is said in Japanese, but it's a lame and inaccurate name for what Issei is doing - in effect, bad Engrish. "Booblingual" is a vastly more appropriate term (I have to think if the original writer knew that boob was English slang for breasts, he would have used that instead) and totally in line with the way Funimation has translated/interpreted things over the course of the series.

(And yes, I'm totally going there in the "the original Japanese was actually wrong" sense. Sacrilegious, I know.)

Not sure if this has been said before, but the Japanese for Issei's breast-reading skill translates to Pailingual - a portmanteau of bilingual and "pai", a slang term for breasts.

As a result, Booblingual - while slightly awkward - is actually quite accurate.

Remember that all of these decisions have to be approved by the licensor. They aren't just making things up without the licensor's knowledge and "getting away" with something, these names are all approved.