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GLORIOUS RETURN: Oreimo #1-4

While you may not want it translated, other people would complain if it were not.

I am not surprised. Those who'd complain probably send companies hate mail for not translating Japanese words in the background as well.
This is a joke.

We're working on a way to do translation notes, but on-screen is probably impossible. Our player right now has virtually no control over on-screen placement of text, so for now I told Kouryuu to just post any notes he wanted to make here.

Regardless, $5 is in the HD bucket for this series. Now, I just need to remember I bought the service to enjoy it when I get home. My forgetfulness is even more irritating.

PetrifiedJello wrote:

The King of Harts wrote: When there's background talk, can you NOT translate that in the future? I second this request. It is irritating.

We kind of have to translate it. While you may not want it translated, other people would complain if it were not. What we're looking into is for a way to present it visibly different from the foreground conversation. Unfortunately this is a bit hard to do in our player at present.

And yet, sadly, it is not. You should see some of the letters people send the anime companies. Terrifying, truly.

We're working on a way to do translation notes, but on-screen is probably impossible.

And believe it or not, I actually cut about 15 lines of background chatter from this episode BECAUSE it was too hard to read.

I don't think you need to remember.

However, it's useless to me because my TV is ED, not HD.

Psst... *looks around* perhaps an audio filter to remove background chatter completely? I mean, who's going to know?

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However, it's useless to me because my TV is ED, not HD.

Your TV has Erectile Dysfunction?


*ahem* Anyways, while I little experience with HD anime, if this is a small sample of it, colored me impressed. On my 1080p TV everything was so bright and colorful and it just looked so amazing; especially the eyes and Kirino's hair.

It's true that the English language might not have that many ways to accurately say "Big Brother." But we still have many ways to similarly convey the same meaning: "Big Brother," "Bro," "Bubba," "Brother," "Brother Dear," "Bud," "Beloved Brother," "Brother Dearest," "Darling Brother," etc.

siradix wrote:

It's true that the English language might not have that many ways to accurately say "Big Brother." But we still have many ways to similarly convey the same meaning: "Big Brother," "Bro," "Bubba," "Brother," "Brother Dear," "Bud," "Beloved Brother," "Brother Dearest," "Darling Brother," etc.

God no! It's popular in Japanese, but nobody talks like that in English. We might refer to them that way, but would never address them that way, it would always be by name. And most of those listed are kinda creepy... Really what's important isn't so much what they're saying (since they're all basically saying the same things), but how they're saying it. They're examples of being cute, childish, formal, and respectful.

Emerje

Most of them? I would have figured only four of them would be awkward to hear.

Personally I couldn't care less if ANN wanted to use oniichan or add the san, chan, or sama suffixes at the end of every name. My point is there are ways to convey the same meaning, even though it might sound "creepy" hearing it in anything besides Japanese.

We left the phrase "Onii-chan" intact because the differentiation between different ways of saying big brother in Japanese is important to the show. Accuracy should never physically injure anyone.

Just going to echo some complaints: Need a better way to pause, most players you can just click on the screen to pause.

siradix wrote:

Most of them? I would have figured only four of them would be awkward to hear.

Well if you remove "bud" which isn't related to the others, it's short for "buddy" not brother, that leaves you with 7 so four would be most since it's more than half of them. "Dear", "dearest", "beloved" and "darling" are just waaay too endearing in English. The three remaining are OK, though "bubba" is usually something only toddlers tend to say because it's easy and eventually they grow out of it.

Sure, there's no questions that it can be said in other ways, but if you acknowledge that they sound creepy then why would you want ANN to use them? That's just taking a chance at turning off the viewers. It's not like they're expecting people to learn a new language, they aren't even expecting you to remember what they're saying, they're just trying to convey that there's more than one way to address an older sibling. With that being the case it may as well just stay in Japanese.

Emerje