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NEWS: KLab Addresses Love Live! App English Translation Complaints in Statement

All of your posts in this thread have been about how you don't think it's LGBT (like somehow ladies flirting with each other isn't gay at all) and that if it is "It's not some pride piece, I don't see the issue...".

To me it seemed like he was implying that it was bad because it was just fanservice pandering.

The idea that girl/girl media is explicitly for boys is incredibly common. If their condemnation was over the fanservice itself, there would be no reason to specify "For males".

Seriously, though. Done now.

This reminds me about the case where the line of "Pokemon marrying humans" was removed in the English version of Diamond and Pearl. Are those in the West just that more conservative and/or sensitive?

The way it sounds to me is that the only altered very few lines. Most of the game leaves all references in text. And has to do more with the players gender which can be difficult to pin down due to the way Japanese works.

If it's causing them that many problems it should be pretty easy to fix. Judging by the amount they left in, I highly doubt it stems from homophobia or any ill intent.

Cyclone1993 wrote:

The way it sounds to me is that the only altered very few lines. Most of the game leaves all references in text. And has to do more with the players gender which can be difficult to pin down due to the way Japanese works. If it's causing them that many problems it should be pretty easy to fix. Judging by the amount they left in, I highly doubt it stems from homophobia or any ill intent.

I also think this is more an artifact of them choosing to define the player as having a stated gender for better word flow in English and picking male because they assumed, some what clunkily, the player would be male rather than going with what makes narrative sense. I do think it is rather sad that they think somehow a potential male player can't cope with the idea of playing a female character despite that female gamers deal with this fine when playing anything with a male protag all the time. Note I think actual male players of the game would have not minded at all, but it is the company who thinks they can't.

But this is not the case here, this just another cases where rabid fanon have their yuri goggles turned to the max, and construe some yuri where at worst there is none and at best it is a stretch. I can't tell how many shows there are where the fandom pull this kind of stunt, even when its as explicit as possible that its not the case. Its gotten to the point if two males or females exist in a show, they are viewed as gay/lesbian until proven otherwise, and even then when an author outright states its not the case, they think the author has lost their mind, and they no better [I can't think of a better example than Duo and Hero].

Fact 1: Love Live! is not yuri.
Fact 2: Love Live School Idol Festival's English translation retains much of the "not-so-subtle lesbianism jokes" that the original game has.

As someone who has played through much of the English version of the game, I have personally experienced (and been made uncomfortable by) more than my fair share of "skinship" jokes. Now maybe they may have altered a scene or two in order to more easily translate a joke or something, what the pluck ever. Sure, half of the game is literally fanservice, but let's face it: your lesbian ships are not as important as you think they are.