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NEWS: StoneBot Comics Provides Statement on Kamen Rider Kuuga Manga's Translation Differences from I

Localization is pretty much dead, especially for video games, dear god NOA localizers did Fire Emblem Engage as dirty as Fates.

Absolutely hilarious.

Anti-"localizers" just keep on winning, I guess!

musouka wrote:

Absolutely hilarious. Anti-"localizers" just keep on winning, I guess!

Turns out dunking on localizers works. First Koisuru (Otome) no Tsukurikata and now Kamen Rider Kuuga

I mean... as I said in the other topic, the practice of promo translations being created separately is nothing new, and in some media it's pretty much the default MO? I honestly don't get what's the problem there.

If the translation in the released book is bad, that's a completely different issue, and clearly that's where the actual problem lies even in this case.

I also wonder what they mean by "OVNI translated the promotional pages from Japanese to English using the style of the Argentinian release." Like... yes, it makes sense that a company would translate something in the style as other stories from the franchise they've released, and a different company would translate it differently, and again see my first point... but what does "style of the Argentinian release" means in case of an English language translation?

I also wonder what they mean by "OVNI translated the promotional pages from Japanese to English using the style of the Argentinian release."

Richmyster84 wrote:

You're mischaracterizing wanting translations to have the correct context of the story as wanting "stiff, awkward" translations.

Nah, the two go hand in hand. Not everything translated can be 1:1, various words have multiple meanings, puns and idioms can also throw a wrench into various translations. The show archer had a great episode where He wasn’t getting Idioms WEREN’T universal

Richmyster84 wrote:

The issue with localizations is that they're more frequently altering contexts of the story in the name of translating for a different audience. If that isn't false advertising I don't know what is.

I’ve seen some typical examples people like to give, but none of them alter the context in any way, let alone to the degree folks are complaining about.

Localization is pretty much dead, especially for video games, dear god NOA localizers did Fire Emblem Engage as dirty as Fates.

I’ve seen some typical examples people like to give, but none of them alter the context in any way, let alone to the degree folks are complaining about.

HyperGatack wrote:

I’ve seen some typical examples people like to give, but none of them alter the context in any way, let alone to the degree folks are complaining about.

Seven Seas has been in the news quite a bit the past few years as they seem to constantly get caught altering and removing things from their releases during the localization process. Once or twice could be an honest mistake, but four and more times is a bit too much for it to not be intentional at this point.

I'm not sure if you are arguing in bad faith here but there is a very huge gap between broken Duwang translations and completely re-writing a series to the point the original author had to step in and get the English company to re-translate and re-release their series again because the translator rewrote everything with malicious intent. Most people are perfectly fine with 'natural sounding translations'. But natural sounding translations do not include things like Twitter memes or removing content you find objectionable. Your earlier post in this thread implied you were fine with Engage's shoddy localization because you did not care for one piece of content in it. Are you aware there's many more things wrong with it besides the Anna marriage? Were you aware they also removed same-sex marriage options from the English localization? It's not a good localization even if you're fine with objectional content being removed as there's still lots of errors and stilted dialog.