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PR: Sentai Filmworks Licenses Modern Magic Made Simple




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Mavrick



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:54 pm Reply with quote
Blu-ray?
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Megiddo



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:58 pm Reply with quote
Another miss for me. I just couldn't get into this show. Too many wash-pans falling I think. Hope it does well for Sentai though.
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Nayu



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:15 pm Reply with quote
Modern title made simple more like. Seriously, why do they insist on blanking out good titles in favor of horrible ones?
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Shiroi Hane
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:29 pm Reply with quote
"blanking out"..?
It is a perfectly legitimate translation of the title. More colloquially they could have called it "Modern Magic for Dummies" (if they wanted to be sued that it).

It might help if I pointed out that in a search on Amazon for よくわかる, this series is the 11th result, under a bunch of Microsoft Office textbooks.
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Takeyo



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:50 pm Reply with quote
Yeah, I think about the only way to make it more literal would have been something like, "Well Understood Modern Magic." If I were a fan of this title, I suppose I might appreciate it if S23 slapped the Japanese title somewhere on the box for good measure, but at least it didn't get the, "Cat Planet Cuties," treatment. Wink
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