#something something japanese dialogue

[valdotpng]

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[pollyanna-nana]

Wait okay. I’ve been going thru a walkthrough of the teal mask for analysis making purposes and I just realized, Kieran speaks like, way more formally in Indigo Disk. Like he had an implied country-ish accent in Teal Mask but by the time we see him again it seems to be gone…

#polly speaks #Pokémon #indigo disk spoilers #scarlet and Violet #Kieran posting #Pokemon Kieran #bby boy what HAPPENED to you… man. #I’m rly interested if anyone knows if something like this happens in the Japanese dialogue as well #bc I know dialect changes like that are often more apparent in Japanese

[james-stark-the-writer]

less than 4 minutes into Pom Poko and, i don't get Isao Takahata, he refuses to draw nipples on characters or characters without mouth muscles but he'll draw balls on raccoons, i don't get it. i don't get it, what the fuck are this man's priorities.

#james talks #james watches stuff #pom poko #studio ghibli #isao takahata #when i say he here i obviously don't mean him literally i know there are other people drawing it but obviously he has final say over stuff— #bc he's the director #anyway hopefully there's no people in this so i don't have to see his ugly human designs again #but anyway the movie is fun so far #finding subs for this that matched was a nightmare #the inbuilt subs said the raccoons lived in the 'woods' but in the actual Japanese dialogue they clearly said 'mountain' #& it took far too much fiddling and looking to find something that matched and actually had all the subs (including text) instead of just— #the dialogue and stuff. and even in this the translations of certain lines changes a lot (like saying the racoons always lived near a farm) #so i am forced to watch with 2 subtitles at the same time and draw a conclusion on each line of dialogue to see what the actual line is #so if i miss something that's my bad but like subtitlers should simply agree on what's being said. #this is kinda why i'm a big proponent of direct translation with explanations in brackets for cultural contexts

[5-pp-man]

I keep thinking abt this dialogue cause like. when did Yosuke ever say that to him. did it happen off-screen?? was it something I missed? or is it just an unfortunate translation choice??

#kanji tatsumi #yosuke hanamura #persona 4 #yosukan #ive heard the japanese dialogue for this part but im trying to find footage so i can be 100% of what they're saying #cause it seems to match up for the most part? I think? #i think it might be a case of kanji misremembering something yosuke said in the og text. but it not carrying over correctly in the dub #why does nobody ever talk abt this he literally says this when you pick yosuke. which is like one of the most populair options for this par #its 3 in the morning guys i am. blaming this on that mcdonnie coke i had. #ill find the footage tomorrow ima tired... #tedpost #tedtalks #should i tag with yk or will i get ripped to shreds for doing that... hmm #EDIT; fuck it.

[mrshayakawa]

the falling devil choosing to dress like a chef…do we think fujimoto is aware of the phrase “let him cook” and how many people have been saying it ab the pacing of part 2 LMAO

#he said #oh yall are letting me cook? #im whipping up something real good!! #its prob just like an aesthetic choice? to add flavor to her dialogue? #but its funny to think hes poking fun at his fans once again #idk if its a popular phrase in japanese tho #csm #chainsaw man #csm spoilers #chainsaw man spoilers #csm manga #chainsaw man manga

[kamil-a]

edith gets the world's worst phone call

also it was for a japanese twitter tag so :3 hehe

#theres so much mental context i have for it but i want everyone to be able to bring their own headcanons and mental timelines to the table #also i really tried to restrict the dialogue to something id be able to write in japanese (TY VEN 4 EDITS <333) #(also ty snoot for giving me the scoop on british schools 🫶) #anyway in my own head #1.it's a few weeks before the end of the school year #2. lorina does not immediately die #the call edith gets here is that she collapsed and things look bad going forward #4. alice's ex broke the news and in general was a (reluctantly) Relied Upon Family Friend during that time. #hnkna #my lovely art #ALSO YES. SATORIKA CAMEO

[p5x-theories]

I'm going through gameplay to listen for and confirm character names once again!

Soy's real name is Shun Kanou (finally clearing up the Jun vs. Shun and Kanou vs. Kana thing)

Kii's name is, as previously translated, Kiyoshi Kurotani

Second Palace ruler's name is Hiromu Miyazawa

#character info #soy #key #hiromu miyazawa #second beta #I've actually been going through this japanese streamer's videos SPECIFICALLY because he doesn't talk over dialogue + usually repeats names #finally something I can tag the second palace ruler as

[sonknuxadow]

i will die on the hill that it doesnt make sense that people keep insisting sonic 06 doesnt matter at all and is completely non canon and that people only say that because they dont like sonic 06 and want to pretend it never existed

#something happening and then being undone is not the same as that thing never happening at all ? #and i also dont think the ending inherently makes everything from that story completely non canon or irrelevant #like we can clearly see in the ending after everything is reset that the characters and locations from 06 still exist #also isnt sonic implied to remember the events of sonic 06. i remember some dialogue in the japanese version of team sonic racing #heavily implying that. like he was talking to silver and mentioned something from 06 and silver was like . what are you talking about ... #and sonic was like ohhh nevermind dont worry about it Lets race now !!!!! #i swear that is a thing that happened

[lichdragon-fortissax]

Shout out to Elden Ring for giving us the most problematic bitchy bigender femdom ever seen in the history of gaming ig

#elden ring #queen marika the eternal #the context of this is I saw a post translating her dialogue in japanese where she always uses derogatory pronouns for her mates #shaming godfrey in front of all of his men calling radagon a dog etc etx #tbh godfrey is probably into it but wow. what a bitch #she sure is something huh

[gu6chan]

Spending a year translating a novel and am split between the joy of seeing people in the west be able to enjoy something previously only able to be enjoyed by fans in japan and immense regret seeing it used for the worst fucking fan theories you've seen in your life

#drakengard #gu6chan's musings #it sucks ESPECIALLY when you know the context behind some of the shit they either talk about like some big mystery or miss the mark #COMPLETELY with but it's all in japanese and you don't wanna be an asshole OR translate a whole passage of something just to say #'thats not it actually' #im so tired why are westerrn drakenier fans so obsessed with the idea of a drakenier cinematic universe where everything is connected and #made in a way every small little thing is a result or clue to another thing instead of just.... existing. being a motif at most #cause SURE #everything TECHNICALLY is connected; that's like the whole thing #but not everything was made with that connection in mind drakenier pre-dod3 was largely just people fucking around #not everything is a reference #not everything is a piece of secret foreshadowing #i just wanna see an actual good fan theory that isnt like #'this piece of NPC dialogue that gets referenced in a cutaway gag 10 years later PROVES this scene has deeper lore than we thought' #and actually acknowledges the fact that 80% of drakenier is just people pulling shit out of their ass as an inside joke at most #sometimes I really wish I really wish I just kept the translations to 1.3 and Magnitude Negative a secret to like 4 people

[harapeveco]

Being bilingual sometimes sucks bc I remember a while ago I wanted to write this reinochi fic where there’s was this visual gag of sorts that only worked in Spanish but lost all meaning in English and bro that’s painful

The gag in itself was based on this saying we have in Spanish, its literal translation being “put the batteries on” but in a more localized sense it would be the equivalent of “get it together” and yeh the thing went with Rei giving Tobi a box filled with batteries which ofc makes sense in Spanish bc of the way the saying goes while in English it just feels weird and awkward…ofc as you know I write all my fics in Spanish first and then translate them to English I usually try to find a way to make it work but I couldn’t in this case so I had to drop the whole idea 😭😭😭

Reminds me of that one mistletoe fic I wrote years ago where I managed to make it work however the ending had a different context in each version…if you read that you know that by the end Tobi punches Rei bc he mispronounces the word mistletoe (dumbass)… in Spanish the word for mistletoe “muérdago” sounds very similar to the word “muérgano” which can be used to describe a person that is useless, rude or has bad manners/is not well behaved while in English I used the word “mistlefoe” that I’m sure it’s not a real word but I saw it in a meme and for all intent and purposes worked for the story LMAO so yeh the differences in the ending are that in Spanish he hits Rei bc he thinks you are supposed to hit unpleasant people under the mistletoe while in English he hits Rei bc he thinks you are supposed to fight people under the mistletoe…

Translating is really fun for things like these when you make it work but when you can’t it kinda sucks…..the battery gag was so good I’m sad I can’t use it

#idk where this is coming from tbh I just felt like sharing #this is why I appreciate localization on videogames so much #like for example I’ve been seeing a lot of people saying the translations in persona 3 reload tried to hide a racist dialogue by changing it #the original said jp one said soemthing like ‘your skin is so white and pretty’’ #while the English said ‘you have such fair skin’ #and people took it in a bad way without understanding that in Japan being told your skin is white is basically saying you are pretty #but not with a racist connotation ofc bc of the tone English has it sounds weird and racist but in Japanese it sounds normal #that’s the kind of things you have to take in consideration when localizing stuff if you put stuff people won’t get it just can’t work #sorry for rambling idk I’m just feeling something towards the art of translation

[pagesofkenna]

also note because i've been talking about this show a lot and all of my friends are getting it wrong lmao:

it's not 'blue eyed samurai' it's 'blue eye samurai'

it rhymes

#the choice not to include a d is very interesting to be and i want to have a lengthy discussion with the showrunners about why #thoughts: 1) its for the rhyme. which makes it sound more poetic. which plays into either the theme of revenge as an art #and/or the cultural values of the setting #2) it's a funny joke about how the aforementioned samurai doesn't have a dick #3) theres something linguistically interesting going on with the japanese version of the title #but which i don't know because i don't know japanese #(and also leads me to wonder - bc this isn't a japanese show translated into english. it was made in english #but the dialogue is the only english in the show. everything visual is in japanese except that one title card #SO. is the japanese we see all originally written in japanese or translated from english? im dying for someone to write a breakdown)

[hellbatschilt]

Testing out a new brush with some Idia sketches :0c

#hellba(r)t #twisted wonderland #idia shroud #i know these are really messy lol but i still like them!! gonna clean them up eventually for something #also if this is how you find out i'm into twst i'm so sorry #idia is my skrunkly... my little guy! #very excited to see how the starsending event is gonna go :^) i love seeing new idia dialogue! i play the jp version too but - #- obviously my japanese isn;t... very good lol #only good enough to read merch listings on jp websites but you know

[fortune-maiden]

Main Campus: We’re focusing on public safety tasks over private citizen requests

Rean: !! That sounds like a military exercise!

Rean, they are literally military school students. You are also literally a military school teacher.

#(and given what is happening in this chapter frankly I’m more concerned that you are prioritizing private requests over public safety) #trails of cold steel #sometimes the dialogue in Trails of Cold Steel is......... really something #my favorite is anything related to the prestigious Thors Military Academy #the japanese high school that continues to show zero signs of prestige when the protagonist attends it #there was a comment in CS3 at some point about how Thors began returning to more militaristic standards that year #implying that it was intentionally a farce in CS1-2 #I mean loosening up :) #but that makes EVEN LESS SENSE because Erebonia was already supposed to be super militaristic and expansion-happy at that point #why is there super elite fancy school that trains all the best officers easing up on the military aspects in this environment #(I get that Olivert had a lot of influence on the current state of Thors in CS1...but I can't imagine he had THAT much)

[hazuneji]

every other week or so im struck with the powerful urge to become an editor on the limbus wiki. its been an uphill battle every time i see smth that i know and isnt on there or that could be fixed. but holy shit would i never do anything else

#i cant imagine how much context i could glean if i knew korean btw #in japanese they tend to have a lot more distinct dialogue quirks so its easier to tell who writes the flavor texts #(i am in camp 'every single description comes from a character') #and also the amount of Theory you can get from comparing what lines stay the same in each language. or comparing nuances in word choice #so many of my thoughts are wondering which parts of each translation were truest to the original text #like. in english theyre 'sinners' but in japanese they're 'prisoners' #in korean is it a word that means both? or maybe there's a specific connotation they're going for? #japanese has a regular ol' word for 'sinner' too it's very much deliberate methinks. were i a stronger man id be picking up the duolingo #anyways can you tell its my first day back on the adderall #tumblrs lucky i usually dump this on the discord friends the blog would be flooded #nightmare nightmare nightmare #post edit just something interesting but did you know in the bull observation logs one of the lines is pretty clearly rodya in japanese #but the english version of the line is almost certainly heath #weird innit #edit 2: theres a couple more instances of this (albeit less apparent) which is leading me to think that in the original texts #rodya and heath have similar dialects and the translators went with one or the other. interesting to consider the distinction between #a deliberate translation choice and simply separate people making their own interpretations. much to consider

[jewishsuperfam]

so a lot of the japanese dub is not as good as the original but i WILL say that. because of the way japanese grammar works, the rework of vax's "you don't need me. i need..." works better in the japanese imo. they changed it to "omae wa ore ga iranakutemo. ore wa...omae ga..." which is like 99% the same (basically translates to "you don't need me. i...you..." because in japanese the verb comes last), BUT again bc of the shift in grammatical structure, it places the emphasis on the "i" and "you" rather than on the "i need" and for some reason that's hitting SO hard????

#like obvs nothing compares to liam's delivery #but strictly speaking in terms of script #and dialogue #something about where the emphasis falls in japanese is Getting To Me #but also shout out to vax's japanese va. i haven't liked most of his performance so far #(or rather. it's been *fine* but not great) #but he knocked this scene out of the park #tlovm #tlovm spoilers