Am I the only one who hates...

[ARCEUS MAN]

ya like on walkthroghs >:O

 

[Graceful]

Me? It does get a little weird. https://www.sailorsystem.com/sm-characters.htm
Here's like how you use '-Chan' but for SM characters.
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[Akio123]

It's not like you need to translate everything in a sentence to make it a good translation. Even if you don't have a single term for an honorific, you can still convey the relationship between two people by adjusting the choice of the other words in the sentence. Direct translation rarely produces a good adaptation. A good adaptation must give sounding natural top priority, there are no exceptions.

You completely missed my point. I wasn't saying that you need to translate every sentence into English (or another language it's being adapted into). I'm just saying that a lot of it you can't translate. Of course, you have to make the translation native.

 

[Vanilla Kitsune]

I'm a big fan of Honorfics and such. They help express the relationship between two characters better.

I feel like the minority here >.>;

I agree with you.

To be honest, I could care less if a manga has honorifics and such, or not. I think its make the manga feel more authentic, but thats just me.

 

[Idiot!]

I am probably the only one bugged by the way names are translated/americanised. What's wrong with leaving the family name first and first name last? Just because it is known as "first" name in English?

 

[Miz en Scène]

Personally, I like it when they put the honorifics for some reason. But what really gets me is when they don't translate certain other things. Though, it is a good way to learn Japanese.

 

[icomeanon6]

Personally, I like it when they put the honorifics for some reason. But what really gets me is when they don't translate certain other things. Though, it is a good way to learn Japanese.

That's a pretty good point. But, even though I'm more knowledgeable about the Japanese language because of the way most fansubs are translated, I still say it hurts the show as a work. The main idea behind a translation/adaptation/localization/whatever-we-want-to-call-it is to be unobtrusive. If the viewer can tell that it's a translated work by the script alone, then it's a bad translation. A good script must work well in the language that it's written in, not the language that it originated in.