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Lost focus when she dissed me!
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- Seen Nov 21, 2012
So yesterday I got volumes 1-5 of Pokéspe, finally. The new VizKids translations. Generally I'm pretty happy with them, the more violent aspects are mostly intact, and the plot doesn't seem to have been affected (which is what I'm always worried about with these VizKids mangas)
However in Volume 3 (Vs Kadabra), and a lot of you prolly know this already, Green's "boob trick" is censored. This wouldn't bother me at all if not for the dialogue changes made being... a bit stupid. Green starts out by talking about how cute she is compared to Sabrina, rather than her figure. Then after the slash; "What!? Pokéballs on her chest!?" Is replaced with "Lost my focus when she dissed me!"
I dunno about anyone else, but I find that line so hilarious pathetic, especially of a character like Sabrina. A Psychic master being thrown so badly by a simple diss? There must have been a better way to do it. Not to mention for the remainder of the page, Green is holding "nothing" up with her hand, it makes it pretty easy to notice that something's been changed. Not impressed Viz.
Other than that though everything's more or less the same, I'm actually a little surprised at how little the dialogue has changed from previous localisations. Bill's dialogue still annoys me...
Aaanyway tl;dr:
Has anyone else noticed any changes? Any particular scenes in future volumes you're worried about?
RS Spoilers:
However in Volume 3 (Vs Kadabra), and a lot of you prolly know this already, Green's "boob trick" is censored. This wouldn't bother me at all if not for the dialogue changes made being... a bit stupid. Green starts out by talking about how cute she is compared to Sabrina, rather than her figure. Then after the slash; "What!? Pokéballs on her chest!?" Is replaced with "Lost my focus when she dissed me!"
I dunno about anyone else, but I find that line so hilarious pathetic, especially of a character like Sabrina. A Psychic master being thrown so badly by a simple diss? There must have been a better way to do it. Not to mention for the remainder of the page, Green is holding "nothing" up with her hand, it makes it pretty easy to notice that something's been changed. Not impressed Viz.
Other than that though everything's more or less the same, I'm actually a little surprised at how little the dialogue has changed from previous localisations. Bill's dialogue still annoys me...
Aaanyway tl;dr:
Has anyone else noticed any changes? Any particular scenes in future volumes you're worried about?
RS Spoilers:
Spoiler: