Do You Like Viz's Translations?

Americanizing Pokemon Special was a way for it to reach to a wider audience. You have to remember that when Pokemon came out, the majority of the audience were kids and I'm sure that the majority of kids have a limited grasp of Japanese culture.

Overall, Viz's translation was decent. I got a bit annoyed at Bill's accent, but then again, it was Viz being true to the translation since Bill in Special speaks in an Osaka dialect.
 
oni flygon said:
Americanizing Pokemon Special was a way for it to reach to a wider audience. You have to remember that when Pokemon came out, the majority of the audience were kids and I'm sure that the majority of kids have a limited grasp of Japanese culture.

Overall, Viz's translation was decent. I got a bit annoyed at Bill's accent, but then again, it was Viz being true to the translation since Bill in Special speaks in an Osaka dialect.
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True, I guess....I had to read over all of Bill's dialogue at least twice before I understood it.
 
oni flygon said:
Haha, yeah. But it makes sense if you read it out loud. Silly, but it works! And it's a good idea to do it when no one's around.. haha
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I can just imagine:

ME: (reading from Volume 2)An' sure 'nuff, betcha we can folla the trail o' that flame direct to it!
MY MOM:.......what did you just say?
ME: uh, um, nothing!! Schoolwork!

I copied that quote STRAIGHT out of the book. Bill was talking about Eevee.....
 
Haha, I'm just impressed as to how much effort they put into spelling out everything phonetically. In a way, it makes me appreciate Viz's translation effort to bring the manga to the North America.
 
oni flygon said:
Haha, I'm just impressed as to how much effort they put into spelling out everything phonetically. In a way, it makes me appreciate Viz's translation effort to bring the manga to the North America.
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It gets better as time goes on. The first was the worst. After that, it gets better every volume.
 
I've never read the Viz translations, but I found them on Mangafox. (Its the Viz ones)
The first few Volumes or chapters were replaced by Dragonguard recently, though.
But there's still some Viz chapters hidden in there.
 
Yeah. You can measure the stereotypes.
 
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