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Message: [QUOTE="Gorse, post: 24041, member: 73"] I was with you up until this part. I’ll happily be pissed off if they change stuff themselves for the American market, too, because I don’t want an inferior version of the game regardless of who’s making it. There’s a great example of why this is a bad thing: when they were localizing Detective Conan, the Japanese publishers requested a bunch of changes be made to character names and personalities for American audiences. This had the effect of A) immediately killing off one of Japan’s then-most popular anime series in the West and B) completely fucking over the manga, which was forced to continue using Americanized names for characters in story arcs where they didn’t make sense (leading to situations where you have a character named “Jimmy” speaking to an elderly Japanese man about why he doesn’t like eating western food). Remember how the Japanese developers wanted to give Sonic fangs and a human girlfriend for American audiences, too? Believe it or not, sometimes they’re not good at translating this stuff, either! The solution to this “problem” is in the very screenshot that meme is sourced from — “keikaku” means “plan”! Just translate it accurately and don’t change anything, for god’s sake — I have no idea why this seems like such an ordeal. [/QUOTE]

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