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Message: [QUOTE="Strategist, post: 6928, member: 767"] Like I said before there are many reasons, but at this point we can agree to disagree. The Pokemon case came from a mild xenophobia that American audiences wouldn't accept Japanese culture in their TV shows and that has been debunked over time. That is a different agenda of sorts. You are the customer and your feelings are valid. But you aren't the only customer and not every customer feels the same way about things. Fair, but to claim that every translator does that is factually incorrect. I can show you many examples of localizers who've done a phenomenal bang-up job. Basically every game I've played. I don't know which world you live in where every game translation is a hatchet job but I haven't seen it. Again, I don't follow modern anime, so it might be more localized to that area. Edit: Actually the games I've experienced that had the worst translations were usually done by non-native Japanese translators. Speaks to the value of fluent Japanese to English translators, in my book. I care. I personally think machine translation is garbage not fit for human consumption without some handholding. My opinion matters as a customer, right? I'd have to take your word for it. But I'd be careful in assuming that what a copywriter does is the same as what a literary translator/localizer does. And I'd like to see some proof of a commercial literary work being fully translated using ChatGPT. That would be the ultimate proof of its wondrous abilities, don't you think? Is it really that amazing if no company is willing to put their reputation on the line and publish a commercial work using it? Claiming that the Japanese are highly influenced and incapable of making their own decisions is highly patronizing, don't you think? Their companies are just as successful, if not more and they enjoy dollars and yen as much as the rest of us do. That wasn't meant as a political statement, it is a simple matter of fact that American politicians (influenced by religious/parent/teacher lobbies) have tried time and time again to restrict what video games the American audience can play. Look at the history of the ESRB if you don't believe me. Nintendo is smart in avoiding another controversy. Japan simply doesn't have the same restrictive mores when it comes to sexualized content in games for minors/teens. You bringing up politics to deflect my criticism seems as a weak tactic, in my opinion. Try again. [automerge]1733129057[/automerge] I do agree with you that the fansub way to translate jokes is the most accurate one, especially if you can add annotations and such. However, historically this hasn't been the approach used by localizers in any media; video games, movies, animation or otherwise. As someone who has watched Spanish dubs over the years, I've noticed the willingness to translate jokes to other cultural contexts with mixed results. I can't say which approach I prefer overall, there are positives and negatives to both. But in a video game, where text space is limited, one seems way more practical than the other. In any case, this is clearly not a new phenomenon. Not sure why people are up in arms about it now. [/QUOTE]

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