>Characters have established surnames.
>Dialogue never uses them, but says shit like "Mr. Cecil" instead.
Characters have established surnames
Justin Cooper
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Justin Harris
>english translation still leaves in japanese honorifics
Carson Collins
>western artist uses "ara-ara"
Aaron Ramirez
I will defend this. Western honorifics just don't work the same way. It's hugely important for relationships and social status.
Andrew Bell
Honorifics arent important in english other than jerking off people with status.
In writing, you are taught "show, not tell". I dont need a constant reminder of their relationship everytime they talk after the first or second time
Evan Reed
>fufufu
Noah Johnson
What does it even mean
Elijah Perry
not every relationship is fleshed out to that extend. Doesn't mean it's not important to the story. By removing honorifics information gets lost.
Juan James
What does "fufufu" even sound like?
I have to like warp it into the kind of laugh you do when you push air between your teeth and lip. I refuse to beleive people are wring people and intend their laugh to sound like "Foo Foo Foo"
Aiden Hernandez
William Stewart
>game set in japan
>about jap people
>the jap voice lines use honorifics (and there is no dub)
>the text does not
god I fucking hate that shit
Oliver Morris
You wanted a translation not a localization so here's your cecil san bro
Asher Kelly
What the actual fuck
Josiah Flores
It makes more sense when you understand the japanese character for hu is read as fu a lot of the time. I don't know why the laugh thing was romanized with f's though.
Cooper Price
What about "nishishishi"?
Carter Young
See... I get it. I do. The character needs to say something that has that bit of extra respect to it, and "Mr."/"Ms." is a somewhat close approximation. What bugs me about it is that nobody fucking says "Mr. [Forename]" to show that respect. Either write the involved characters' earlier interactions to include the surname and have them say "Mr. [Surname]", or just have them say something general and polite like "Sir" with no name attached.
Asher Bennett
That's rewriting the script and it ruins the artistic vision
Blake Brown
Respectfully disagree. Some things just don't translate directly, and if the super-exact nuances change a bit in preventing the target-language script from sounding awkward to the target audience, that's something I'm willing to accept.
Christopher Rivera
>character has twelve names, fourteen titles, five ranks each in nine different organizations, and two-hundred and sixty seven different relations he's called by
fuck you fyodor you russian prick
Kayden Kelly
and that's exactly why you leave it in
you're not redrawing the fucking film to "show, not tell", and since it's not important in English, and English lacks the same nuance there, information is lost by trying to translate it.
Cooper Garcia
yikes!
Carson Gomez
Then thats a flaw of japanese writing.
If your whole relationship dynamic is lost by removing a word then you need to show it better in the medium.
Ian Gray
Xavier Richardson
It's fine if it's a Japanese setting. If it's clearly western inspired then whoever is translating it needs to fuck off.