/jp/ - Otaku Culture

translations of entertainment media can never be "good"
they will always remove from the experience, and cannot possibly add to it or deliver the same experience as the original
you will not be able to avoid learning the source language if you actually care about what you're reading and want to interpret or discuss it in any meaningful way

>>45786839

>>45587325
>but people here wouldnt be interested in that
correct, we don't like translations here

>>45480041
agreed agreed

why are you learning japanese?

>>44291984

>>43874008
i will gatekeep the ever-living shit out of it because there's nothing worse than eops trying to discuss a story even though they've only read a fanfic-tier tl

this discussion in a nutshell

>>43754631

>>43632483

>>43591705
>Translation can be better than original
maybe, if you view it as a separate work
but translation can never be the same experience as the original and this is what people don't understand
if you've read a translation, you haven't read the actual work

>>42942543
Keep it up! Expose yourself to more material, take risks, see if the words you're studying are reproducible or recognizable when spoken or under duress, and make the weird connections only an outsider can make. We're mostly shitposters here, but sometimes it's good to recognize genuine hard work and not just stomp one each other for giggles. I think you're gonna make it.

>>42879839
sure thing buddy

>>42822748
>>42822885