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Fuck off Ken. ;_;

why is that girl named kenichi?

goddammit what a shitty translation.

>>5170065
>ITS NOT AS CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL GLORIOUS NIHONESE TEXT AS POSSIBLE ITS SO SHITTYYYYYYYYYYY

>>5170076
Cut it out.

>>5170065
"世の中には、どうしてこんなものにお金を払わなきゃ？　ってのがたく
さんある。あきらめるんだな"
In society, there are many things that make you go "why do I have to pay for this?." Just give it up.

I don't see what's wrong with Sunflower Dev's translation.

>>5170126
GET OUT SUNFLOWER DEVS

>>5170126
The translation that gets the meaning across, but distorts Kenichi's characterization by making him sound more condescending and pretentious than he's supposed to be.

My gripe with Sharin's translation is that most of the characters' personalities come off completely different as opposed to their Japanese counterparts.

Liberal translations for the sake of natural sounding English is fine, but not at the expense of being unable to preserve subtle things like characterization.

>>5170611
(I haven't actually played the game so perhaps this comment is best ignored)

How does that distort the meaning? There's very little (that I can tell) in the way of nuance in the first sentence, that is the
>"世の中には、どうしてこんなものにお金を払わなきゃ？　ってのが
たくさんある"
and the
>"In society, there are many things that make you go "why do I have to pay for this?.""
and in the second I would think that あきらめるんだ provides a very similar nuance to "Just give it up." It's an imperative form, is it not?
sage for maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about

>>5170639
It's not imperative, but the general meaning can be considered as such, I'd say, given it's being used in an explanatory manner.

>>5170854
Sorry I was probably being a bit loose in definition, I only meant that it was a command, not the grammatical imperative, which んだ is when used after a verb, I believe. Regardless, I will assume that it's other things in the translation in addition to this that characterize him inappropriately. However, it doesn't seem to me that it's all that bad. It's potentially preferable to some inchoate mass of words literally translated that some translations are.

Again I must put a disclaimer of "I have never played this in either language".

>>5170126
Except that's not the Sunflower devs' translation. I just checked right now.

Translated:
>There are a lot of things in this world that makes us wonder why we have to pay for them. You have to learn to deal with it.

Edited:
>Life ain't fair, kid. You just gotta learn to deal with shit like that.

>>5170958
URL for reference:
http://tlwiki.tsukuru.info/index.php?title=Sharin_no_Kuni:012.ks&diff=27714&oldid=26850

I was more annoyed with the memes than with the 'liberal translation'.

>>5170958
MOOOOOGY

>>5170974
toukafeelingthepleasureofbeingcummedinside.tif

>>5170978
Be thankful that he didn't touch Kikokugai.

>>5170958
Fuck. Now I almost hope NNL would be the ones doing SubaHibi.

>>5171042
Makoto is the best translator available.
Thank god he is the one doing Muramasa

>>5172851
I hope it won't take five years or something before it's finished.

>>5172837
Actually it'd be edited even more localized then, and like 20% of the lines would be entirely cut out due to deeming those "redundant".

>>5170958
Um. I know. The OP pic is the Sunflower Dev's line.
I, 5170126, gave that translation on the spot, as a comparison.

So what's new on 4chan? Oh, people who can't speak Japanese are bitching about the wording choices of free English translations again. lol, you low-tier faggots.

>>5172893
Yes we should just accept people who do shitty rewrites because it's free

>>5172893
You seem frustrated.

>>5172906
Fuck, even CurryButt is posting as White Ren...

>>5172837
One of Yuki's comments that I just came across was a reference to fighting games, something like "Weak Punch x 2, push joystick forward, Weak Kick, Strong Punch."

Moogy Localized:
Quarter Circle Forward Punch!

NNL localized:
LP LP F LK HP SUPAH EFFECTIVE!

>>5172911
Do I? I believe you guys are the ones who are frustrated, I'm just amused.

>>5172947
>>5170049
I for one support sunflower devs translation.
Sound smoother compare to that literal translation shit.

>>5172947
Derp, that's what I'd imagine it, anyway.