/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

When cartoons and visual novels are translated into non-English languages (I notice there are a lot of Russian translations), are they translated from the English or from the original Japanese?

[Anonymous No.]

My guess is that depends from case to case. Most of them are probably translated from English, except for the works translated in Chinese and Korean.

[Anonymous No.]

depends entirely on the translator's languages

[Anonymous No.]

>>11122817
>English or from the original Japanese?
>The Dandy Girl

But the original is English...

[Anonymous No.]

>>11122817
There are more English speakers than Japanese speakers.
Or, rather, there are more/better machine translating tools for ENG->XXX than JPN->XXX so go figure.

On topic of Russian translations: http://nya.sh/files/epic_fansubs/

[Anonymous No.]

>>11122885
These are mostly older subs so I’m guessing the situation’s improved now?

[Anonymous No.]

>>11122894
Why should it improve? An average level is probably the same, but the the sheer amount of shit (as in absolute numbers) is increased due to an increased number of shows available for fucking up nowadays.
There's always an influx of fresh blood that knows neither English nor Russian but considers themselves translators (or, God forbid, dubbers), an increasing number of Internet users and decreasing number of officially localized releases.

[Anonymous No.]

>>11122889
I just gave that as an example (I didn't care so much to download the Russian version just to take one screenshot then delete it).

[Anonymous No.]

Gosh darn it, janitor.

[Anonymous No.]

Good job janitor, thanks for keeping this crossboard SHIT off of /jp/.