/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

>Playing Genso Wanderer
>They translated Rumia's name as Lumia
THEY DIDN'T EVEN TRY.

[Anonymous No.]

lu is an acceptable translation for ル.

Anyway, why are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772714
Honestly, I don't know why I'm quoting, it just seemed like the right thing at the time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772757
You've been crossboarding a little too much friend. Get your feelings sorted out before posting on the 'jay again.

[Anonymous No.]

It's wrong, but it's not like the pronunciation is different, unless you're a dumb idiot giving the Ru/Lu/ルー in her name a hard "roo" sound similar to like you'd say the word "room".

Rumia's name is a corruption of Illuminate, in a form of irony on her being a youkai of darkness so it's -technically- to technically it as Lu instead of Ru, even though it's been officially spelled as Ru.

You're sort of nitpicking anyway, there are probably worse things in that translation you haven't seen, and worse translations that still run around in the western Touhou community (Flan's name, Marisa's texas accent, Inchling).
The best thing you could actually be doing is learning Japanese and indulging in Touhou the way it's meant to be.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772683
If you knew even a bit of Japanese, you would see that the exact English name is of no consequence, because only the Japanese matters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772825
>You're sort of nitpicking anyway, there are probably worse things in that translation you haven't seen, and worse translations that still run around in the western Touhou community (Flan's name, Marisa's texas accent, Inchling).

This. This. This.
Though I am not sure about inchling. She's literally called a "small person," which is very vague in the context of western mythology, but she is the descendant of the "One Cun Priest" (一寸法師), or more commonly called the "One Inch Boy" (Cun becoming an inch is understandable, the latter part I can't comment on). From that you can clarify the contact, and an "inchling," IMHO, both conveys a surprising precision (precision does not equal accuracy, though) while being instantly intelligible.

The worst example of a simply incorrect mistranslation I've seen, which was not corrected for quite awhile, is
>明日ハレの日、ケの昨日
Which has several blatant mistranslations, and really needs a longer explanation for 晴れ and 褻.

[Anonymous No.]

The worst thing is that OP spend 49,99 on a 3 year old fangame.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772825
"Ability to the extend of" will always be my favourite Wiki translation.

[Anonymous No.]

It's Alice Murgatroyd, not Margatroid.

[Anonymous No.]

I want /v/ to leave.

[Anonymous No.]

>Futo Mononobe
>Kokoro Hata

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773041
The problem with using Inchling instead of just keeping it as Kobito makes things inconsistent with terms we usually use anyway in English anyway (Oni, Youkai, Tsukumogami, Amanojaku, Kappa and so on).

It doesn't really make sense to translate that anyway since I don't believe such a thing as "Inchling" has much presence in western mythology.
It would make more sense just keep it as Kobito for that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772683
So did Palusy show up and be designated as an elf?

[Anonymous No.]

Frandoll and Lemiria are the cutest!

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772768
Take it easy

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773083

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772683
Lumia makes sense though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16777615
Ay yai yai, I'm a little butterfly

[Anonymous No.]

Like said numerous times above, Lumia while wrong is still acceptable.


Both the names "Flandre" and "Maribel" are still the worst accepted name translations in the Western fandom. Maribel especially.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16772683
>>16776986
Please return to /v/ with your crossboard habits.

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>>16772683
How is it though? It just seems like a Mystery Dungeon-type.
Is Scarlet Curiosity any good?

[Nameless !RUMIA.l2hM No.]

For Lumia, it sounds close to 'lumen' or 'lumiere' which means 'light' and that contradicts with her being a dusk youkai, which kinda adds to the idea that EoSD is supposed to be a deochi. For Rumia, it's mostly just people saying that it's a real European name which fine since EoSD is supposed to have a European feel to it because it's a deochi.

Personally, I don't think this is that big of a deal since Eastern and Little Nature Deity even translated her name as Lumia before it was later revised to Rumia.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100315044145/http://www.comptiq.com/release/comic/55touhou_owabi.html

[Anonymous No.]

>>16774686
>has earned the Scrap Brain keyblade

[Anonymous No.]

>>16773280
Her first name is Minerva in the Forest Imp & Ice Goblin dubs.
>Tiger Uppercute

[Anonymous No.]

>>16781359
Thanks! That Yami no Rumia looks pretty fun, I'm going to check it out!

[Anonymous No.]

So does this game have classic roguelike elements to it like perma death etc?

I don't want a super easy one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16783116
Use Japanese locale.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16783432
Aw thats too bad, thanks though anon.

I'll probably still get it for my vita.

[Nameless !RUMIA.l2hM No.]

>>16783116
Yeah, the game needs to be played in Japanese locale. I think you could get Locale Emulator (xupefei) or AppLocale to run it if you don't feel like changing it manually.

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>>16783986
There really isn't any reason not to use Japanese locale, especially when programs like AppLocale often won't do the job. In all the years I've had it set the only issues I've had with it is Ragnarok Online getting fucked colours and a few programs defaulting to Japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>16779334
>Maribel is just easily plain wrong.
And what exactly her name should be?

[Anonymous No.]

>>16789162
Yukari

[Anonymous No.]

>>16789162
Lafcadio

[Anonymous No.]

>>16789162
Throatwarbler Mangrove