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[Anonymous No.]

Why is it written as "Necrofantasia" when ZUN himself wrote on the Magical Astronomy booklet "Necrophantasia" in Western characters? https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Magical_Astronomy/Story

[Anonymous No.]

>>22212112
Because sometimes Japanese authors aren't that great at transcription/transliteration, so their idea how the names should be in romaji doesn't have to be right
and sometimes the translation teams have their heads up their asses because they know better what the author meant to say - you decide what's the case here

[Anonymous No.]

>>22212126
When the word is present in the dictionary and used in both modern and classical western material, like phantasia is, it's clearly not an issue of transcription or transliteration. Whoever translated it only knew about the Disney version.

[Anonymous No.]

>>22212112
>>22212257
I'd argue it's not a case of English Only translators, just a misunderstanding - a fantasia is a semi-improvised musical piece, so using the 'f' spelling would fit as a name of the theme; a phantasia as a philosophy term is "information based on sense experience" - though what that means exactly varies, it can mean 'something experienced', thus fitting the quote

[Anonymous No.]

>>22212872
>I used necrofantasia and necrophantasia seperately. I figure there’s a nuance. Necrofantasia is the original title, but the subtitle is necrophantasia, what Renko describes.
The alternate translation listed at the end of the page offers this very reasoning.
About ネクロファンタジア, ZUN used romaji in the AoCF remix and went for "Necro-Fantasia". Though I don't think that's "binding".

[Anonymous No.]

hiziri byakuren

[Anonymous No.]

>>22212112
You're a dumb fucking gorilla nigger, you know that? The English """""titles""""" on the CDs aren't titles. They're subtitles. The same thing happens with Hecatia's theme. It's clearly spelt out "Pandemonic Planet" in it's original romaji yet DBOA renders it as "Pandemoniac Planet".

[Anonymous No.]

I hate ZUN's obsession with the word PHANTASMAGORIA

[Anonymous No.]

>>22213730
Huziwara no Mokou

[Anonymous No.]

>>22219621
But it's great and it fits the series, just like kaleidoscope.

[Anonymous No.]

ZUN should subtitle the next game "Illusionary Kaleidoscope Phantasmagoria"

[Anonymous No.]

>>22219909
Illusionary Kaleidoscope Phantasmagoria Land.

[Anonymous No.]

>>22219928
of Ephemeral Dream

[Anonymous No.]

>>22219941
and Borders in Fantasy

[Anonymous No.]

>>22219909
>>22219928
>>22219941
>>22219961
You forgot "Scarlet", which has been a thing since Touhou 2.

[Anonymous No.]

>>22219909
Sigmund Freud’s Eastern Illusionary Kaleidoscope Phantasmagoria Land of Scarlet Ephemeral Dream and Border in Fantasy

[Anonymous No.]

>>22220014
featuring Dante

[Anonymous No.]

>>22220014
Sounds like momhu thread.

[Anonymous No.]

>>22212112
It's actually νεκροφαντάσiα

[Anonymous No.]

>>22220029
From the Divine Comedy series

[Anonymous No.]

Why isn't fish written ghoti?

[Anonymous No.]

>>22223997
Necrophantasia is not an English word

[Anonymous No.]

zun is a god

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>>22212112
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