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Answerman - Why Do Engrish Titles Only Sometimes Get Corrected For America?

Fabe wrote:

CorneredAngel wrote: One word. Bodacious Space Pirates. I really don't understand why people have such a problem with that title.

It's grody to the max.

the Legend of Legendary Heroes... though I understand this is the actual title in japanese too.

Chagen46 wrote:

7jaws7 wrote: Let's not forget the infamous "Clannad" "Clannad" is not Engrish as it's not an English word. It is, from what I've read, a butchering of some Celtic word (so Irish/Welsh/Gaelic, don't remember) meaning "family".

actually, it's not even a proper word, it's a title of an Irish band which got their name as a contraction of "Clann As Dobhar" (the family from Dore). the creator mistook the name of the band to be the Irish word for family. that's actually been admitted officially.

Is "Bleach" supposed to mean anything? Are they laundering a stained world of its ring-around-the-collar or something? (I've seen only a handful of episodes, so I'm honestly asking)

The Attack on Titan title always made me think it was a sci-fi space mecha story, so I didn't watch it for a long time. Of course, Attack of the Titans sounds like a 90's sports movie, so it's basically a no-win situation :lol:

before when i knew what Attack on Titan was. When i read the title i was expecting some space opera sci-fi story of an invasion (or attack) on Titan; one of the moons orbiting Saturn.

I was quite disappointed that it wasnt the case.

One example of what Justin described with refusing to defer to a native speaker was described in a commentary track for Hellsing Ultimate. From what was said, it sounds like New Generation came close to losing the chance to work on the Hellsing TV series because they insisted that the main character's name should be Alucard. The Japanese company not only insisted on Arucard, but that there was no reason to bother asking Hirano which he actually meant to use. Later on when both sides of it were in the same room with Hirano, Taliesan Jaffe decided to just ask, and Hirano's response was basically that he didn't know which it was and that he would defer to the native speakers.

I was always very thankful that Haibane Renmei just stuck with the Japanese title instead of trying to translate it, as I can't think of any version of "Charcoal Feather Alliance" (or whatever the name translates to) that isn't incredibly awkward.

There's been multiple shows I've come across now where the title sounds like it's possibly a fetish show, but the actual show is anything but, but from the title I nearly didn't watch. Bodacious Space Pirates' title sounded like that, but moreso is Maria the Virgin Witch.

Diabolik Lovers More, Blood bugs me to no end for its nonsensical comma placement.

Anything from the Science Adventure series (i.e. Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate, Robotics;Notes, Chaos;Child). Considering that there's no semicolon in Japanese grammar and the fact that most native English speakers don't even know how to use it correctly, the use here feels kinda pretentious. Wonder who at 5pb came up with the titles.

Joe Mello wrote:

One word. Bodacious Space Pirates.

I really don't understand why people have such a problem with that title.

CorneredAngel wrote:

One word. Bodacious Space Pirates.

I really don't understand why people have such a problem with that title.

That's because every word has a connotation that goes beyond its standard meaning. Yes, it is a synonym for awesome, but it's also a cheesy, out-of-date term like "radical", "hip" or "far out".