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Unfortunately I now see these people going after subtitle translations too and now they've been harassing subtitle translators on Twitter. Like people were demanding the translator for Kaguya-sama be fired for a minor social distancing joke in the subs (never mind Funimation can't "fire" them because all their work is freelance). And they also harassed the Dragon Goes House Hunting translator for a minor joke about KFC in the subs. Which goes to show now they've move on to harassing subtitle translators that this was never about them caring about accuracy in dub translation.

You're right that it's an adaptation, not a literal translation. But the cries of censorship come when the dub includes dialogue that was not present in Japanese and/or deletes dialogue that was present in Japanese. The example I gave from Dance in the Vampire Bund is one of those situations, so that might be perceived as censorship by some people.

I'm unfamiliar with the situation, but this basically sounds like "company provides product that's not up to the standards the market desires (accurately translated subtitles without added comedy), market makes it known they were not happy about this, translator cries because "but I WANT to add my own comedy to my translations"".

There's absolutely nothing wrong with this. Telling someone their work is below expected standards is not harassment. If you order a steak medium rare and it arrives well done, you're not harassing the chef for telling him this isn't what you ordered, even if the chef personally thought the steak should be well done whether you wanted it so or not.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with this. Telling someone their work is below expected standards is not harassment. If you order a steak medium rare and it arrives well done, you're not harassing the chef for telling him this isn't what you ordered, even if the chef personally thought the steak should be well done whether you wanted it so or not.

Adamanto wrote:

There's absolutely nothing wrong with this. Telling someone their work is below expected standards is not harassment. If you order a steak medium rare and it arrives well done, you're not harassing the chef for telling him this isn't what you ordered, even if the chef personally thought the steak should be well done whether you wanted it so or not.

So what you're saying is these people harassing translators and complaining about "censorship" are Karens? Sounds about right to me.

I know no Karen, therefore I would suppose this is a joke I didn't get; but there is no need to explain it since a joke that needs to be explained ceases to be funny.

mangamuscle wrote:

I know no Karen, therefore I would suppose this is a joke I didn't get; but there is no need to explain it since a joke that needs to be explained ceases to be funny.

A "Karen" are privileged people you see at stores who demand "to speak to your manager" over any minor inconvenience that most other people would not see as a huge deal worth firing someone over.

I would say that any businessman that dismisses half of it's userbase as "karens" is not a good businessman. Yeah, I do not have solid numbers, but going by the political polarization I see to this day in the USA, I would not dismiss it as just "the guy in the subway with a banner that said the end is near".

Cardcaptor Takato wrote:

mangamuscle wrote: I know no Karen, therefore I would suppose this is a joke I didn't get; but there is no need to explain it since a joke that needs to be explained ceases to be funny. A "Karen" are privileged people you see at stores who demand "to speak to your manager" over any minor inconvenience that most other people would not see as a huge deal worth firing someone over.

I would say that any businessman that dismisses half of it's userbase as "karens" is not a good businessman. Yeah, I do not have solid numbers, but going by the political polarization I see to this day in the USA, I would not dismiss it as just "the guy in the subway with a banner that said the end is near".

mangamuscle wrote:

I would say that any businessman that dismisses half of it's userbase as "karens" is not a good businessman. Yeah, I do not have solid numbers, but going by the political polarization I see to this day in the USA, I would not dismiss it as just "the guy in the subway with a banner that said the end is near".

I guarantee the average anime fan watching DBZ or Naruto on streaming does not care that one line in Dragon Goes House Hunting made a KFC joke that Animeotaku123 on YouTube makes an 8 hour video complaining about.