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Angel M Cazares
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There have been constant complains about the quality of subtitles in the anime that Netflix has. I don't necessarily believe that the circumstances behind Evangelion's localization are unique.
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Kicksville
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That seems to about sum it up. I am genuinely bothered by how people are choosing to create super bad guys to attack over this whole thing...it's exhausting. |
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#HayamiLover
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This is not the first such case, and as far as I can judge from Russian translations, this “problem” is wider than any language barriers. For example, the Kaworu case is already the third love / like case in the last year, not to mention the eternal controversy surrounding daisuki. I am so used to this that lately I have only reacted to serious translation errors. |
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Marzan
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Evangelion will always get the hysterical attention it gets from some fans due to its unique place in anime history. No two ways around it.
It's always hard to say as someone who's grasp of japanese is elementary at best, if something constitutes a good translation. Dub or sub. What linguistic/semantic concessions were made in order to ensure flow in the translated version? Does it alter the meaning significantly? For a show like Evangelion, being as literal as possible might not be the worst idea. The ADV translation (and the one in those old VHS tapes I first watched it in) might have had taken some liberties I cannot grasp. That being said, I still think that something like the insistence in using the plural "Children" when referring to an individual is very odd. I'm sure that was not a professional translator's choice. |
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samuelp
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Credits confirm the subs for Eva were done by Dan Kanemitsu, who has been employed by Khara since the rebuild movies to do all their subtitle tracks, so I think whatever issues there are in Eva's case _are_ unique and not related to other Netflix's in house subbing issues. Except maybe the subtitle timing/lack of on screen text translations. |
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Merxamers
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Really? That's shocking to me. I'd always kinda assumed that the Japanese studios couldn't really care less about the english dub of their shows. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Tiffany Grant also spoke up recently about the extreme oversight from Khara they had to work with on the 3.0 dub which if rumors are to be believed were due to the a rowdy con audience that disappointed Khara at a con premiere. https://twitter.com/chryco4/status/1142154028085911552 It's interesting to compare the extreme literalism Khara insisted on with their oversight over the Eva redub to Ghibli's oversight over the Disney dubs of their films which I feel like were generally more relaxed with taking liberties in the dub script even though Ghibli was very insistent that all changes had to be approved by them.
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Ajc228
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To piggyback on Justin’s quote, I think a lot of the complaints have been overblown. The translation is a bit literal and makes some awkward choices. However, I don’t think these decisions “RUIN” the anime or change the thematic content in any qualitative way. I would much rather watch the remastered footage than petulantly stamper off and claim the ADV translations are the one and true gospel. There is an art to smooth translation. I’m not saying the new one is perfect but it seems that people are getting a little hung up on mostly one line of dialogue that can be translated a couple different ways. I certainly believe some are mining the outrage for views and clicks. This is not to say there can’t be discussion about the matter. People have a lot of love for the show and relate to it on a deep emotional level, that’s great. But it seems they personalize it so much that won’t accept any variation in what they believe to be the “true” translation. There was no way the translator was going to please both his superiors at KHARA or the very particular fans. |
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luisedgarf
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It should be noted that most of the problems behind the EVA's English dub are very specific from them, as other foreign dubs has their own quirks behind them.
As an example, while the Latin American Spanish used the English dub as proxy translation, at the end they did they own translation based from previous translations, outside the translation is somewhat inconsistent at times. It also helps they managed to bring most of the dub cast from previous dubs as much as they could. They same seem to happened to the Brazilian Portuguese dub as well. On the other hand, the Italian dub was even more controversial and even worse than the English dub was, as the translation sounded archaic and stilted, as far what I managed to find from the net. |
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AmpersandsUnited
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My only other experience with Netflix subs is Aggretsuko. The songs especially are not translated very well, if at all and instead they choose completely new lyrics. But Evangelion's is a case where people are mad because this time around it's more accurate to the Japanese script rather than defecting from it. |
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TnKtRk
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Guess it's only the new English dub that had such oversight, since it seems the Spanish dub, in my opinion, is leagues better than the new English one. No "third children" or "I like you" in Spanish. Wonder what the other dubs are like?
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Zalis116
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Cardcaptor Takato
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I can understand Anno's insisting on things like Kaworu's line and "Third Children" as more "accurate" even if I still don't personally like them, but what I don't understand are some of the weird oddities in the script, like Ritsuko referring to Misato's bad ramen noodles as "boil in the bed food," or Misato telling Shinji not to bother Pen-Pen's fridge because they "don't want to wake the sleeper." The script just often sounds like a very rough draft and you can tell this is made by someone not familiar with how most English speaking people talk in daily conversation.
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luisedgarf
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Which one, the Latin American or the European one? I haven'r reached the final episodes yet. |
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Primus
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The staff behind the flavour of the month anime probably doesn't care. But the prestige, vanity projects or big-name shows? The Japanese companies are usually involved. Sunrise sent some of their staff to Vancouver to oversee the dubbing of the original Mobile Suit Gundam and that was back in like 2000. It's even easier for them to be involved nowadays. |
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