Topic: Aria of Sorrow is Super Weird

[DragonSlayr81]

I'd have to agree with LordOfShadows interpitation of Soma's attire in AoS. It's true that Jpop is a very popular fashion trend in japan but let's not forget that Soma is a foreign exchange student studying in japan from god-know-where. So I highly doubt that he would even consider wearing something so alien to his own preference. In my mind I does announce  homosexuality and the pretty boy look. Not something that a foreigner would easily slide into. 

-X

It's apparent that Soma is a total weeaboo. I mean, it's not farfetched that he'd suddenly be into that stuff when you got kids from our necks of the woods who get all Narutard and Bleachy, and find ways to dress like they are wannabe anime characters.

[le052383]

I completely agree.  They shouldn't mess with anything.  All they need to do is translate it and sell it.  Nothing more.

I concur

Till recently, I always thought that a game/anime that doesn't have any made up stuff in the dialogue is a literal translation.  I now realize a literal translation would be a translator keeping the dialogue in the same grammical structure in japanese.

With that said, I love translations of video games and anime that doesn't add extra things in despite the dialgoue being ''rewritten'' just to make it flow better for english speakers since I want to read the game writer's idea to the story and not some freelance translator who added somethin in just to get recongization. 

Although, the Ace Attorny games have been localized heavily, I think the later games received an exceellent job in translation.  Only the setting (which I think is silly to do, but understandable) and character naames (to perseve name punss) were modified whereas the dialogue is unchanged from the japanese script.

The only reason I can see them making Soma into an exchange student for the west is to help the gamers to identify better with Soma


However, l find this localization moot since a lot of gamers are comfortable playing a japanese character in a video game.

[darkwzrd4]

I concur

Till recently, I always thought that a game/anime that doesn't have any made up stuff in the dialogue is a literal translation.  I now realize a literal translation would be a translator keeping the dialogue in the same grammical structure in japanese.

With that said, I love translations of video games and anime that doesn't add extra things in despite the dialgoue being ''rewritten'' just to make it flow better for english speakers since I want to read the game writer's idea to the story and not some freelance translator who added somethin in just to get recongization. 

Although, the Ace Attorny games have been localized heavily, I think the later games received an exceellent job in translation.  Only the setting (which I think is silly to do, but understandable) and character naames (to perseve name punss) were modified whereas the dialogue is unchanged from the japanese script.

The only reason I can see them making Soma into an exchange student for the west is to help the gamers to identify better with Soma


However, l find this localization moot since a lot of gamers are comfortable playing a japanese character in a video game.

Which begs the question: Why?  All the translators should be doing is translating the script from Japanese into other languages; only making sleight changes to account for differences in grammer.  Any other changes like to the characters origin or to the story should not happen.

[e105beta]

Perhaps everything we know about AoS is a lie. Perhaps the translators had some fun with the script. Maybe Soma is Soma Belmont and Julius is Julius Cruz, the reincarnation of Dracula who is out to kill Soma with the Belmont family whip.
Who knows...

[darkwzrd4]

Perhaps everything we know about AoS is a lie. Perhaps the translators had some fun with the script. Maybe Soma is Soma Belmont and Julius is Julius Cruz, the reincarnation of Dracula who is out to kill Soma with the Belmont family whip.
Who knows...

I'm LMAO.  However, I doubt that.  Julius is too old to be Drac's reincarnation.  That is unless the year is a lie too.

[DingusBelmondo]

haha yeah some of the translations of the "Dante's Inferno" demons are pretty bad. Lubicant, Skull Millione, terrible mistranslations. As well as Kali, becoming Curly. ahahha.

[Nox_A15]

The cake is also a lie.

So if Soma is not an exchange student then... who is he in Japanese version? A regular one? Or he actually take place in some exchange between cities? Is there any fan-made translation from Japanese (of prologue for example)?

By the way - Merry Christmas everyone!
http://twitpic.com/uwat4

[darkwzrd4]

The cake is also a lie.

So if Soma is not an exchange student then... who is he in Japanese version? A regular one? Or he actually take place in some exchange between cities? Is there any fan-made translation from Japanese (of prologue for example)?

By the way - Merry Christmas everyone!
http://twitpic.com/uwat4

I believe that in the Japanese version, he is just a regular Japanese high school student.

Oh, and nice picture.

[X]

Ho, Ho, Ho! That'll bring the jollies to any old elf! 

-X

[e105beta]

As if high school student with an awkward girlfriend relationship that only shines when said female is in trouble who learns he has demon powers as he journey's to another world isn't a Japanese anime cliche.
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*sarcasm*