Kanzenshuu

:arrow: [Writer] - Someone needs to put together a script. Oh Great Steve Simmons, if you can hear us, then would you be willing to provide us with some sort of transcript of your translations for whichever movie we decide upon? That way, the appointed writer can scribble up an English script based...

I looked at the topic and wondered what a story like this was doing in the Wall Street Journal. Then I figured it out.

I've long held that nobody has as much heart as Rocky, except for Goku.

Plus, they both do their best fighting shirtless.

JulieYBM wrote:I was wondering, Mr. Steve, are you related to Mark Simmons, the Gundam Guru??

Nope, and I'm surprised I don't get asked that more often.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Postal_Map_Romanization Tientsin, T'ien-chin, Tianjin, who's to say, really? I would say "you", frankly. :P Bah, I'm the one who foisted the spellings for King "Yama," "Burdock," and "Doctor Mu"* on an unsuspecting fanbase...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Po ... manization

Tientsin, T'ien-chin, Tianjin, who's to say, really?

To be fair to Vision Wise, most (if not all) of the typos that get through are all on me, that embarrassing one about Cell defeating Cell included--must have been distracted that day. Translating dialects is one of those balancing acts where you want to be faithful to the original without clubbing t...

Mr. Announcer wrote:Yeah, I think he did say that but I also remember him saying iranai baba so he probably messed up twice. I don't have my manga with me so I can't verify that.

That's possible too.

"Iranai" would be pretty good, actually ("The Unwanted Crone"), but if I remember correctly, it's actually "urenai" that he says. "Urenai" means "unsellable," and euphemistically, unmarriable. He's basically calling her an old spinster. Which, it mus...

"So Cell is the one who defeated Cell?"

It can happen to any of us.

I recognize the footage with Goku and Maru-chan. As I recall, it was for a New Years special one year, and they showed one or two of the DBZ movies along with one of Chibi Maruko-chan (which, come to think of it, would explain the posters on the wall behind them). They must have animated that bit to...

Or you could make your avatar the image you would have in your sig, which is "tasteful" enough by itself, but have the sig link offsite to a horrific yet legitimate news article that gives more information on the image in question, for no good reason whatsoever. Not that anyone would choos...

They gave me first dibs, but I had to pass on it because of the time these games take and all the prior commitments I already had. All these shows FUNi has been (and will be?) announcing this year aren't going to translate themselves.

It opened a door for me to a full-fledged career, so...

Yep. Beat that.

So...anyone got anything on that "Warlock" thing? I'm assuming it was just the VIZ translators going out of their way to change every single title or spelling of all characters introduced in the Buu arc from the route FUNimation took. Maybe not every single one. http://www.xmission.com/~d...

Well the site with the box art link says it will include the Original JPN Version w/subtitles so I doubt they'll edit anything off from there & I can care less for extras as long as I get 29 or so episodes with the Original JPN Version intact with Daimao's subtitles for $50. *Ahem* that would b...

A much simpler answer is that the Dragon cannot grant any wish beyond the powers of it's creator. Earth's dragon couldnt destroy Vegeta and Nappa... and I'd assume Namek's dragon didn't have the power to restore the core of a planet (at the time...), similar to the way it can't restore more than on...

That really is the whole reason. That year, let's see, I was doing DBZ, Yu Yu Hakusho, Blue Gender, Fruits Basket, the odd Sakura Taisen and Lupin feature, had started on DB, GT was in the pipeline, and FUNimation was negotiating for Kiddy Grade and Tenchi (and probably Spiral and Case Closed, at th...

That fun detour taken, I choose Kakarotto. Why? I take it as a foreign name. Do you call a Spanish person named Juan "John"? I don't. If it were written in kanji or hiragana, then that would be a good point. But it's written in katakana, and clearly a pun on an English word. Romanizing it...

So to sum up: The "carrot" thing: If you absolutely, positively, desperately must have the "o" on the end, I believe you get thrown a bone during Broli's ravings in movie 8. The Vegetto thing: Because Veget by itself looks like a typo. That being said, how about we also try to st...