It's not that.Hugo Boss wrote:Well, I think Viz and Herms' translations focus on different aspects of the language. While Herms does a super-duper-job, his translations, while accurate, are very focused on strength debates, which sometimes feels odd when I read. I mean, you can say the same thing with different words to catch the reader's attention and that's fine.ahill1 wrote:It's a pity that we only have access to Viz, a shit translation regarding power debates. Don't you guys know any other translations that are reliable as Herms?
Herms' translations are meant to be literal, entirely accurate approximations of the lines in the original. He doesn't have to care about pacing or flow or whether the line sounds natural or not, and can "just" give us more or less the same thing that was in the original.
Viz, on the other hand, is trying to make the lines sound good in English, and what works in Japanese doesn't necessarily translate exactly into English very well. That's why some liberties have to be taken with translation. Most of the changes are relatively minor, with no real affect on the plot. It's just that the power-level obsessed crowd have a totally different value system when it comes to translations, and don't seem to care about readability as much as whether something validates their opinions.
