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Post by askani son » Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:40 pm

Then a little while after that my main man Cable dukes it out with Apocalypse and beats him senseless. Apocalypse and his damn hidden agendas. :wink:
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Post by Izlude » Tue Mar 29, 2005 3:46 am

Blastero wrote:One Piece, Naruto, YYH and a few others however, have crappy translations.
S'wrong with the others translations? Outside of Yusuke's "Holy Cheese on Ryu" and greaser lingo.
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Post by Chibi Mystic Gohan » Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:09 am

VIZ's Naruto translator tries to be really cute, and it annoys the hell out of me. Rock Lee is the one with "the Moe Howard haircut"? I don't even know what the hell that means!
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Post by Super Sonic » Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:59 am

Chibi Mystic Gohan wrote:VIZ's Naruto translator tries to be really cute, and it annoys the hell out of me. Rock Lee is the one with "the Moe Howard haircut"? I don't even know what the hell that means!
Moe Howard is Moe from "the Three Stooges". Now that I think of it, Rock Lee does have hair like him. Also with the "Zolo" thing, I heard it had something to do with Toei or somebody involved with OP doing some kind of copyright thing.
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Post by SonGokuGT » Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:30 pm

The "Moe" comment Neji made in Naruto was just plain dumb... I really doubt that was in the original manga. Now if they made reference to a Japanese figure I can see them changing it to make the joke more familiar to American readers. There is however, the asterisk, a tool that Viz used to like...
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Post by Chibi Mystic Gohan » Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:09 pm

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:lol: I hope no one has a problem with Toriyama World's translations XD
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Post by Izlude » Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:04 pm

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"Awaaaaraaaoooh....Waraaaaoooooh!!!" :lol:

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"Yeah...what he said"

But seriously folks, I think these days us fans take "translations" a lil too much for granted, even kinda overating them I think. All of Viz's titles really arent so much english translations, but much more english adaptions, and that means they arent going to be fully translated word for word.

I always noticed thats how Viz worked, even in the old days, trying to be more "original" in an adaption writing sense than actually doing a perfect translation, which will never happen who does all the work. Sure maybe to the purist fan, its "evil", but you get what you pay for - english adapted manga.

Although, I wish those censorship issues would be solved. I can handle the most lame, corny, outdated writing, but if the artwork aint all there...there's gonna be some problems. Tenjo Tenge anyone?
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Post by askani son » Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:45 am

Whilst we are on the topic of censorship, I have a question. In vol.13 of the DBZ manga, Android 20 just mercilessly rips some guys head off (my scanner is broke so I can't provide visual aids here :cry: ). Does this happen in the anime?
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Post by Super Sonic » Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:09 pm

It's been awhile since I've seen that ep, but in the anime I believe he just chokes him to death.
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Post by Mike D » Thu Mar 31, 2005 1:17 am

Ahhhh Dammit! That's what I meant in a different topic. I mean why take this stuff away from the anime? Imagine DBZ with all of the gore from the Manga. It'd be crazy.
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Post by SonGokuGT » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:34 am

Mike D wrote:Ahhhh Dammit! That's what I meant in a different topic. I mean why take this stuff away from the anime? Imagine DBZ with all of the gore from the Manga. It'd be crazy.
Yes, I was always disappointed that the Cell Jrs blew up into puffs of smoke instead of wha happens in the manga...
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Post by DBW » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:51 am

askani son wrote:Whilst we are on the topic of censorship, I have a question. In vol.13 of the DBZ manga, Android 20 just mercilessly rips some guys head off (my scanner is broke so I can't provide visual aids here :cry: ). Does this happen in the anime?
Nah, it's like super Sonic said, he just chokes him...

In both versions he grabs the guy and smashes his head through the roof of the car. And then...

Manga:
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I mean why take this stuff away from the anime?
Because it's freakin' disturbing! This show aired on prime time TV, it's not like they could just do whatever the hell they wanted. There were restrictions on what you could and couldn't show.
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Post by Izlude » Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:34 am

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"Here kid! Have yourself a balloon!" :lol:
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Post by Chibi Mystic Gohan » Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:24 pm

I just spat my Sunkist all over the keyboard. Thanks a lot, 'cause that was funny as hell!
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Post by Mike D » Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:04 pm

DBW wrote:
I mean why take this stuff away from the anime?
Because it's freakin' disturbing! This show aired on prime time TV, it's not like they could just do whatever the hell they wanted. There were restrictions on what you could and couldn't show.
Well, maybe if this kind of content was left in the anime then DragonBall Z wouldn't be labeled as a kids show all the time. It would make things a lot more interesting. Ya feel?

But, as you said this was aired on prime time TV so omitting this sort of material does make sense.
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