How accurate are Funimation's subtitles for DBZ

Adamant · Post by **Adamant** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:59 pm

Vegard Aune wrote:Does anyone know which one of them translated the opening and ending in Dragonball? I know Mandelin did most of that series, but Daimao did the Tournament-saga (and Saga of Goku? I'm not sure...) so I'm not quite sure which one did the songs, being that the subtitles for those are the same on all the DVDs.

That would be Daimao. Tomato didn't come on board as translator until a couple episodes down the line, at which point the OP and ED had of course been translated.

Big Momma wrote:
So, were they just putting in random Japanese to look "more uncut" or do those bits of text actually mean something in good ol' Nihongo(Japanese)?[/url]

Just random kana with no meaning at all.

Big Momma · Post by **Big Momma** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:13 pm

Adamant wrote:
Just random kana with no meaning at all.

Wow...that makes me really mad.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:06 pm

lol As if FUNimation knows Japanese.

I don't think that the subs NEED swearing. Not "darn" or "heck", but they do have "damn" and "hell" in the subs. They even have "bastard", and "jackass". I just remember before the Frieza Saga was completed in the US, I was reading a summary and it said that Goku yells "Shit!" when the planet explodes, and when I got the Frieza DVDs, imagine my surprise where he just says "Damn it all!" or something along those lines.

Casual Matt · Post by **Casual Matt** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:16 pm

Big Momma wrote:
Adamant wrote:
Just random kana with no meaning at all.
Wow...that makes me really mad.

It's kinda insulting.

Not to mention lazy. But that pretty much defines FUNi's attitude towards Dragon Ball lately.

Post by **VegettoEX** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:22 pm

Of course it all means something! Random gibberish my ass. Clearly:

"yufuyanohechiyana yuhoteyuya mominatenochifu natonoyanomaho" = "ultimate uncut special edition"

"naritefuyumonoyona numahiyu chiteyanomaho ninonuyumena" = "Exclusive Goku Action Figure"

"yanena rachiru noya rachimo henachihoya yama tsuna monanaho" = "the way it was meant to be seen"

NeptuneKai · Post by **NeptuneKai** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 7:26 pm

VegettoEX wrote:Of course it all means something! Random gibberish my ass. Clearly:

"yufuyanohechiyana yuhoteyuya mominatenochifu natonoyanomaho" = "ultimate uncut special edition"

"naritefuyumonoyona numahiyu chiteyanomaho ninonuyumena" = "Exclusive Goku Action Figure"

"yanena rachiru noya rachimo henachihoya yama tsuna monanaho" = "the way it was meant to be seen"

LMAO oh man that's great, I wonder what they tried to do with that. Did they know they were making no sense?

disturbed001 · Post by **disturbed001** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:28 pm

VegettoEX wrote:Of course it all means something! Random gibberish my ass. Clearly:

"yufuyanohechiyana yuhoteyuya mominatenochifu natonoyanomaho" = "ultimate uncut special edition"

"naritefuyumonoyona numahiyu chiteyanomaho ninonuyumena" = "Exclusive Goku Action Figure"

"yanena rachiru noya rachimo henachihoya yama tsuna monanaho" = "the way it was meant to be seen"

Was that sarcastic?

Post by **desirecampbell** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:36 pm

disturbed001 wrote:Was that sarcastic?

Yes.

Adamant · Post by **Adamant** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:55 pm

TheGreatness25 wrote:I just remember before the Freeza Saga was completed in the US, I was reading a summary and it said that Goku yells "Shit!" when the planet explodes, and when I got the Freeza DVDs, imagine my surprise where he just says "Damn it all!" or something along those lines.

He says "chikushou", as far as I remember - "shit" is a viable translation (though "damn it all" works better in this particular instance, yeah).

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:54 am

Never saw the anime of it, but the manga said, "It's gonna explode. I can't stop it!"

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:59 am

Super Sonic wrote:Never saw the anime of it, but the manga said, "It's gonna explode. I can't stop it!"

One part where I really dislike the manga. I prefer Goku just screaming, like in Budokai 1.

Raki · Post by **Raki** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:06 pm

Not to necro-bump or anything, but my little brother is watching DBZ subtitled on his own. It appears I'm rubbing off on him.

Kanzenshuu

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