Satan Piccolo - Polish only translation?

[coola]

I've been curious, in Polish manga, Piccolo Daimao and his mazoku offsprings were translated as Great Satan Piccolo (sometimes Devil King) and devils. Did any other country had such name or lore changes to make it closer/more understandable for them?

I remember for example reading few years ago, that in one of Arabic countries Oozaru were changed into summoned monster, because Darvin evolution theories, that say that humans are apes ancestors, are forbidden

[Thouser]

In the French AB Group dub he’s supposed to be called “Satan’s Little Heart,” since they translated Daimaoh to “Satan” and Piccolo means “small” in Italian.

I think in the Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins series there’s a boss called Daimaoh who was also sometimes translated as “Satan” in some games in the series.

As far as cultural changes in other countries, in the original Korean dub all references to Japanese culture had to be censored due to South Korea’s laws at the time. So whenever you would see the front of Kame House they would censor the “K” and the “ME” in Kame, so the front of the house just said “A House.”

I also once saw a screenshot from the old Korean dub of Yajirobe, when he visits Goku in the hospital after the fight with Vegeta, where they censored his feet, because he’s wearing geta. They just put a large red blurry circle over his feet, to try and blend the censorship in with the red floor in the scene, so Yajirobe just has no feet. At his ankles it just gets blurry and his feet have “faded away.”

[omegalucas]

In the French AB Group dub he’s supposed to be called “Satan’s Little Heart,” since they translated Daimaoh to “Satan” and Piccolo means “small” in Italian.

I think in the Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins series there’s a boss called Daimaoh who was also sometimes translated as “Satan” in some games in the series.

Also happened in the Portuguese dub and others based on the French dub. To be fair Satan is an acceptable adaptation of Daimaoh. Little Heart for Piccolo, not so much.

[TheRed259]

King Piccolo has also been referred to as Satan Pikkoro in the Greek dub but only for a very short time.

[nineko]

You didn't want to get me started on this.

In the Italian dub, Piccolo Daimaō has been known as "Al Satan".

Piccolo Junior, from the Tenkaichi Budokai onwards, has been known just as "Junior", up to the present day.

Up to this point, it might sound weird but it's par for the course when it comes to dubs done by Mediaset, a few changed names never hurt anyone, right? I mean, it's perfectly normal for the Japanese national team from Captain Tsubasa to only have players with English-sounding names in its roster, who needs Tsubasa Ōzora and Genzo Wakabayashi when we can have Oliver Hutton and Benjamin Price.

But here's the kicker: Chi-Chi's father has been known as "Al Satan" as well, at least for the few initial arcs. So when Kuririn "Crili" was killed for the first time, Roshi "il genio delle tartarughe" recognised the kanji as "Al Satan's", and I guess everyone in the audience was like wtf since that name has been used for Chi-Chi's father up to that point. He was later (almost rightfully) renamed to "Gyuma".

[Saiya6Cit]

In Mexican dub which is in Spanish (Latam) they say he is a ''demoni'' yes, you guessed it well, a demon.

Rey Demonio = King Demon

But they also kept Mayunia and Daimaku. Japanse is not that hard to pronounce by Spanish native speakers ... the spelling, that is a whole other story

[Tian]

Up to this point, it might sound weird but it's par for the course when it comes to dubs done by Mediaset, a few changed names never hurt anyone, right? I mean, it's perfectly normal for the Japanese national team from Captain Tsubasa to only have players with English-sounding names in its roster, who needs Tsubasa Ōzora and Genzo Wakabayashi when we can have Oliver Hutton and Benjamin Price.

I understand how weird was that since the Latin American Spanish dub of the original Captain Tsubasa anime series used the Italian dub as source.

Besides the "Westernized" names from Italian like Oliver Atom and Benji Price, the Latin American Spanish dub also adapted names on its own.

Some of those new names were based on voice actors who participated in the dub like Richard Tex Tex (from his voice actor, Ricardo Tejedo) for Genzo Wakabayashi and the Corioto brothers (from their voice actors, Sergio Gutiérrez Coto and Armando Coria) for the Tachibana twins.