07-11-2013, 03:55 PM | #26 |
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Right, right, and I can totally see where you're coming from too, I'm just sort of playing the devil's advocate here somewhat. My point is that when it comes to translation choices, it's always a tug of war between a translation which better preserves meaning at the expense of sounding natural in the target language versus one which sounds more natural in the target language but comes at the expense of semantic precision. I definitely sympathize with both teams, the one having opted for "heir" over "nobleson" or "affluent progeny" because it sounded like more natural English and was much more concise, the other having opted for "affluent progeny" because it conveyed to the English-speaking fans all of the same information that was conveyed to the Japanese-speaking fans.
TBH, the thing that bothers me more is how 超 somehow became "Super Duper". Nobody says "super duper" in English except for doofuses or really cheery and kinda childish people. 超 chou is commonly translated into English as just plain "super", and you see it all the time in SNES titles. (The original game will be 超{game name} and the English one will be Super{game name}. Later in the console's life they started using スーパー suupaa "Super", usually for reverse-imported games like Rare's Donkey Kong Country which was rebranded as Super Donkey Kong over there.) It's a common enough adverb used by certain demographics, including some pre-teen boys and the niche demographic of gyarus and the like. So like ... try to imagine stereotypical valley girl talk from the 1980s ... and now try to imagine one of those girls saying "super duper." ^_^; They wouldn't, would they?
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07-11-2013, 04:14 PM | #27 |
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Oh, believe us, Talon, everyone else in the Dangan Ronpa fandom is just as irritated by "Super Duper" as opposed to "Super High" as you are.
it sounds so dumb. Super Duper High School x. seriously. and sdhs does not roll of the tongue nearly as well as shsl. super high school level x is perfectly silly enough
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07-30-2013, 09:40 PM | #30 |
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Oh uh... don't look at the first page of the thread if you haven't finished DR1.
So Deo, are you gonna move on to sdr2? Because I'd love to see your reactions to that. Also, everyone, while there is orenronen's sdr2 translation, you can pick up where it leaves off over at kuzuhiko.tumblr.com 's translation (kuzuhiko does mostly summaries for chapters 1 and 2 but fully translates mostly everything after that) and then once you finish kuzuhiko's translation in around ch4, go to the birdmanronpa.tumblr.com translation, which has ch4 all the way to the epilogue fully translated.
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07-31-2013, 02:42 PM | #31 |
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Probably not until the game is fully translated. I don't like the SomethingAwful style of [Character sprite - dialog - screencaps]. Also Lowtax recently put a paywall on the archives like the money grabbing whore he is, so your first post link is now irrelevant.
But yeah, I have no interest in SDR2 until the game is in a fully translated state, so probably not until 2015? I'm fine with that anyway because (DR/possibly big SDR2 spoilers) Spoiler: show Last edited by deoxys; 07-31-2013 at 10:21 PM. |
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Also Deo, might wanna remove the "slightly" from your spoiler box thing, I didn't know that DR2-thing and hadn't even thought about it (I would consider Monobear's appearance in DR1 a "slight spoiler", for example, not what you posted). Didn't ruin the whole thing for me, but...it's one less surprise in the long run.
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07-31-2013, 10:23 PM | #33 |
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Sorry Kaisap. It would seem I'm really on a roll today in the "disappointing people" department. It was something I read about immediately after finishing and no one considered it a spoiler, but not knowing anything at all about the sequel, I wouldn't know one way or the other so I just took their word for it. You're right though.
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08-04-2013, 09:44 AM | #36 |
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Yeah 2 has some really sweet remixes. =D
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08-04-2013, 10:51 AM | #37 |
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I'll add my opinion!
My favorite track, at least so far is Miss Monomi's Practise Lesson. A close second is Re:[DISTRUST*. *added a [ because UPN emoticons. >.<
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08-18-2013, 08:08 PM | #44 |
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08-23-2013, 08:26 AM | #48 |
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I finished last night.
Massive endgame spoilers. Don't read if you haven't finished all the way through the epilogue. Spoiler: show EDIT: Oh and also this morning I ordered copies of both of the DR Zero Light Novels (in Japanese, of course). Hopefully my desire to learn more about the story will force me to read them.
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08-25-2013, 04:26 PM | #49 |
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So, thanks to Jeri and his usage of Sonia sprites in the TO, I've finally decided to start reading the LPs. The thing that could be frowned upon is that I've started with 2, my reasoning being that A) I'd have to pay to read the LP on SomethingAwful and B) I kinda spoiled the whole plot for myself when looking up info on the series itself. Not saying I'll never go through the first in some way (considering buying one of the discounted Vita bundles which would enable me to play the game when it comes out in English so that's an option) but I have at least a working knowledge of possible reoccuring things .
Anyway, finished the Prologue. Not really spoilery, but doing so for safety. Spoiler: show And I'll be back when I get to something I need to rant about. |
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No, oh my god, stop, what are you doing. Don't read 2 first. What the fuck.
http://lparchive.org/Dangan-Ronpa/ There. A quick google search gave me a mirror of the DR1 Let's Play. Read that shit first.
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