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Title: Bad Translations
Post by: Jenno on 23 Oct 2005, 07:45

Okay, so on the weekend I saw the dubbed version of Spirited Away. Having already seen the Japanese version, I was pretty shocked by how much the story had lost had lost in being tranlated and 'kiddyfied'.


Has anyone else noticed this kind of thing happening to such a large extent in other films/cartoons/whatever?

Title: Bad Translations
Post by: Bunnyman on 23 Oct 2005, 17:24

Howl's Moving Castle.  Ugh.

I need to make a t-shirt that says "subs not dubs for great justice" or somesuch.

Title: Bad Translations
Post by: procto on 23 Oct 2005, 17:38

SUBS FOREVAR! ^_.,/.,;lmhhdfg__^;;;;;; KIMOCHI HENTAI KAWAII!!eleventy!!1
But really, yeah, totally. Subs. For real!

Title: Bad Translations
Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 23 Oct 2005, 19:49

that reminds me, i need to track down a subtitled copy of Spirited Away.  i caught about half of the dubbed version on the last day of drawing class last year and was just blown away by the animation and art direction.

Title: Bad Translations
Post by: Spike on 23 Oct 2005, 21:02

Ahem, All your base are belong to us.  Worse translation ever.

Title: Re: Bad Translations
Post by: AdamIsConceited on 24 Oct 2005, 07:33

Back before anime only came out on VHS a large majority of the dubs were TERRIBLE!

Title: Bad Translations
Post by: Switchblade on 24 Oct 2005, 08:05

hmmm... yeah, the advent of DVDs anda  growing European and American market would appear to have improved the translation quality over time...

Also, I think it's become the case that doing the English dubs of japanese work is now considered a respectable job with a reasonable supply of money going into it, whereas during the 80's it was easily the bottom of the barrel job.