Jude Trailer (& Milla)

[Radge]

At least Milla's name and pronunciations are coherent/believable.

Kiseki bit: A characters name in the Zero an Ao series has a name of Lazy Hemisphere, but is spelled as Wazy Hemisphere, or was that vice versa (the W/L having a slash in the middle).

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[Arrei]

Retail. You seriously think being in a store makes one iota of difference?

He was changed from Mr. Satan because the western market would probably think it's weird and oddly offensive. The show lost nothing for changing his name to account for that possibility, and most translations will continue to lose nothing for changing names, except in the case of names that bear a meaningful reference to something. Which "Mr. Satan", "Refill", "Genius", and "Dyke" do not, and "Mithos" and "Hercule" actually gain some meaning with reference to the term "mythos" as Mithos' status as a legendary hero, and Hercule's imitation of a powerful hero.

[rothcol_shepard]

[Accelerator]

It actually did lose a small pun. Most of Toriyama's names are themed in some way (Bra, Trunks, Briefs, etc). In Japanese Hercule's family were all named after different kind of demons, iirc. (Like reorganize the words in Videl.)

not a big deal at all, though. Just pointing it out
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[Shiv:)]

At the very least I've never heard of anyone being offended, and their INTENTIONS are preserved, and I think that is one of the most important things. Baba seems to know perfectly well about the localization of games, and he is quite passionate, I'm sure if something was utterly dire to that is just oh so detrimental it will wreck everything, he'd say a little something or other. Maybe not, but either way, Tales has never disappointed in the past in terms of localization (when not out to the Kangaroo War, which wasn't Namco) so I don't see a reason to be worrying now. I've played pretty much all Tales now (excepting some spinoffs/mobile and ToX/2), and the fact that I have not found a difference in feeling from playing a game in Japanese with translations and a completely localized game I'm pretty sure means that localisations are pretty competent.
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[Arrei]

[Colour]

[Arrei]

Also, we've gone off track talking about DBZ and whatnot. The point is not about offensiveness.

It's about consciously choosing an unusual name that may carry unfortunate connotations in another market. In Japan, "Dyke" was probably not intended to bring to mind lesbian slang when introducing him. Changing him to "Dirk" maintains that. "Refill" and "Genius", being English in a Japanese game, would sound unusual, but not weird. They'd be outright Engrish here, so they got more elegant names that reference their original naming scheme without being so overt.

[Dice]

[rothcol_shepard]

I find it worse when they are inconsistant with it.

In Final Fantasy VII, they originally wrote エアリス as Aeris.

In all the later games, its "Aerith" all of a sudden.

Well, wth? The SAME company can't even keep consistency with their own game series?

(Why they pump out remake after remake but refuse to remake FF7, the one everyone wants, is even more beyond me though).

I'll give Namco credit for at least being consistant across the series with their changes.

[Arrei]

That's a case of a mistranslation, or the translation being TOO literal. Because there's no "th" sound in Japanese, they took "Aerisu" and made it "Aeris".

[Colour]

Well, "す" is often used to replace the nonexistent "th" sound in Japanese, so it's not too much of a biggie. Tales example: Judith is ジュディス.
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[Arrei]

So we were just one mistranslation away from calling her Judas. Kinda funny to think about.

[Dede]