Slayers

[Wallie Wildo]

Does anybody watch it I can't anymore cause my granparents don't have cable it is awsome.

[Aoi Asahina]

I do, did it once come on cable?

[Chicken Little]

is this the original or the slayers return one?

if its the original then yes i have if its the return then no cuz its crap lol

[Wallie Wildo]

the original i never heard of a return one

[Aoi Asahina]

But are you saying that it came on cable?

[Wallie Wildo]

yeah the international channel

[Chicken Little]

Yeah they did the original series then theres the movies and i saw some dvds of Slayers Returns with a picture of Leena Inverse on the front. I chuckled and moved on to read the Lupin III manga next to it.

But yes my friend has the series on dvd in japanese, much better then the english that ive seen.

[Zelphiel]

I've never seen it, but I've read good things about it. I guess I should go buy a few episodes of it.

[Link]

I've never seen it either, but it sounds good.

[Leknaat]

I've never seen it but I had a friend when I lived in SC that loved it. I never got around to watching it though.

[Wallie Wildo]

Ive never saw it except subbed the american versions of anime always suck they translate horibly i think i will save to buy the whole series

[Chicken Little]

they dont always suck with the translations, just about 80% of the time they do.

[Zelphiel]

I didn't know that the translations are that bad. I don't watch a lot of anime like some of you do though. but... It makes sense. Game translations are still not that great.

[Wallie Wildo]

Yeah especially ff7 well ive heard that is one of the worst translations ever

[Zelphiel]

FF7 is pretty bad.. but I think Breath of Fire 2 holds the title of the worst translation ever.

[Chicken Little]

well even with subtitles you can get shocking bootleg copies, Star Ocean Ex is one of those where they change the characters names 4-5 times through the series, mispronounce common sayings (ie watashi wa Claude desu should = Im Claude instead = Cloxo. C.Kenni, which isnt that bad except thats the spelling and he didnt say his last name)

but yeah as long as the translation doesnt change much im fine with translations.

[Wallie Wildo]

but most translations dont stay the same

[Link]

Well, many times they just don't have the right words aviable to use.

[Megatokyo]

Well, many times they just don't have the right words aviable to use.
if your saying that some words in the japanese language cannot be translated into american then yes that is correct

most of the time they have to completely change the words to make it work
otherwise it would soud just more wrong then it already dose lol

[Wallie Wildo]

And that would be bad

[Chicken Little]

if your saying that some words in the japanese language cannot be translated into american then yes that is correct

most of the time they have to completely change the words to make it work
otherwise it would soud just more wrong then it already dose lol

that and because japanese is traditionally written top to bottom right to left, and when translated to verticle left to right it ends up as almost backwards in some cases. Plus theres double meanings depending on the context so its quite easy to mistake the word for its solo meaning rather then its context meaning.

[Zelphiel]

another problem translators run into is translating jokes from japanese to english. most of the time they have to completely rewrite the jokes.

[Kiros]

wow....really old post...oh well....ive seen a few episodes of it..it was good