Yeah I honestly feel that this is a trojan horse but the wokies are so obnoxious & unbearable that I don't even care. It's their fault that AI is taking over. They should've done their job instead of being a political activist.
And they think inserting themselves will get them work NOT the AI is going to replace them because they have to self insert themselves and AI will keep getting better so sucks for the hacktivist
@gr-os4gd fair point 🤔🤔 we are in danger ... But AI is kinda dumb.. you ask it to translate it will take it to the letter... Unlike localization where human can inject stuff ... I think 🧐... I hope 😅😅
@@josephcrabtree3224 Turns out hard work is still hard work. It's not easy building bots sturdy and consistent enough to mine completely automated. Coding and subbing are in comparison really easy, mostly a knowledge thing. Which frankly, AI can easily mimic by scraping the internet.
"They don't care about the titles _they're_ ruining!" says the woke translator. It's not that the AI is a better translator. It's just that the AI is a better _person!_
@@Mongoosesummoner An AI can also be corrected and it will do a better job next time. A wokalizer will double down and ruin the rest of the translation more.
Low key, I wouldn't be suprised if these people who Virtue signal for "oppressed" minorities are actually just closeted Racist. Even see this same song and dances with Rooster Teeth behind closed doors.
They brought it upon themselves. It wouldn't be happening if they weren't inserting their cult ideals and bragging about it. Why did they think they were untouchable?
good thing that I was able to learn a bit of Japanese through years of reading subtitles before they were falsified and I can immediately notice wrong translations in subtitles now🐻b
They deserve to be replaced. If they would do a good job, and be creative, but accurate, they couldn't be replaced by AI that easily. They aren't creative, aren't talented, but are just annoying activists, so ofc they get replaced now. AI is, at least, accurate 🤷♂️
Especially the one that rewrote Vivian from a femboy into a transgender, in a CHILDREN'S game. and the one that shoehorned some "non-binary" character into Xenoblade 3, and the one that rewrote Pearl and Marina to be mushy lesbians, really just all of them. And check their hard drives too.
I skipped thousand year door beacuse of this butchering of the source material, i want it but i just cannot waste my money on it! Didnt know about Xenoblade3 and Splatoon being hijacked that really sucks....
If the localizes were bad or just made mistakes, I could throw them a bone. But tis the fact the localizers are changing the meanings on purpose in spite, that I swill support AI over anything they produce..
"They don't care about the works they are ruining" Yes, why do you think AI is replacing "localizers" ? You made yourselves redundant, don't let the door slam you in the a**.
Localization is lame. “But without localization you won’t understand the Japanese phrases and references reeee!” Yes. Good. That is exactly what I want: to experience another culture without some greasy localizer putting their own “spin” on it. If something goes over my head, so be it. Better that than some new-age genderfluid nonsense
If you want to truly “localize” something, add notes to the back of a book or something. With something like visual novels, you could make explanations accessible in the menu if the story doesn’t clarify it on its own.
It's like paying someone to paint your house properly, paying out a high fee for the labor and material costs... And when you get home from working your ass off, you find out the painters painted your house with all kinds of different lgbtq+ flags over it... And they still expect and demand payment... Why in the world would anyone give someone like that a job? They deserve to lose their jobs... They show disrespect to what's yours and what you own, and expect to basically get paid for abusing their job... It would be stupid to continue enabling them...
They don't see it as "yours" they think it's theirs for working there, and because they have the "I AM AN ARTIST" excuse, they can put in whatever dialogue they want. They're self-entitled to the money you pay to get this japanese media.
You’re missing the bigger picture, I know those losers were ruining shows you like with there bs, but ai is something that you shouldn’t put all your trust into.
@@Girth-rj1xh I mean I don't think we should give ai the nuclear codes or anything, but if it can read lines from a script without injecting a bunch of progressive nonsense then maybe it's the best option right now.
One thing i found very interesting that i was not aware of like 10 years ago was how companies were moving the Wokesters INTO game development culture. Seems like they have started doing it now to anime characters. How unfortunate. Hopefully they can stop it from happening.
As of 2024, localization still requires human effort. Especially in anime, the number of words needs to be adjusted. Also, the Japanese language in anime is very complicated, with unique expressions and abbreviated forms. However, that does not mean that it is okay to change the expressions in the original work. The work is the author's alter ego and the author's child. Recently, an incident occurred in Japan. It occurred when the content of the original work was changed and made into a TV drama. Ultimately, the original author took his own life for that reason. People need to know that changing the content of the original work is such a serious matter. Also, in Japan, such fields are very diverse. And they are accepted. I think that is because they accept that there are people who like the work and people who don't. In short, only those who like the work and want to watch it should watch it. An anime about chickens fighting and saving the world will be announced soon. I think that if the creators had thought first about wanting to be commercially successful, such a work might not have been born. They are creating the work at the expense of their own lives. It is not permissible to desecrate it. I am not very good at English. I pray that my intentions are conveyed accurately.
Disrespectful to art? It's THEIR art. They're preserving THEIR art from localizers who are the ones disrespecting the art with their intentional mistranslations.
They can stay mad. They refused to do their one job of just translation. They instead saw other people's creations as their own personal social platforms.
Hell if AI makes translating Japanese into English easier than we should use it English is one of the hardest languages on Earth. If we can make a Japanese company has made it easier than we should use it so we can get the full package when it comes to our anime
I totally switched to Japanese manga, a few years ago. I promise they’re taking more liberties than you know. It’s worth the time to learn and switch! You’ll save money and learn a new skill. :) Easiest series to start learning with are Sailor Moon and Naruto. :)
You know what is sad? is the level of arrogance that these "localizers" have. I think most of us understand that no language is a 1-1 to another, if I translated "kick the bucket" literally to my mother tongue, nobody would know wth I'm trying to say. So the matter is about interpretation, not translation. But these activist, who apparently don't even know that, are traying to push their own beliefs and politics into their localizations, when all you have to do is keep the intension or pragmatics of a piece of dialogue, even if I am changing what is said literally. This activism disrespects the art of language and paves the road to AI even more
AI is going to improve over time. I used to read machine translations of LN before they got translated by the companies, and that was 10 years ago. Also there are membership websites that translate LN for a modest fee. I'm not for Localizers adding their world view into their translations. Translating to English is tough enough, no politics please.
Always sub>dub. I don't wait for official subs either because I like to watch the episode the day it releases. Yes, the AI subtitles aren't perfect but I don't feel like I'm missing anything that a localizer could potentially add with official subtitles because I can take in a scene, facial expressions, and the tone of a characters voice to get everything I need to understand what is being conveyed 100%
Mel you know what really messes ticks me off the fact that decades ago the Japanese gave us the gift of animation ninja scroll Wicked City demon city Shinjuku Guyver bio-booster armor by the way there's an old school Japanese anime movies if you haven't seen them they are awesome and anyway these snooty Western developers have the unmitigated gall to make fun of Japanese Developers are you kidding me
Thanks so much for pointing out the hypocrisy Mel. I also hope you're doing very well, sis. Sending my prayers for abundance upon you and Mei Mei 🐇 Also Mel you're so awesome and giving hope to the conservative gamers like myself. I appreciated so much, God bless you 🙏
I'm against the AI, but I'm not saintly enough to not choose when faced with two evils. I choose the lesser one, would rather become mincemeat for AI than live in that rainbow dystopia.
If I show up to work and change the product I'm supposed to make, because I don't agree with the employer, how can I get mad if I am replaced, fired, or removed from that position?
I get the concern for A.I. taking jobs. A.I. was originally pitched in our company as a force multiplier but it is going to be a force eliminator. But, these translators brought this on themselves. They are changing the original meaning to be something else to serve their agenda. They are stealing the characters and art to use for their own story by changing the translation. But. A.I. replacing skilled labor and artistic talent is only happening because our standards have dropped. We forget that art and design has a human component that a machine does not have. Who's going to buy products if they don't have jobs? The dream of the elite is to have machines do everything and the government takes care of everyone. No middle class. You'll be given credits based on behavior and rent everything, own nothing and be happy. Abd hard labor can be done with machines. Nearly all the huge farms are all done by machines. The company i work for is looking into automation to reduce workforce to give higher profits to the shareholders. Billions of dollars isn't enough. But, again, this issue in this video is about woke workers not being able to control the message in Manga translations and not about humanity.
I can think of a single instance of localization that was not done with the intent to insert one's own politics, but it still wasn't very good. In Persona 4, the player character can romance Naoto, "the Detective Prince," who is in fact a girl (coming to terms with this is her character arc). If one does this, in the final Social Link event, the English translation has Naoto as the protagonist if he would prefer that she speak with a higher pitched voice. I am certain that this is an attempt to convey a concept that doesn't exist in the English language. I'm pretty sure that Naoto really asks the protagonist if he would prefer that she use "watashi" rather than "ore" when referring to herself. For those who do not know, "watashi" is the basic first-person personal pronoun; however, in informal settings, a *male* might use "ore," but it would be grammatically incorrect for a female to do this. Naoto had been trying to pass as a boy for most of the game, even wearing the boys' school uniform. She was probably using "ore" rather than "watashi" throughout the game as part of this. However, if the player character romances her, she definitely understands, and wants, to be the girl in the relationship and therefore asks the protagonist if he would prefer that she not use that pronoun (probably feeling him out about whether and how he sees her as a woman). In English, the first-and-second-person personal pronouns are, unlike third person singular, ungendered. A translator would be unable to accurately translate this dialog because it is dependent on a concept that exists in Japanese, but not in English. Whoever did the translation, therefore localized it by substituting dialog that that, while not accurate as a matter of formal equivalence, would convey the "gist" of what was being communicated (dynamic equivalence). Of course, the whole problem with this is that it was entirely unnecessary. The game allows the player to play as a Japanese high school student. The player attends classes that (loosely) simulate the Japanese classroom experience; the player interacts with his uncle and niece in a way that simulates Japanese home life; the player even forms a social link with a fox that might actually be a friendly kitsune (or is otherwise just a super-intelligent and pious fox) at the Shinto shrine by doing stuff around town to fulfill people's ema requests, for goodness sake. The people who are interested in playing Persona 4 are interested in Japanese culture and play the game to experience a Japanese culture simulation (which, I believe, is why the Persona series is significantly more popular than the Shin Megami Tensei series from which it was spun off - the latter has the dungeon crawl without the Japanese daily life visual novel). These sorts of people (let's call them "weebs") *want* to have the watashi-ore distinction be part of the game *because* it is so essentially Japanese. There was no need to try to make it more familiar to westerners, because the cultural difference is an integral part of their enjoyment of the game. Anyway, one should know that she done messed up when the consumer base trusts Skynet more than her. She really ought to shave her head, apologize and disappear for a while to reflect.
I bought an anime on Blu-ray that I was mildly interested in and got on a discount. As I started watching it in subs, I noticed the translator in chief was credited to *Katrina Lenoudakis.* Now I am hesitant to watch the series in dubs
The industry already exploits animators and mangakas as much as they can. Accepting the further adulteration of their precious source material on top of the compromises they concede for the sake of the anime adaptation... That's just wrong.
Thanks for the video. I still rather read a fan translation of a manga than an official paid localizer who has no respect for the creator's work just so they can inject their personal politics and insult the fans' intelligence.
This was inevitable. The second they went after anime, Japan HAD to protect its cultural icons in whatever way it could. So long as they translate it and have a trusted English speaking person go over the work, it’s a viable alternative.
I hate AI replacing humans but I hate what these people have done to many of my favorite franchises more. Good riddance.
Yeah I honestly feel that this is a trojan horse but the wokies are so obnoxious & unbearable that I don't even care. It's their fault that AI is taking over. They should've done their job instead of being a political activist.
if people want they can still fund people to translate it manually but the people doing it sux soo screw them
EXCELLENT WORK. MELONIE MAC GO BOOM SKIP WOKE ACTIVISTS AND LOCALIZED RUINED ANIME ENTERTAINMENT
western localizers aren't human so it works out.
It's AI replacing dysfunctional AI.
I trust the AI more than i trust localizers. Leave anime alone!
I didn't think Woke would try to corrupt Anime 😢😢
I was about to write this 😂😂😂
And they think inserting themselves will get them work NOT the AI is going to replace them because they have to self insert themselves and AI will keep getting better so sucks for the hacktivist
did u forget googles racist AI?
@gr-os4gd fair point 🤔🤔 we are in danger ... But AI is kinda dumb.. you ask it to translate it will take it to the letter... Unlike localization where human can inject stuff ... I think 🧐... I hope 😅😅
Woke Manga Localizers: Our jobs were overtaken by AI, don’t you feel sorry for us?
Me: Just put the fries in the bag bro.
Man, I wouldn't trust them with my food. No telling the "creative liberties" these clowns would take in making nuggets and fries.
😂😂
I'd say learn to code, but AI is working on that too, lol. Maybe learn to mine.
@@josephcrabtree3224 Turns out hard work is still hard work. It's not easy building bots sturdy and consistent enough to mine completely automated.
Coding and subbing are in comparison really easy, mostly a knowledge thing. Which frankly, AI can easily mimic by scraping the internet.
@@josephcrabtree3224nah learn to be a corpse. We don't need them. What we need is demon/fae food for woke human sacrifices.😂
They brought this upon themselves when they go out of their way to disrespect the author's work.
"They don't care about the titles _they're_ ruining!" says the woke translator.
It's not that the AI is a better translator. It's just that the AI is a better _person!_
And a better translator. At least when the AI messes up the translations, it's not doing it INTENTIONALLY!
@@Mongoosesummoner An AI can also be corrected and it will do a better job next time.
A wokalizer will double down and ruin the rest of the translation more.
@@lunasakara7306 as Yuri Bemenov said, you can't fix the demoralized you can only replace them.
I've got a joke for y'all.
What's something an AI can do that a Wokalizer can't?
THEIR FUCKING JOBS! 🤣
The Woke-a-Lizer 2: Peskier and Patriarchial-er
*Woke translator:* They don't care about the titles they're ruining!
*Me:* Vegeta, what's the projection level?
*Vegeta:* It's over 9000!
"They/them" and "support black trans liberation". Is that a joke? That's ridiculous! 🤦♂
Low key, I wouldn't be suprised if these people who Virtue signal for "oppressed" minorities are actually just closeted Racist. Even see this same song and dances with Rooster Teeth behind closed doors.
Yes, but to see the perfect tantrum, ask them 'who is killing all the black trans people???' and the meltdown is spectacular!
Could you imagine how awful it would be to have such brain rot?
All they had to do was their jobs but couldn't bother giving a single F so here's to a farewell and Get F'd.
Thanks again for pointing out the hypocrisy
Smug Frieren thumbnail is superb!
They brought it upon themselves. It wouldn't be happening if they weren't inserting their cult ideals and bragging about it. Why did they think they were untouchable?
good thing that I was able to learn a bit of Japanese through years of reading subtitles before they were falsified and I can immediately notice wrong translations in subtitles now🐻b
Just tell the Localizers to learn to code.
😂
A Wild Zoe Appeared!!
Hope you're doing well, Melonie. Praying for abundance upon you and Mei Mei 🐇
They deserve to be replaced. If they would do a good job, and be creative, but accurate, they couldn't be replaced by AI that easily. They aren't creative, aren't talented, but are just annoying activists, so ofc they get replaced now. AI is, at least, accurate 🤷♂️
Hey Nintendo fire all you’re localizers now
Especially the one that rewrote Vivian from a femboy into a transgender, in a CHILDREN'S game. and the one that shoehorned some "non-binary" character into Xenoblade 3, and the one that rewrote Pearl and Marina to be mushy lesbians, really just all of them. And check their hard drives too.
I skipped thousand year door beacuse of this butchering of the source material, i want it but i just cannot waste my money on it!
Didnt know about Xenoblade3 and Splatoon being hijacked that really sucks....
@@wii58739 Xenoblade chronicles x was hijacked and completely censored for the west you can't even change boob size of your character
Square Enix can fire everyone who “translated” Neo: The World Ends with You. Or the idiot who purposely changed the dialog in FF16.
Good job Melonie, i hope you doing well
If the localizes were bad or just made mistakes, I could throw them a bone. But tis the fact the localizers are changing the meanings on purpose in spite, that I swill support AI over anything they produce..
Maybe they shouldn’t have been butchering the dialog with their woke “localization” then.
Yep
"They don't care about the works they are ruining"
Yes, why do you think AI is replacing "localizers" ? You made yourselves redundant, don't let the door slam you in the a**.
"Qweierdo" I love this woman. You rock Mel. Stay adorable. Stay free.
Localization is lame. “But without localization you won’t understand the Japanese phrases and references reeee!” Yes. Good. That is exactly what I want: to experience another culture without some greasy localizer putting their own “spin” on it. If something goes over my head, so be it. Better that than some new-age genderfluid nonsense
If you want to truly “localize” something, add notes to the back of a book or something. With something like visual novels, you could make explanations accessible in the menu if the story doesn’t clarify it on its own.
It's like paying someone to paint your house properly, paying out a high fee for the labor and material costs... And when you get home from working your ass off, you find out the painters painted your house with all kinds of different lgbtq+ flags over it... And they still expect and demand payment...
Why in the world would anyone give someone like that a job? They deserve to lose their jobs... They show disrespect to what's yours and what you own, and expect to basically get paid for abusing their job... It would be stupid to continue enabling them...
They don't see it as "yours" they think it's theirs for working there, and because they have the "I AM AN ARTIST" excuse, they can put in whatever dialogue they want.
They're self-entitled to the money you pay to get this japanese media.
And nothing of value was lost.
Welp. I'm officially pro AI now. Great job activists. 👍
You’re missing the bigger picture, I know those losers were ruining shows you like with there bs, but ai is something that you shouldn’t put all your trust into.
@@Girth-rj1xh I mean I don't think we should give ai the nuclear codes or anything, but if it can read lines from a script without injecting a bunch of progressive nonsense then maybe it's the best option right now.
Considering Woke Localizers will legit censor or change dialog of its original source material, I'm not terribly surprised.
Not to mention censoring and altering scenes as well. Graphically violent anime being black barred was egregious
@bwestacado9643 better than the Chinese white "blood" censorship. Makes the room look like it's covered in hentai cum
Indeed..one shouldn't use a jackhammer to nail a painting....or a jacka$$ to translate manga properly.
I have an unfiltered unrestricted AI on my phone I can't tell you how funny and great it is to have 😂👌
These people are just shameless.
They can't ruin anime for us weebs! We will never allow it!
Thank you, Andrew! 😊
@@MelonieMacGoBoomYou're most welcome Melonie!
ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉﾞ
Based. Let the localizers cope.
No let them become demon food I got the board box, and wax.
One thing i found very interesting that i was not aware of like 10 years ago was how companies were moving the Wokesters INTO game development culture. Seems like they have started doing it now to anime characters. How unfortunate. Hopefully they can stop it from happening.
Best news ever, replace them with AI translators
"queerdo" That's gold
As of 2024, localization still requires human effort. Especially in anime, the number of words needs to be adjusted. Also, the Japanese language in anime is very complicated, with unique expressions and abbreviated forms.
However, that does not mean that it is okay to change the expressions in the original work. The work is the author's alter ego and the author's child.
Recently, an incident occurred in Japan. It occurred when the content of the original work was changed and made into a TV drama. Ultimately, the original author took his own life for that reason.
People need to know that changing the content of the original work is such a serious matter.
Also, in Japan, such fields are very diverse. And they are accepted. I think that is because they accept that there are people who like the work and people who don't. In short, only those who like the work and want to watch it should watch it.
An anime about chickens fighting and saving the world will be announced soon. I think that if the creators had thought first about wanting to be commercially successful, such a work might not have been born. They are creating the work at the expense of their own lives. It is not permissible to desecrate it.
I am not very good at English. I pray that my intentions are conveyed accurately.
@user-bp5jb9nx2w 激しく同意します。
If you had done your job you would not have been replaced. Your job title is Translator not Editor.
Disrespectful to art? It's THEIR art. They're preserving THEIR art from localizers who are the ones disrespecting the art with their intentional mistranslations.
They can stay mad. They refused to do their one job of just translation. They instead saw other people's creations as their own personal social platforms.
I would rather spend time learning Japanese, than to have these people contaminate any manga product.
Japan needs to take over the publishing as well as translation, fan translation is always the best option.
Hell if AI makes translating Japanese into English easier than we should use it English is one of the hardest languages on Earth. If we can make a Japanese company has made it easier than we should use it so we can get the full package when it comes to our anime
Yeah, English has so many rules and so many exceptions to the rules!
@@daveeyes I know right, I can't even spell properly
@@Starkid4590 English is one of the easiest languages lol
English is one of the easiest and most accessible languages.
Never thought i'd be fine with A.I, but this a exception.
Hi Melonie, did you hear about classic Lara Croft Biography REPLACED with reboot version in Evercade classics release?
I totally switched to Japanese manga, a few years ago. I promise they’re taking more liberties than you know. It’s worth the time to learn and switch! You’ll save money and learn a new skill. :) Easiest series to start learning with are Sailor Moon and Naruto. :)
You know what is sad? is the level of arrogance that these "localizers" have. I think most of us understand that no language is a 1-1 to another, if I translated "kick the bucket" literally to my mother tongue, nobody would know wth I'm trying to say. So the matter is about interpretation, not translation. But these activist, who apparently don't even know that, are traying to push their own beliefs and politics into their localizations, when all you have to do is keep the intension or pragmatics of a piece of dialogue, even if I am changing what is said literally. This activism disrespects the art of language and paves the road to AI even more
Who would have thought that actively antagonizing the company's target market would result in your termination/replacement....
This is why i always watch anime with sub on never dub.
But they do it with subs as well
They do care about their works. That's why they're not letting *you* ruin them, wokie.
I fail to see why I should care about their feelings when they do not care about anyone else's feelings
I heard about Toji Mel. My condolences.
AI is going to improve over time. I used to read machine translations of LN before they got translated by the companies, and that was 10 years ago. Also there are membership websites that translate LN for a modest fee. I'm not for Localizers adding their world view into their translations. Translating to English is tough enough, no politics please.
I love when you talk during the videos you make it more interesting.❤️
The Chad "all your base are belong to us" vs the virgin "they/them"
Go woke Go broke!!!!!!!!
Yes Japan DO IT!
Always sub>dub. I don't wait for official subs either because I like to watch the episode the day it releases. Yes, the AI subtitles aren't perfect but I don't feel like I'm missing anything that a localizer could potentially add with official subtitles because I can take in a scene, facial expressions, and the tone of a characters voice to get everything I need to understand what is being conveyed 100%
I'll take AI over woke.
Mel you know what really messes ticks me off the fact that decades ago the Japanese gave us the gift of animation ninja scroll Wicked City demon city Shinjuku Guyver bio-booster armor by the way there's an old school Japanese anime movies if you haven't seen them they are awesome and anyway these snooty Western developers have the unmitigated gall to make fun of Japanese Developers are you kidding me
Thanks so much for pointing out the hypocrisy Mel. I also hope you're doing very well, sis. Sending my prayers for abundance upon you and Mei Mei 🐇 Also Mel you're so awesome and giving hope to the conservative gamers like myself. I appreciated so much, God bless you 🙏
Queerdos 🤣🤣🤣. That sent my sides into orbit, imma have to use that from now on.
Yes, Please! More AI to replace these losers!
Killer outfit 🔥
I'm against the AI, but I'm not saintly enough to not choose when faced with two evils. I choose the lesser one, would rather become mincemeat for AI than live in that rainbow dystopia.
If I show up to work and change the product I'm supposed to make, because I don't agree with the employer, how can I get mad if I am replaced, fired, or removed from that position?
I get the concern for A.I. taking jobs. A.I. was originally pitched in our company as a force multiplier but it is going to be a force eliminator.
But, these translators brought this on themselves. They are changing the original meaning to be something else to serve their agenda. They are stealing the characters and art to use for their own story by changing the translation.
But. A.I. replacing skilled labor and artistic talent is only happening because our standards have dropped. We forget that art and design has a human component that a machine does not have. Who's going to buy products if they don't have jobs?
The dream of the elite is to have machines do everything and the government takes care of everyone. No middle class. You'll be given credits based on behavior and rent everything, own nothing and be happy. Abd hard labor can be done with machines. Nearly all the huge farms are all done by machines. The company i work for is looking into automation to reduce workforce to give higher profits to the shareholders. Billions of dollars isn't enough.
But, again, this issue in this video is about woke workers not being able to control the message in Manga translations and not about humanity.
Spot on,
Well said
I can think of a single instance of localization that was not done with the intent to insert one's own politics, but it still wasn't very good. In Persona 4, the player character can romance Naoto, "the Detective Prince," who is in fact a girl (coming to terms with this is her character arc). If one does this, in the final Social Link event, the English translation has Naoto as the protagonist if he would prefer that she speak with a higher pitched voice. I am certain that this is an attempt to convey a concept that doesn't exist in the English language. I'm pretty sure that Naoto really asks the protagonist if he would prefer that she use "watashi" rather than "ore" when referring to herself. For those who do not know, "watashi" is the basic first-person personal pronoun; however, in informal settings, a *male* might use "ore," but it would be grammatically incorrect for a female to do this. Naoto had been trying to pass as a boy for most of the game, even wearing the boys' school uniform. She was probably using "ore" rather than "watashi" throughout the game as part of this. However, if the player character romances her, she definitely understands, and wants, to be the girl in the relationship and therefore asks the protagonist if he would prefer that she not use that pronoun (probably feeling him out about whether and how he sees her as a woman). In English, the first-and-second-person personal pronouns are, unlike third person singular, ungendered. A translator would be unable to accurately translate this dialog because it is dependent on a concept that exists in Japanese, but not in English. Whoever did the translation, therefore localized it by substituting dialog that that, while not accurate as a matter of formal equivalence, would convey the "gist" of what was being communicated (dynamic equivalence).
Of course, the whole problem with this is that it was entirely unnecessary. The game allows the player to play as a Japanese high school student. The player attends classes that (loosely) simulate the Japanese classroom experience; the player interacts with his uncle and niece in a way that simulates Japanese home life; the player even forms a social link with a fox that might actually be a friendly kitsune (or is otherwise just a super-intelligent and pious fox) at the Shinto shrine by doing stuff around town to fulfill people's ema requests, for goodness sake. The people who are interested in playing Persona 4 are interested in Japanese culture and play the game to experience a Japanese culture simulation (which, I believe, is why the Persona series is significantly more popular than the Shin Megami Tensei series from which it was spun off - the latter has the dungeon crawl without the Japanese daily life visual novel). These sorts of people (let's call them "weebs") *want* to have the watashi-ore distinction be part of the game *because* it is so essentially Japanese. There was no need to try to make it more familiar to westerners, because the cultural difference is an integral part of their enjoyment of the game.
Anyway, one should know that she done messed up when the consumer base trusts Skynet more than her. She really ought to shave her head, apologize and disappear for a while to reflect.
Ahh yes the Freiren meme😂😂😂😂
These people need booted from the industry YESTERDAY. WhO DeTeRmInEs WhAt GeTs In? Uh i dunno the artist maybe????
they fucked around and found out.
I bought an anime on Blu-ray that I was mildly interested in and got on a discount. As I started watching it in subs, I noticed the translator in chief was credited to *Katrina Lenoudakis.* Now I am hesitant to watch the series in dubs
Get rekt'd wokalizers
The Hollywierd writers strike fucked over voice actors. Now add the A.I. this will ends voice actors for good
Mel you’re awesome and give hope to conservative gamers like myself. God bless you.
Recently an English translation team actually ruined an entire game called Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
The industry already exploits animators and mangakas as much as they can. Accepting the further adulteration of their precious source material on top of the compromises they concede for the sake of the anime adaptation... That's just wrong.
what would be good is if the AI uses the original VAs voice in the translation for anime and games.
Thanks for the video. I still rather read a fan translation of a manga than an official paid localizer who has no respect for the creator's work just so they can inject their personal politics and insult the fans' intelligence.
"Look at these doughnuts!" *is holding rice balls, human translator for Dragon Ball Z
I just want to say that you've become one of my favorite youtubers, Mel.
Saw a little dog/ puppy walk in room beginning video😊
Love your videos 👍
They should have hired me to do this. Would never add any of the garbage that the woke lefties want.
“Queerdos” first I have heard of this name. I like it 😄
You reap what you sow , would be my answer to those woke clowns.
I love that hairstyle.
if they dont do their job good, they will be fired
"Don't let the machine garble up the translations, let us garble up the translations to push our woke agenda!"
That list at 12:40 is about 110% accurate. What the Woketivists will demand is that the A.I. be reprogrammed to suit them.
I'm sure the manga localizers don't do their process on non hetero content. I bet their focus on is hetero male characters and themes only.
They/them got replaced by it/that thing.
How are they gonna mess up SNOOP DOGG’s “Dimensional Seduction” ? 😂
This is just ridiculous, and I'm glad that they're getting pushed back normally. I'm not for Ai, but in this case, I'll gladly make an exception
I cannot wait to sign up to Novelus
It's like a tornado 🌪️ you carnt control
Remember AI translation will only get better and the woke translations will only get worse
AI for translating authors is probably the best way to preserve the voice, style, and meaning of the author.
They did it to themselves.
This was inevitable. The second they went after anime, Japan HAD to protect its cultural icons in whatever way it could.
So long as they translate it and have a trusted English speaking person go over the work, it’s a viable alternative.
may god bless you shogakukan keep up the good push back