Happy Sunday, notification squad! A LOT of people asked for this video after I made my video on dub names I prefer so it had to be done but remember NONE of this is that deep and I still gotta give props to the localization teams!
What makes Kerpymon worse is that the Dub of Frontier already called him Cherubimon and the same problem comes up with Kurisarimon which was called Chrysalimon in the Tamers dub and with Daemon and the Dub of 02. Valdur means "ruler", or "he who rules" in Old Norse and is a name in Estonian. The Digimon Reference Book has it as Vemmon in both English and Japanese.
RE: 5:51 I don't know if anyone has commented this yet, but when the first V-pet was localized in the United States "Devimon" became "Darkmon" and "Monzaemon" became "Teddymon."
My personal pick for this topic is Samudramon. Gaiomon is one of my favourite Digimon, but Samudramon just sounds so much less imposing, so I'm glad it didn't stick. On the topic of the Bond forms, I'd have been a lot happier with Bond of Bravery if Gabumon had gotten Bond of Heart. Would make for a fun little nod to Brave Heart
Gaio/Samudramon is one of my faves too. I like both, just because "samurai dramon" is appropriate... but damn if "Triumphant King" and the harsher tones of the G vs S name just hit so much harder. Also, agree. Brave Heart would have been a nice nod with the names.
GOD, I'm always bringing up MedicalGallantmon, I don't think I will ever get over that. It's hilarious. The one that's been annoying me the most recently is Meicoomon evolving into Maycrackmon, and like, Mei was already in their name, how do you MISS that. If they were changing either at all, it should have been to Mai, as in Maine Coon, the cat breed it's based off. Digimon's localisation is a complete cluster-truck and is so frustrating sometimes hahaha
They really do need to do a thorough look through and fix a lot of stuff up. Change Omnimon back to Omegamon so Omekamon's name makes sense again, change either FalreLizamon or DarkLizardmon to make them match, figure out whether Digimon like IceLeomon and ShellNumemon are going to use their English or Japanese names and stick with it for a change.
3:23 Yu-Gi-Oh has had the same problem. "Except 'Frog the Jam'" is probably the most famous, but one of my favorites is that "Hundred-Eyes Dragon" had to be erratad to "Hundred Eyes Dragon" because Red-Eyes, specifically with a hyphen, is an archetype.
One of my favorite simultaneous fails and wins has to be Piccolomon. English: Alright, not a lot of people know that Piccolo means small, they’ll confuse it with the instrument or the DBZ character. But it’s a Pixie, so let’s say Piximon. Japan: Crap, we didn’t think of that! Uh, uh, oh! Picklemon! English: P-pickle?!
Side-note Laylamon would totally fit the Blonde red dress variant of lilithmon of last week's video. Laylamon and lilithmon being (twin?) sisters in my headcannon.
Ba’almon to Reapmon is always one of my pet peeves. It implies a connection to Reapermon though it doesn’t. And then there is both names Persiamon and Beastmon for Bastemon. I’m just glad most fusion name changes were ignored.
A very minor defense of Bond of Bravery: It might be a licensing/Merchandising issue. the trademark for merchandising was first placed on the wrong translation and they have to keep it because of that. Think about how in Dragon Ball Super, we and the characters call the form 'Super Saiyan Blue," but every merchandise and transformation/form in video games is called "Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan" or "SSGSS." They called it that in the first release, and have to keep calling it that for merchandising/Branding reasons. It's still dumb, but the translator/localizers hands might be tied by legality and the higherups because of that.
@@Karn_EX: It might make a bit more sense considering the original anime song used for the partner evolutions was titled _Brave Heart,_ which can potentially be most associated with Agumon and Tia in particular, since they are usually the first to reach each new level.
The SSGSS example is extra dumb because Super Saiyan God is not even a Super Saiyan mode, so they could have just called it Saiyan God (or Saiyan God Ki if they wanted to be more descriptive) and let Blue be called Super Saiyan God
I guess Ranamon being called Lanamon is just good ol fashion Engrish. Same way Zoro from One Piece was called Zolo. Instead of getting a written name for the character the name was told through a conversation.
This is a pretty solid list but SlushAngemon not making it in the video is a little sad - I forget if it was on Twitter or With The Will but I remember even Ben Diskin was annoyed by that when they recorded Fusion, ha.
@@HenshinFanatic It's meant to be Slash, yeah. Not sure how they got that one wrong. It's not even consistent with previous localizations that used GuardiAngemon or properly kept SlashAngemon.
Funnily enough "Lana" from Lanamon DOES have a connection to water but in the funniest way possible, there's a character named Lana in Pokemon Sun and Moon who specializes in water type pokemon. Side note I actually checked to see if Lana's name was a reference to anything, since some pokemon character names are references/puns, it's apparently a reference to the Hawaiian word for "afloat" or a shortened version of the Hawaiian word for water lily.
I think the Lanamon thing is just one of those localization things with "L" and "R" sounds Japan has issues with. Same with Varodorumon, and Vemmon. Similar issue with Kerpymon too. When playing survive their pronunciation of Cherubimon does sound like Kerpymon for some reason.
@@XxXShadowchanXxX This. I'm surprised I had to scroll this far down to find someone mentioning this. Switching and R with an L has been the most common localization error in Japanese-to-English text since localization existed! There is no greater meaning to Lanamon. There is no reference. The english team just swapped an R with an L because it's the most common, easy mistake to make lol.
The Creepymon thing still to this day bugs me. If you really had to change his name from Demon to something less....offensive, I guess, Couldn't they have gone with something else? Fearmon, Terrormon, Wrathmon, these aren't great names, but they're better than Creepymon.
What makes this change even more stupid is that, and i went and look back at the 02 dub just to be sure, he was actually called Daemon in the dub!!! So, it was fine when they dub the series but now it became offensive??
No clue how anyone was offended by Daemon considering the way its pronounced is actually a name some people do have. My cousins name is said exactly like the digimon name so we joked about it being his digimon partner.
@@DarkAnon100 Exactly. The first I remember hearing the name Creepymon was in the Digimon World: Data Squad game. Which means this was most likely a Disney decision that never got undone.
@@thelordoflemonz Same here, I remember encountering the other Demon Lords, then coming across this "Creepymon", taking in its appearance and then thinking "so, what...? No Daemon then? What is he jus not in this game then? Why not? That doesn't make any sense! You've got the other Demon Lords but not, quite possibly, the most well-known, well, maybe besides Beelzemon, out of all of them?"!
It's also stupid when they allowed SkullSatamon to keep his name intact. Even though Daemon is based on Satan, he's not named Satanmon. So, why the need to change it?
My personal pet peve of a localization name is Omnishoutmon. Yeah I know it's technically related to Omnimon/Omegamon, so paralleling the localization so it lines up is understandable...if not for the literal Omega symbols all over his evolution sequence. Kind of hard to handwave the Omega-name when the symbol is just THERE.
Not to mention the obvious parallels with ZekeGreymon getting Z's instead, both getting symbols with the meaning of "end"...and then it becomes OmniGreymon. The same happened with Omegamon itself and its parallels with Alphamon that are just completely removed by Omnimon.
@@BlazeDragonEternal Alphamon didn't exist yet when Omegamon got changed to Omnimon. Omegamon was introduced in 1999 (2000 in English areas), Alphamon was introduced in 2003.
Yeah, it always pissed me off that Sleipmon was chamged to fucking "Kentaurusmon". Sleipmon is such a cool name! Same goes for Duftmon. And this applies to the japanese names too but they should have called the Bond evolutions "BraveGreymon" and "NobleGarurumon".
There is also one thing. Then Digimon Xros Wars got its dubbed version, Digimon Fusion, they dubbed ChibiKamemon, to ChibiTortomon. Why? He is clearly a Kamemon, not a Tortomon who is a different species of Digimon.
One that always bugged me is FlareLizamon becoming Flarizamon while DarkLizamon became DarkLizardmon. Even though in Digimon World they changed it to Darkrizamon so it would match and then they changed it back to not match. Then there's the whole question of why change either of them anyway because the original names work just fine in English. Arguably better than the other options.
Could've been Worse: They could've changed it to 'Raydramon' - y'know, like a Ray of Light...ning? Wait, that should be a BOLT of Lightning, so Boltdramon? No, that's as bad as Lighdramon... Yeah, Raidramon was fine as it was. The problem came when Bandai Japan, in their Infinite Wisdom, made a RAIDramon for their Appmon Line. Even though Appmon would likely Never come out to Western Audiences, they decided to tell Bandai Namco America to adjust Raidramon's Name to suit its proper Pronunciation! So we actually have Japan stealing a Locallized Name to thank for the crappy Dub Name we now have!!
Did you know that Tailmon was originally designed to be a mouse, hence why she still has her mouse ears and mouse tail? Her prototype name was Hatsukanezumon, a pun to hatsuka-nezumi („house mouse“). Also, Cherubimon is pronounced with a hard K.
There is one that really irritates me and that is mercurymon, it's cool to see some olympos 12 members having a planet name but because they already dubbed mercuremon from frontier as mercurymon, they decided to just rearrange and change mercurymon to merukimon which is the dumbest thing ever. They could have maybe use any word or other language word for mercury but they decided to just rearrange stuff.
Speaking of the Vemmon thing, I remember watching a subbing of Revenge of Diaboromon that butchered the names of Veemon and Wormmon to Beemon and Bamumon. Yes, really. However, the one odd Digimon name I will always remember was the time in the Digi-Battle cards released around the time of Digimon the Movie where Wendigomon/Wendimon was instead printed as "Endigomon". Even to this day, I can't think of Wendigomon without thinking of that.
But Anomalocarimon is based on an Anomalocaris, a prehistoric marine animal. This is the Digimon's lore and this is literally on his official profile, this Digimon was born when a virus absorbed data from an archeology laboratory about an Anomalocaris fossil. By that logic Tyranomon should have a totally different name even though it has Tyrannosaurus data.
@@joaogabrielmoreirafreitas5608it would be more rightly called AncientShrimpmon. Especially considering sea scorpions exist, of which anomalocaris is not. Sea scorpions are also not scorpions but that's getting off topic.
@@HonestLeigh The real question is: Is it really a good idea to change a franchise's character name just because it's hard to pronounce, isn't cool (like Rockman to Megaman) or is supposed to not confuse kids? In Digimon Glost Game, crunchyroll's legend changed the name of Rio Sanzu to Rio Stlyx back in that episode where Kyoshiro had his soul taken by Spikimon. Is this really necessary?
I find it weird that for all the Adventure shilling Frontier’s dub had… they removed the Leomon reference when they localized Kaiser Leomon as Jaeger Loweemon. I still don’t get that.
10:54 "You do a fantastic job" *gets warflashbacks to the EX3 release and all the horrid card mistranslations and fuck ups that sparked the existence of a Revision Pack*
all the translators were on vacation. they just brought in 1 dude with a japanese to english translation dictionary and a mean deadline. dude just said "eh, fuck it. close enough" lmao
I've grown to love how silly and crazy dubs can, with censorship and translation errors sometimes you just gotta say oops and hope no one notices until their older lol
One that bothers me, though I’ll admit it isn’t a terrible change, was the change from Anomalocarimon to Scorpiomon, I get that Scorpiomon is easier for kids to say but he’s clearly based on an anomalocaris
Great vid Karn!!! Something I noticed while watching the dub of adventure 2020 is they verbally say Scorpiomon. However when he appears and they put his name on screen it says Skullscorpiomon!! Then a few episodes later they say Mammon instead of Mammothmon and Yukidarumon instead of Fridgimon and their names on screen are the same as the ones said by the characters!!!
Lmao I can't believe they called him medical dukemon. I saw the cherubimon recently be called the other name and was like.... dude it's been that way sence the movie in the early 2000s you can't just confuse kids like that lmao
They probably wanted to call him MediDukemon but someone accidentally forgot to change the mock name from their draft, since sometimes coders and writers give joke names to stuff in their projects and change them for the end product. Sometimes they forget, and this is what happens. It's like when you call a word document yourmom when you make it and then change the title before you submit it.
when i was a kid playing DW3 i thought "oh Vemmon like venemous cus he's like an evil snake lizard thing" but now the alien connection makes so much more sense considering he's kind of like a cyborg xenomorph
I don't know if there's ever been any statement about it, but I highly doubt the Xros Wars dub team thought ahead that much with changing Lilithmon to Laylamon. I'm convinced that they only chose that name just to arbitrarily make that one Eric Clapton joke in at least one scene.
Speaking of bad dubbing for the series in the first season of Digimon in Hebrew they translated Agumon's attack "pepper breath" perfectly from the English version so a few years later when the fifth season was finally dubbed what did they do.... they changed the name from " pepper breath" to "hot mouth" and when I heard it for the first time at the time, I laughed so hard that my stomach hurt I couldn't believe they did something like that they were given the name of the attack on a silver platter and they thought to themselves "Nah... hot mouth Sounds better than pepper breath" oh.... the stupidity XD
One that has always bugged me ever since I found out about it is Pinocchimon (JP) becoming Puppetmon (EN). It's like... _why?_ Did they think they would get sued by Disney, or something? 'cause Disney doesn't own the rights to the Pinocchio character (just the elements specific to _their version);_ the _Pinocchio_ story has been in the public domain since _1960._
You’d be surprised. The Arthur Conan Doyle estate still tries to sue just about anyone who uses Sherlock Holmes, despite how long he’s been public domain.
I actually vastly prefer puppetmon. It’s more generic and therefore flexible as it’s own thing in a variety of stories or video games; the pinniochio reference is extremely obvious as is and so it’s not lost. It’s probably my favorite name change tbh
Leopardmon/Duftmon is actually based off a lion...who has a leopard-like form. There's a reason why one of his previous evolution forms is Leomon, and he even calls himself a "lion-knight". So it's pretty weird when it comes to him
Honestly, it's wild how often they go back and forth between names, less of an issue now but I remember Dawn and Dusk used both Sleipmon and Duftmon names, among a few other transliterations that aren't used much or at all anymore.
Here's another for ya, Bandai changing Cyclomon to Cyclonemon! Somebody at Bandai mistook the name of the CYCLOPS Digimon for a wind storm. 20+ years later and it has yet to be fixed. Of course, there's also the names Toei forced onto the English dubs like LoadKnightmon, Rotosmon, Supinomon, and SlushAngemon.
Kerpymon always confused me, too, to the point I had to look it up years ago. Apparently, the name came from the Kewpie doll, but when the word "Kewpie" was pronounced phonetically in Japanese, it sounded like "kerpy"hence, Kerpymon.
The word Cherubim, which Cherubi is short for, is pronounced Kerubimu in Japanese and dropping the 'mu' would be pronounced Kerubi and Kerpy is a corruption of that.
I hate when people who don't know what they're talking about try to explain something and they OBVIOUSLY spread misinformation. His name in japanese is "KE" "RU" "BI" "MO" "N"
It's funny how many of these are the result of multiple translation passes. Kerpymon (cherubi- from English into the kerpy- romaji and then back into English), the Gure also sounds like the romaji for Grey, Rana and Lana because Japanese doesn't have a one-to-one translation for the "l"/"r" sound, but are otherwise the same word.
Though Lana is in alot languages in this case Lana is Greek in origin, it's a girl's name that means Buoyant which makes sense considering that it's referring to the fact all her forms look feminine and her being a water Digimon.
@@Karn_EX I'm pretty sure they just got the Land R mixed up but I think it turned out to be one of the better dub names, at least better than others like Cocomon becoming Conomon 🤔
Yu-Gi-Oh has an incredible problem with the names in localization for card effects, where often cards contain "not including XY). I believe it's not the only one. Why not just give cards an extra tag and then just target the tags. You can just tag every greymon and then you don't run into the named architype issue. Maybe that's just my software development background speaking, where checking against text is always a bad idea because of exactly this issue. Just give something a non text value, it reduces something like this easily.
The DCG does this to some extent with modern cards normally having specific types for that ("Xros Heart", "Dark Master", "Deva", etc.) but there's still a lot of things that forcefully have to target text which is problematic for this same issue. From what little I've seen of it, the Dragon Ball Super Card Game (itself a brother card game to the DCG) avoids this issue completely by doing exactly that, every card has a "Character" tag that specifies which character they are beyond the card's own name (so, to give an entirely random example, "SS Gogeta, Fusion Reborn" has the "Gogeta" Character tag). I feel the DCG could do the same, add a Digimon tag with the specific name and maybe an Archetype tag that has "Grey", "Garuru", etc.
I guess this gives the leeway of caring about archetypes that you didn't plan caring about. Like, when they printed "Dark Magician Girl", they didn't know there was going to be a "Magician Girl" archetype, they would have just put the "Dark Magician" tag. Similarly, Digimon wouldn't have been able to care about names containing, say, "dramon" unless they'd decided that for the start. It's messy but for a franchise that's still evolving and whose naming conventions are not decided by the card game team, it's a fair solution.
Sleipmon to Kentaurosmon annoys me for 3 reasons 1) Like you said it’s based on Sleipnir 2) the name Sleipmon is used in Digimon World Dawn/Dusk which is where I first saw it 3) One of its main attacks is literally named after a thing in Norse mythology so why would they not keep the theme?
Great video. bond of bravery still makes my skin crawl, a bond of loyalty works for the bond of friendship. Something you mentioned in this video Have we ever had a kelpie Digimon? Because the concept alone, it would be a really cool Digimon especially if it plays into the mystery of the dark ocean maybe it digivolves into a nuckelavee themed digimon who battle a selkie themed Digimon
Couldn't they call Doruguremon "Dorugraymon" using the A-spelling as a way to keep the nod to the Greymon family without making them part of the species? Same goes for BurningGreymon, although I'd rather have Bandai revert its name to Vritramon instead. I'm surprised ElDradimon, BioSupinomon and BioRotosmon weren't mentioned. Those are as bad as Kurisarimon, if not worse.
Tbh I think bandai should hire someone and give them all the digimon lore, names and images; to act as the lorekeeper for translations. Their job is to go through all the digimon (and new digimon) and re-translate them for consistancy. Their dub names can still be used overseas, but should be considered as Nicknames, allowing names like Omnimon to continue to exist until there is a new digimon in japanese called Omnimon; in which case since it's a nickname it can just be phased out. That way everyone would be happy. Would it take a while? Yep. You'd need a full team working on it too, but it's clear they need it. Especially with situations like Orcamon where there is actually an Orcamon but the dub decided to call Dolphmon as Orcamon, making this really akward and confusiing situation appear.
I've always been conflicted between Omnimon and Omegamon. Since one means Omnipotent, while the other is a counterpart to Alphamon. That being Alpha and Omega.
Orcamon (the Armor Digimon) is Orcamon in English, Dolphmon is Dolphmon in English. The only place that ever referred to Dolphmon as Orcamon is the "Asian English" garbage they make for Hong Kong. No actual English material has ever called Dolphmon Orcamon.
@@AztecCroc Granted it's not a good example but it is 1 example. If you want I can use another example with : Anomalocarimon who is called Scorpimon in the dub and Scorpiomon who's called SkullScorpiomon in the dub. The most funny part is Anomalocarimon isn't even a scorpion, he's an Anomalocaris (like it's name) which is a marine animal from the cambrian period. This mistake even came over to the global release of the original digimon trading card game and digimon lists with toys. ^^
Kinda tangentially related, but I've always found it interesting that the dub gave the original Digidestined English names but went out of its way to speciy that they were nicknames and the kids were still very much Japanese. The franchise just has really unique localization choices overall
@@TheTakato122 well i mean, Matt is more english than Yamato, but i like what they did. It was a way to change their name for the Dub and to keep the original names present and canon
"Search your deck for a "Guardian" monster except "Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress" and "Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress # 2" and add it to your hand."
Weird thing I had with BEMmon: When I saw it as a child, in Digimon World 3, called Vemmon, I was so confused, because I always read it as Veemon, but that was not looking like one, made me so confused until years later where I found out I misread.
It's interesting to see which changes other localisations keep from the English one. We also have Tailmon as Gatomon, but correct me if I'm wrong I'm pretty sure in German Leopardmon is still called Duftmon. Edit: Seems like Daemon is also in fact called Daemon or Deemon in German.
If they're not following the crest names in the bond forms Gabumon should have gotten bond of brotherhood. Matt is an older brother to start, it keeps the alliteration in both bond forms and the digi-destined are basically all siblings (brothers in arms?)
which is what they did in the 02 dub, that's what they called him. Someone in this section made me notice that this change might be something that Disney required during they had the rights and that change stayed
I'm from Brasil and here Tailmon had the same name on dubbing. Then a lot of merch started to appear writing Gatomon and we were like "wtf? this name is so stupid" - and then, years later, we discovered it was the English localization name. Lololol
I saw the Latin American Spanish dub, and they said "Gatomon" but the text still said "TAILMON" and I couldn't read the Japanese text, so instead I thought the original Japanese name was Gatomon, that Tailmon was the North American translation, and that the Spanish dub decided to go with the original name (that happened a lot with Dragon Ball Z).
4:59 It maybe because they want it to sound like Kirby from Kirby since both are pink creatures of joy with dark version. And the reason it was written like that to probably avoid a strike.
I kind of understand the change form Demon/Daemon to Creepymon due to differences in how it appears spoken vs written. The original name is a pretty clever use of the MON suffix, when spoken, but when read it just immediately seems like the regular use of the word demon.
Karn, you just narrowly missed it, but you could've said Leopardmon: Beast Mode. I think that would be the best name change away from Leopardmon: Leopard Mode.
Can I add, Wolfmon to Lobomon, Fairymon to Kazemon, and Blitzmon to Beetlemon? Also Agnimon overly pronounced into Agunimon. In fact, basically all of the Frontier spirit digmon.
Happy Sunday, notification squad! A LOT of people asked for this video after I made my video on dub names I prefer so it had to be done but remember NONE of this is that deep and I still gotta give props to the localization teams!
Please tell me that Creepymon bs is not permanent T-T
What makes Kerpymon worse is that the Dub of Frontier already called him Cherubimon and the same problem comes up with Kurisarimon which was called Chrysalimon in the Tamers dub and with Daemon and the Dub of 02. Valdur means "ruler", or "he who rules" in Old Norse and is a name in Estonian. The Digimon Reference Book has it as Vemmon in both English and Japanese.
I've always thought about Medievalgallantmon like a witchelny Royal Knight With Hexeblaumon
You glossed over IceWingmon? Its not only a bad Dubname, its a Change what came so damn late.
Reminds me of Frog the Jam in Yugioh not being a Frog.
Its funny cause if we kept the spanish language for Ranamon, "Lana" directly translates to just "Wool"
HAH
Also "money" in some countries lol
@@nicolassanabria3219 That's more street lingo than a real meaning.
In latino was Ranamon all along O_o
Lana means "Still and calm waters" in Hawaiian, also in Pokemon, the character Lana is a water type specialist - Lana works for Ranamon
RE: 5:51 I don't know if anyone has commented this yet, but when the first V-pet was localized in the United States "Devimon" became "Darkmon" and "Monzaemon" became "Teddymon."
Oh cool!
When it comes to leopardmon, i think some better alternatives would have been something like "primal mode" or "savage mode" or "feral mode"
Or just 'beast mode'
@@KingOfSciliyah yes, my favorite beast wars transformers character: Leopardmon
@@KingOfSciliy Leopardmon: I'm going beast mode
'Hunter Mode' is a more appropriate Name for what Leopardmon actually uses the Form for.
@@lianaverwood9810 good idea. Idk why I didn't think of that
My personal pick for this topic is Samudramon. Gaiomon is one of my favourite Digimon, but Samudramon just sounds so much less imposing, so I'm glad it didn't stick.
On the topic of the Bond forms, I'd have been a lot happier with Bond of Bravery if Gabumon had gotten Bond of Heart. Would make for a fun little nod to Brave Heart
It is weird how sometimes give japanese or japanese sounding names to digimon
Gaio/Samudramon is one of my faves too. I like both, just because "samurai dramon" is appropriate... but damn if "Triumphant King" and the harsher tones of the G vs S name just hit so much harder.
Also, agree. Brave Heart would have been a nice nod with the names.
I'm Indonesian and hearing samudramon makes my mind thinks of "ocean"
yes, samudra means "ocean" in Indonesian
See, now that would have been a sick name if it was a water Digimon
@@geminimaxxim better yet, a water dragon. Like Seadramon, but bigger.
Who wouldn't think that Agumon the man Mascot of Digimon, having the ionic crest of Courage, would have the stupidest name for the Movie
For real 😅
see this is odd for me cause i have never heard it as bond of bravery till now i always heard bond of courage
This was such an insanely fun ride through awful company decision making 😂
Haha glad you liked it bud
Leopardmon: Hunting Mode would have gone hard.
GOD, I'm always bringing up MedicalGallantmon, I don't think I will ever get over that. It's hilarious.
The one that's been annoying me the most recently is Meicoomon evolving into Maycrackmon, and like, Mei was already in their name, how do you MISS that. If they were changing either at all, it should have been to Mai, as in Maine Coon, the cat breed it's based off.
Digimon's localisation is a complete cluster-truck and is so frustrating sometimes hahaha
I expected that one to appear in the video, it's such a weird bit of inconsistency.
They really do need to do a thorough look through and fix a lot of stuff up. Change Omnimon back to Omegamon so Omekamon's name makes sense again, change either FalreLizamon or DarkLizardmon to make them match, figure out whether Digimon like IceLeomon and ShellNumemon are going to use their English or Japanese names and stick with it for a change.
I'm pretty sure MedicalGallantmon was originally a typo, C is right next to V after all.
3:23 Yu-Gi-Oh has had the same problem.
"Except 'Frog the Jam'" is probably the most famous, but one of my favorites is that
"Hundred-Eyes Dragon" had to be erratad to
"Hundred Eyes Dragon" because Red-Eyes, specifically with a hyphen, is an archetype.
One of my favorite simultaneous fails and wins has to be Piccolomon.
English: Alright, not a lot of people know that Piccolo means small, they’ll confuse it with the instrument or the DBZ character. But it’s a Pixie, so let’s say Piximon.
Japan: Crap, we didn’t think of that! Uh, uh, oh! Picklemon!
English: P-pickle?!
Creepymon is weird... Because i totally see a ghost-inspired rookie with that name
Side-note Laylamon would totally fit the Blonde red dress variant of lilithmon of last week's video. Laylamon and lilithmon being (twin?) sisters in my headcannon.
Ba’almon to Reapmon is always one of my pet peeves. It implies a connection to Reapermon though it doesn’t.
And then there is both names Persiamon and Beastmon for Bastemon.
I’m just glad most fusion name changes were ignored.
It's Baalmon not Ba'almon.
A very minor defense of Bond of Bravery: It might be a licensing/Merchandising issue. the trademark for merchandising was first placed on the wrong translation and they have to keep it because of that. Think about how in Dragon Ball Super, we and the characters call the form 'Super Saiyan Blue," but every merchandise and transformation/form in video games is called "Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan" or "SSGSS." They called it that in the first release, and have to keep calling it that for merchandising/Branding reasons. It's still dumb, but the translator/localizers hands might be tied by legality and the higherups because of that.
Yeah that very likely is why it continues to happen, doesn't really excuse it happening in the first place tho lol
@@Karn_EX: It might make a bit more sense considering the original anime song used for the partner evolutions was titled _Brave Heart,_ which can potentially be most associated with Agumon and Tia in particular, since they are usually the first to reach each new level.
@@EmeralBookwise "Tia" Who is Tia?! XD
@@SuperPlacido1 🙄
The SSGSS example is extra dumb because Super Saiyan God is not even a Super Saiyan mode, so they could have just called it Saiyan God (or Saiyan God Ki if they wanted to be more descriptive) and let Blue be called Super Saiyan God
I guess Ranamon being called Lanamon is just good ol fashion Engrish. Same way Zoro from One Piece was called Zolo. Instead of getting a written name for the character the name was told through a conversation.
This is a pretty solid list but SlushAngemon not making it in the video is a little sad - I forget if it was on Twitter or With The Will but I remember even Ben Diskin was annoyed by that when they recorded Fusion, ha.
I totally forgot SlushAngemon, am kicking myself! Drop Lanamon from the list and add him lol
Guessing it's supposed to be SlashAngemon? Would be really weird if they did that for ClavisAngemon.
@@HenshinFanatic It's meant to be Slash, yeah. Not sure how they got that one wrong. It's not even consistent with previous localizations that used GuardiAngemon or properly kept SlashAngemon.
I was waiting for Slushangemon too! 😂
Funnily enough "Lana" from Lanamon DOES have a connection to water but in the funniest way possible, there's a character named Lana in Pokemon Sun and Moon who specializes in water type pokemon.
Side note I actually checked to see if Lana's name was a reference to anything, since some pokemon character names are references/puns, it's apparently a reference to the Hawaiian word for "afloat" or a shortened version of the Hawaiian word for water lily.
And it’s wool in Spanish while rana means frog
Ranamon being called Lanamon predates Sun and Moon by over a decade.
I think the Lanamon thing is just one of those localization things with "L" and "R" sounds Japan has issues with. Same with Varodorumon, and Vemmon. Similar issue with Kerpymon too. When playing survive their pronunciation of Cherubimon does sound like Kerpymon for some reason.
@@XxXShadowchanXxX This. I'm surprised I had to scroll this far down to find someone mentioning this. Switching and R with an L has been the most common localization error in Japanese-to-English text since localization existed! There is no greater meaning to Lanamon. There is no reference. The english team just swapped an R with an L because it's the most common, easy mistake to make lol.
The Creepymon thing still to this day bugs me. If you really had to change his name from Demon to something less....offensive, I guess, Couldn't they have gone with something else? Fearmon, Terrormon, Wrathmon, these aren't great names, but they're better than Creepymon.
What makes this change even more stupid is that, and i went and look back at the 02 dub just to be sure, he was actually called Daemon in the dub!!! So, it was fine when they dub the series but now it became offensive??
No clue how anyone was offended by Daemon considering the way its pronounced is actually a name some people do have. My cousins name is said exactly like the digimon name so we joked about it being his digimon partner.
@@DarkAnon100 Exactly. The first I remember hearing the name Creepymon was in the Digimon World: Data Squad game. Which means this was most likely a Disney decision that never got undone.
@@thelordoflemonz Same here, I remember encountering the other Demon Lords, then coming across this "Creepymon", taking in its appearance and then thinking "so, what...? No Daemon then? What is he jus not in this game then? Why not? That doesn't make any sense! You've got the other Demon Lords but not, quite possibly, the most well-known, well, maybe besides Beelzemon, out of all of them?"!
It's also stupid when they allowed SkullSatamon to keep his name intact. Even though Daemon is based on Satan, he's not named Satanmon. So, why the need to change it?
My personal pet peve of a localization name is Omnishoutmon. Yeah I know it's technically related to Omnimon/Omegamon, so paralleling the localization so it lines up is understandable...if not for the literal Omega symbols all over his evolution sequence. Kind of hard to handwave the Omega-name when the symbol is just THERE.
Not to mention the obvious parallels with ZekeGreymon getting Z's instead, both getting symbols with the meaning of "end"...and then it becomes OmniGreymon. The same happened with Omegamon itself and its parallels with Alphamon that are just completely removed by Omnimon.
@@BlazeDragonEternal Alphamon didn't exist yet when Omegamon got changed to Omnimon. Omegamon was introduced in 1999 (2000 in English areas), Alphamon was introduced in 2003.
Eh, I feel at this point, Omega can be their motif even if not their names y'know? It can be rationalized.
Yeah, it always pissed me off that Sleipmon was chamged to fucking "Kentaurusmon". Sleipmon is such a cool name! Same goes for Duftmon.
And this applies to the japanese names too but they should have called the Bond evolutions "BraveGreymon" and "NobleGarurumon".
For any Yugioh TCG fans, the DoruGreyman exclusion is big "Except Frog the Jam" vibes
There is also one thing. Then Digimon Xros Wars got its dubbed version, Digimon Fusion, they dubbed ChibiKamemon, to ChibiTortomon. Why? He is clearly a Kamemon, not a Tortomon who is a different species of Digimon.
One that always bugged me is FlareLizamon becoming Flarizamon while DarkLizamon became DarkLizardmon. Even though in Digimon World they changed it to Darkrizamon so it would match and then they changed it back to not match. Then there's the whole question of why change either of them anyway because the original names work just fine in English. Arguably better than the other options.
Lighdramon is my personal pet peeve, but I totally get Bond of Bravery being no.1 here
I agree. Its Raidramon goddammit. Lighting Dragon Monster using the Japanese word for thunder instead of literal word lightning
Could've been Worse: They could've changed it to 'Raydramon' - y'know, like a Ray of Light...ning?
Wait, that should be a BOLT of Lightning, so Boltdramon? No, that's as bad as Lighdramon...
Yeah, Raidramon was fine as it was. The problem came when Bandai Japan, in their Infinite Wisdom, made a RAIDramon for their Appmon Line. Even though Appmon would likely Never come out to Western Audiences, they decided to tell Bandai Namco America to adjust Raidramon's Name to suit its proper Pronunciation!
So we actually have Japan stealing a Locallized Name to thank for the crappy Dub Name we now have!!
_Sponsored by_ *RAID: Shadow LegendsMon...*
Did you know that Tailmon was originally designed to be a mouse, hence why she still has her mouse ears and mouse tail? Her prototype name was Hatsukanezumon, a pun to hatsuka-nezumi („house mouse“).
Also, Cherubimon is pronounced with a hard K.
There is one that really irritates me and that is mercurymon, it's cool to see some olympos 12 members having a planet name but because they already dubbed mercuremon from frontier as mercurymon, they decided to just rearrange and change mercurymon to merukimon which is the dumbest thing ever. They could have maybe use any word or other language word for mercury but they decided to just rearrange stuff.
I think for Leopardmon, they should have called it "Beast Mode" for the translation.
Speaking of the Vemmon thing, I remember watching a subbing of Revenge of Diaboromon that butchered the names of Veemon and Wormmon to Beemon and Bamumon. Yes, really.
However, the one odd Digimon name I will always remember was the time in the Digi-Battle cards released around the time of Digimon the Movie where Wendigomon/Wendimon was instead printed as "Endigomon". Even to this day, I can't think of Wendigomon without thinking of that.
They should change Anomalocarimon to MarineScorpiomon for starters.
This
But Anomalocarimon is based on an Anomalocaris, a prehistoric marine animal. This is the Digimon's lore and this is literally on his official profile, this Digimon was born when a virus absorbed data from an archeology laboratory about an Anomalocaris fossil. By that logic Tyranomon should have a totally different name even though it has Tyrannosaurus data.
@@joaogabrielmoreirafreitas5608it would be more rightly called AncientShrimpmon. Especially considering sea scorpions exist, of which anomalocaris is not. Sea scorpions are also not scorpions but that's getting off topic.
@@HonestLeigh The real question is: Is it really a good idea to change a franchise's character name just because it's hard to pronounce, isn't cool (like Rockman to Megaman) or is supposed to not confuse kids? In Digimon Glost Game, crunchyroll's legend changed the name of Rio Sanzu to Rio Stlyx back in that episode where Kyoshiro had his soul taken by Spikimon. Is this really necessary?
I find it weird that for all the Adventure shilling Frontier’s dub had… they removed the Leomon reference when they localized Kaiser Leomon as Jaeger Loweemon. I still don’t get that.
Maybe they didn't want to spoil his inevitable end.
I didnt know about Vemmon actually and now I really want BEMmon
10:54 "You do a fantastic job" *gets warflashbacks to the EX3 release and all the horrid card mistranslations and fuck ups that sparked the existence of a Revision Pack*
all the translators were on vacation. they just brought in 1 dude with a japanese to english translation dictionary and a mean deadline. dude just said "eh, fuck it. close enough" lmao
THANK YOU! The change from Sleipmon to Kentarosmon has always irritated me.
I've grown to love how silly and crazy dubs can, with censorship and translation errors sometimes you just gotta say oops and hope no one notices until their older lol
One that bothers me, though I’ll admit it isn’t a terrible change, was the change from Anomalocarimon to Scorpiomon, I get that Scorpiomon is easier for kids to say but he’s clearly based on an anomalocaris
Great vid Karn!!! Something I noticed while watching the dub of adventure 2020 is they verbally say Scorpiomon. However when he appears and they put his name on screen it says Skullscorpiomon!! Then a few episodes later they say Mammon instead of Mammothmon and Yukidarumon instead of Fridgimon and their names on screen are the same as the ones said by the characters!!!
Lmao I can't believe they called him medical dukemon. I saw the cherubimon recently be called the other name and was like.... dude it's been that way sence the movie in the early 2000s you can't just confuse kids like that lmao
They probably wanted to call him MediDukemon but someone accidentally forgot to change the mock name from their draft, since sometimes coders and writers give joke names to stuff in their projects and change them for the end product. Sometimes they forget, and this is what happens. It's like when you call a word document yourmom when you make it and then change the title before you submit it.
when i was a kid playing DW3 i thought "oh Vemmon like venemous cus he's like an evil snake lizard thing" but now the alien connection makes so much more sense considering he's kind of like a cyborg xenomorph
I don't know if there's ever been any statement about it, but I highly doubt the Xros Wars dub team thought ahead that much with changing Lilithmon to Laylamon. I'm convinced that they only chose that name just to arbitrarily make that one Eric Clapton joke in at least one scene.
The DuruGreymon one reminds me of the Yu-Gi-Oh card hundRED-EYES dragon
Speaking of bad dubbing for the series in the first season of Digimon in Hebrew they translated Agumon's attack "pepper breath" perfectly from the English version so a few years later when the fifth season was finally dubbed what did they do.... they changed the name from " pepper breath" to "hot mouth" and when I heard it for the first time at the time, I laughed so hard that my stomach hurt I couldn't believe they did something like that they were given the name of the attack on a silver platter and they thought to themselves "Nah... hot mouth Sounds better than pepper breath" oh.... the stupidity XD
One that has always bugged me ever since I found out about it is Pinocchimon (JP) becoming Puppetmon (EN).
It's like... _why?_ Did they think they would get sued by Disney, or something?
'cause Disney doesn't own the rights to the Pinocchio character (just the elements specific to _their version);_ the _Pinocchio_ story has been in the public domain since _1960._
You’d be surprised. The Arthur Conan Doyle estate still tries to sue just about anyone who uses Sherlock Holmes, despite how long he’s been public domain.
I can only assume there were too many syllables.
@@megaman9393 Yeah, to the point that Capcom had to change the names of characters in the Great Ace Attorney because of fear.
I actually vastly prefer puppetmon. It’s more generic and therefore flexible as it’s own thing in a variety of stories or video games; the pinniochio reference is extremely obvious as is and so it’s not lost. It’s probably my favorite name change tbh
Leopardmon/Duftmon is actually based off a lion...who has a leopard-like form. There's a reason why one of his previous evolution forms is Leomon, and he even calls himself a "lion-knight". So it's pretty weird when it comes to him
C and V are right next to each other on the keyboard, I 100% think MedicalGallentmon was initially just a typo
Haha I could believe that, Medical is still missing an E but I'd buy it
@@Karn_EX Someone mistyped "medival" and the autocorrect did it's work.
Never letting Varodurumon slide, the anger is consuming me. :)
Solidarity brother
yes!!! that 1 pisses me off the most!
Honestly, it's wild how often they go back and forth between names, less of an issue now but I remember Dawn and Dusk used both Sleipmon and Duftmon names, among a few other transliterations that aren't used much or at all anymore.
Here's another for ya, Bandai changing Cyclomon to Cyclonemon! Somebody at Bandai mistook the name of the CYCLOPS Digimon for a wind storm. 20+ years later and it has yet to be fixed. Of course, there's also the names Toei forced onto the English dubs like LoadKnightmon, Rotosmon, Supinomon, and SlushAngemon.
Love that you go into the Dayman song after mentioning Demon.
Kerpymon always confused me, too, to the point I had to look it up years ago. Apparently, the name came from the Kewpie doll, but when the word "Kewpie" was pronounced phonetically in Japanese, it sounded like "kerpy"hence, Kerpymon.
The word Cherubim, which Cherubi is short for, is pronounced Kerubimu in Japanese and dropping the 'mu' would be pronounced Kerubi and Kerpy is a corruption of that.
I hate when people who don't know what they're talking about try to explain something and they OBVIOUSLY spread misinformation. His name in japanese is "KE" "RU" "BI" "MO" "N"
If they ever do a Tamers reboot, we need a new evolution or Digi-Modify that's makes Gallantmon or Guilmon a doctor
Now imagining Galantmon, but with his lance replaced by a giant syringe.
Number 9 giving us that "except Frog the Jam" line in Yugioh
It's funny how many of these are the result of multiple translation passes. Kerpymon (cherubi- from English into the kerpy- romaji and then back into English), the Gure also sounds like the romaji for Grey, Rana and Lana because Japanese doesn't have a one-to-one translation for the "l"/"r" sound, but are otherwise the same word.
Used your buyee code and got the adventure 02 and tamers lottery art and put them up on my wall this is actually my first digimon merch
Let's goooo thanks for supporting!
Though Lana is in alot languages in this case Lana is Greek in origin, it's a girl's name that means Buoyant which makes sense considering that it's referring to the fact all her forms look feminine and her being a water Digimon.
Definitely not the intention tho, someone just messed up lol
@@Karn_EX I'm pretty sure they just got the Land R mixed up but I think it turned out to be one of the better dub names, at least better than others like Cocomon becoming Conomon 🤔
Yu-Gi-Oh has an incredible problem with the names in localization for card effects, where often cards contain "not including XY). I believe it's not the only one.
Why not just give cards an extra tag and then just target the tags. You can just tag every greymon and then you don't run into the named architype issue. Maybe that's just my software development background speaking, where checking against text is always a bad idea because of exactly this issue. Just give something a non text value, it reduces something like this easily.
The DCG does this to some extent with modern cards normally having specific types for that ("Xros Heart", "Dark Master", "Deva", etc.) but there's still a lot of things that forcefully have to target text which is problematic for this same issue.
From what little I've seen of it, the Dragon Ball Super Card Game (itself a brother card game to the DCG) avoids this issue completely by doing exactly that, every card has a "Character" tag that specifies which character they are beyond the card's own name (so, to give an entirely random example, "SS Gogeta, Fusion Reborn" has the "Gogeta" Character tag). I feel the DCG could do the same, add a Digimon tag with the specific name and maybe an Archetype tag that has "Grey", "Garuru", etc.
I guess this gives the leeway of caring about archetypes that you didn't plan caring about. Like, when they printed "Dark Magician Girl", they didn't know there was going to be a "Magician Girl" archetype, they would have just put the "Dark Magician" tag. Similarly, Digimon wouldn't have been able to care about names containing, say, "dramon" unless they'd decided that for the start.
It's messy but for a franchise that's still evolving and whose naming conventions are not decided by the card game team, it's a fair solution.
@@fernandobanda5734 yeah that's unfortunately true.
Can't talk soon em all
Noooo Karn I now have an urge to see Tyrannomon Tyrannosaurus Mode that was not there previously
*Digimon Survive Spoilers*
What if Digimon Survive's Truthful route had a new evolution line for each Digimon?
The whole Creepymon argument is one of my biggest gripes as it fits more for a Rookie or Champion level
I didn't know that bird mon was based on Baldur. That's awesome. I may have just found my first bird Digimon I like.
Sleipmon to Kentaurosmon annoys me for 3 reasons
1) Like you said it’s based on Sleipnir
2) the name Sleipmon is used in Digimon World Dawn/Dusk which is where I first saw it
3) One of its main attacks is literally named after a thing in Norse mythology so why would they not keep the theme?
Great video. bond of bravery still makes my skin crawl, a bond of loyalty works for the bond of friendship. Something you mentioned in this video Have we ever had a kelpie Digimon? Because the concept alone, it would be a really cool Digimon especially if it plays into the mystery of the dark ocean maybe it digivolves into a nuckelavee themed digimon who battle a selkie themed Digimon
First to come to my mind is always Brimpmon. Yeah, you know those brimps that fly through the air? The Goodyear brimp, so iconic.
Couldn't they call Doruguremon "Dorugraymon" using the A-spelling as a way to keep the nod to the Greymon family without making them part of the species? Same goes for BurningGreymon, although I'd rather have Bandai revert its name to Vritramon instead.
I'm surprised ElDradimon, BioSupinomon and BioRotosmon weren't mentioned. Those are as bad as Kurisarimon, if not worse.
Gure is a shortening of Gurei which is a transliteration of Grey.
@@TheTakato122 Yeah, and "gray" is a different spelling for "grey".
That's an incredibly clever solution.
Tbh I think bandai should hire someone and give them all the digimon lore, names and images; to act as the lorekeeper for translations.
Their job is to go through all the digimon (and new digimon) and re-translate them for consistancy.
Their dub names can still be used overseas, but should be considered as Nicknames, allowing names like Omnimon to continue to exist until there is a new digimon in japanese called Omnimon; in which case since it's a nickname it can just be phased out. That way everyone would be happy.
Would it take a while? Yep. You'd need a full team working on it too, but it's clear they need it. Especially with situations like Orcamon where there is actually an Orcamon but the dub decided to call Dolphmon as Orcamon, making this really akward and confusiing situation appear.
I've always been conflicted between Omnimon and Omegamon.
Since one means Omnipotent, while the other is a counterpart to Alphamon. That being Alpha and Omega.
Orcamon (the Armor Digimon) is Orcamon in English, Dolphmon is Dolphmon in English.
The only place that ever referred to Dolphmon as Orcamon is the "Asian English" garbage they make for Hong Kong. No actual English material has ever called Dolphmon Orcamon.
@@AztecCroc Granted it's not a good example but it is 1 example.
If you want I can use another example with : Anomalocarimon who is called Scorpimon in the dub and Scorpiomon who's called SkullScorpiomon in the dub.
The most funny part is Anomalocarimon isn't even a scorpion, he's an Anomalocaris (like it's name) which is a marine animal from the cambrian period.
This mistake even came over to the global release of the original digimon trading card game and digimon lists with toys. ^^
Kinda tangentially related, but I've always found it interesting that the dub gave the original Digidestined English names but went out of its way to speciy that they were nicknames and the kids were still very much Japanese. The franchise just has really unique localization choices overall
None of them are "English" names.
@@TheTakato122 I meant more Western sounding
@@TheTakato122 well i mean, Matt is more english than Yamato, but i like what they did. It was a way to change their name for the Dub and to keep the original names present and canon
@@DarkAnon100also Joe and Mimi?
@@TheThursty100Joe and mimi are names that can be used both English and Japanese so there's no nickname with them
Bond of Bravery, instead of Bond of Courage really grinds my gears too lol. Courage rolls of the tongue way better
I probably would have called Gabumon's last evolution- Gabumon: Bond of Comradery to rhyme with Agumon's evolution.
The Bond name makes me so mad too. Might as well just do Gabumon Bond of Comradery 🤪
To make the Lanamon thing worse, Lana means Wool in spanish. Yeah, sure, call the acuatic digimon Woolmon, don't you love the ocean sheeps?
Oh man, i'm getting Yu-Gi-Oh vibes with the excluded names/archetypes. "Use this card with monsters with this word in the name except that one" 😅
"Search your deck for a "Guardian" monster except "Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress" and "Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress # 2" and add it to your hand."
Could you do video about full evolution line of 7 great demon lord?
Yup, in October!
Weird thing I had with BEMmon: When I saw it as a child, in Digimon World 3, called Vemmon, I was so confused, because I always read it as Veemon, but that was not looking like one, made me so confused until years later where I found out I misread.
Lana/Archer cutscene had me rolling!!
Dorugreymon and the others are doing Frog the Jam justice
Frog The Jam and Earthbound Soul situation LOL
Surprised that the whole "Hackmon"/"Huckmon" thing didn’t make the list. That’s just a translation I don’t get.
Honestly it'd be like top 20 lol
I must admit "a horse who decided to have a human torso instead of a regular neck" is one of my favorites creatures.
7:28 now you’ve made me realise that the Pokémon character Lana should’ve had the opposite treatment to what Ranamon seems to keep getting
It's interesting to see which changes other localisations keep from the English one. We also have Tailmon as Gatomon, but correct me if I'm wrong I'm pretty sure in German Leopardmon is still called Duftmon.
Edit: Seems like Daemon is also in fact called Daemon or Deemon in German.
The Bond of Bravery just irks me. Whoever made that decision was probably on his first day on the job without a single shred of knowledge on digimon.
It was already gonna be the moment someone thought the design was good
It's crazy haha
They literally just need a single digimon nerd on the localization team that they run everything by before Finalizing.
I volunteer
Daemon being called creepymon is so weird, cuz even in the 02 dub i 100% remember him as Daemon
If they're not following the crest names in the bond forms Gabumon should have gotten bond of brotherhood. Matt is an older brother to start, it keeps the alliteration in both bond forms and the digi-destined are basically all siblings (brothers in arms?)
And they could both be BoB!
...i always thought the name kentaurosmon was really cool that i didnt even realize it wasn't correctly half human half horse for centaur
Daemon is a pun on the computer term, so they could get away with adding the a and calling it a day
which is what they did in the 02 dub, that's what they called him. Someone in this section made me notice that this change might be something that Disney required during they had the rights and that change stayed
I'm from Brasil and here Tailmon had the same name on dubbing. Then a lot of merch started to appear writing Gatomon and we were like "wtf? this name is so stupid" - and then, years later, we discovered it was the English localization name. Lololol
I saw the Latin American Spanish dub, and they said "Gatomon" but the text still said "TAILMON" and I couldn't read the Japanese text, so instead I thought the original Japanese name was Gatomon, that Tailmon was the North American translation, and that the Spanish dub decided to go with the original name (that happened a lot with Dragon Ball Z).
A fun fan art idea would actually be MedicalGallentmon. And instead of his lance it’s a giant syringe or something.
4:59 It maybe because they want it to sound like Kirby from Kirby since both are pink creatures of joy with dark version.
And the reason it was written like that to probably avoid a strike.
Dont forget "SlushAngemon" from the Xros Wars dub lol
KICKING myself for forgetting that one, would have easily made the top 10
if you even make a video with custom art about joke mons, we need to see how a Medical Gallantmon would look like.
I kind of understand the change form Demon/Daemon to Creepymon due to differences in how it appears spoken vs written. The original name is a pretty clever use of the MON suffix, when spoken, but when read it just immediately seems like the regular use of the word demon.
Karn, you just narrowly missed it, but you could've said Leopardmon: Beast Mode. I think that would be the best name change away from Leopardmon: Leopard Mode.
The fact it wasn't Leopardmon: Beast Mode to callback to the Human v. Beast type lore thing makes me sad, it was right there.
Can I add, Wolfmon to Lobomon, Fairymon to Kazemon, and Blitzmon to Beetlemon? Also Agnimon overly pronounced into Agunimon. In fact, basically all of the Frontier spirit digmon.
Preach Karn Preach!!!
I'm really surprised Laidramon didn't make the cut here.
0:59 I died laughing at the fact someone screamed Hatsune Miku when talking about Digimon. Already had a lot of laughing done but this made me smile.
Who knew Digmon translations and US tax code had so much in common.
I 100% agree with the agumon bond of bravery mistranslation..... Everytime I see I'm mentally go "no it's bond of courage not bond of bravery...."
Might be a fun video to have art made of digimon name localizations like MedicalGallantmon.