• Jmdatcs@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    So “there were lots of anime which did have official English names,” so you didn’t “come from an era before widespread official anime translations.”

    Therefore, bullshit.

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      9 months ago

      Just because some shows did have official translations and English names it does not mean that there weren’t tons and tons of shows which didn’t have any English name.

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        9 months ago

        Oh so now it’s just some instead of lots.

        And you’re in a paradigm, because you were into all those deep cuts without a translated name. We’ve probably never heard of them, because you’re into that real shit, right?

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          9 months ago

          Well, some can be lots because the volume is so large. At any rate, it wasn’t anywhere close to the majority. The bulk of anime did not have a translated name. Look at the old list of releases of almost any fansub group and you’ll be hard pressed to find titles other than the original Japanese one.

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        9 months ago

        I didn’t say there weren’t subs, I said there weren’t (that many) OFFICIAL translations. Fansubbers rarely called the shows they translated with any other title than the Japanese one.

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            9 months ago

            Well, I never bought any bootlegs, that’s even before my time. I’m talking about the time when anime fansubs were distributed digitally as torrents and such. There were lots of fansub groups and by the end almost every anime was getting translated, but the shows were almost never called anything else but the Japanese name by the fan translators.

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                9 months ago

                Why are you being so confrontational about this? Everyone called it oreimo, or baka to test, nobody used “my little sister” or “idiot exam” (I don’t even know the official name of this one). You porpusely went to the more mainstream cool stuff to try and “own” the other person.

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                9 months ago

                Well we’ve clearly been in different circles with different conventions around that time.