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Junpei
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 Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:51 am Post subject: English/Japanese titles |
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For the English names of a couple of the films, I wonder why they altered the titles rather than simply translating what they mean.
Japanese title: Hoshi no Koe
English title: Voices of a Distant Star
Japanese title meaning: Star's Voice/Voice of Star
Japanese title: Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho
English title: The Place Promised in our Early Days
Japanese title meaning: The other side of clouds/The opposite side of clouds, the place promised
I don't know... does this make any differences really? It's probably just like the script where they change lines and other things too. Just to let you people know. What do you think?
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Menasha
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Literal translations don't work well between english and japanese. I was sad when I heard they changed Kanea's name to Serina in Cosmonaut though T_____________________T
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Laz
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I'm not looking forward to that either 
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You're a woman, I'm a calf ... you're a window, I'm a knife ... we come together making chance into starlight ... - Jeff Buckley
ここにいるよ. - Voices of a Distant Star |
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gleowine
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| Menasha wrote: | | Literal translations don't work well between english and japanese. I was sad when I heard they changed Kanea's name to Serina in Cosmonaut though T_____________________T |
At first, this puzzled me. I think what you meant to say was that they changed Kanae's voice actress' name to Serena. Those darn dubber!
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