If I'm trying to watch a dubbed crime drama and the main character's name in my language just happens to be Mr. Poopypants I'm going to have a hard time taking it seriously.
With subtitles I want it to match the audio. Even in Korean ones where they say their whole three-syllable name but often put "Mr Park" in the subtitles annoys me because it doesn't match the audio.
I hate dubs with a passion nowadays so that is not really relevant to me. What is relevant to me is them adding modern slang to translation. They recently added "no cap" to a dragon ball game said by young Trunks. What the actual fuck is wrong with these "people"? And with translating names of places and people: I have not seen one that wasn't utterly cringe. The game is set in a Japanese setting for example: I don't want to meet Peter Smith in the city of Chicago when in the original I would meet someone who sounds appropriate to the setting.
The example with Mist is a funny one, if you said I would say it very German it obviously sounds like the German one but speak it a bit more English and it suddenly is fine. Gift is another fun word for that since the word means poison. Yet, the word gift shop I heard before, I don't expect them to sell me poison there, lol.
What if the name actually was supposed to be something stupid, but would make no sense to people of other regions? Doemu Ketsuhatto/Perv Asshat, for example.
If I'm trying to watch a dubbed crime drama and the main character's name in my language just happens to be Mr. Poopypants I'm going to have a hard time taking it seriously.
With subtitles I want it to match the audio. Even in Korean ones where they say their whole three-syllable name but often put "Mr Park" in the subtitles annoys me because it doesn't match the audio.
I hate dubs with a passion nowadays so that is not really relevant to me. What is relevant to me is them adding modern slang to translation. They recently added "no cap" to a dragon ball game said by young Trunks. What the actual fuck is wrong with these "people"? And with translating names of places and people: I have not seen one that wasn't utterly cringe. The game is set in a Japanese setting for example: I don't want to meet Peter Smith in the city of Chicago when in the original I would meet someone who sounds appropriate to the setting.
The example with Mist is a funny one, if you said I would say it very German it obviously sounds like the German one but speak it a bit more English and it suddenly is fine. Gift is another fun word for that since the word means poison. Yet, the word gift shop I heard before, I don't expect them to sell me poison there, lol.
Mortal Kombat: Deception had its name changed in France to Mortal Kombat: Mystification.
Why?
If they left the title as is, it would sound to French-speakers as Mortal Kombat: Disappointment
Sounds about right.
What if the name actually was supposed to be something stupid, but would make no sense to people of other regions? Doemu Ketsuhatto/Perv Asshat, for example.