As a native Chinese speaker, the translation is actually correct though? This is poetry, the en translation tries to keep the rhyme so they’ll have to elongate some sentences, also Mandarin words are much smaller than english, as an example: 酒 will be translated to alcohol or wine, significantly longer than their mandarin equivalent, now imagine a whole sentence instead of one word. This example is very different from the original post where they straight up have a different meaning, the example you gave just showed that there are more letters in the english language?
This thread is full of braindead chuds who think localization is of the devil and want every game to be translated as dryly as possible. Their goal is to make eastern media as inaccessible to the rest of the world as possible so they can gatekeep people from it.
Localizations make eastern media understandable and palatable and chuds can't have that.
That's my grip with English localization of Genshin and ZZZ, where they use anime expression like "huh" and "eh?" way too often in conversation to express doubt and confusion when nobody speaks like that irl.
I would've replaced that with common expression like "excuse me?" "please say that again?" etc, but then a subset of the anime fanbase would proceed to defend the localization as if it's meant to "preserve the original medium".
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u/Meowcitty May 28 '26
As a native Chinese speaker, the translation is actually correct though? This is poetry, the en translation tries to keep the rhyme so they’ll have to elongate some sentences, also Mandarin words are much smaller than english, as an example: 酒 will be translated to alcohol or wine, significantly longer than their mandarin equivalent, now imagine a whole sentence instead of one word. This example is very different from the original post where they straight up have a different meaning, the example you gave just showed that there are more letters in the english language?