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If we were to use an unofficial translation, we'd be picking one from many. You can say that no one knows it by its Japanese name, but the people who know by an English name only know it by that name because they were told it by that name. If they were told it by the Japanese name they'd probably be using that too. |
If we were to use an unofficial translation, we'd be picking one from many. You can say that no one knows it by its Japanese name, but the people who know by an English name only know it by that name because they were told it by that name. If they were told it by the Japanese name they'd probably be using that too. |
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⚫ | Knowing things by Japanese names isn't uncommon (imagine if people started calling "Ni no Kuni" "Secound Country" before Wrath of the White Witch"!). Take for example the light novel and anime Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei. This one's an interesting example because the Japanese logo actually includes the English text "The Irregular at Magic High School", yet still if you google both titles in quotation marks, the Japanese name gets well over double the results! In this case we'd still use the English name because it's official, but this case highlights that people get by fine knowing things by a nonsense name. |
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− | Knowing things by Japanese names isn't uncommon. I don't know, were people calling "Ni no Kuni" on DS "Second Country" in English speaking countries? |
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For a more comparable example, there's an anime called "Ashita no Nadja" which has never been licensed in English. A translation would be "Tomorrow's Nadja" or "Nadja of Tomorrow", and neither gets results anywhere close to "Ashita no Nadja". |
For a more comparable example, there's an anime called "Ashita no Nadja" which has never been licensed in English. A translation would be "Tomorrow's Nadja" or "Nadja of Tomorrow", and neither gets results anywhere close to "Ashita no Nadja". |