kamino_neko (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kamino_neko) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} scans_daily, |
This page you've scanned highlights one of the most interesting problems in the translation game to me, and the reason I prefer subs to dubs - what do you do when you go from a language with a complicated formal/informal system to a language that has none? Russian names and Japanese titles are two of the most nuanced and difficult to get across, and even the best attempts always seem to stick out a bit to me.
And to tie this back into the LGBT thing - try translating something about a character whose gender is obscured, or otherwise ambiguous from Japanese, and see how screwy the resulting translation gets. (Does anyone know of another language that makes this as easy as Japanese does?)