CLANNAD TV Lineup Guesstimate #2
Friday, July 27th, 2007Going through more of the game, I figure this might be a possible way to go about things.
Archive for July, 2007
Little Busters! as an anime?
Monday, July 16th, 2007Kyoto Animation has let slip on the audio commentary of one of their recent Kanon DVDs that they would like to animate Little Busters! The question now is, does this put in stone that Tomoyo After will not be animated? Or is there always the possibility of an OVA?
Akiha Liberation
Saturday, July 7th, 2007http://www.dannychoo.com/blog_entry/eng/942/Akihabara+Liberation+Demo/
Quite fun. I wouldn’t mind being in this parade; too bad I don’t have anything to cosplay in.
Haruhi Season 2 Announcement
Thursday, July 5th, 2007haruhi1.jpg
haruhi2.jpg
haruhi3.jpg
It was coming, yeah. Question now is which is coming first; CLANNAD or Haruhi? Though CLANNAD got the first announcement (with a 30-second preview), and also has the previewing at the TBS Anime Fest coming next month, which shows greater preparation for that at the moment.
Official announcement to come onto the website on July 7 (Tanabata).
Scan source: August edition of Newtype, courtesy of eggplant
TL Standard 101
Monday, July 2nd, 2007As for how We Suck handles titles and Japanese honorifics - the No. 1 guideline that we follow is: location, location, location.We believe that an anime is in Japanese because:
- It is set in Japan and is about Japanese people, or set outside Japan but with the setting dominated by Japanese people. Alternatively, the story takes place in a fantasy alternate-universe where the environment or people is supposed to resemble Japan.
- It is set in a non-Japanese country and it is predominated by non-Japanese people. Alternatively, it is set in a fantasy setting which is an explicit simulation of a country outside Japan, and features characters that are explicitly not Japanese. (However, it is in Japanese because that is the language spoken by its viewers.)
- It is set in a 100% fantasy setting, where it’s not explicitly obvious what real-life country is being simulated.
In Case A, it would make sense to leave in the honorifics, as well as keep certain terms and cultural references untranslated (but explained via translation note). On the other hand, in Case B, the sensible thing to do would be to translate the honorifics and translate any terms originally left in Japanese - because the anime is supposed to simulate non-Japanese culture (as opposed to Japanese culture) to begin with. To hear things like “Integral-sama” in Hellsing or “Emily-chan” in Emily of New Moon would be rather jarring, to say the least. As for Case C, we evaluate on a case-by-case basis.
The majority of the projects that we’ve worked on fall under Case A. (This includes Rocket Girls, because while the anime itself takes place in a space base in Solomon Islands, said space base is occupied by Japanese people.) The only two projects we’ve done which fall under Case B is Survive (for which I wasn’t part of the group) and Saiunkoku. In the case of Saiunkoku, while we’ve taken some flak for translating all titles and honorifics in the series, we believe that it’s the right path to follow because Saiunkoku is supposed to be set in a fantasy world in the style of ancient China - if it was set in a fantasy world in the style of Japan circa the Heian-kyo era, our decision on titles and honorifics would be much different.
As for the original topic: ○○-tachi can easily be rendered as any of:
- ○○-and the others
- ○○-and company
- ○○-et al.
- ○○-and his/her friends, or even
- ○○-and (insert names of whichever other specific people are being referred to).
But I suppose there could be worse examples… it could have been “Everything is according to keikaku” for 計画通り, with a translation note explaining what keikaku means. (For the record, keikaku (計画) is Japanese for “plan”).
Indeed. Though I don’t know about where keikaku comes from, I do know of certain groups that just purely follow Case C no matter what (changing common Japanese names to Mary and Joe, for one). And certain groups that leave -tachi and yatsu alone.
You do the math. 
CLANNAD TV Translator MIA
Sunday, July 1st, 2007Which means if I can’t get a translator by the time it starts airing, I won’t be able to fansub the series.
Anyone out there who can manage? Only needs to be a purely translated script; no timing, typesetting or any of that needed whatsoever. Preferably, be able to translate the script sometime within the 24 hours of the episode airing. Everything else will be handled. Thanks to anyone who can answer the rollcall!
