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Engrish and Anime
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lazerbem	Oct 27 2015, 07:56 PM Post #1
Posts: 10,662 Group: Forum Moderator Member #10,435 Joined: November 1, 2013 Gender Male Country United States Favourite Anime Asura's Wrath(it counts) What Browser do you use? Google Chrome	Why is it such a particularly common thing? Three examples off the top of my head "Bru Eyzo White Doragon"-Yugioh "Finar Frash"-DBZ ....This from Hellsing
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+ Pelador	Oct 27 2015, 08:03 PM Post #2
Crazy Awesome Legend Posts: 25,663 Group: Legend Member #4,634 Joined: December 12, 2009 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime HunterxHunter What Browser do you use? Firefox Favourite Manga Dragonball	Would an English speaker be any better having to read Kanji?
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lazerbem	Oct 27 2015, 11:13 PM Post #3
Posts: 10,662 Group: Forum Moderator Member #10,435 Joined: November 1, 2013 Gender Male Country United States Favourite Anime Asura's Wrath(it counts) What Browser do you use? Google Chrome	Obviously not, but it's not quite as common. You don't generally see people saying stuff like "Aoimoku no haku ryū" for the name of something.
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Tinny	Oct 27 2015, 11:43 PM Post #4
Posts: 6,060 Group: Super Moderator Member #12,355 Joined: May 24, 2015 Gender Not Specified Favourite Anime Silver Spoon, Fate/Zero, Legend of Galactic Heroes, Space Patrol Luluco, Psycho-pass, Miss Kobayashi What Browser do you use? Chrome, Edge Favourite Manga Wizard's Soul ~Holy War of Love~	Japan just seems to have a real fascination with the English language, at least in anime. Kind of similar for German as well, but not as common. Unfortunately this doesn't translate to good English
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TheACE	Oct 28 2015, 12:05 AM Post #5
The Last GT Fighter Posts: 4,146 Group: Member Member #9,279 Joined: March 31, 2013 Favourite Anime DB/Z/GT, Digimon, YYH, Yugioh!, GetBackers What Browser do you use? Chrome, Safari, IE Favourite Manga Rave Master, FLCL, .hack//legendofthetwilight, Naruto II	It just sounds cool. It's like the way we keep certain Japanese words and names in translation. Like Naruto for example. Rasengan has a translation "Spiraling Sphere." But Rasengan sounds fierce, cool, exotic and marketable.
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+ QueenTD	Oct 28 2015, 12:18 AM Post #6
My Dear Melancholy, Posts: 4,480 Group: Elite Member Member #11,589 Joined: August 8, 2014 Gender Female Country United States	Some words or phrases just sound awesome in English. And vice versa. Would you rather kamehameha or Turtle destruction wave?
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lazerbem	Oct 28 2015, 12:48 AM Post #7
Posts: 10,662 Group: Forum Moderator Member #10,435 Joined: November 1, 2013 Gender Male Country United States Favourite Anime Asura's Wrath(it counts) What Browser do you use? Google Chrome	Yeah, but the pronunciation of Kamehameha doesn't exactly vary too much between languages. This isn't really a case of Engrish so much as weird lyrics, but the Aldnoah Zero songs are a mess of German, Japanese, Chinese, and English being thrown around without any logic Quote: 決めつけばかり自惚れを着たチープなhokoriで音荒げても棚に隠した哀れな恥に濡れた鏡の中都合の傷だけひけらかして手軽強さで勝取る術をどれだけ磨いでも気はやつれるふらついた思想通りだ愛-same-CRIER 愛撫-save-LIAR Eid-聖-Rising HELL 愛してる Game世界のDay Don’t-生-War Lie-兵士-War-World Eyes-Hate-War A-Z Looser-Krankheit-Was IS das? 受け売り盾に見下しててもそこには地面しかない事さえ気付かぬままに壊れた過去に負けた鏡の奥どこまで叫ベば位置を知れるとどめもないまま息が切れる堂々された罪の群れと後ろ向きにあらがう愛-same-CRIER 愛撫-save-LIAR Aid-聖-Rising HELL I’ll-ness Reset-Endじゃない Burst Don’t-生-War Lie-兵士-War-World Eyes-Hate-War A-Z 想像High-de-Siehst YOU das? 偽の態度な臆病Loud Voice 気高さを勘違いした心臓音狙い通りの幻見ても満たせない何度も目を開けてもどこまで叫ベば位置を知れるとどめもないまま息が切れる堂々さらした罪の群れと後ろ向きにあらがう愛-same-CRIER 愛撫-save-LIAR Eid-聖-Rising HELL 愛してる Game世界のDay Don’t-生-War Lie-兵士-War-World Eyes-Hate-War A-Z Looser-Krankheit-Was IS das? Leben, was ist das? Signal, Siehst du das? Rade, die du nicht weisst Aus eigenem Willen Leben, was ist das? Signal, Siehst du das? Rade, die du nicht weisst Sieh mit deinen Augen
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+ Steve	Oct 28 2015, 12:47 PM Post #8
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season. Posts: 19,471 Group: Legend Member #5,710 Joined: February 7, 2011 Gender Male Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter(2011) What Browser do you use? Mozilla Firefox Favourite Manga Berserk all day erry day	I don't know why it'd be common but I think it sounds pretty cool, it's either cool or great for comedic effect. Cool being like this: http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/bleach/lifeislikeaboat.htm That's the first ending song for the Bleach anime, which is pretty much 50/50 between English and Japanese and actually flows pretty damn well. And then for comedic effect it works well too: (I promise it's not on purpose the same VA done those...) I think it's pretty cool how they seem to like our language even though they have a fairly xenophobic culture. It's nice that even though there's bad blood between both sides(at least Japan and the US anyway) we can both enjoy each others entertainment and connect through that.
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Doflamingo	Oct 28 2015, 01:13 PM Post #9
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Accelerator	Oct 28 2015, 09:31 PM Post #10
最強の能力者 Posts: 7,505 Group: Super Moderator Member #7,059 Joined: December 12, 2011 Gender Female Country United States Favourite Anime Raildex/Monogatari, Mirai Nikki, Nanatsu no Taizai, Katanagatari, Clannad, Shigatsu, Angel Beats! What Browser do you use? Chrome Favourite Manga Tokyo Ghoul, Nanatsu no Taizai, Joshiraku, Owari no Seraph, Railgun, Mangaka-san	Foreign is cool. They're also bad at English because they don't learn it with our syllables, they learn it with theirs.
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lazerbem	Oct 29 2015, 12:05 AM Post #11
Posts: 10,662 Group: Forum Moderator Member #10,435 Joined: November 1, 2013 Gender Male Country United States Favourite Anime Asura's Wrath(it counts) What Browser do you use? Google Chrome	Accelerator Oct 28 2015, 09:31 PM Foreign is cool. They're also bad at English because they don't learn it with our syllables, they learn it with theirs. I was under the impression that the Japanese were super xenophobic
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Darker	Oct 29 2015, 12:22 AM Post #12
The Lord of the Dark Posts: 15,357 Group: Member Member #11,968 Joined: January 7, 2015 Gender Male Country Spain	lazerbem Oct 28 2015, 12:48 AM Yeah, but the pronunciation of Kamehameha doesn't exactly vary too much between languages. Oh man, you'd be surprised lazer. I f***ing love this idiotic and badly-translated dub. It's the worst. But it's also the best.
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Accelerator	Oct 29 2015, 01:12 AM Post #13
最強の能力者 Posts: 7,505 Group: Super Moderator Member #7,059 Joined: December 12, 2011 Gender Female Country United States Favourite Anime Raildex/Monogatari, Mirai Nikki, Nanatsu no Taizai, Katanagatari, Clannad, Shigatsu, Angel Beats! What Browser do you use? Chrome Favourite Manga Tokyo Ghoul, Nanatsu no Taizai, Joshiraku, Owari no Seraph, Railgun, Mangaka-san	lazerbem Oct 29 2015, 12:05 AM Accelerator Oct 28 2015, 09:31 PM Foreign is cool. They're also bad at English because they don't learn it with our syllables, they learn it with theirs. I was under the impression that the Japanese were super xenophobic They like Americans Source: I talk to Japanese people
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lazerbem	Oct 29 2015, 01:36 AM Post #14
Posts: 10,662 Group: Forum Moderator Member #10,435 Joined: November 1, 2013 Gender Male Country United States Favourite Anime Asura's Wrath(it counts) What Browser do you use? Google Chrome	Accelerator Oct 29 2015, 01:12 AM lazerbem Oct 29 2015, 12:05 AM Accelerator Oct 28 2015, 09:31 PM Foreign is cool. They're also bad at English because they don't learn it with our syllables, they learn it with theirs. I was under the impression that the Japanese were super xenophobic They like Americans Source: I talk to Japanese people Fair enough. Any particular reason why? I know that Germany also gets lots of love
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Accelerator	Oct 29 2015, 01:47 AM Post #15
最強の能力者 Posts: 7,505 Group: Super Moderator Member #7,059 Joined: December 12, 2011 Gender Female Country United States Favourite Anime Raildex/Monogatari, Mirai Nikki, Nanatsu no Taizai, Katanagatari, Clannad, Shigatsu, Angel Beats! What Browser do you use? Chrome Favourite Manga Tokyo Ghoul, Nanatsu no Taizai, Joshiraku, Owari no Seraph, Railgun, Mangaka-san	Uh I'm not sure why exactly. Yeah they are fond of Germany too. To be fair though, from my experience, they seem pretty fond of every first world country that isn't an Asian one.
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