Last Topic: 8:28:45am, 10/29/2023
Last Post: 11:42:20am, 04/26/2024
People seem to prefer localization, only if it agrees to their preconceived political beliefs. I'm always against it completely; it seems like the people defending these localizations also got mad at the localizations in Netflix's Evangelion sub such as changing a previous translations version of "Love" to "Like" or "Terrorism" to "Left Wing Terrorism."
For me, I want to respect the original authorial intent no matter what. It's frankly offensive for a "localizer" to think they should "improve" a work because whether you like the change or not it wasn't the original author's intent for it to be read like that. It's essentially like me splashing yellow paint all over a statue because yellow is my favorite color; I might find it more aesthetically pleasing but that wasn't what the creator intended.