Of course, you always get the 'hardcore fans' who QQ at any little change in the translation, claiming the original was somehow more 'pure' or whatever. See the whole (utterly retarded) Aeris vs Aerith debate.
It's a thin line that translators/localizers have to walk, and it's impossible to please everyone. On one hand you get stuff like replacing those Jappo rice-thingies with Amurrican donuts in localized animu, on the other you run the risk of using out-of-context phrases or jokes 99% of your audience won't get and dull-sounding names.
Anonymous2: Woolsey did a great job with translation of FF6. Even though several things and names were changed it had mostly to do with technical issues and localisation rather than mistranslation. Like renaming Ultima Weapon to Atma Weapon because the original name couldn't fit into the limit of characters of enemy name slot.
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However, 'Tina' was an exotic name in Japan, whereas 'Terra' is the same sort of name here. Localization, etc. etc.
Of course, you always get the 'hardcore fans' who QQ at any little change in the translation, claiming the original was somehow more 'pure' or whatever. See the whole (utterly retarded) Aeris vs Aerith debate.
It's a thin line that translators/localizers have to walk, and it's impossible to please everyone. On one hand you get stuff like replacing those Jappo rice-thingies with Amurrican donuts in localized animu, on the other you run the risk of using out-of-context phrases or jokes 99% of your audience won't get and dull-sounding names.
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