Thread:Kouzen/@comment-8695373-20161104082022

Believing localization is always a BAD idea. Your point is that translators know better, but they don't, otherwise they wouldn't call Tenjo a man while she was a woman all along.

Localization turned both sorcery and magic into magic, while the two things are different, it turned both observers and bystanders into observers, so CF has two Library entries named "Observer" which describe the completely different things. Localization has five different names for Ishana, while Japanese version has only one, and two names for Crystal Sealing Blade, while the Japanese version has only one.

Localization presented us with "Amanohokosaka" and "Amano Hokozaka" being used in the same sentence. "Power of Order" was turned into "Order of Power", "Original Grimoire" was translated as "Origin of the Grimoire". "Boundary Interface Prime Field Device" was also called a "Contingency Medium", while the Japanese version uses one term for this. "Tartar" was called "Tata" and "Ta-ta". "Phenomenon Intervention" was called "Causal distortion". And remember about "Ryouko" being turned into "Suzuko", even though there is no English dub and characters clearly say "Ryouko".

Until the Library was translated, "Armagus" was used for two terms. Localization gave us a non-existent term, "Abyss of the Azure", which, in the Japanese version, is "The Azure of Abyss", and is just "Azure" in Arakune-speak.

Seriously, don't believe the localization. 