Thread:Night Vision/@comment-30069821-20170213123728/@comment-30711988-20170214193643


 * >someone who knows the term Duodecim from the games will have no idea what "Twelve Originators" refers to

There's another side to that. In the games, both Observer and Bystander are called "Observer". So if someone wants to know more about Bystander!Observer, they go to the wiki, see the Observer!Observer page, and get the wrong idea about the term's meaning. And the Bystander page has the convenient "localized as Observer" thing that shows up on the search page.

We wouldn't do the change if localization had different terms for Observers and Bystanders, magic and sorcery, Sheol Gates and Yomi Gates, Grimoires and Grimoires, Blue Grimoire and Blue/Green Grimoire, Beastmen and Half-Beastmen and Demi-humans, Magic formulas and weapons and armaments. We wouldn't do the change if the localization didn't invent several terms for Prime Fields, Original Grimoire, both Murakumos, poor little Tartar, Sealed Armament: Izayoi, Ishana, Outseal, Phenomenon Intervention, Day of Ruin. What about the characters, whose names changed throughout the series? Tartar's not the only one. Ryouko was called "Suzuko", even though people clearly say "Ryouko" and there's no dub to cover that. Clavis was called "Claudius". Trinity's last name was "Glassfield" before they suddenly decided to change it. Tomonori's name in the Library is "Tonomori". And do I really need to constantly remind everyone about "Amano Hokozaka Homura"?

We'd leave localization with its "Night Night Hours" and such, but because of all the BS listed above, we can't. Try to understand, localization makes everything way more confusing than translations. Remember the time when everyone thought that "Abyss of the Azure" is a term? It's not. In the original, Japanese, version, it's "The Azure of Abyss". Azure, not some weird abyss thing.

You may argue that we can just translate the confusing things and keep other terms localized, but still it would require a lot of changing that will be confusing to someone new. So there's no difference between translating all, or translating a part.