Original message (1513 Views )
| Sensenic 1281th Post
 
Red Carpet Executive Member
  
    
    
    
|  "Japanese and Western sequels question" , posted Fri 18 Mar 07:48
quote:
Ahh, okay. I was wondering when it was coming out (I wonder if they'll partially translate the title for the US release......?).
"We all love KD" ? "Everybody loves KD"?
Those are far better titles than KD2, but then, who knows.
This post made by Iggy reminded me of this thing I noticed, and that recently I've been wanting to post here (although I'd always forget or be too lazy in the end). I'm just asking myself why do Japanese tend to give different names to sequels whereas here in the Western they tend to just use the usual numbers (Da Big Adventure 2, Somesport 2005, etc.). At least, that's how I see it.
A few examples to make myself more clear. Apart from the quoted Katamari Damashii one we have:
- While here in the west we got Samurai Shodown I, II, III, IV and V, as well as Samurai Spirits 64 1 and 2, the original names were: Samurai Spirits, Shin Samurai Spirits, dunno but not 3, dunno but not 4, Samurai Spirits Zero (has a number but, even in this case, it's written, spelled, if you see what I mean), Samurai Spirits: Samurai Tamashii and Samurai Spirits: Asura Zanmaden (not sure about the order of these last 2)
- I might be wrong but I think there's no Castlevania Japanese title that has a 2 or bigger in its title, with all those many sequels, prequels... They all have a different unique name.
- There's also Parodius (actually Parodiusu da!), Gokujou Parodiusu, Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodiusu, Sexy Parodiusu... (feel free to correct the spelling)
Of course, I'm not saying this is absolute or anything, I know there are many Japanese sequels with numbers on them and Western sequels without them/with different names, but (I think) the tendency is there... I just wonder why.
Nikochan dono.
Nihon mo ingenmame wo tsukurimasu Jan
|
|
Replies: |
| tenguman
117th Post
Regular Customer
| "Re(1):Japanese and Western sequels question" , posted Fri 18 Mar 07:56
quote:
- While here in the west we got Samurai Shodown I, II, III, IV and V, as well as Samurai Spirits 64 1 and 2, the original names were: Samurai Spirits, Shin Samurai Spirits, dunno but not 3, dunno but not 4, Samurai Spirits Zero (has a number but, even in this case, it's written, spelled, if you see what I mean), Samurai Spirits: Samurai Tamashii and Samurai Spirits: Asura Zanmaden (not sure about the order of these last 2)
- I might be wrong but I think there's no Castlevania Japanese title that has a 2 or bigger in its title, with all those many sequels, prequels... They all have a different unique name.
- There's also Parodius (actually Parodiusu da!), Gokujou Parodiusu, Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodiusu, Sexy Parodiusu... (feel free to correct the spelling)
- Samurai Spirits 3 and 4 are Samurai Spirits Zankurou Musouken and Samurai Spirits Amakusa Kourin
- Well, the Castlevania series has been called Akumajou Dracula since forever in Japan. They've been putting the "Castlevania" in the names of the games since Harmony of Dissonance.
As for the changed names... I can only guess it's beacuse it's better to just put a number after the game name than to try and translate the whole thing.
Besides, they must think "What the hell, the gamers (a.k.a kids) will never know the difference/won't care."
「この世に悪があるとすれば、それは人の心だ。」
|
| Sensenic 1283th Post
Red Carpet Executive Member
| "Re(2):Japanese and Western sequels question" , posted Fri 18 Mar 08:20:
quote:
- Samurai Spirits 3 and 4 are Samurai Spirits Zankurou Musouken and Samurai Spirits Amakusa Kourin
Thanks.
quote:
- Well, the Castlevania series has been called Akumajou Dracula since forever in Japan. They've been putting the "Castlevania" in the names of the games since Harmony of Dissonance.
I know, I wasn't referring to that. I mean that in all the Akumajou Dracula/Castlevania saga you won't find a Japanese title that's called Dracula 2 or Akumajou Dracula 3, for example.
quote:
As for the changed names... I can only guess it's beacuse it's better to just put a number after the game name than to try and translate the whole thing.
Besides, they must think "What the hell, the gamers (a.k.a kids) will never know the difference/won't care."
Uh-huh, I know too. I'm talking about original titles, here, not translations (well, maybe about the translations too). I mean that in the West they tend to use much more the numbers and in Japan they put different names to the sequels. I'm just wondering why.
Nikochan dono.
Nihon mo ingenmame wo tsukurimasu Jan
[this message was edited by Sensenic on Fri 18 Mar 08:40] |
|
|
