Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-26871067-20161019162300

MrGenial11 wrote: Olivemeister wrote: MrGenial11 wrote: Olivemeister wrote: So, since Viz is apparently relevant and is information that is considered canonical to the wiki, here's this. What's written on the official site has 0 credibility, this is what they had to say about the Dark Continent 9 chapters bundle, I'm convinced the ones who write those descriptions don't even read the actual manga. I completely agree - in my Google Doc I pointed out how repeatedly inaccurate this kind of thing tends to be (so much of this stuff is absolute crap, they're rife with wrong info). I only noted this because of what OPN said here. My only intention here was to note that if Viz is considered acceptable material for the wiki, this has relevance even if it's barely relevant.

I honestly have loads of issues with Viz's translations of the series, and I legit don't consider this to be proof of anything in the slightest. I brought it up because I was told Viz's statements were relevant. I consider them on the same level as the character bios and databooks - dubious authorship at best, and regularly wrong. That's the major reason I never posted anything about this in the first place - this stuff's wrong all the time, but the databook is mentioned in here, so why not this too? Well it is viable and acceptable material until someone with japanese knowledge successfully refutes it with the original source material.

Also, you seem to have a problem with the Viz Translator, this is somewhat off-topic but maybe you'd be interested in listening to this interview with the translator (it lasts for the first 13 minutes). I don't think it's an issue of japanese language knowledge, she probably has more experience with it than you ever will, I think it's just done that way in order to make it readable and coherent for the english readers. The problem I have with Viz's translations doesn't have much to do with needing to restructure sentences. This is absolutely vital due to the differences between rules of grammar and sentence structure, I hope you won't misunderstand what my concern is. What I don't understand are baffling choices like changing the way Alluka and Nanika refer to Killua (the English version of the manga has Alluka using "Killua" and Nanika using "big brother", as noted in Alluka's trivia section) or completely changing the tone of lines (a lot of emotional intimacy was very much dulled down). But I agree this is off-topic, so if you'd like to discuss it somewhere else I'm more than willing to do so.