Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26871067-20161019085933/@comment-26871067-20161020060108

&quot;I Want a Stand&quot; by me wrote: Well, translations are bound to be flawed, that's why it's called translations (trying to describe elaborate the context of a language in another language). Translations would be perfect if everybody live in the same culture, just with different languages, but that's not really true, hence it makes translations sometimes a pain of a job because you could be talking about something that simply doesn't exist or outright make no sense in the language/culture you're trying to translate the material to.

So we're gonna give some leeway for this kind of thing tbh.

Some transiterations are done because it sounds nice, sometimes it's avoided because it is just awkward (I mean can you imagine Hisoka being called "Sneaky" throughout the entire series? I personally don't want that).

But yes, you do have some points. As funny as it would be to me, I totally agree that renaming Hisoka to "Sneaky" would be patently absurd, maybe that wasn't completely clear.

My point on the matter besides joking about it was that it's annoying to me (which doesn't mean I'm right, just that I have an opinion) that Viz lacks consistency on the matter in only translating some names. Obviously, I personally would not have chosen to translate Senritsu's name. I just think that if some (unnecessary IMO, I understand it's not a unanimous opinion) translations are being avoided for the sake of not sounding weird, other translations in the same categoy should also be avoided.

I honestly just believe in following a standard - if one name with a potential translation is going to be translated, all of them should be. Otherwise, none of them should be. And "Sneaky" is a damn good reason for none of them being translated. That's my perspective on it.