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it's a little of both. or, rather, the dialogue doesn't sound stilted and awkward in japanese, but translating it to english makes it sound very stilted and awkward sometimes due to the inherent differences in the languages.

however, a lot of it does have to do with fan subs are not professionally done and so do not have the highest quality.

this basically.

subbers are rarely professional language experts who can translate a piece of dialogue in a way that's smooth to us as english-speakers yet still pretty much the same thing in japanese. watching subbed anime can be painful when it's obvious the subber is just literally translating the text from japanese.

Add to that, a lot of subbing companies have two steps to translation: one person does the translating, and a second comes in and smooths it over, to make it sound more natural.

It's part of why I really like Oren's LP of SDR2: they're actually taking the time and thought to make their translations sound good. Few fansubbers do that.

few fansubbers also completely change characters and get furiously buttflustered when you call them out on it

which characters did oren change completely? not asking in a "how dare you insult oren" way, just genuinely curious, as I wasn't aware of this.

souda

someone on wankgate explained it better than i could, read the dangan ronpa canon threads there over the past few posts

ah, thank you anon

i'll try to go dig them up

souda, hinata, komaeda. those three got the worst of it iirc. a lot of the remaining characters sound different in a bad way too but they don't read as completely different like those three, so they're still sort of recognizable.

seconding the anon who suggested going through wankgate's dr canon threads if you want more info, it's been discussed at length a few times there.

if it's any indication though, basically everyone i've seen who's played the untranslated game and understands japanese either really dislike oren's sdr2 lp because of how much he and fedule changed the characters, or they just plain treat it as entirely separate from the actual game. it gets that bad.

yeah, I actually ended up finding the thread on wankgate and am super surprised at just how bad he messed with some of the characters.

honestly, I'm really hoping now that NISA will do a good job with their SDR2 localization and that it'll be more accurate than oren's.

afaik the translator for sdr2 is a fan who's played both games, so i'm hoping they'll do a good job. not sure about the editor this time though, i think he's completely new.

sdr2 has a lot of parts that are really easy to fuck up but i think they'll at least do okay. just a bit wary about the editor.

a capable translator makes all the difference

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