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Old 2013-02-09, 13:14   Link #219
Frailty
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Pearl of the Orient Seas
Age: 31
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Originally Posted by Kudryavka View Post
Another dumb English only title, Mangagamer's Higurashi When They Cry. It'd be fine to either keep it Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Or change the whole thing to When the Cicadas Cry. Or just change it to When They Cry to keep it open to the later Koro ni titles. Or just call it Higurashi, because god knows the only people who would dare buy their translation already know the games by just Higurashi. Instead they make the stupid decision to half translate it, then write it in this poopoo Englishy way. Higurashi When They Cry?? No colon?? Why? And who is "They" in that phrase?? Even When the Higurashi Cry would be better, though it would still suck.

Either translate the whole thing, or don't translate anything and just transliterate it. There's a difference between preserving untranslatable language differences and being lazy. Don't do that.
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