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Old 2003-12-09, 19:54   Link #87
Mr. Bushido
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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Originally Posted by snoopy
From what I've seen of TP, they make no effort at doing anything with sfx. Be that romanizing them or translating them. ADV leaves them in, yet provides a translation (bam, boom, chirp, etc) off to the side, which I believe to be the best method, leaving it for purists such as myself, and giving illiterate 15 year olds a way to know what's happening. And no, not all 15 year olds are japanese illiterate. But I was, so there.

And I've never seen Raika, so I can't comment on that...
TP attempted the side sfx translation in LH up tp vol.7, then they gave up. Wonder why tho?
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