Quote Originally Posted by Aeyis View Post
Adding color to the dialogue changes much of the original meaning. Regardless of actual translation skill it makes for a terrible translation.
So does removing color from dialog, but that's unavoidable because different languages have different ways of adding "color" and it's not the sort of thing that can generally cross from one language to another, especially if they're unrelated languages like Japanese and English. Removing color and then adding a rather different color back in is slightly closer to preserving the intent than removing color and leaving just the bare literal meaning to stand alone.