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    Candy Lemonade
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    Sagittarius
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    Dark Knight Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
    It's just a dirty way of questioning if her hair colour is natural or not. Not exactly a common "joke", but not a rare one. It's in keeping with the tone of ARR and HW's writing, which could get pretty blue sometimes, and I don't really get how it's out of character for someone like Emmannellain.

    I can see why you'd find it gross as a matter of personal taste, but picking out this scene out of all the other crude jokes and differing translations is a bit weird. You know like 80% of the jokes and references in the game are purely an English localisation thing and not in the JP translation, right?
    Of course I know, ARR and HW are the most changed ones. Like, the last cutscene of DRK 50 lvl quests is absolutely different in localization. But this is a question for an another thread xD

    I understand that 80% of the localization is the translators' own ideas which even aren't connected with "cultural differences", this is a very common practice in EN localizations, but is this an excuse? I'm not saying that there's a need to check the entire localization and remove the gross jokes, it's just that here the situation is almost the same as with the old description of Moenbryda's minion. A gross joke about a character who sacrificed herself for the WoL and friends. As I already said, this is a mockery of the context, and it's also pretty out of Emmanellain's character. I added a screenshot from the JP version only to provide context, that this is not just a "translation of what was", but an inappropriate thing added for some unknown reason. If there was a complaint about the quality of the translation, I would say about other things/quests/lines, not this moment.
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    Last edited by Margasian; 04-09-2025 at 10:23 PM.