the stand name censorship is wack

Jun 4, 12:05 AM

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im bringing this up because i have been forced to watch stone ocean with the subtitles having the censored names, and i gotta say WOW THEY ARE AWFUL. some of the more egregious ones ive seen so far are changing "white snake" to "pale snake", "marilyn manson" changed to "mary lynn manson" and fucking "kiss" to "smack". FUCKING "SMACK". i knew this was a problem with jojos before but now seeing it in action is just unbearable.

im too stupid to think of something clever to put here so just pretend i put something insightful and life changing

Jun 4, 12:11 AM

Piromysl

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Netflix subs are infamously bad. Not only in this show. They are usually slapped effortlessly and with haste. Fansub is the way to go.

Jun 4, 1:12 AM

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It’s to avoid lawsuits since the names of Stands come from actual musicians or bands

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Jun 4, 1:14 AM

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Mary lynn manson is probably the least shit name they've come up with. It's at least a homophone. I hate that shit but I get it seeing how trigger happy some record labels and their lawyers are.
Radiohead were sued for a chord progression, Marvin Gaye's estate sues because the "vibe" is similar and the Verve were sued because they needed to get permissions from 10 different people and forgot one.

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Jun 4, 1:50 AM

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Golden wind broke my heart. What happened to sex pistols man.

Jun 4, 1:54 AM

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The one that gets me is "Ya-Ya Ma". It's not copyrightable; it's a given name.

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Jun 4, 2:56 AM

beatmymachine

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do you want them to get sued if they used correct stand names?

Jun 4, 3:15 AM

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I’m just annoyed that Limp Bizkit didn’t get localised to “Flaccid Pancake” cause that was objectively hilarious
Also some of the names were actually good, Made in Heaven —> Maiden Heaven is really cool

Jun 4, 3:37 AM

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beatmymachine said:
do you want them to get sued if they used correct stand names?

Tbh I wouldn't mind Netflix being sued and loosing money.

Jun 4, 3:42 AM

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MatijaCale said:

beatmymachine said:
do you want them to get sued if they used correct stand names?

Tbh I wouldn't mind Netflix being sued and loosing money.

lmao tbh same, imo netflix ruins anime

Jun 4, 5:07 AM

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lol in Hollywood movies if anyone speaks korean it just says (speaking korean)
horrendously bad...
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Jun 4, 5:07 AM

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aky0b

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I'm afraid sakamoto days is next and They're gonna ruin SBR too

Jun 4, 7:25 AM

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What do you mean they change them so they don’t get sued. Would you rather them have a lawsuit so you can’t watch it at all? Or have them change the names a bit?

Jun 4, 7:31 AM

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do you want them to get sued if they used correct stand names?

@beatmymachine how the fuck is the word "Kiss" copyrighted? like yes i know its a name of a band but its also just a fucking word they could probably get away with it

im too stupid to think of something clever to put here so just pretend i put something insightful and life changing

Jun 4, 7:35 AM

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Golden wind broke my heart. What happened to sex pistols man.

@Buny0058 yeah i only talked about the part 6 ones here but the part 5 ones should be considered war crimes. Aerosmith to Lil' Bomber, Sticky Fingers to Zipper Man, the list goes on.

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Jun 4, 7:44 AM

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to all the people saying "oh its to avoid a lawsuit" i know that but it's still a pain in the ass having jolyne call her stand "stone free" and the subtitles say "stone ocean"

im too stupid to think of something clever to put here so just pretend i put something insightful and life changing

Jun 4, 9:02 AM

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the way they changed AC/DC to esidisi always cracks me up bro
at least part 4 copyrighted names weren't that bad imo, but part 5 names are hilarious

Jun 4, 9:19 AM

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Piromysl said:
Netflix subs are infamously bad. Not only in this show. They are usually slapped effortlessly and with haste. Fansub is the way to go.

Damn right they are. If you listen carefully, they omit chunks of information. It is common to see entire sentences (if you know Japanese language) being completely absent from the subtitles. I also observed how much they “tone down” what the characters are saying and completely change the meaning.
I am not kidding when I say that it looks like Netflix uses automatic online translation. Because simple sentences that have nothing “offensive” or “insulting” are completely changes and, so many times, just wrong all entirely.
I avoid seeing anime in Netflix when possible.

Jun 4, 12:35 PM

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CirceOwO said:
the way they changed AC/DC to esidisi always cracks me up bro
at least part 4 copyrighted names weren't that bad imo, but part 5 names are hilarious

That's actually how Araki's always spelled the name. If it was meant to be "AC/DC", it would be spelt out with English letters rather than katakana.

Jun 4, 5:19 PM

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Bro when I saw Kiss was translated to Smack, I punched my screen cuz ain't no fuckin way that's what they came up with 💀

Jun 9, 3:00 PM

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Piromysl said:
Netflix subs are infamously bad. Not only in this show. They are usually slapped effortlessly and with haste. Fansub is the way to go.

But this isn’t Netflix’s fault. Didn’t they use these names in the game before part 6 came out

Jun 9, 3:11 PM

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The censorship is even funnier in the Latin American Spanish dub because they also use the censored names from the English release. Hearing all those weird localized names in Spanish is simply hilarious.

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Piromysl said:
Netflix subs are infamously bad. Not only in this show. They are usually slapped effortlessly and with haste. Fansub is the way to go.

But this isn’t Netflix’s fault. Didn’t they use these names in the game before part 6 came out

@AchmodinIV they use stand names in the official English manga translation by VIZ and Netflix or who ever uses those.

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