Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion
HanBoitheLamb said: It would have been a much bigger problem to do it in solo leveling as alot of the story works around the mc being well, korean(the jeju island inident comes to mind).Well Japanese localization strikes again! Though I'm curious why MAL chose to use the JP text instead of the og. Although the thing about Raphelia is that there is no reason to switch to Japan other than nationalism unlike Solo Leveling which I disagree with but I can understand. I may come off as woke but this kinda thing bothers me considering these countries history (it spans back really far). I'm very much assuming it was to appeal to the JP audience who may not want to touch something that has to do with Korea because well nationalism. Thoughts? In this case her previous life plays little part in the story so they can get away with it much easier. As for why they did it, why did the ghost in the shell movie use scarlett johanneson instead of a asian woman? Because it was a westernized version of the series, this goes both ways, japan has done this with american works as well. South korea probably has their own examples, but i can't say much on that. |
TatsuyaApr 14, 2023 8:03 AM
HanBoitheLamb said: And like i said this isn't a new thing nor is it uncommon worldwide, heck it's not even uncommon among western nations, alot of people don't know this but there were attempts to make americanized versions of red dwarf and doctor who, both of which have english language versions and very large followings on both sides of the atlantic, but they tried to make a american version, both failed, but my point is this is a VERY common occurance even today.Tatsuya said: It would have been a much bigger problem to do it in solo leveling as alot of the story works around the mc being well, korean(the jeju island inident comes to mind). In this case her previous life plays little part in the story so they can get away with it much easier. As for why they did it, why did the ghost in the shell movie use scarlett johanneson instead of a asian woman? Because it was a westernized version of the series, this goes both ways, japan has done this with american works as well. South korea probably has their own examples, but i can't say much on that. again, the name change is fine. westernization doesn't really say much here since the 2 countries have really similar audiences. They're probably just using the chinese character reading of the korean name and localizing that into japanese makes sense to me. but the location change was a little odd and what kinda ticked my gears. Solo Leveling to me is more excusable because of the obvious nationalistic tendencies the novel and the manhwa had In japan's case this goes back at least to the 70's and 80's with some of their anime being "westernized" in the west, probably some famous ones are voltron and gatchaman, both of which changed the names and locations of the series, this also shows what's likely to happen with this series in south korea, more than likely in the korean sub and dub it will be the original definition because with anime you can do that easily, it's harder to do that with shows. The versions we're gonna get over here is going to be the japanese version and it was localized for japan, the korean version will likely be the original location and if there's a chinese version don't be surprised if it's changed once again, while relocating has fallen out of favor in the west this is still quite common in asia. |
HanBoitheLamb said: Well Japanese localization strikes again! Though I'm curious why MAL chose to use the JP text instead of the og. Although the thing about Raphelia is that there is no reason to switch to Japan other than nationalism unlike Solo Leveling which I disagree with but I can understand. I may come off as woke but this kinda thing bothers me considering these countries history (it spans back really far). I'm very much assuming it was to appeal to the JP audience who may not want to touch something that has to do with Korea because well nationalism. Thoughts? These decisions are usually made by the ip holder, my guess is the korean publisher wants to give their products the greatest chance to succeed and this is an easy way to do that. Korean otaku media don’t have a proven track record outside of Korea. By obscuring the origins you can get people who wouldn’t otherwise be interested to check out the product. Most korean webtoons get localized to take place in japan and character names usually get changed to Japanese ones. This is the same reason why ashs name in Pokemon is ash and not satoshi outside of Japan. Maybe in the future this will change like it did for Japanese anime, but for now it will continue for the foreseeable future. |
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