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Aug 21, 2017 4:57 PM
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Seriously, are you gonna mess up any other title?
Aug 21, 2017 5:25 PM
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It was Captain Harlock for the longest time. Dunno why someone decided to change everything Harlock to Herlock. Herlock just sounds wrong. LOL
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Oct 26, 2017 5:14 AM
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What the actual fuck MAL. How do changes like these get accepted, but not ones that are legitimately proven and useful?

Dec 22, 2017 5:05 PM
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This must be fixed.
Dec 22, 2017 5:42 PM
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I was wondering why they changed the name. Was a mod tweaking out or something?
Dec 25, 2017 8:26 AM
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Seriously, what the actual f*ck! I wouldn't even watch a movie named Captain Herlock in the first place!
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Jan 1, 2018 3:55 AM
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What the???? Herlock? It sounds ridiculous, who approved this? It's literally Captain Harlock everywhere. Give an answer mods, why is it that it's different on mal than anywhere else? Look at the poster and tell me it's Herlock, it would be different for he old one because they weren't that good in english during that time.
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May 15, 2019 4:33 AM
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Came to report this same issue, too. The title at https://myanimelist.net/anime/17269/Captain_Herlock shows an image of the film poster, where this is spelled "Harlock." Please update this for accuracy.

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May 15, 2019 3:14 PM
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antigraviton said:
Came to report this same issue, too. The title at https://myanimelist.net/anime/17269/Captain_Herlock shows an image of the film poster, where this is spelled "Harlock." Please update this for accuracy.


Afraid to notify everyone but it has been long so: The staff here does not care a bit for the aestetics and common sense. They only support what is lucrative and popular, leaving the rest of the site unmoderated. Just a heads up.
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May 28, 2019 5:25 PM

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Guess it's up to us to work to become noticed, then, if not to gain a foothold in a higher editing-rights space so as to make such corrections ourselves...

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Jun 17, 2019 10:32 AM

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It's official, it's not the usual american change or MAL thing.

It's a problem born from the Japanese's way of transcripting their sounds. Turned into kana, it could give harlock but it was thought as Herlock. (I can't find Matsumoto's say about that, zut)


@omy785 Sorry you took it for you. I was not trying to defend it, only giving the reason. And I know I didn't bring the text I had read nor did I explain myself decently but the kana don't prove anything against it. The problem is born from the gap between the way they transcript in alphabet based on what they think is the way westerners (aka american peoples for some, others in other cases) say those letters combination´s, the name was probably made the reversal way (letters -› kana), I-m not sure anymore. So, between
Sorry again for not being clear enough, I really can't find the clear explanation again or else I would have scanned it (it's interesting).
Anyway, no use of trying to argue, I sadly can't report the info in a decent way. -_-

France had a hard time already giving up "Albator" so we stayed with Harlock. (and, like you said, it isn't false)

PS: just look at the kana used for the english "her" or for the name "Hercules"
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Jun 19, 2019 3:39 PM
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Rei366 said:
It's official, it's not the usual american change or MAL thing.

It's a problem born from the Japanese's way of transcripting their sounds. Turned into kana, it could give harlock but it was thought as Herlock. (I can't find Matsumoto's say about that, zut)

Well, it's not really official since it's been officially Harlock for decades. Maybe it was thought differently but it's been written Harlock forever. Also in katakana it's always been written as "haarokku" not "heerokku", there's clear a difference.
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how many years has to pass to get the title right?
examples:
anidb
imdb
rottentomatoes

it's only in the OVA the name is seen as "Herlock"

anidb
imdb
rottentomatoes
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DJackerick said:
how many years has to pass to get the title right?
examples:
anidb
imdb
rottentomatoes

it's only in the OVA the name is seen as "Herlock"

anidb
imdb
rottentomatoes


This. If we can't agree on which spelling is correct, let's at least start with being consistent in how the thing's been spelled historically (and, again, how it's spelled on the official poster). >:-j
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Apr 30, 2020 1:57 PM

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It's still "Herlock" and counting
Apr 6, 2021 11:06 PM

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It's "SHerlock" now lol
Apr 8, 2021 4:08 PM
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Why'd it suddenly change to Captain SHerlock lmao
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I am here for the 'SHerlock' comments
Jun 19, 2022 4:18 AM

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Rei_III said:

It's official, it's not the usual american change or MAL thing.

It's a problem born from the Japanese's way of transcripting their sounds. Turned into kana, it could give harlock but it was thought as Herlock. (I can't find Matsumoto's say about that, zut)

The transcription of HARLOCK is right there on the Japanese poster, making it obvious what the intended romanji version should be. MAL is literally the only site that referst to the franchise as "Herlock".
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Aug 19, 2022 5:17 AM

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abystoma2 said:
Rei_III said:

It's official, it's not the usual american change or MAL thing.

It's a problem born from the Japanese's way of transcripting their sounds. Turned into kana, it could give harlock but it was thought as Herlock. (I can't find Matsumoto's say about that, zut)

The transcription of HARLOCK is right there on the Japanese poster, making it obvious what the intended romanji version should be. MAL is literally the only site that referst to the franchise as "Herlock".


Yeah I agree, it literally says Harlock on the poster and is written as ハーロック. The japanese wiki also has Harlock really bold.
As others mentioned earlier, the name is only used in an older OVA.

Not to forget that the official website is Harlock-movie and not Herlock-movie

So not sure who changed it from Harlock to Herlock, but for the love of this database, please a mod change it to its right name
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