| Seems like a good time to ask what specific criteria is observed when it comes to the main title of a series considering how vocal everyone is with the changes from iconic names to their japanese counterparts. From my understanding, they're trying to name the series/manga based on the canon title when released? or are the titles' characters directly translated to romaji? Does that mean we will be seeing something like Steins; Gate to turn out like Sutayns Gate or some shit? A little bit of elaboration is appreciated |
| a related note i keep saying to threads like this is they have plans to give users a button switch in language title (from english to japanese and vice versa) so because there is a new owner now then maybe gonna start development again of the site soon its safe to say that all titles will be in japanese by default (sooner or later) source for that plan https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/3gedyl/im_xinil_creator_and_lead_admin_of_myanimelist/ctxg35q/ |
deg said: Does Xinil still have authority over the changes made on this site?a related note i keep saying to threads like this is they have plans to give users a button switch in language title (from english to japanese and vice versa) so because there is a new owner now then maybe gonna start development again of the site soon its safe to say that all titles will be in japanese by default (sooner or later) source for that plan https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/3gedyl/im_xinil_creator_and_lead_admin_of_myanimelist/ctxg35q/ |
EGOIST said: deg said: Does Xinil still have authority over the changes made on this site?a related note i keep saying to threads like this is they have plans to give users a button switch in language title (from english to japanese and vice versa) so because there is a new owner now then maybe gonna start development again of the site soon its safe to say that all titles will be in japanese by default (sooner or later) source for that plan https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/3gedyl/im_xinil_creator_and_lead_admin_of_myanimelist/ctxg35q/ probably not since he is not the owner anymore for a long time now but he is still the main developer afaik since he built this site from scratch so he knows more the spaghetti codes of this sites source code |
| I don't believe this is explained properly in the guidelines, so here is my understanding: The primary title is the title in the country of origin (i.e. Japan). For an anime, that title is romanized, but any words that aren't in Japanese are represented as they would be in their native language, rather than romanizing the Japanese pronunciation. With the examples of Steins;Gate and Code Geass, both are the official titles used in Japan, but since they aren't actually Japanese, the current primary titles are correct. There's only a few anime franchises left that would actually have their titles changed under these rules anyways (Fullmetal Alchemist, Detective Conan, Mobile Suit Gundam, and Neon Genesis Evangelion are the ones that I can remember). In any case, I think that the option to toggle the primary and English titles would make everyone happy, so I hope that it is implemented. |
| It really feels weird seeing "Koukaku Kidoutai" instead of "Ghost in the Shell" when all the covers are just screaming the letter because it's either the only title or because it's more focused on than the JP as it's bigger and more noticeable. Denji said: I think that the option to toggle the primary and English titles would make everyone happy, so I hope that it is implemented. |
 I'm watching anime since 2012. I also play games, sometimes. Don't bother me if you want to 'become friends' or things like that. It's tiresome. I know you just want to collect some meaningless numbers. Thought: How many people sparked H. Charlotta just for blue pot? |
Reply to Mister_Kay
I don't know if the post above caused this but Evangelion and Detective Conan have been changed to their Japanese names
| @ThisIsNotATest I mentioned about the issue with conan not having the romaji title in the malcord server. Not sure if a db mod saw it and made the change or it is due to that post. I'm glad they changed it to the proper romaji name like the rest of the entries on this db. WELL, except for 1 widely known title FMAB which should be changed to Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST |
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@ThisIsNotATest
I mentioned about the issue with conan not having the romaji title in the malcord server. Not sure if a db mod saw it and made the change or it is due to that post.
I'm glad they changed it to the proper romaji name like the rest of the entries on this db.
WELL, except for 1 widely known title FMAB which should be changed to
Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
I mentioned about the issue with conan not having the romaji title in the malcord server. Not sure if a db mod saw it and made the change or it is due to that post.
I'm glad they changed it to the proper romaji name like the rest of the entries on this db.
WELL, except for 1 widely known title FMAB which should be changed to
Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
| @Fuwa_san No way that will be disgusting The new EVA titles are already an appalling eyesore lol. |
| I think they should follow the official title that JP use: Steins;Gate on their official website http://www.steinsgate.tv/index.html so Steins;Gate is okay but ex. Fullmetal Alchemist should be changed on Hagane no Renkinjutsushi since official websites use "hagaren" not "fullmetal" Just like Shingeki no Kyojin even if they got official english title Attack on Titan they use "shingeki" |
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