| 1. After the toggle is implemented, I would prefer the romanized title, but later on I would prefer to have the option to switch to Japanese. 2. I think it would be best to keep the two instead of switching to English as there is a good chance that there would be a percentage that knows an anime by only its English title whilst the other percentage only knows it by its romanized title. (I am not from NA but I am from an English speaking country). |
| Has this been implemented? I used to use a greasemonkey script to change the Japanese anime titles in my list to English but it stopped working. So I'd really like to be able to toggle them to English somehow. I don't even know most of the Japanese titles so I don't even have a clue what most of my list is and it's really hard to recognize stuff with titles I don't know. |
| Romanized for both. To be honest, seeing English titles has been irking me for a long time so getting a toggle option would be really nice. |
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| Considering at least on the manga side that there are plenty with no English title, or worse, a wrong English title (for stuff sold in the MAL Store!) I assume this is still a ways off. |
| Here are my thoughts on this topic, and hopefully the staff will read this too: Kineta said: 1. Even after the toggle is implemented, would you prefer both titles in the h1/top header of Anime/Manga entries while being signed in? There's many that want Romanji but I personally prefer English titles in my list, which I personally think there should be options to choose either Romanji, or Native, or English, or any other languages so that each individual can choose what they want personally, so that while some can choose Romanji if they want, there might be others that want to use their own native language when referring to the anime/manga titles, so there should be different options for each individual. And people can't be collective about things and say "all one thing for everyone" just because they want one thing personally, so, there should be an option to choose any languages including native Japanese, or English, or French, or Spanish, or Romanji if they choose it that way. Romanji be default, but people can have the option to go to their list settings and choose a language of any kind. Kineta said: 2, For not signed in users, what are your thoughts on switching the main title displayed to English? I already mentioned on the first part, and I'll say it again, there should be an option to choose a language for different individuals. Romanji being default but people can have the option to edit and toggle any languages for different individuals if they go to settings to change what they view, even if people want to use native Japanese for immersion purposes or whatever. |
| From the very beginning, I'm never someone who tells others to do what they don't want to do, but I'm purely against ideological policies like affirmative action and so on that forces people to deny biological practicality. |
Reply to Mister_Kay
Kineta said:
I promised in some 20+ page Suggestions thread in like 2012(?) that we wouldn't change them until we got an English/Main title toggle :'D
I promised in some 20+ page Suggestions thread in like 2012(?) that we wouldn't change them until we got an English/Main title toggle :'D
Jicetus said:
Fullmetal Alchemist is an historic English title in the database, and it will eventually be changed to its romanized counterpart. However, we will wait for a global JP/EN toggle before modifying it. The reason we haven't changed it is because if we did it now it'll just create confusion since it's been like that since the dawn of time. But yes you are correct, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi is what FMA's title should be. There are other titles that's just as FMA, but I'm drawing a blank, can't think of them... But the same applies for those as well, it will be changed later on.
Fullmetal Alchemist is an historic English title in the database, and it will eventually be changed to its romanized counterpart. However, we will wait for a global JP/EN toggle before modifying it. The reason we haven't changed it is because if we did it now it'll just create confusion since it's been like that since the dawn of time. But yes you are correct, Hagane no Renkinjutsushi is what FMA's title should be. There are other titles that's just as FMA, but I'm drawing a blank, can't think of them... But the same applies for those as well, it will be changed later on.
So are you gonna change the title soon, now that the toggle has been added?
| @Mister_Kay There is still no global toggle across the entire site, the toggle is only for the lists so far. You can not see the English title on:
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When we first began discussing this change, the development team also began actively planning the Main MAL Title/English Title toggle (that the community and moderation team has wanted for nearly 10 years), which would allow logged in users to change the titles they see across the entire site (e.g. Anime/Manga lists, Reviews, Recommendations, etc). For the moment, we are planning on only allowing these two options, but I think we can envision a future where official titles in multiple languages are tracked in the database and are also able to be used. I keep wondering about what happened to "change the titles they see across the entire site" that was promised. We got List Title Toggle at the end of 2021, but in the years after that I didn't hear anything about the plans to expand the toggle to the rest of the site. Is it still in developement? Is it canceled? Did everyone just forget about it after adding toggles to the Anime/Manga lists? We're still in some weird in-between state where some MAL features support English/non-romaji titles and some don't. 😣 Can we get an update on this? |
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