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Kagaya Homoraisan: Aug 28, 2019; You say, run away
Instead, you get scared
For the way that I feel
Drops out into all this disorder

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Kagaya Homoraisan: Aug 28, 2019; You say, run away
Instead, you get scared
For the way that I feel
Drops out into all this disorder

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

Aria of Sorrow stays winning. I was like "I've never heard of this god" and looked it up and this is, somehow, a mistranslation of the kanji for Amaterasu Okami

lmao

to be a lil more specific, because the reason why is kinda interesting, whats happening here is different kanji readings. japanese kanji have 2 different readings, called kun (which is reading them as japanese characters) and on (which is reading them as chinese characters, since japanese borrows a lot from chinese). amaterasu in kanji is 天照, which is read in kun as amaterasu. in on reading though, its tensho. so tensho daijin would mean "the great god tensho", and people have in fact called amaterasu that in the past. buddhism used that term a bit from what i can find. definitely the less common reading though and almost definitely a mistake to translate it like that for an english audience, who wouldnt know any of that lol.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2022 23:57

Kagaya Homoraisan: Aug 28, 2019; You say, run away
Instead, you get scared
For the way that I feel
Drops out into all this disorder

Cubone posted:

if it's any consolation, the fan patch is a breathtaking and exquisite labor of unfathomable love

matos an incredibly talented translator and he had a ton of help from the community. at this point even if mother 3 got officially localized i couldnt see it being better than what we got.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2022 07:36