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@TimeBlitz I read both parts of the article it was nice to see the professionals don't pretend they did their job perfectly I could definitely relate with the troubles he spoke of. I've only translated a couple things for a friend because he wanted something really old and unpopular translated. It was painfully obvious that I wouldn't be able to translate it perfectly, a lot of the value of jokes were "lost in translation". At the end of the day I ended up with more text explaining thing that  were impossible to perfectly translate word for word and ended up leaving the final decision on which Interpretation/Translation to use to my the person requesting the translation. So they could decide if they wanteded incoherent accuracy for anyone that didn't know japanese, a lot of text on a separate page explaining stuff that couldn't be properly converted to english while further breaking this option into 2 by deciding to use japanese words most people who know some japanese would understand in Romaji ex. Shinobi, sempai... or using pure english assuming the reader know no japanese whatsoever.

In my previous post I was being slightly harsher to the fan-translations because the other person was so super anti-official translation. I'm aware of how hard translation is, so I tried making the point that the value of translations is completely biased based on the reader, because it will almost never be perfect so the decisions they make on how to deal with those situations and who their target audience is effect its value/public opinion.

I believe the bad but not horrible official translations were a result a result of important people either deciding to make it more accessible for people who have never come in contact with the genre and know absolutely no japanese. I normally like to stay out of arguments of what's better official or fanbased translations because I can't give an objective opinion become both are usually worse than the original. More importantly you can't just say all Fan translations are better because there are just as many if not more fan translations that are much worse.

'Sorry for the huge wall of text. I felt like I needed to clarify my stance because I immediately regretted making my 2nd post. I started writing my comment  before Blitz posted his but it took so long to write it it was already too late. Even though I meant it as a joke it was unnecessarily rude/vulgar. '