[ SECRET POST #3517 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3517 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 58 secrets from Secret Submission Post #503.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

OP

[(Anonymous)]

What if you turned it around? I've never heard Nine Inch Nails or watched The Powerpuff Girls, but I still feel like those references gave Animorphs some color. I think a hypothetical Japanese translation of Animorphs would lose something if it switched Powerpuff Girls to Pretty Cure.

(I do think some things shouldn't be literal, though. I once saw a Pretty Cure dub try to literally translate an idiom about eating someone's toenails. It didn't work at all.)

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

In my opinion and experience, it's much easier for English-speaking people to Google American cultural references than Japanese ones. I mean, all you have to do is Google image search for Miley Cyrus to see how she dresses. (I haven't dealt with the material in the secret, but I'm curious now what the original was!)

That being said, when I translate, I do so with the audience of the language I'm translating into in mind. I don't go around changing onigiri to jelly donuts, but idioms especially just don't come through right if they don't strike a similar cultural chord in translation.