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INVENTING ANNA (2021) → 1x08 Too Rich for Her Blood

if you claim ally ship to the trans community then you can’t ignore the bad things that happen to especially trans woc. and if you’re a white trans person you can’t just talk about other white trans people. it just shows that you only care about trans people if they are white and that shouldn’t be the case.

Thinking something fun and light-hearted is a deathly serious social commentary

Thinking something dark or disturbing is actually a wacky comedy

Thinking something with no gay people is actually gay

Thinking something fun and light-hearted is a deathly serious social commentary

Thinking something dark or disturbing is actually a wacky comedy

Thinking something with no gay people is actually gay

Which in standard fashion has been immediately panned as ‘bad localization’.

And it’s not even a bad localization. It’s essentially the same joke in Japanese.

The whole point of the line is ‘Ringo does a shitty rap about a reaper in order to mock a shitty rapper whose entire aesthetic is the ‘grim reaper’, and culturally the way that people in the US would usually diss someone and rap is different than how someone in Japan would. There isn’t a huge difference, but there’s a pretty notable rift between Japanese and American rappers.

Personally, for what the scene is trying to do, I think the English version actually landed it a bit better. This is also just… how Ringo is characterized. Just from the short early-game footage I’ve seen, she’s super flippant and casual. I know someone’s going to get caught up on her calling ‘Soul Hacking’ her ‘Fancy Aion Superpower’ without realizing that she literally calls it ‘Aionの超パワー” in the Japanese version.

So many people say ‘bad localization’ instead of ‘I don’t like this line’. The line’s basically the same. The dialogue isn’t better just because it’s in a language you don’t speak.

Localization is a seriously tough job- especially in this day and age where you need to make the dialogue accessible while also having to deal with the weebs who haven’t even looked at the source material and are just assuming the worst. ‘Localization’ for these sorts of games isn’t just ‘translation’. Not everyone knows everything about Japanese culture, so you need to make adjustments. Changes. Slight tweaks to lines to make it so that your average player can go ‘oh, yeah, makes sense’. 

And based on the line reaction- it worked in a way. 

The official campaign to pressure companies to cease doing business with the infamous troll farm and hate forum is now live.

I don’t know why I never realized, but yeah. Cis people experience euphoria. Like many cis guys who go to the gym do it to affirm their gender. The cis men who get mad at being emasculated–they’re experiencing dysphoria! Trans people aren’t different or odd for experiencing these things. We’re just like everyone else, and somehow nobody talks about it! 

Like my femboy friend gets euphoria from being gnc, but he gets dysphoria by the idea of someone calling him a girl or using the wrong pronouns. Cause cis people have their own gender identities, they just happen to align with their agab. 

It all makes sense.