Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-35301431-20141201072351/@comment-53539-20141222205406

So I waited until V4 was out to work on the flint wikia again jsut in case.

I'm in the process of converting names from English to Japanese due to a large number of issues with the English version... Its a example of a typical early 90/early 00's translation. Scene cuts... gender changes (a significant amount of characters change)... Name changes (at least 1 doesn't make sense)... The name changings impact several of the historic figures in the series. One of the Time Shifter/Space-Time monsters ends up with his name COMPLETELY messed up. They ignore his default name and use his transformed name as the default name, so if you follow the English version you can easily be mistaken to think he doesn't ever transform.

On top of this, outside of the anime every piece of merch uses the Japanese name. I began to convert names, only the bureaucrat doesn't want them change. I put forward the many reasons why I'm turning the names Japanese, but he is reluctant to the idea.

The series is 15 years old and despite being a Sanrio series is largely forgotten at this point.... I'm shocked when a piece of fanart goes up on DA. Internationally the series got translated using the English names throughout the world. So most world-wide people will know it by its English names.

Welcome to the mess created by early translations. Its still better then the Sonic the Hedghog OVA english version. "Thank you Mr. Mole" has never been forgotten. Garzey's Wing is typically an example of this pre-era so things were still better then what was tossed out before then.

Still working with this situation is urgh... I want to progress forward but you can't do that with english names due to this issue. So this is on my mind today. >_<