User blog comment:Damesukekun/Song Translating and Mistranslating/@comment-31807596-20170422210256/@comment-1523675-20170424044733

Though I agree with most of your (BambooZXZ) arguments, the recent mainstream approach to translating is conveying the same mental feelings the source language reader have to the target language reader. The greatest reason I put VG on the neutral list is she fails to make the English reader depict the same picture the Japanese reader does. She interprets Japanese lyrics with her English knowledge, but as you know a translator should interpret Japanese writings with Japanese knowledge or way of thinking - 侘び, 寂び, 切ない or other feelings that are absent in the English language. When I read VG's translations, the impression I have is totally different from the original works and the comments by KLA summarized my argument.