Can’t Quite Be Your Sister: Looking at the Japanese laws relating to gender identity disorder
Japanese blogger Honeshabri breaks down laws regarding the stipulations trans people face in changing their gender markers in Japan.
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The Mazinger Problem: On “different times,” “lost in translation,” and the role of translators
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to work on the first full U.S. release of one of my favorite franchises ever: Mazinger Z. But while I was all-in for the cheesiness and monster-of-the-week action, I was caught on the back foot when it came to certain elements of the show.
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Land of the Lustrous, singular “they,” and the politics of subtitles
Land of the Lustrous made minor waves by deciding to refer to almost the entire cast with neutral “they/them” pronouns. In an industry that has historically chosen binary pronouns for characters who aren’t gendered or are gendered ambiguously in the original text, this marks a small but important—and most crucially, conscious—shift.
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The Big Problem Behind Unpaid Interpreters: Why anime fans should value their skills
There’s no good reason not to pay every single interpreter for their work. There are, however, a couple of bad ones.
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Why Aren’t Problematic Translations Fixed?
Translators are human, and humans make mistakes. This post is not about translation errors. This is about the choice simulcasting companies currently make to leave problematic translations intact.
