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English to Japanese title aliases

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magcolo

Admiral_Pectoral said:

Even if so, the English name is way more prominent from my experience in the fandom. I had never even heard of the original name until I saw it on here.

The same could be said to a bunch of (almost every) other Chinese copyrights and even some Japanese ones. The western fandom is predominantly casual weebs who doesn’t care about meta knowledge. See topic #23510 for a more elaborated discussion.

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sadodere

magcolo said:

BUR #15826 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

remove alias suki_na_mono_wa_suki_dakara_shouganai! -> sukisho
create alias sukisho -> suki_na_mono_wa_suki_dakara_shouganai!!

Shouldn't it be the other way around? Is there any particular reason to use an abbreviation for a copyright tag? ex. konosuba, oregairu, onimai, anohana, oreimo. Also it’s two exclamation marks instead of one.

I believe Sukisho is the most well known copyright of the name, especially considering it's used on platforms such as Crunchyroll.

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sadodere

BUR #15936 has been approved by @nonamethanks.

create alias okami_game_(werewolf) -> ookami_game_(studio_wasabi)
create alias wolf_game_(studio_wasabi) -> ookami_game_(studio_wasabi)
create alias werewolf_game_(studio_wasabi) -> ookami_game_(studio_wasabi)

The original name of the game is 狼ゲーム, which translates to "Ookami Game". I have no idea where the tag name came from but there's no official English title. "Ookami Game" translates to "Wolf Game," which is what the western fandom primarily recognizes it as.

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sabisabi
sadodere

Elfaleon said:

Pretty sure that the Okami_game_(werewolf) was made as a qualifier to differentiate it from Ookami_(game) since without the werewolf addition it would be easy to confuse.

Where would "Werewolf" even come from though? Besides, "Ookami Game" is the official name. Not just "Ookami."

"Studio Wasabi" would be a better qualifier if absolutely needed, it's the company that made the game.

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indexador2

sadodere said:

Where would "Werewolf" even come from though? Besides, "Ookami Game" is the official name. Not just "Ookami."

"Studio Wasabi" would be a better qualifier if absolutely needed, it's the company that made the game.

I imagine it might have come from the party game Mafia/Werewolf, a social deduction game where a group of players must find and eliminate the mafia or werewolves among them using social cues or other kinds of reasoning. I'm not familiar with that game, but it seems at least superficially similar from the wiki.

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sadodere

indexador2 said:

I imagine it might have come from the party game Mafia/Werewolf, a social deduction game where a group of players must find and eliminate the mafia or werewolves among them using social cues or other kinds of reasoning. I'm not familiar with that game, but it seems at least superficially similar from the wiki.

I mean that the "werewolf" qualifier is being used for this game, which doesn't have werewolf anywhere in it. I assume that maybe it's an official version of the English name title.

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