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   Ryu Infiniti
   Member

   Like what was already stated.

   Originally, the Servant system was designed to summon only the souls of "true" heroes - benevolent, honorable, and selfless protectors of humanity and justice. The corruption of the Holy Grail in the third Holy Grail War is the reason evil spirits can be summoned. These entities can still be considered to be Heroic Spirits if they were widely worshiped, respected, or feared in life.

   Also like what was said before, again; It's a different system being used, so some terminology changes would be fine by me as long as the general meaning is still the same.

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   Koto
   Member

   Might want to keep in mind that, IIRC, it never officially said "Heroic Spirit" in the original text anyway (it's not one of the terms like "Noble Phantasm" that had an English reading given by Type-Moon), so it doesn't make "Legendary Soul" wrong, they're both just the translators' best guesses because there's no official one to go on.

   Actually given how Nasu's "English" terms usually don't match up with the Japanese ones, if you asked him what "Eirei" was in English he'd probably say "PHANTASMIC WARRIOR MARBLES!" or something

   Clearly should have been British Ghost though.

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   goldenwitch
   Tiddleating

   Koto said:
   Might want to keep in mind that, IIRC, it never officially said "Heroic Spirit" in the original text anyway

   Nobody said it did. I don't think anyone is complaining or dislikes "Legendary Souls" either. I only brought it up as an example of me needing to get used to some things being translated slightly differently than I am used to. As I've said, "Legendary Souls" makes sense and doesn't lose any of the meaning, which makes it a good translation in my book.

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   Ryu Infiniti
   Member

   Koto said:
   Might want to keep in mind that, IIRC, it never officially said "Heroic Spirit" in the original text anyway (it's not one of the terms like "Noble Phantasm" that had an English reading given by Type-Moon), so it doesn't make "Legendary Soul" wrong, they're both just the translators' best guesses because there's no official one to go on.

   Actually given how Nasu's "English" terms usually don't match up with the Japanese ones, if you asked him what "Eirei" was in English he'd probably say "PHANTASMIC WARRIOR MARBLES!" or something

   Clearly should have been British Ghost though.

   Well Eirei is a Shinto term in origin.

   Eirei

   Heoric spirits.

   A term of respect referring to the spirits of the dead, especially those who died in modern battles.
   

   Anyways I believe it is an English reading given by Type-Moon as well, but I have no proof on hand. Even if it isn't given by Type-Moon it doesn't really matter since it has a real meaning in Shinto. I'll look into it later.

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   goldenwitch
   Tiddleating

   Whoa! I'm Tiddleating! XD <3

   Posted 6 months ago #
6. 

   Ryu Infiniti
   Member

   Oh there was one more thing I was curious about though. In the translation, why was there no subtitles added to the banter in battle? Was it difficult to do, or was it just not worth it.

   I, myself would love to have seen what they were talking about. The interactions between Servants, or Servant and Master. I like character development stuff though, I find myself drawn to characters more then other aspects of games and shows. ^_^;

   Posted 6 months ago #
7. 

   yokushi
   Member

   Why this was left out of Rider Matrix E translation?

   "...in addition - and this is probably merely literally creation - there is also a story full of romance in which Drake was a companion of Queen Elizabeth a few times and, just before setting sail for the world circumnavigation, switched places with the Queen, who could no longer go out in public due receiving a wound on her face..."

   I think that was pretty interesting and gave the hero a WHOLE LOT more sense.

   Posted 6 months ago #
8. 

   Koto
   Member

   Plus it could be used to shut up the people saying "this genderswap makes no sense!" lol.

   Posted 6 months ago #
9. 

   Rogue Ninja
   Member

   Koto said:
   Plus it could be used to shut up the people saying "this genderswap makes no sense!" lol.

   But then you'd need something for Saber...

   Can I not elicit even a sarcastic quip?

   Posted 6 months ago #

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