Of course, this is a decision that will be made final after we get things squared away with the English patch, so whatever is decided here will be a last amendment to the patch itself. Vote on whatever version you want. These are your options :

• Original Japanese (Kai Ousama, Kuririn, Ten Shinhan, Muten Roushi, Makankousappou, Mister Satan, Vejitto, etc.)
• FUNimation English Dub (King Kai, Krillin, Tien Shinhan, Master Roshi, Special Beam Cannon, Hercule Satan, Vegito, etc.)
• Kanzenshuu Version (Kaio, Kuririn, Tenshinhan, Muten Roshi, Makankosappo, Mister Satan, Vegetto, etc.)

If you have other suggestions, feel free to state 'em.

From my perspective, I grew up with the FUNimation English Dub and that version will always stand out for me.

This is an english patch. So why would it be japanese names? This isnt a japanese patch. I thought that would of been obvious. And screw all the people who prefer the japanese names over the english ones. Those people can go off watching their DBZ in subbed as they are japanese weeaboos.

Anyway I don't even see why the community should get a say. This is citrinates decision not ours.

**** democracy. This is where you can help a part of DB fandom to escape the FUNi nonsense. This vote is bad because there are too many people who just want to go with what they know who overshadow the people who actually care. Why not use this as an opportunity to actually enlighten people (Kanzenshuu's main purpose)?

Do you know how many times I've tried 'enlightening' people on the proper pronunciations of Japanese words like Karaoke, Karate, etc.? No one cares. They will stick to what they think is the right answer, no matter what. Forcing change makes people upset. It's better to make this patch fit the majority than the minority.

People play DBO in a language they don't understand. They'll deal with English terms a little different from what they're used to. Especially if they're told that these are actually the correct ones.

Also, in "original Japanese" version you write out macrons as this: ō → ou. Is it globally accepted or there actually ain't no such rule?

By that logic we might as well make a full japanese patch to please all of the wee-a-boos.

There's no strict rule, but the former is more of a Western thing, while "ou" is more true to the Japanese characters. Japanese has two forms of "double o" sounds. One is two Os - toori (とおり or 通り), as an example - and the other is "Ou" format - Toukyou (とうきょう or 東京), as an example. For the "Ou" format, most romanized Japanese you'll run into that isn't done via a Western company or organization will have it written out as "ou," because it's both how it's typed and how it's written in the JP language (literally, to-u-kyo-u / と-う-きょ-う). However, the Japanese have adopted the Western way of doing things, due to the high impact of Western influence on Japan, so things like "Tokyo" are shortened to a ō or just a single "o" when typed using the Roman alphabet.

But honestly, the "ō" and just a single "o" don't make enough of a differential between double O formats and Ou formats for Japanese words, which makes things a little complicated when trying to use romanized Japanese. Not to mention, the single 'o' doesn't even allow for the noticable difference between words with single O sounds and elongated sounds (Oo and Ou formats).

It would be English names, just not FUNi names.


Sorry, care to elaborate how exactly did you manage to interpret "that logic" in such a hilariously... interesting way. The discussion is about the English translations, right?


I see. Perhaps it would be possible to just use macrons. Would save some space, as I heard the text often doesn't fit xD

Exactly.

If this game were to be released for US/EU I would imagine the Japanese names wouldn't even be considered. They would stick to the names people know, for example; Son Goku, Vegeta etc.

I can just see it now, a 12 year old, who loves watching DBZ (the FUNimation dub) gets to the stage where they have to do TLQ3 expecting to see Goku's name and sees some Japanese rubbish instead.

Ludicrous.