Hyper Posted November 17, 2002 Posted November 17, 2002 This is horrible... Here are the Battle City Dub names: The God cards: God of Obelisk----Obelisk the Tormentor God of Osiris----Slifer the Sky Dragon God of Ra---- The Winged Dragon of Ra Charcters: Esper Roba----Espa Roba Rare Hunter----Rare Hunter Pandora----Arkana Light and Dark Mask----Umbra and Lumis Pantomine----Strings Malik Ishtar----Marik Ishtar Isis Ishtar----Ishizu Ishtar I can't belive it... The God cards lost their awesome names..Slifer the Sky Dragon!?!? ::faints:: Most of the character names are okay...but some of their original names were better. Isis is way better than Ishuzi
VP-Master Posted November 18, 2002 Posted November 18, 2002 The japanese names are so much better but it's a dub, what do you expect? we should make a petition to 4kids to release an uncut/unedited version on DVD but until then, we're stuck with these cheap names.
Hyper Posted November 18, 2002 Author Posted November 18, 2002 At least we could petition for better names... like the original Japanese names...
iggy Posted November 18, 2002 Posted November 18, 2002 What can u say dubs suck same thing with digimon the people who come up with these names suck why cant they just keep the japaneese names?
Circ Posted November 18, 2002 Posted November 18, 2002 Just a note: I think there is some kind of misunderstanding somewhere between the original writers and the dubbers because anyway, I'm not sure you can actually pronounce "Isis" in japanese the way you pronounce it in English, thus the dubbers used the same pronunciation. The problem really appeared when they got to write it down the way they had it pronounced. What do you think? More things: Maybe there is a more realistic reason for the god cards' dubbed names, but remember: there had been weirder translation before. Personnaly, I like Umbra and Lumis much better than Dark Mask and Light Mask, which is a bit plain. Strings for Pantomime is appropriate enough, though I really don't see why they couldn't have kept Pantomime: do they REALLY believe people have such poor vocabulary?? Arkana for Pandora. O.o There must be some meaning behind this, but I certainly don't see which...
Genkai Posted November 18, 2002 Posted November 18, 2002 LOL I already signed that petition, It's floating around online.. The other cause of the petition is unedited CCS, but that's already been done... Anyway, look for it, it already has 4000 sigs. _._ *pukes* dub names suck.
Hyper Posted November 19, 2002 Author Posted November 19, 2002 There really is a petition? ::wanders off to sign::
AnimeAddict Posted November 20, 2002 Posted November 20, 2002 I have information! The reason why they changed the God cars names is b/c that were afraid that they might "offend someone". URG! THIS CRAP MAKES MY SO MAD. It loses the whole God card mentality! Whats the point?
Hyper Posted November 20, 2002 Author Posted November 20, 2002 Well now that they're not God Cads anymore, what do you think they'll call them?
Deadeye Posted November 25, 2002 Posted November 25, 2002 speaking of the god cards, why can't i use them in the game boy advanced game!!!!!???
Makai Kite Posted November 25, 2002 Posted November 25, 2002 Those cards are banned in the actual card game and they probably didn't exist when that video game came out in Japan. They probably never will here. But in Japanese Duel Monsters 7, I read that the God Cards can be used. *shrugs and wanders off* Hope this helped! *crashes into a bookcase, it topples over and pins me down* Help me!
Ya)\/(I-YuGI Posted November 26, 2002 Posted November 26, 2002 A HELL NO! malik changed to MARIK! who the %$#! came up with that $#@!
Hyper Posted November 27, 2002 Author Posted November 27, 2002 You really think that one letter amkes all the difference...
Tigervx Posted November 27, 2002 Posted November 27, 2002 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by HyperShadow [/i] [B]This is horrible... Here are the Battle City Dub names: The God cards: God of Obelisk----Obelisk the Tormentor God of Osiris----Slifer the Sky Dragon God of Ra---- The Winged Dragon of Ra Charcters: Esper Roba----Espa Roba Rare Hunter----Rare Hunter Pandora----Arkana Light and Dark Mask----Umbra and Lumis Pantomine----Strings Malik Ishtar----Marik Ishtar Isis Ishtar----Ishizu Ishtar I can't belive it... The God cards lost their awesome names..Slifer the Sky Dragon!?!? ::faints:: Most of the character names are okay...but some of their original names were better. Isis is way better than Ishuzi [/B][/QUOTE] THE DUBS! THEY BURN! AGH! why cant they just stay with the orignal names? I doubt kids are going to convert to the ancient religion of eygpt because of a stupid show!
Domon Posted November 27, 2002 Posted November 27, 2002 Okay here is an answer to your question about the three god cards. I asked the same thing about why Toonami changed God Gundam's name to Burning Gundam. Its because we can't for some reason use the name god as a title of something beacuse this country was created under christian religion and we aren't supposed to have something named God unless we are referring to the entity god. Thats why. Sorry if it sounds a little vauge.
Bandit Joeykuba Posted November 27, 2002 Posted November 27, 2002 OMG! Malik to Marik? What's up with that? I liked his name the way it was! Where's that petition?
Circ Posted November 27, 2002 Posted November 27, 2002 Get over it. I'll try to explain the Malik/Marik problem: Correct me if I'm wrong. As far as I know, there is NO sound in japanes that is pronounced really close to the english "r". A slightly similar sound exist, but it's also much like "l". It is NOT considered wrong to pronounce a japanese "l/r" as an english "r" but japanese speaking peoples prefer to use an english "l" because the english "r" is much harder for them to pronounce. Problem is, the "l/r" sounds slightly more like a "r" to many english speakers, hence the romanization disagreements. Results: generally, Japanese romanization use "l" much more often than "r", but the sounds is [i]still[/i] acceptable.
iggy Posted November 27, 2002 Posted November 27, 2002 In my book thats not really acceptible Marik and Malik sound totaly diffrent its horrible the people who made the names suck!!
Makai Kite Posted November 29, 2002 Posted November 29, 2002 Poor Malik... his good name has been soiled! Wait a minute.. ignore that last part. Anyway, what's up with Pandora being named Arkana and Isis being named Ishizu? That's just wrong. Isis and Pandora are great names. Why should they change them?
Circ Posted November 29, 2002 Posted November 29, 2002 There is certainly a reason for Arkana. As for ishizu, just look at my last post. Humpf.
SS5 Gogeta Posted December 2, 2002 Posted December 2, 2002 I think its because that Pandora is a greek god and the writers didn't want to confuse anybody so they made up some type of name that sounds egyptian and japanese at the same time but they failed
Solo Tremaine Posted December 2, 2002 Posted December 2, 2002 I think it might be a modified version of 'arcane', meaning mysterious. I don't think it's that bad, personally. Pandora's not exactly my favourite name...
SS5 Gogeta Posted December 3, 2002 Posted December 3, 2002 I remember that near Wal-Mart there was a store called "Pandora BoXXX' (meaning it's a porno store it don't know if its a chain though) probably that influenced it a little.
Guest Altron Gundam Posted December 3, 2002 Posted December 3, 2002 LOL, 4KidsEntertainment is sure as hell doing a screwjob on a really good anime series started in Japan. Osiris to Slifer..oh my...
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