Thread:ManikWorld/@comment-937287-20121211172554/@comment-937287-20121212195810

Well, you're right that the kanji wouldn't translate to that. That is true. It's just that I assumed the author intended to have the Arabic (or close to it) as the proper pronounciation, although of course the Japanese language is limited in transcribing it correctly, while other language like English may not have the issue. Like in Eureka Seven with Renton Thurston, where Thurston is written with サーストン Sāsuton. And then there is the case with hypercorrection. Ala Rasars (浮遊包弾, Ara.Rasāsu) is actually written with a long a-vowel, as the original Arabic is written, but the translators didn't know that and assumed it there should have been a "ar" instead of "aa" or "a". Coincidently, Japanese transliteration of Arabic names and words never reduce "ar" to "aa". They properly use "aru" or "aaru". So the translators are not able to translate the terms as best as they could be because of their lack of Arabic knowledge, not that anyone can blame them.

BUT I guess people are used to the old translations I supppose. So whatever. It is not much of a big deal. I've noticed that even the official releases are using the prevalent online translation (by "sense-scan" I believe) anyway. I'm trying to talk with the translator to see if I can help him/her with this sort of thing. As best I can anyways. I still can't find a word that looks like Zetulz in "Zetulz Etul Zaraam" and the options I can see for "Rea Baldo" literally have nothing  to do with falling dark swords.