{"id":4902,"date":"2010-06-08T21:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T01:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2010-06-08T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T01:12:05","slug":"attack-of-the-space-leeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/06\/08\/attack-of-the-space-leeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Space Leeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com\/blog\/\">Jonathan Clements<\/a>, a professional translator, reveals the deliberations that go into bringing an <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#anime\">anime<\/a> series to British television.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cCan you translate it?\u201d Bigwig asked me, all of a sudden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot translate-translate,\u201d added Fiona. \u201cHe means: translate it so it\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can translate what people are saying\u2026\u201d I began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I don\u2019t want to know what they are saying. I want you to write a script that\u2019s better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWouldn\u2019t you prefer,\u201d I ventured, \u201cto know what they are saying first? Then you would know if you wanted to change it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bigwig, Fiona and Gothboy exchanged sidelong glances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want it to be good,\u201d affirmed Gothboy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure,\u201d I said, \u201cthat a million Japanese viewers tell you it\u2019s good already, without any interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll make it better,\u201d said Bigwig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut still faithful to the original,\u201d added Fiona hastily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaithful to the original,\u201d continued Bigwig, \u201cbut with more Zhzhh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd change the names,\u201d said Gothboy. \u201cSo they sound less\u2026 Japanese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019ll put some music on it from Cradle of Filth,\u201d said Bigwig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr my mate Dave\u2019s band, if they\u2019re cheaper\u2026\u201d said Gothboy, carefully.<\/p>\n<p>I stared at them open-mouthed.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>more <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com\/blog\/?p=1310\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Clements, a professional translator, reveals the deliberations that go into bringing an <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#anime\">anime<\/a> series to British television. \u201cCan you translate it?\u201d Bigwig asked me, all of a sudden. \u201cNot&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/06\/08\/attack-of-the-space-leeches\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4905,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}