Alucard or Arucard?

Wargames · Post by **Wargames** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:59 am

if wolf was ever mad we could call him p***ed off wolf

and I didnt know dracula was alucard spelled backwards

Jonathan02us · Post by **Jonathan02us** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:03 am

Wargames wrote:if wolf was ever mad we could call him p***ed off wolf

and I didnt know dracula was alucard spelled backwards

Yup it is dracula spelled backwards, I didnt notice till my friend pointed that out to me ... who would have known ...

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:07 am

Wargames wrote:if wolf was ever mad we could call him p***ed off wolf

indeed >.>

Pwolf

Mroni · Post by **Mroni** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:10 am

This is pretty retarded his name is alucard and if you are watching hell sing subbed you should be shot anyway.

Mr Oni

Declan_Vee · Post by **Declan_Vee** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 7:16 am

OK here's the deal. Pioneer have always (well they might have gotten better, not wait. they haven't) His name is Alucard. Arucard and any other variations including those bastardly -o variations are poorly researched translations. That "o" sound is a Japanese habit of ending nouns in with vowels.
Alucard -> Dracula backwards, coincidence? I doubt it.
Lain is also a series that has had it's fair share of translation mishaps in regard to names.
And Chobits... make your minds up damnit. Chi or Chii (check the credits and you might understand what I'm talking about)

Hey Oni, what's wrong with the Japanese dub, besides the lack of British accents?

Alucard_FoN · Post by **Alucard_FoN** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 11:11 am

Declan_Vee wrote:And Chobits... make your minds up damnit. Chi or Chii (check the credits and you might understand what I'm talking about)

When I watched it on fansub it was clearly spelled Chii becaise before every episode the title appeared in hiragana, and almost every episode (or maybe it WAS every episode) had her name in it, and it was always spelled Chii in the hiragana.

UncleMilo · Post by **UncleMilo** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:06 pm

Here are the facts.

I know the guy who worked on the American release of Hellsing.

1) It's ALUCARD. It's DRACULA spelled backwards. END OF STORY. However, the idiots at the executive level wouldn't let this be corrected and no matter how many times the guy's head was smashed against a wall, they wouldn't change it to ALUCARD.

2) The woman's name is Victoria. Victoria is her FIRST NAME. It is the Japanese tradition to put the family name first and the actual name last. Her first name is Victoria... but in the actualy Japanese, they have Victoria said last in Japanese form. Often, when anime is brought to America, they write the names in the form we Americans are used to (like in Ranma 1/2, they have the name as Ranma Saotome, even though the Japanese would say Saotome Ranma)

However, for some reason they didn't decide to make this correction in the US Relese... but her FIRST NAME is Victoria.

3) It's the Templars... not the Church Knights.

However... my friend has already bludgeoned his head against the wall of executives who don't have any interest in literature, history, regional FACTS or pure common sense... and so a lot that should have been fixed on the US release never was.

And anyone who wants to use the "well, that's how its written on the box/that's how its written in the subtitles" argument... I might point out that US release of Zeonic Front for PS2 has a battle set in NEW YARK CITY. Now... is the city New Yark because the game says it is... or are you going to use some common sense?

-Uncle Milo

UncleMilo · Post by **UncleMilo** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:09 pm

Mroni wrote:and if you are watching hell sing subbed you should be shot anyway.

Seems Mad-Cow Disease has spread to the ORG.

-Uncle Milo

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 3:24 pm

UncleMilo wrote:2) The woman's name is Victoria. Victoria is her FIRST NAME.

THANK YOU! I had been hoping for a long time that that was the case (I just couldn't bring myself to call her "Ceres" or "Seras" or whatever) but had never gotten it confirmed. Sweetness.

koronoru · Post by **koronoru** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 5:22 pm

UncleMilo wrote:2) The woman's name is Victoria. Victoria is her FIRST NAME. It is the Japanese tradition to put the family name first and the actual name last. Her first name is Victoria... but in the actualy Japanese, they have Victoria said last in Japanese form. Often, when anime is brought to America, they write the names in the form we Americans are used to (like in Ranma 1/2, they have the name as Ranma Saotome, even though the Japanese would say Saotome Ranma)

However, for some reason they didn't decide to make this correction in the US Relese... but her FIRST NAME is Victoria.

Her father was also named Victoria. Was that his first name as well?