Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4435241-20140408192659/@comment-24521189-20140711152920

Machomuu wrote: Juuldude wrote: Machomuu wrote: So...Taiyou's name is Sol Daystar.

...Did something happen? Because ever since Inazuma Eleven 3, the renamings for hissatsu and characters haven't been as close to the Japanese versions as they used to be (though, the character dub names were generally not that good, anyway). That would be fine, but some of them seem silly and almost uneccessarily changed. Whirly-Whirly and Easy Breezy are great examples of this for hissatsu.

As for characters...well, this game has a bunch of unnecessary renames such as Micheal Ballzack and Jean-Pierre Lapin, but...honestly, I didn't mind those as much. They're unnecessarily foreign for  bunch of Japanese kids, but when the originals gave us plain names like Mark Evans and Kevin Dragonfly, I think that by comparison, these dub names are just more fun. I more look at the FFI for really unnecessary names. Why change Fideo Ardena? Why change Rococo Urupa? '''Why change Keith to Keits? '''The FFI always had fitting names for the characters, for the most part, so it really seems unnecessary for them to change these names because there's really no point. It's been a while since I posted here but I'm still following this so here is my opinion.

Some of the new moves sound a bit lame but you shouldn't forgot it's an anime made for kids, so they don't care about that.

But I agree with you on the FFI names, most of them were really good and some of the new names were unnecessarily, like changing one or two letters or making a different version of a name. They kept a few names normal though in the dub (like Angelo Gabrini, some say the dub has Cabrini but it's still Gabrini). Well the reason the move changes get me is because...it's like they completely changed gears from what it was originally trying to do. Take Majin the Hand or...heck, even God Hand as an example. Those were their names both in Japanese and English. But when it comes to Maou the Hand and Majin Pegasus, we get Fiend Hand and Winged Steed Pegasus. I totally get what you're saying, it just seems odd that they would originally go out of their way to give accurately translated names like Hammer of Wrath and Infinite Wall and then completely turn on that principle with things like Easy Breezy and Lancelot Lunge. Names like Easy Breezy and Winged Steed Pegasus are bad, I agree but Lancelot Lunge isn't so bad since it has more to do with Kensei Lancelot than Lost Angel.