Thread:Gsimenas/@comment-34692810-20180214150322/@comment-6697950-20180214182218

1. That makes some sense for dubs, less sense for subs, and no sense at all for translations of books where there's no audio or any other indication of pronunciation. While reading the book, unless you read the Japanese text, you may just end up reading PoH as P.O.H..

2-3. have some truth to them. The problem is that Yen Press is known for overlocalisation, so we don't just blindly go with their versions. If there is interest in revising the terms, we hold a discussion on it. Especially since changing the term we use requires making the change wiki-wide and we don't want people randomly changing terms back and fro just because they feel like it.

4. Their translator has officially confirmed in an interview that they don't even try to contact the Japanese side to ask them about naming and stuff and instead opt to use stuff like Crunchyroll for their naming. For comparison, when the Germans encountered an issue with naming, they contacted the Japanese side to ask for permission to change a name. So no, licensing doesn't necessarily mean that their naming is in and of itself any better than fan translations canon-wise. And since they don't even bother to ensure that their naming is consistent with the Japanese side (or even their own translations for Pete's sake...), even though they could, we will not give their naming preferential treatment solely because they have a license. Instead, we'll decide naming on a case-by-case basis, only changing the term/name we use if their translation doesn't conflict with actual official sources and it makes more sense than the versions we already use.

I don't really have much to Haffen's comment on point 5. Yen Press's errors are just too blatant for us to trust them blindly. Especially when they're too lazy to even have a glossary of their own translations for consistency's sake.

P.S. We have changed some of our names/terms to the ones used by Yen Press before, so no, we don't always favour the fan translations. If there's a good reason why we should change our terms (or the lack of a good reason to keep the terms already in use), we'll change them.