Bleach Wiki talk:Masked Project

Confused
Ok I get most of this but the actual issue about what to do with the romainzation change you gave an outline but what is it asking for. Shouldn't it be a simple name change as it appears your addressing other stuff but I dont know what. Also what are these new characters? --Salubri (Talk)  17:01, August 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * The new characters are the command structure that existed during the Turn back the pendulum arc. The 10th Division had no captain and it seems the 11th Division had no lieutenant. Otherwise, the hitherto unseen lieutenants of Love, Rose, Yoruichi, Ginrei and the 11th division Kenpachi was revealed in Mask. Rose's lieutenant is Tetsuzaemon Iba's mother, Love's lieutenant is Sentarō Kotsubaki's father, Yoruichi's lieutenant is Marechiyo Ōmaeda's father and Ginrei's lieutenant is his son and Byakuya's father. Also, according to the MASKED that the correct romanisation is Visored not Vizard and the correct romanisation of Izuru is Iduru, it's Risa not Lisa, Syunsui not Shunsui and finally, Sui-Feng not Soifon. Tinni   (Talk)  17:16, August 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Yamamoto is named as Shigekuni Yamamoto Genryūsai too. And Unnamed Hollow (Chapter 184)A & Unnamed Hollow (Chapter 184)B are referred to as Menos Grande, similar to the Demi-Hollow issue recently. 18:30, August 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Maybe I'm expecting worse than we will actually have to deal with, but if every single thing is changed at once, it gets hard to keep on top of things. So I figured we'd do it one character at a time and only move onto the next when that character is done. We need to find and correct old spellings in the articles (Eg change Tesla to Tesra, which is likely to be on Nnoitra, Orihime, Ichigo, Nel & Zaraki's pages, episode & chapter pages). I just felt that it is easier to do all that for one character at a time rather than having to do it for 10 or more at once. Once a page has been moved & all issues dealt with, the conversation should be moved to the archive on the character's page. I have no issues with changing this, it was just what I thought best. 17:21, August 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok well now I see where we are gonna have a problem this is gonna be kinda ridiculous if we have to change the name of established characters every character book cause no one can make up their minds. I can see for the arrancar and the Vizard. But the Souls as well as various other media have listed these names for years and now it changes if this is an issue I say its a translation one and should at least be determined whats correct the way we do most translations. If there has been anything Viz has been suspicious with its always been the correct translation which tend to be heavily americanized translations of the actual japanese. If the research of the translations are found to be correct as the new version then thats fine. But some of these cant be accurate especially if they only lead to destabilizing the wiki every time someone comes out with a new databook or something that just calls more work.Salubri (Talk)  17:28, August 2, 2010 (UTC)

The Arrancar might actually be easier to get done than any of the other existing characters' articles, even though they themselves will be tough to completely sort out. Some of the current romanizations we have are used in the English dub of the anime (I'll confirm which ones later), so we can avoid using the "Incorrectly romanized label" unnecessarily. I'm not suggesting those pages stay the way they are, but just for clarification, we indicate what was also used in the English version of the anime (like how Ririn is "Lirin" in the dub). As for the English on some of the existing characters' pages... this is a real debatable issue, especially for "Shunsui" being translated as "Syunsui". I've been through this discussion before and have seen a case similar to this one. I think for some of these, we probably should consult our Translation Corner, since the translators, both officially (Viz Media) and unofficially, have identified the translation and pronunciation of some names to be closer to what we have over what is new on this book (though, "Iduru" isn't new; this romanization has come up before). For now, I recommend this just for Kyoraku and Kira, since it's their names that might have the most pronunciation and romanization issues right now; "Risa" would probably work anyway, since "L" doesn't exist in the Japanese language. Arrancar109 (Talk)  17:49, August 2, 2010 (UTC)

Just wanted to point out that the Japanese version of SOULs and Colourful Bleach never romanised Gotei 13 name. This is the first time the Gotei 13 names have been officially romanized by Kubo. Plus official merchandise in Japan have always had those romanization. We just ignored them in favour of Viz for names because we thought Viz could be relied upon for at least that. We were wrong. In this case its not even about translation as in the MASKED, those names are written in plain english characters. This is the first time that's been done. Every other databook those name were only given in Japanese and thus open for translation error from fan translators and Viz. This is the first time that is not the case. Kubo wrote them himself and so I would say this is the definitive english spelling for those names. Tinni  (Talk)  17:52, August 2, 2010 (UTC)

We still need to check out these translations, the kanji will prove what translator is wrong on this account not to mention we have had various instances of people stating Kubo's involvement even from Kubo himself and the final prodect as well as what is stated is largely suspect. Least we forget that SoulS was originally printed in japanese when it first came out as well. Either written by kubo or not the original books are in japanese if Viz is mis translating then fine but the Kanji provides us the real romanization for those who know how to do it. We cant continue stating we take things at face value just because Kubo maybe involved. As majority of use dont read japanese hence why we rely on translators who get in wrong on occasion hence why we have a translation corner. I cant rightly protest most of the new characters but Shunsui, soifon and Kira we need to know for sure as Arrancar109 said this isnt the first time these have been brought up. Salubri (Talk)  18:03, August 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Here is a scan I found of Soifon/Sui-Feng's profile in the book as a reference for the romanization in case anyone hasn't seen the actual thing yet. The Shadow Dragon (talk) 19:18, August 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * The scan here wasn't translated; it was written out, which is our problem here. Nobody is denying the legitimacy of whether it was written out in letters or not; what is happening is we're questioning how it was translated. As I pointed out earlier, this problem has come up in the past, and the way it is written out can vastly differ from the way it is actually translated. As Salubri stated, we're going to go by translating the Kanji through our translation corner, since it is the most reliable way to get the proper translation. Arrancar109 (Talk)  19:35, August 2, 2010 (UTC)

Actually, the next move at this point is to check the statement of Authorship. Kubo put one at the end of SOULs and at the end of MASKED. It is true that Kubo has often claimed to be a part of the movies and the anime fillers but the final product have always proved that he is not as involved as he claimed to be. However, Kubo is unlikely to lie or make things up in the statement of Authorship. Certainly in the statement of authorship in SOULs, Kubo makes clear his exact amount of contribution and where he has had help. My suggestion, get Adam to confirm that Kubo actually said he wrote the english names. If he says he did that in statement of authorship then it doesn't matter what we think about it. We have to go with them. Just like we did with Harribel, Starrk etc. Tinni   (Talk)  19:46, August 2, 2010 (UTC)

Not the prettiest picture, but here is a collage of all the name changes that I found with the kanji listed on them so they can be verified. 19:55, August 2, 2010 (UTC)