Proof Gatekeeping Works!

[@Revsaysdesu]

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[@sketchtherapy1218]

I love your reports and I wouldn't ever have you stop reporting on bad news but to keep the blackpilling away I love to hear the good news so when you get news like this no matter how large or small the W report on it love to hear it.

[@hellcat64]

Did i just hear the ceiling bird chirp? Change ur 🔋

[@SenseiofBA]

Our next step is to make the developers force the strictest standards upon localizers. No more subversions.

[@TehFlashBang_]

To play devils advocate, even if you’re not trying to subvert the original meaning with your translation, localizing Japanese text is really really difficult. I’ve been learning Japanese for a while now and a lot of times I’ll read or hear something in Japanese and have a very defined idea of what is being said, but translating it to English in a way that sounds natural (not for the culture, but for the language itself) is not an easy thing to do. Localizers should definitely be held to stricter standards, and should keep the original meaning and feel of what they’re translating, but being too strict might be an overcorrection.

[@sum11111]

@@TehFlashBang_ I concur, there is usually a way to get across the gist of what is being said, but translating to a literal degree is often impossible or just a bad idea. Also, the best translations are usually a result of taking certain liberties when appropriate to produce more natural sounding English, take Nintendo games for example. The liberties taken by the translators that end up in these videos are on whole other planet and usually have absolutely nothing to do with the original intent of the passage, shoehorning in shortlived pop culture elements like amongus memes or political soapboxing like the infamous Dragon Maid example. Transgressions of this type are only done deliberately or by somebody who doesn't at all understand the fundamental tenets of translation, and "strict standards" would even be overkill to get rid of them. It simply requires somebody who has the intention of preserving the original tone and meaning as best as possible while producing comfortable English.

[@ErdeZ]

@@TehFlashBang_ If you can't translate the meaning accurately, you need to translate the intent. That's how proper localization is done. Or like we did in the old days, have a translator's note in anime explaining it in more detail. Regards, ex-fansubber.

[@Claudekr]

@@sum11111 Nintendo games? Fire Emblem has some of the most notoriously botched translations in video game history. NoA are god awful at localizing.

[@mr.crosszealtigerace2270]

Oh please don't do with my nikke or anything else

[@darken2417]

Localizers NEED Correction!!!

[@notusneo]

💢💢💢💢💢

[@bonixohd3424]

😭😭😭💢💢💢

[@inciacci549]

Pretty sure they're the kind you don't want to "correct" and just stay away from. Better hand them to Tsurugi's tender mercies.

[@darken2417]

@@inciacci549 I thought about that. They can be fixed like how Shun was fixed. Just make them take Saya's medicine like she did. Instantly turned her from gross to uoooh.

[@baimhakani]

​@@darken2417And if people complain, point out the fact that Cuties is still not removed

[@RealJohnnyGuillotine]

Gate keeping when done right is amazing.

[@PlaystationTaxation69999]

No Playstation = Better chance of Gatekeeping than ever.

[@termicrafteron2794]

Gate Keeping is amazing, period

[@PeriCRISTO]

Keep Gatekeeping senseis!💪💪 😤

[@RefreshingMirage]

Not complaining about gatekeeping, just curious, but how do you gatekeep incorrectly?

[@PlaystationTaxation69999]

@@RefreshingMirage Releasing gacha games for consoles is the incorrect way to gatekeep. (Which means more normies to attract to.)

[@4idenn]

> "Blue Archive doesn't cater to this kind of stuff" > There's a picture of the game's director kissing Nagisa's feet lol lmao even

[@Dorian_Scott]

BASED director

[@Schale_Sensei]

There also vids he spray Summer Hanako shirt with water "in my yt short"

[@youmu8331]

> "I want a girlfriend like Boss Aru" Says enough about our beloved devs.

[@mythicalskeleton1546]

This is why the translations and localization need to be checked way more often and be given a chance for people to report inaccuracies or things just not being conveyed as intended

[@captainnyan-nyan2005]

Translation and localization are two different things

[@shirogetsuyuuki1574]

gotta say that to WuWa team as well😆

[@admiralglenn2323]

@@captainnyan-nyan2005you do realize that translation is a part of localization right? You can change certain parts of a piece of dialogue to be more relatable to people from a certain part of the world, but that means nothing if they can’t understand the language being used.

[@mythicalskeleton1546]

@captainnyan-nyan2005 i mostly mean cross checking, and others also check if it is proper for the context

[@captainnyan-nyan2005]

@@admiralglenn2323 it's part of it but you can do away with localization. So it's not really important

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Anime is a Japanese medium. It will never be made, let alone be censored for the US. Censorship should be abolished worldwide.

[@darken2417]

Sadly this may actually happen. Anime relies on how Japanese culture is, like all other cultures it is being influenced by Western stuff. Its like how Boruto clearly went a far more Western direction compared to the original, its already happening but hopefully it'll stop.

[@potatortheomnipotentspud]

​@@darken2417 When they see that DEI is a sinking ship, Japan will bail. It's already dying in the west as well.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

@@potatortheomnipotentspudJapanese investors already lost $1.4 billion from DEI.

[@tschro6539]

@@potatortheomnipotentspud are you sure about that because it looks like they still going strong

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

@@tschro6539Bud Light and Target are still losing money, despite being around a year.

[@MemeGene6969]

Normies trying to make the game some kind of family friendly shit is hilarious. Total Sensei VICTORY!!

[@adventuresteamstudios242]

And Blue Archive and the community earns my trust, thank you all Senseis

[@PlaystationTaxation69999]

And thanks for NOT getting a PlayStation release. (Otherwise sony is going to take a massive dent ro the community, just like Genshin Impact.)

[@donovanhadley2209]

​@@PlaystationTaxation69999like genshin? What happened?

[@PlaystationTaxation69999]

@@donovanhadley2209 The Genshin community got impacted so much by releasing it on the Playstation 4. (It attracted to many normies in the GI fandom.) Whenever a gacha game is released on consoles, it could end being one of the worst communities in history. (Because it holds so much toxic console fans like sony. Worst of all, never placed a single gacha game)

[@donovanhadley2209]

@@PlaystationTaxation69999 oh you were talking about the community aspect, yeah makes sense

[@Silent000283731]

@@PlaystationTaxation69999 Makes me glad it didnt come out on Switch 😉😉

[@Dieci-9]

It's not even gatekeeping. It's keeping the original artistic vision as uncensored and unfiltered as possible. Anybody that wants to work by translating/localizing stuff but is so unprofessional they can't keep their biases, views or politics out of it, should change jobs entirely. Clearly they're not there to assist their clients and are actively (if not maliciously) relying on them being unable to judge their translated/localized work.

[@stryfer1989]

I remember my translation classes at University... The professor would fail us anytime we changed the meaning behind the source material until we learned to stop doing that. It wasn't even like this, but minor details like adjectives that didn't carry the same weight or inaccurate prepositions. That professor was a court translator, by the way. We had to be interpreters who understood the core meaning behind the text before even attempting to translate it.

[@pifilixxiv3192]

​@@stryfer1989 dude sounds like he dragged you trough the wringer for a good reason, props on the proff trying to keep you guys to standard

[@rinslittlesheepling1652]

>keeping the original X It's literally gatekeeping by definition. Why do you guys are so scared of this word? That's the real issue here.

[@circle4602]

​@@rinslittlesheepling1652there's gatekeeping to stop others messing with the work of franchises, and there's gatekeeping to maintain a high brow circle jerk, the second meaning is usually what people think of when hearing gatekeeping

[@Dieci-9]

@@rinslittlesheepling1652 nobody's scared of the word gatekeeping. What I'm actually saying is that in this case it's less about gatekeeping and more about asking the translators/localizers to do their job properly. Also, to go a bit more into your comment, that's literally not gatekeeping and doesn't even align with the definition of it. Gatekeeping it's about setting barriers for others to enter a hobby. Again, this is no barrier we're just asking people to translate "blue" as "blue" instead of "cyan", "light blue" or "red".

[@Joji047]

You cant say BASED without BA

[@planguy9575]

Blue Archive doesnt feature Sensei with a harem. The students desperately wish that was not the case. Thats the appeal. All the students are thirsty for sensei.

[@mr.crosszealtigerace2270]

Sensei just take cares those students that is it

[@manoi8]

Sensei: I hope for every student happiness and dreams Students: UWoOOGGHH SENSEI

[@planguy9575]

@@manoi8 Exactly.

[@zensvelte]

Excellent point you've made

[@LoganRonin-vn2we]

What a roundabout way of saying reverse harem.

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

It's just a small victory. We need to keep winning until there's no way for localizers to do this ever again.

[@lxrxc]

It's at least the kind of victory that BA is headed towards a good direction and a reminder to never let the woke localizers win.

[@MoreEvilThanYahweh]

It's also not much of one. Blue Archive is an oasis in the desert as far as these companies go in resisting the "progressives". This is just not losing ground in a single outpost of a massive frontline being successfully invaded by the enemy, to use a military metaphor.

[@TTMS-Khaz-kun]

That's exactly what they were doing as well: getting their small "victories", changing things little by little. It's time we use their tactics against them. Small victories will accumulate over time.

[@DosonTheGreat]

@@TTMS-Khaz-kun This. Be as petty as them. In fact, be MORE petty. "Just a small change" becomes "just a few small fixes" as they "reeeeeeee" to no end while for some reason despite "not even caring" because it's "not a big deal".

[@slient957]

I still remember that tourist actual said “Sensei isn’t needed in the story before” when he’s an important character to the plot… that’s why gate keeping is necessary and I respect em for it.

[@Amoeba-yc9yh]

That’s gonna result in Volume F

[@UncensoredScion]

yep, there's nothing wrong with defending yourself from these people, they're insane.

[@PlaystationTaxation69999]

Sony ponies are the worst people.

[@АндрейНеугодников-м6е]

What is wrong with them?

[@UncensoredScion]

@@АндрейНеугодников-м6е there's no real answer that's provable but my personal theory is that when you raise kids in a way that never gives them real punishment for their actions, they develop a sense of arrogance and superiority. When that comes up against a thing they don't like, they act in the most harsh way because it's a thing they've never faced before, something/someone doing things they don't like. it's why I suggest the same back, the only thing they understand is that level of response.

[@pdpgb]

The Blue Archive devs are super based and clearly care about the integrity of their work. We just needed to get the message across to them and I was sure they'd fix it. Props to anyone who sent in a support ticket about this issue.

[@McCaroni_Sup]

Hello fellow Scarlet Devil Mansion denizen pfp. I too sent a support ticket and it's the only support ticket in any game I've ever seen actually be resolved.

[@pdpgb]

@@McCaroni_Sup Hello to you too sir. I have 2 NN runs of Flan on my account if you're interested.

[@ThatDjinn]

This is the moment you want to scream 'fk yeah'. Good job BA devs, pretty sure everyone who matters appreciates the change.

[@PlaystationTaxation69999]

Best part? No Playstation release.

[@gundamdetractor337]

i saw a video today of that woke woman saying "Diversity isn't forced, it's natural. Come fight me, physically!" would like her to explain those forced changes then.

[@abyadhnip6929]

The same kind of people that whine about misogyny when getting clocked in the face by man lmao

[@_SUPERN0VA_]

Some sad news, BA rddit has been taken over by tourists mods, they ban everything related to "cooking" and only let yuri or "big" students pass

[@magnusarsmagna5896]

When are they going to make GoodBA subreddit that doesn't have tourist mods?

[@Lunk42]

This is why you just browse /bag/

[@mechadeka]

Why would you ever go to Reddit?

[@nutthings4017]

Reddit lmao

[@ThisJWord]

Well it’s June so they have the “rights”

[@ryninja5788]

It’s not over, there are some that still haven’t been changed. Only that one has been.

[@Dorian_Scott]

Welp, guess I'm re-installing Blue Archive lol. Was really pissed when Kikyou's lobby line was initially altered.

[@iamnegan10]

We are birds of the same feather. I'm also a perfectionist. Can't enjoy my game to the fullest when i know that there's a sh1tty localizer that purposefully butchered the original intimate dialogues with a more lame family friendly one

[@KingKrouch]

Wasn't going to uninstall it straight away because they actually listen to their playerbase, so I was kind of remaining some hope about it. I was similarly up in arms about them translating a doujinshi event to "fanfiction" (a strange ass change considering everything else in the game). Glad to see they fixed the issue.

[@neh1234]

To be fair, it's not the first time we've managed to wrestle a correct translation out of the translators. They already had to backpedal in Mika's lines. Blue Archive is one of the very few media where we are actually the ones calling the shots and the liberals can only try to deflect, clench their teeth and cry.

[@McCaroni_Sup]

​@@KingKrouch Same. Blue Archive devs have a history of listening to their playerbase, it just seems that theres some localizers there who don't get with the program until told to. But the fact that they listen at all is leagues better than most companies - especially Nexon of all places. Now let's hope they learn their lesson in time for the dress Hina alt, which I'll 100% pull for.

[@fleetingimmersion]

Not gonna lie, this line is pretty mild compared to what we've seen before, but I'm still impressed by the immediate response on BA devs part.

[@PizzaCat4yhwh]

Gatekeeping is an obligation at this point

[@N00BSYBORG]

BA devs stay based. They've even done surveys in the past specifically about the quality of the localization. They 100% listen to their fans.

[@fukaze2021]

When a japanese mobile game company is more based than japanese AAA game company

[@MBS-HomuZombie]

Remember, these changes are minor and unimportant and so on (the usual dismissive bs)... so it's perfectly fine for the change to be undone. It's like a win-win for everyone.

[@ariesfaturrahman7982]

Nah nah nah! This "minor" thing usually lead to a bigger problem, if it's let alone. Don't give them a chance!

[@Anrilunarianpebble]

Those localizers are the ones who need CORRECTION

[@OM3GA-Z3RO]

It's minor but it can lead to a bigger problem if left alone for too long... like a growing tumor.

[@Eins3467]

Don't give them an inch because it usually leads to worse changes.

[@st.haborym]

If it's so minor and unimportant then why bother changing it at all

[@anshaar.]

"I love this thing" "I love it too! So much that I want to change it so you don't love it anymore!"

[@joblessincarnateVG]

BA-sed indeed

[@Awakened_Mucacha]

Gatekeeping is morally correct.

[@jzpowell2108]

This is absolutely a win… good job for the team behind BA

[@Take22952]

Big ups to the blue archive team. Thank you so much for caring about proper translations of the anime game. No more censorship of any media, just to please Twitter freaks that were never interested in the thing to begin with. I hope more anime follows suit with this, and we start getting proper translations of anime.

[@RaginCanadian-gx2zl]

I had tweeted to BA global and korea and i put a support ticket in to complain and told them i am dissapointed and that they need to reign in their people. Crazy this worked.

[@gawrshurab1035]

In BA sensei has no Harem indeed, because sensei is property of every Kivotos girl 😂

[@ariesfaturrahman7982]

Yes, as Sensei we do don't have any right.

[@Mythos190]

Not really no.

[@kusada3035]

not only he needs to defend the girls way of life, he also needs to defend his pelvis 😭

[@starrynight8709]

Its only takes one girl to make a move and sensei balls would be in danger. As the whole of Kivotos wants them sensei special lesson

[@Mythos190]

Chill out, yall making it sound like Sensei is a helpless person, he ain't no object or something, he is THE Chad

[@PeriCRISTO]

Damn Bro seriously: How the F, BA community is so fricking Strong!!!?? That's based 🗿🚬.

[@Verxx-sc2tl]

Power of UOH😭

[@KingKrouch]

That's what happens when it feels like otaku and weebs only have one game left that actually has developers and higher ups that actually listen to them (setting aside how much of a mixed bag gacha can be, at some times, I get all of the limited event characters without paying, in others, I have a hard time).

[@superspicysoysauce8231]

When BA dev sided with their loyal fanbase. And it is beautiful.

[@Rexhunterj]

Just like self-defense isn't wrong, so too is gatekeeping the things you cherish.

[@sloth3066]

Thank you for covering this topic, we need more people to be aware of it.

[@Pudding404]

Even if it is minor, good that they took the time to change it. Give these people a finger, they'll take an arm. Kikyou's deal is this pure practical character, that she doesn't understand the idea of doing things for others without wanting something in return. Sensei helps her and her club since he's her teacher, but as she tries to repay him she keeps getting thwarted and she eventually catches feelings. It's really cute.

[@denofpigs2575]

Blue Archivers love minor details. Granted we might not be talking about the same thing 🤔

[@CrimsonReach]

Reject modern audience, return to waifu.

[@Neil.02]

"localization" like this , as well as censorship of any kind shouldn't be tolerated.

[@danielantony1882]

I think what people don’t understand is that localization isn’t translation. Localization happens _after_ translation, and it’s done for the purpose of “fitting cultural sensibilities”. There are absolutely no rules of ethics or anything that stops them from simplifying things to the point that the structural integrity and translation accuracy is in the drain; and that’s putting aside the minor cases of wokeism. I should know, I’m learning Japanese. 正直､ 翻訳のことほとんどのみんなは無関心だからこそ検閲ごときの習慣を広がる害虫が現れる｡ 現地変換(localization) とは翻訳じゃない､ ルール無しの好き放題に簡略化を許す悪習慣だ｡ この病を払わなければいけない｡ 文学業界には毒祓いが必要なんだ｡

[@meemdic8682]

I wouldn’t say this is more of a gatekeeping thing in this case, more so just an objectively bad translation being called out for what it is. And this is a problem in any media, localizers shouldn’t think they know better than the devs. Gatekeeping is...different, and is usually more problematic than helpful (look at any tabletops, if anything, gatekeepers are the absolute scourge there, nobody likes them). But I can see your point and it is definitely worth calling out bad localizers

[@Asrielovania17]

I alredy knew it would get uncensored, it's not the first time localization tried to do this

[@Dyxid]

I want to say this was a case of just "oopsie" localization instead of intentionally malicious, but this is also the same company that tried to censor an Aris scene, so we *do* need to keep an eye out for anyone (on the KR or US side) trying to pull a fast one on us.

[@t-universegamer7609]

A mod from the official discord server (who's also a localizer) was the one talking back at the fans saying it wasn't mistranslated and the game isn't harem fan service, so nope, definitely on purpose.

[@On11sama]

To the anime industry: please, Please, PLEASE never change your modus operandi. Don't bow to "tourists". The genuine fans will always find you and support you, please keep making anime culture "for Japan". We Westerners will find you and support 💯

[@seanallard9335]

Never give them an inch. Otherwise they will damned a mile.

[@PlaystationTaxation69999]

Btw, the best part about Blue Archive? Not released for the playstation. If it was released in the PlayStation, it'll become the next big Wuthering Waves, or Genshin when it comes to one of the worst communities of all time.

[@aqualiusaidhreborn5923]

I want to ask: what happened with Wuthering Waves involving its PlayStation release? And why is it bad that it and Genshin were released in PlayStation?

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

WuWa's been out like a week and it already has a shitty fanbase?

[@PlaystationTaxation69999]

@@aqualiusaidhreborn5923 Everytime a gacha game released for the playstation as well (Like Genshin), it ponders the sony ponies (to which they that didn't play Genshin at all.) If Wuthering Waves gets a PS5 release, they're also going to get the worst community, if not worse than Genshin. (It was already a bad start because of genshin fans.)

[@PlaystationTaxation69999]

@@TheCoolerDrilis Genshin fans. They basically make a clone of Genshin Impact, which somehow cater to the GI community. Hence the shitty fanbase. (It's going to get worse when they release the PS5 version.)

[@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad]

Sony is also Woke, if BA in their hands you can say Bye Bye to it.

[@fishtonk5506]

As a BA player I…. Uh… didnt know there was a difference

[@SuperBrainSandwich]

I don't even play this game, yet I am celebrating this victory! Make gatekeeping great again!

[@jeffzebert4982]

That stupid localization reminds me of the "Hell Tacos" meme. Basically, some corpo bought Hell Tacos; and one person was reassuring another person that this corporate ownership would simply mean that more people would get to know about the Hell Tacos experience. However, what actually ends up happening is that the corpo alters the Hell Tacos food offerings to cater to "a wider audience". As a result of this, Hell Tacos was changed into "Very Mild Tacos for Normies".

[@chickenmanv7]

Blue archive community: YOU PICK THE WRONG HOUSE FOOL!!!

[@drayenomg]

unfathomly based by blue archive, we need more moves like this against localisers destroying the original meaning of their works.

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

To be fair, this isn't the first time Blue Archive Global got this kind of fix It started with fixing the Aris introduction

[@originaldarkwater]

I've only been a part of the BA community for about a year, now, but I proudly hoist my "Tourists go home" sign!

[@OM3GA-Z3RO]

Good on Blue Archive, catering to their ACTUAL fans! Tourists that are not willing to adjust to a community and wishes to change things for themselves should stay out! I am actually tempted to try out Blue Archive because of this. How rough is it to start? I do play GBF is it the same level of grind as GBF?

[@McCaroni_Sup]

Blue Archive is very easy to get into. The game is extremely generous with currency, has great pull rates, a guaranteed pity system that lets you redeem the character of your choice after 200 pulls, and has basically no grind at the beginning. It's actually the late game grind where it gets grindy, but even then it's manageable. Also the characters are the best I've seen in any gacha. There's a reason Blue Archive is consistently #1 at Comiket - it's because the characters are so endearing and have unique and interesting personalities. So much so that you can easily imagine them in various scenarios and how they'd act in such circumstances, hence their popularity in dōjin short manga. The game gives a level of focus to the characters that is unparalleled among gacha games, such that it's very easy to get invested in the characters. The relationship stories are the primary reason I get characters, as opposed to most gachas where I only see them as stat dumps. Lots of characters in this game have community memes that are an extension of aspects of their character. The story is somewhat cliche and a typical story of hope, trust, and friendship; but it pulls it off amazingly purely because the amazingly fleshed out characters get you to genuinely care about their predicaments. The art style is... just look at it. If a Mirror's Edge style city, soft and bright shading, and Azure skies speaks to you... it's great. And the music is easily my favorite soundtrack in all of gaming, and that's coming from someone who plays A LOT of JRPGs with banger soundtracks. It's a heavy electronic soundtrack that is mostly Kawaii Future Bass but has other electronic subgenres thrown in, and the handful of sombre piano tracks really bring it all together. 10/10 game would recommend. When you play this game you really understand why it's so popular in JP.

[@OM3GA-Z3RO]

@@McCaroni_Sup Most of what you said may sound like an unbiased opinion of the game which I will take it to heart, GBF also has a pity system and even a milestone system (At 200 pulls for example, you get a guaranteed SSR ticket and at 300 pulls you can choose any character you want) and when you pull the current new released character you get bonus Mastery Points and Mastery Items to pump into the new character. Late grind being the actual grind sounds very similar to GBF as well which that seems to be a plus for me. When I play a game I usually listen out for the music and in GBF and Limbus Company (The other Gacha I play, very good) their music is very enjoyable so I hope what you say about the music being good is true because if the music catches my vibe then I will be hooked in the game. Thanks for taking the time to commenting your thoughts on this game, you've convinced me to try and I hope I will get as comfortable in the community as the rest that are having fun in the game.

[@LoliconSamalik]

It's moderate, easy to get into but takes a while to max level and maybe the community is needed to better understand what stats do what.... not that it matters if you're into the characters, since story mode is essentially a pain free visual novel with almost no requirements to level up your students (except for the weird difficulty spike at the end of Volume 3 that requires you to at least have 4 strikers and 2 specials at lvl 45, but it's the only one)

[@KamiOshi_81800]

Gatekeeping is necessary. As a fellow Sensei, the BA community/fanbase while being somewhat questionable, knows how to protect what they love.

[@Snakedude4life]

Good on them. The game is not my cup of tea, but less censorship is good. 🎩 🐍 no step on snek 🇺🇸🇭🇰

[@McCaroni_Sup]

This game unironically espouses some pretty libertarian values at times, which might surprise you since 90% of the game is just cute and funny slice of life. Aside from the cute and funny and very interesting anime girls, beautiful art direction, banger soundtrack (literally the best game OST of all time imo), and great story - the emphasis the game's story has on the value of being able to live your life and pursue your ambitions without undue interference from higher powers is a big part of what made me fall in love with this game as a libertarian. Also, Blue Archive fans are insanely passionate about gatekeeping our fandom, which mirrors my sentiment about gatekeeping our countries' borders from illegal immigrants. Also I see you on a lot of right-wing videos, honestly based. I like to put on Podcast of the Lotus Eaters while doing my dailies in this game.

[@MrClean-lk6vi]

I’m so Proud Community start GateKeep Blue Archive. Wish there’s more Gacha community Need to stand UP.

[@PlaystationTaxation69999]

They only need to stand up against Sony's antics before the community goes to shit.

[@notusneo]

Those damn lolcalizer finally got corrected 💢💢💢💢💢

[@randomrobin7773]

Blue Archive is a game that really really needs to be gate kept.

[@f.b.l.9813]

every anime thing needs to be gatekept

[@Licherous]

"BA doesn't cater to this or fanservice" hahaha, whoever said that is a tourist at most

[@t-universegamer7609]

What if i told you not only was it from a mod in the discord server, but also a translator from the game?

[@Licherous]

@t-universegamer7609 so you're saying he's a turbo autist, makes sense that he's oblivious to females showing any sort of interest

[@f.b.l.9813]

whoever said that needs to be revoked of their rights to breathe

[@davidgusquiloor2665]

I saw plenty of Sensei's actually send tickets to change this. It's refreshing to see the company listening to the comunity instead of letting localizers double down.

[@PrinnyLord]

Hopefully we get this treatment in FGO sometime. Because whoever has been translating for Mash seems to have an agenda.

[@providencebreaker1558]

Most FGO players see Mash as an obstacle to their true waifu, so that's a more difficult hurdle to overcome.

[@17th_Colossus]

This is how it’s done. Blue Archive’s community is what the whole anime community should mirror.

[@honeyedpeaches]

Typical Blue Archive W

[@infini_ryu9461]

Blue Archive fans are crazy enough about their game and community that messing with them is pretty dangerous. Perhaps we need to do the same for all fanbases.

[@KingKrouch]

So glad the posers aren't killing one of the last good things we have. Blue Archive is one of the few asian adjacent games that actually listen to their playerbase.

[@McCaroni_Sup]

It is an Asian game, it's made in Korea.

[@KingKrouch]

@@McCaroni_Sup yeah i said one of the few, because most Japanese developers nowadays are complete pushovers or sellouts. As for developers in China, LOL!

[@crownedcrow0091]

I stand by the belief that when something goes mainstream or becomes "popular" it usually devolves (90% of the time) into something the originals fans end up hating.

[@eugeneedgeworth1436]

Tourist localizers successfully corrected 😭😭💢💢💢💢💢 On another note even though it’s not exactly on the cute and funny side I wish Stellar Blade got this much defense from its fans but unfortunately we lost another good soldier to tourist censorship, never forget what they took from us

[@Gakusangi]

We never had to focus on gatekeeping because our hobbies used to be niche, now it's overtaken the entertainment industry and people want to control what they previously ignored and underestimated.

[@spencer05567]

These are one of the small battles we won but it’s not the end, and we most Gate keep now these tourists gave us the reasons why it’s important to gate keep

[@Elven_Red]

The BA antibodies are strong and keeping the game cancer-free

[@Pigraider268]

They really wanted to censor Blue Archive 😂😭😭😭

[@kevlarandchrome]

Woohoo! A win is always a nice mood booster, thanks Rev.

[@jMortimer092]

weeabs:1 Normie:0 LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Luca-nq4gy]

I respect people who bravely defend what they like instead of people who keep said it's over reactive and waiting their own destruction. without these people entertainments already in fall state because dev/creator will think it's fine and people accept it while actually they just too lazy to move.

[@zerofighterfairy]

Another victory for the right side of the playerbase.

[@Sleepyhead156]

gatekeeping aside, blue archive devs are just that based to keep giving to their community. They respect their fanbase and their fanbase respects them back, it's common sense that twitter users seem to not understand

[@Milty2001]

Localizers need to be sent to the bottom pits of trinity's dungeon💢

[@f.b.l.9813]

now IF ONLY every other fandom was as good as BA at keeping things true to the creator's vision.

[@IceHeartAlpha]

what is the problem with body warm anyway? shes like a cat-kuudere “hard to read emotions” kind of face, and a cat, that when trust you, they close their eyes shes saying she feels save with you around and happy with you close(r)

[@maxis2k]

I've been trying to call out these massive changes in Dragon Quest and Genshin for years. Sadly, it isn't working in those series.

[@CunnyVirus]

I like machine language more than smooth sentence with altered meanings.

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

Okay, I got nervous for a minute there because I was looking forward to the new banner. Yeah, ever notice how this stuff either never happens or never sticks with cash cows like gacha games and MMOs? They know. They know this doesn't make money. They can make a ton of ESG money on an individual game that some people are still gonna buy, but games with a steady stream of income? Nah, not happening, they're not risking that.

[@TheCoolerDrilis]

That said, I wish they'd cut the "they/them" crap with Sensei, I get it's to account for female players, but who the hell is deluding themselves into thinking there's even the slightest possibility that he's female?

[@Dyxid]

@@TheCoolerDrilis I'd rather just not have a "canon" sensei in general, it's why I don't watch the anime because it feels like I'm getting cucked by some generic harem protagonist, lol.

[@GregorianMG]

​@@Dyxid Well, that sensei was you. So is the PS 68's Sensei and even GDC's Sensei.

[@Dyxid]

@@GregorianMG Nah, those are separate characters from me, which is fine because the game its self established that multi-verses exist so there being more than one Sensei makes sense. I just don't want any of them near *my* students and taking over *my* story, I don't want some other guy (or gal) swooping in and making me an audience member instead of the lead.

[@denofpigs2575]

@@TheCoolerDrilis Females play this game, therefore there are female Senseis. It's not a stretch that involves 'the slightest possibility'. I think a good workaround is letting you pick male or female at character creation.

[@artraroth]

This community are the best gacha game community i've ever in

[@sor3999]

I really wonder if who these companies hire to do the translation are properly vetted. Sometimes it feels they dont actually know the language, are using Google Translate and then just cleaning it up a bit. And in the worst case, just vanadalizing it and taking liberties.

[@aryanugraha6965]

Hey Rev I think you should also cover about Fgo recent localization cuz they sneakily add the word “non binary” on the game which has no relation on any of the fate franchise or the original Jp wordings of the game you can check one of the fgo ad from Aniplex EN channel shows the scene where the word occurs not much people voiced this concern to enforce the EN localizers to fix it which sucks

[@Kenhnau_reeves]

We degens together stronk

[@Arc_Viper]

Shoutout to the localization translators for Azure Lane for doing a good job!

[@jsalsman]

That's gatekeeping? I guess I can see the interpretation but I'd just call it fact checking.

[@CaelusHelldiver]

Weirdest part about this was people tryna say "this is not the kinda game where you sexualize the girls!" and thing about that is you can tell they never actually read any of the story or paid attention to the student's voicelines towards Sensei in Blue Archive. Played this game for an hour before never touching it again but that hour was all I needed to be able to tell what this game was about. This is a game very much directed at those into the student x teacher trope. That is like... its entire core. If people dont like it, they should find a game meant for their tastes rather then try and change another's.

[@PlatinumKrown]

Finally some good news. Also, I didn't get Kikyou, 150 rolls, but I did get my first Himari.

[@kellywilson137]

Well now I understand why they Go hard with the Get Corrected Shupogaki thing. It wards away the westerner tourists. Works.

[@myhand5100]

Genius. Absolute hivemind

[@WeirdLookingRabbit]

Better to learn other languages, a skill, than to rely on "modern" corpos Cant say it enough, guys It will get worse; so give yourselves a buff; learn skills Most of you are at an age to be able to learn fast; others, slower Also, "brain exercises" will aid against old age problems like alzeimers; "Use it or lose it"

[@redeagle8559]

I don't get it, what and why was it changed? I have that student too

[@ALUCARDAN2]

Meanwhile in FGO we got the localized new event saying things that if a servant was non binary while from what I found online was a moment of confusion since the servant in question was a man while alive but was summoned as female, right shocking in Fate I know however there was a good explanation about it. Now I am worried about future translations.

[@saviletotorres143]

I wouldn't feel too worried. From what I read in some comments, the translation itself was not bad, the complaint is that they used non-binary. I know there is a word for it in Japanese, so maybe that's why they translated it that way. The rest of the event hasn't had anything bad so I think everything is fine

[@ALUCARDAN2]

@@saviletotorres143 Good good, I was worried with all the news showing how deranged some translators have become. In my opinion FGO is a visual novel first and that means story and characters rule. Thanks

[@McCaroni_Sup]

​@@ALUCARDAN2 It's not in your opinion, FGO IS a visual novel first. Fate/Stay Night was a visual novel first - hell, it was an eroge.

[@oriongear2499]

Non-Binary isn’t a gender.

[@RawFish2DChannel]

How dare they touch Blue Archive???

[@Jayalen]

I'm not a Blue Archive player but this is a win to me

[@ghostbl33d65]

The original line wasn't even that bad to be honest. Even if you want to make the argument that it has suggestive connotations, its still not that explicit. 100% certain the localizer just knew it would give their male playerbase joy and wanted to deny it even at the expense of everyone else as well.

[@Dorian_Scott]

Yeah, it was. The original Korean line implies that Kikyou wants to feel romantically close to Sensei. But the initial English translation made her come off as somewhat colder than what was originally intended. There's a difference between _"I want to be close to you"_ and _"Please stay within my sight."_

[@danielbritoperez]

Some good news! Localizers need to just do translations, and that's it. No changes whatsoever.

[@afterbirth5906]

A neat detail is that the devs didn't mention it on the patch notes, as if saying "we just did our job, our bad, no biggie", which I think it's based on itself bc it's indeed the case

[@fagocol98]

Bruh the ba community is so strong that they literally made a government agency disappear Did the localiset seriously think they were going to get away with it

[@Candidatescales]

Calling blue archive is not pandering to us senseis is like saying water is dry