Haru x Kiyo - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

[MangaDex]

 

[wolfeng]

Maybe I'm alone in this but I really, really hate when translators change the order of characters names to suit their own tastes. For the first part of the chapter, I thought everyone was calling the girl by her given name until later on the "boyfriend" calls her Koharu and she explodes out of embarrassment.

They have a different culture so please don't apply our own standards of "First Name/Last Name" when translating; if anything you should consider that their first name is always the family name and the last one is their given name.

Especially when their names play such a big role in storytelling, lovers and friends deciding when to use the given name, characters transported to another world that decide to introduce themselves with the given name first, etc.

 

[Le_Dook]

@wolfeng I agree with you here, in a cultural context this is more 'localizing' which really can depend on who's translating. I'm setting up a group at the moment that will solely fix scanlations, I only intended to fix bad translations or bad cleans, but if people are interested fixing cultural stuff could be done too yknow.

 

[PsychoTheRabbit]

Man... to be young. Just one encounter for class duty and we're talking about loving unconditionally. Honestly, i rather very much if were the set up from the original one-shot of Haru x Kiyo. I suppose the author wouldnt be able to squeeze 36 chapters out of the plot on original one-shot, but still feels like would be more interesting. Also, she looked lot cuter on the one-shot.

 

[Akaneio]

Kiyoko out here really be looking like an otome game MC