What's going on with the titles making the Hepburn titles the main one?

[radstylix]

I just noticed some of the series I've been reading have started using the Hepburn titles instead of the English ones?

Is there a bug going on, or a new rule or something?

Sorry if it's the wrong thread for this... but non-JP readers (most of us) can't memorize all of the stuff we read in Japanese.

 

[Angry_Panda]

IIRC, MD is trying to get all the titles classified by language so they can offer a user option on which to use for titles, but in the interim most titles are going to end up using a transliteration option by default. (One of the mods may be along to correct or expand on this shortly.) (Edit - and there they are!)

 

[kouyo]

Hi, main titles are being changed to the romanization in preparation for a upcoming rework for titles pages to add more customisation to the website.

Once the rework is done, users will be able to see their preferred titles.

Currently the preference for main titles is the following:
Romanisation of native title > Official English > Native

Unofficial translations should never go into the main title.

 

[radstylix]

Ah thanks for replying. I figured something like that was going on.
Would be lovely to have the option to use English or Hepburn

 

[Manko-sensei]

Great, finally I'll be able to rid of trashy English titles!

 

[radstylix]

Great, finally I'll be able to rid off trashy English titles!

But some of them are accurate translations from Japanese so the series itself is trashy regardless if it's in English or not 😅

 

[lightingcloud]

Hi, main titles are being changed to the romanization in preparation for a upcoming rework for titles pages to add more customisation to the website.

Once the rework is done, users will be able to see their preferred titles.

Currently the preference for main titles is the following:
Romanisation of native title > Official English > Native

Unofficial translations should never go into the main title.

Is this up somehow? I really dislike English titles, I want the Romanisation of the native title and that is not showing up for all titles that previously had it.

 

[KazuyaKan]

If this could be a choice on a series by series basis, I'd be great. Some series I prefer the English title, while others the romanized title.

If it can only be one choice, I'd probably end up choosing the romanized title.

 

[radstylix]

If this could be a choice on a series by series basis, I'd be great. Some series I prefer the English title, while others the romanized title.

If it can only be one choice, I'd probably end up choosing the romanized title.

They still seem to be working on it two months later...

And tbh, it's only been an annoyance for people like me who download series from MangaDex because of the titles flip-flopping between Hepburn or English.

 

[KazuyaKan]

Yeah, that is an annoyance as I too download. It's not every title, but some titles seem to change with every single chapter upload, not just flip flopping from Romanized to English, but between 3 or 4 different versions of the Romanized titles. My manga directory is full of multiple directories of many titles with only 1 or 2 chapters in each directory.

 

[Bartolumiu]

If this could be a choice on a series by series basis, I'd be great. Some series I prefer the English title, while others the romanized title.

If it can only be one choice, I'd probably end up choosing the romanized title.

It'll most likely be applied globally for all entries. See AniList's implementation below for reference:

Spoiler: AniList example

There are still some details to be decided, like sync across devices for the setting, or custom fallbacks, but we'll eventually get to that (right now we're still renaming stuff and applying the romanisation guidelines to all entries).

They still seem to be working on it two months later...

And tbh, it's only been an annoyance for people like me who download series from MangaDex because of the titles flip-flopping between Hepburn or English.

Yeah, that is an annoyance as I too download. It's not every title, but some titles seem to change with every single chapter upload, not just flip flopping from Romanized to English, but between 3 or 4 different versions of the Romanized titles. My manga directory is full of multiple directories of many titles with only 1 or 2 chapters in each directory.

Yeah, sorry for that, we're going as fast as we can...
For now you can maybe save the ID instead of the title entry, since that won't change no matter what.

 

[KazuyaKan]

Reincarnation Coliseum has the page locked to the English title, so can't edit the page to the romanized title.

Redo of healer was changed to the English title when LHtranslations uploaded thier most recent chapter. Isekai Smartphone was also changed to English title on upload of newest chapter. I already switched both back to the romanized Japanese title.

You might want to make some kind of announcement about this, as titles still get edited on chapter uploads by groups. I think alot of the flip flopping would be taken care if everyone knew of this. Maybe some quick explanation in big bold lettering right above the title edit box for the time being.