Tag Alias: osawari_tantei -> touch_detective

Aliasing osawari_tantei -> touch_detective.

Reason: Japanese vs. English name.

I'm going to stick up for this one because the japanese character names are nameko, jii, manami, chitose, yoneko, deijii, melodi/melody, ruri, annu, and ozawa rina. Almost all of these are in use, albeit by rather minor characters/artists, only the last is particularly unique, and I really do hate qualifiers when unnecessary.

(Note that I can't say 1:1 which character is which except for rina but that's all the main characters and the ones represented here should be among that list.)

So then touch_detective -> osawari_tantei?

No you had it right but it will probably turn out the other way around regardless.

Well, the title is おさわり探偵 in Japan. It's known as Touch Detective where you guys are at, and as Mystery Detective in Europe, apparently. Draw your own conclusions, gentlemen.

osawari tantei would be the correct tag to use, then.

How will the names be done?

Log said:
No you had it right but it will probably turn out the other way around regardless.

Howso? We use Japanese titles as a rule, I don't see how going against it makes anything correct.

葉月 said:
We use Japanese titles as a rule, I don't see how going against it makes anything correct.

There's some exception for established video game titles (the_legend_of_zelda instead of zelda_no_desetsu), and I think a case has been or may be made either way that because the names are mostly Japanesey, the title should remain Japanese (esp. with the divergent titling in English territories), but because those said names are mostly used for artists already, switching over to English ones could avoid rampant qualifiers.

I don't see why qualifiers should be avoided in this case.

There's no reason to avoid qualifiers that I can see, honestly.

Aliased to Japanese.

Soljashy said: Well, the title is おさわり探偵 in Japan. It's known as Touch Detective where you guys are at, and as Mystery Detective in Europe, apparently. Draw your own conclusions, gentlemen.

Good example of one reason why we prefer to just use the original name. No favoring one region over another, except for the region of origin. And it's quite reasonable to favor that one.