It used to be common for foreign TV shows and movies to get localized titles, and dammit, I think that those titles had a lot of charm. So I’m bringing them back myself!
Some of these are “full” titles, some of these are more meant to be subtitles that come after the original title; some of these are more literal translations while others are more evocative and often groansome localizations; some of these are popular anime, some are less popular. Regardless, I hope I have at least achieved the aesthetic of an eyeroll-worthy second-hand video cassette box from Norway in the 1990s.
How many of these my favorite concoctions can you recognize? Maybe you can see a familiar name here or there, maybe a cognate, maybe that’s not enough and you need to ask me to provide a translation/explanation/cognates. It’ll be interesting to see how it goes.
So without further ado, break a leg:
- Av to planeter og ett hjerte
- Bestilte du en hare?
- Celler i arbeid!
- Drømmer ninjajenter om ninjamenn?
- En brud i fem deler
- Fandens nabojente
- Forlovet til den ukjente
- Hverdagsliv
- Kjærlighet, direktesendt!
- Kjærlighet, fjortis-syndrom og andre vrangforestillinger
- Komis kommunikasjonsvansker
- Min haleløs mester
- Min “lutesøster” Umaru
- MoRo-byrået
- Pupper eller ei, kan jeg slå deg!
- På lørdagsgodt og søndagsvondt
- Retts-Saks-Papir
- Senko med reverompa
- Solskinn-skisse
- Spøkelsesfortellinger
- Stridsvogner kjørt i skjørt
- Søtt uansett, eller, “Jeg elsker deg til månen og tilbake!”
I guess I’ll reveal all the correct answers at the end of the day if they haven’t all been guessed by then…
Edit:
Correct answers in order
- Stardust Telepath
- Is The Order a Rabbit?
- Cells at Work!
- In The Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki
- The Quintessential Quintuplets
- The Demon Girl Next Door
- Engaged to the Unidentified
- Nichijou: My Ordinary Life
- Love Live!
- Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions
- Komi Can’t Communicate
- My Master Has No Tail
- Himouto! Umaru-chan
- Non Non Biyori
- Ranma ½
- Dagashi Kashi
- Asobi Asobase
- The Helpful Fox Senko-san
- Hidamari Sketch
- Ghost Stories
- Girls und Panzer
- Tonikawa: Over the Moon for You
Nettopp! “Lutesøster” skal oversette 干物妹 himouto, som er et teleskopord sammensatt av 干物 himono (‘tørrfisk’) og 妹 imouto (‘yngre søster’), basert på slangordet 干物女 himono-onna (‘tørrfisk-dame’). Jeg tenkte at “lutesøster” hadde en bedre lyd enn “tørrsøster”, et sterkere inntrykk, kanskje.
Jeg kan allerede si at Hotaru fra Non Non Biyori har Stavangerdialekt