History BlindIdiotTranslation / Anime

* A bootleg of ''MobileSuitGundamSeed'' had quality that varied from episode to episode (in some cases being astonishingly good). The shining moment was when they called Mwu la Flaga, general badass and counterpart to the [[spoiler: Char clone]], "Florida".

** It was improved in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'' and its sequel ''Destiny'', plus ''SDGundamForce'', but still some of the BlindIdiotTranslation is spottable.
* In the first episode of the English dub of ''GundamWing'' Zechs Merquise declares "No machine gun for him! Shoot him down!", when he should have said something like "no warning shot".

* The Brazilian dub of ''FateStayNight'' managed to mistranslate "Caster" as "Castor" (Beaver). Seriously.
* Early English fansubs of ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' translates the line which is supposed to be "That violates the laws of cause and effect!" as "That's treason against the wish itself!"

* The [[VIZMedia Viz]] translation of the ''ReadOrDie'' manga was often overly literal. It gave Yomiko's organization as the "Library of England". While that's technically a literally correct translation, the organization in question is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library British Library]]. Maybe a case of CreatorProvincialism, if the American translators had never heard of a British institution, or had never seen the (nicely translated) TV series that had come out the year before.

* The German ''{{Digimon}}'' dubs changed a few genders. Awkwardness ensued when Renamon became male in ''DigimonTamers'', considering her final form Sakuyamon is a {{miko}} with an obvious female figure, and in ''DigimonAdventure02'' Hawkmon (who remained male) somehow becomes a female when [[SleepModeSize reverting to Poromon]]. It should be noted that the English dub has done this on occasion - Lopmon accidentally became female in ''Tamers'', and the CampGay [=LordKnightmon=] intentionally became the female Crusadermon in ''Frontier'' - but those changes actually worked okay, especially Lopmon.
** On the fansub side of things, there's the so far only complete English subs for ''DigimonFrontier'', produced by a certain fansub group which will not be named. Between translating lines like ''"This is Fire Terminal, a Digimon village"'' into ''"This is Fire station, a Digimon boundry"'', the "Demon Beast" type (Majuu) being labeled "Magic," and subtitling the word "Kusai" ("This stinks") as "*random Italian splurge* " (sic). Adding to this is the mind numbingly insane amount of [[TooLongDidntDub ENTIRE SENTENCES AND LINES WHICH WERE LEFT UNTRANSLATED]]. Not only are there times when one or two full lines of dialogue are not given any subs, but words that the "translator" couldn't understand were left marked off with dash marks ("-- Digimon") or ellipses ("Junpei, isn't that...?"). It's just god-awful. And since ''Frontier'' is by far the least popular series, it took ''over five years'' before anyone else bothered to step up and provide a better translation.
** ToeiAnimation's official English subs for ''DigimonAdventure02'' and ''DigimonTamers'', as seen on the likes of Hulu and Crunchyroll, are infamous for their horrendous quality, sharing many of the issues of the aforementioned ''Frontier'' fansub... except ''this is meant to be an official sub produced by the people who made the fucking show''. One of its most glaring issues is intermittently using both original and dub names; it's not unheard of, for example, for both the Japanese "evolve" and the English "Digivolve" to be used ''in the same episode''. A certain fansubber who has taken it upon himself to provide better subs of the two series (and the aforementioned better ''Frontier'' subs) absolutely loves snarking at the errors in whatever episode he's posting at the time, mainly ''Tamers'' which has it worse.

* The Brazilian dub of ''{{Digimon Adventure}}'', aside from being completely [[InconsistentDub inconsistent]], has one or two instances of plain weird phrasing. For example: in the second episode, Joe is lecturing the other children -- "A group of people form a party. Our party has 7 people...". The problem here is that the word used for "party" ("festa") doesn't mean "a group of people", but "festivity". Cue fandom joke.

* The original Finnish translation of ''DigimonAdventure'' by Agapio Racing Team was just as bad as their dubbing. It appears that the translators had no idea about the context when translating the dialogue - whenever a word could be translated in two ways, they picked the wrong one. Especially hilarious when the word is ''dropping''.

** Not really an example of this - English-speakers are more familiar with Chinese Mahjong terminology, but Japanese Mahjong has some unique game elements that lack non-Japanese names. Using the Chinese term for everything that has a Chinese term makes the subtitles more accessible, and there simply isn't any alternative to leaving the terms unique to Japanese Mahjong in Japanese, since that's the only name they have.

** Early Manga on Indonesia translation is very epic in their misleading during the part when the card games kick in. Some is pure wrong, some is because of the difference in the word structure, such as Infinite Dismissal in Indonesia state that "when your opponent say "attack" instead of "declaring attack" and some card's effect being hard to understand with the wording
*** some part from Indonesian anime translation go BeyondTheImpossible . The First oppening for starter, translate very roughtly and very different when translated back to English. Some even change the word completely from what its supposed to say. Like Anzu causing global warming(no seriously)

* The Filipino voice actors of ''GundamWing'' got the names of the five pilots and some of the secondary characters right, but they fail horribly at the translation with some of the characters, which is understandable since it was broadcasted two years before the English dub came.
** Their dub of ''GGundam'' and ''GundamX'' is quite worse in translating the names of characters. And the voice actor of Heero Yuy is the same as Garrod Ran and Chibodee Crocket!
** It was improved in ''GundamSeed'' and its sequel ''Destiny'', plus ''SDGundamForce'', but still some of the BlindIdiotTranslation is spottable.

*** Also in some of the official subs, when the attack names are being said in Japanese, the English dub names are displayed on the subs. For a particularly bad example, when Skull Satamon's analysis names his primary attack as "Nail Bone," the subs say "Bone Blaster" - which, incidentally, was the Frontier dub's subsequent rename for the attack, after the 02 dub had retained the original name.

* There is a bootleg of ''{{xxxHoLic}}'' in which every time Watanuki's surname appears, it ''always'' appears as its literal translation ([[MeaningfulName "April 1"]]).

* A bootleg of ''OnePiece'' from before the series was licensed outside of Japan actually replaced every single character's name with Jack.

-->'''Ganta''': Is there only bad stuff in reality? (Are there only bad things in the world?)

* One of the title translations displayed in the second ''DeathNote'' opening is in Russian: "Zapiska Smerti". While this ''is'' a literal translation of "death note" into Russian, it disregards the fact that "note" means "notebook". An accurate translation would be "Tetrad' Smerti", literally "notebook of death".

** In a couple of episodes in the second season, they call Kaiba "Seahorse" for no apparent reason. They also usually mistranslate Anzu's name as "Kyoko", and on one occasion, Mokuba as "Wooden Horse".
*** Kaiba does literally mean seahorse (as in a hippocamp, not the real sea creature). And Mokuba does mean wooden horse. God knows what the author was thinking when he chose those names for them. The kanji for Anzu's name might be misread as Kyoko, as there are different ways of reading the kanji. Also, the original kanji for the "Millennium Puzzle" literally translates to Thousand Year Toy Bricks/Puzzle Bricks. Remember that millennium means a thousand years anyway, so that part of the translation isn't that off.

* ''{{Bleach}}'' has a nice, albeit subtle, example of what might be called "Spangrish." On the third OST, Chad gets a nice little theme song with the Spanish title "Domino del Chad." Direct English translation? ''[[SpellMyNameWithAThe Domain of the Chad.]]''

* The otherwise good dub of ''AzumangaDaioh'' slips up a bit when referring to the team known in Japanese as the "Bonkurazu" - which is the Japanese word ''bonkura'', meaning something along the lines of "blockhead", with an "s" at the end to denote a plural (as in English). The dub [[InconsistentDub sometimes translates it as]] Knuckleheads and other times as a rough Romanization of the Japanese name, Bonklers. The manga translation consistently translates it as Numbnuts.

* The epilogue of the Eyeshield 21 anime. The best example is "Welcome to National Football League" Weird part is, it was said in a perfect accent, and the only time the accent messed up the lines was when it tried to pronounce "rookie". The R got in the way.

* ''AirGear'' has the "Rez Boa" Dogs. You mean ''Reservoir'' Dogs, right? Oh! Great sucks at English.

-->'''Ganta''': Is there only bad stuff in reality? (Are there only bad things in the world?)

** At an anime convention, Taliessin Jaffe (ADR director of the English dub) addressed the "Arucard" issue. They knew "Alucard" was correct, but the Japanese licensors insisted that they use "Arucard" in the subtitles on the grounds that "it's Dracura backwards."

* ''DeadmanWonderland'', one example:
-->'''Ganta''': Is there only bad stuff in reality? (Are there only bad things in the world?)

* ''TenchiMuyo'' features an egregious example of bad translation when Kagato is finally killed by Tenchi he says 'I see, Tenchi can't be copied' which makes absolutely no sense and should have been easily caught by any number of people. The line should have been 'I see, regeneration is not possible'. Considering this is an especially important moment because it's how Kagato is defeated it's especially jarring.

* Whoever decided to rename [[SixSixSixSatan 666 Satan]] as "O-Parts Hunter" in English clearly didn't realise that オーパーツ is actually an English term ([=OOPArts=]; Out-Of-Place Artifacts).

** The same thing happened to the characters of ''SisterPrincess'' in the English subtitles of a grey-market Hong Kong release of the series. None of them were called by their actual names, and the names changed several times during the course of the series.

-->'''Ganta''': Is there only bad stuff in reality? (Are there only bad things in the world?

* '''DeadmanWonderland''', one example:
-->''Ganta'': Is there only bad stuff in reality? (Are there only bad things in the world?

* ''DeadmanWonderland'', one example:

** In one dub of ''Yu-Gi-Oh'', it translated a line saying "I'm tired of your six decks." into "I'm tired of your sex decks," in Swedish. Even worse, when this was subbed into English, it was subbed as "I'm tired of your sex games," because deck and game are both the same word.
*** This is only a translation error in terms of Swedish-to-English. In Swedish, the difference between 'sex games' ('sexlekar') and 'six decks' ('sex lekar') is a matter of a single space, or, in spoken language, a difference in intonation. As such, this isn't so much a mistranslation as it is a typo or a misreading by the voice actor.