History Woolseyism / AnimeAndManga

* The first episode of ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' ended with Haruhi joking that she should start calling herself "''ore''," the Japanese male equivalent of "me." Since America does not have any gender-specific first person pronouns, the English version ends with her deciding to start using "'dude' and 'bro'" more often.

** In the original Japanese version of ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasNewDinosaur'', when Doraemon and his friends find themselves in a gigantic version of the Breeding Diorama Set gadget at the climax of the film, Nobita recognizes the place as "Nobi Dinosaur Land" (ノビサウルスランドだ) and Gian and Suneo mock him for writing his name wrong as "Nobi-inu" (のび犬), as that name was written on a pole. In the Cantonese dub, after Nobita recognizes the place as "大雄龍公園", Gian says that he only knows about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Park Kowloon Park]] (九龍公園), while Suneo says that the joke wasn't brilliant.

*** The games also changed [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Enrico Pucci]]'s 'Made in Heaven' to 'Maiden Heaven', which happily sounds the same while being spelled differently enough to fend off the lawyers.

* The Tagalog dub of ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' mixed in local Filipino references in the show even if it was inconsistent at times -- the principal characters' names were unaltered save for Gian who is often referred to as "Damulag" or "Giant" (though his mother still calls him Takeshi), yet local references were thrown in the mix rather haphazardly, like for example the Tokyo Tower being referred to as the "GMA Tower" in one episode, in reference to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Power_(transmitter) transmitter]] used by the network who aired the series back in the early 2000s.

** Exclusive to fan-translations of the Light Novels is the changes to the names of the religious denominations that the Magic side belong to. They're clearly based on real life church denominations, but the original script (as well as official translations) use Japanese slang terms to refer to them (e.g. "Crossism" instead of Christianity, "Roman Orthodox Church" instead of the Catholic Church, etc.). Fan-translations will forego the slang and just use the real life names instead, and is almost universally accepted in the fandom as the "correct" terminology.

** [[TheHero Touma Kamijou's]] nickname for [[ShockAndAwe Mikoto Misaka]] in the original script is "Biri Biri", which is Japanese onomatopoeia for crackling electricity and is a [[EmbarrasingNickname nickname that Mikoto absolutely cannot stand.]] The English dub of the anime, rather than just calling her "zap zap", instead changes it to "Bug zapper" (sometimes just "zapper"), retaining the lip-flaps, the onomatopeia, ''and'' the embarrassing nature of the nickname in a form much more easily understood by English audiences.

** [[TheHero Touma Kamijou's]] nickname for [[ShockAndAwe Mikoto Misaka]] in the original script is "Biri Biri", which is Japanese onomatopoeia for crackling electricity and is a [[EmbarrasingNickname nickname that Mikoto absolutely cannot stand.]] The English dub of the anime, rather than just calling her "zap zap", instead changes it to "Bug zapper" (sometimes just "zapper"), retaining the lip-flaps, the onomatopeia, ''and'' the embarrassing nature of the nickname in a form much more easily understood by english audiences.

* [[TheHero Touma Kamijou]] from ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' calls [[ShockAndAwe Misaka Mikoto]] "biri biri" due to her electrical powers. A literal translation would be "zap zap" so instead the dub has him call her "bug zapper" or just "zapper".

* ''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'' was launched to promote RealLife J-Pop artist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriko_Tamura Eriko Tamura]]. The RealLife Eriko Tamura even provides the main character's singing voice. In the Middle East, where Tamura isn't as well-known, Eriko's singing voice is provided by [[https://dubdb.fandom.com/wiki/Rasha_Rizk Rasha Rizk]], a well-known Syrian singer who performed the {{Alternative Foreign Theme Song}}s of many Arabic dubbed anime and cartoons (''Anime/HunterxHunter, WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls, Manga/DetectiveConan, Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' and ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa''). Many Arab children grew up with her voice.

''Anime/IdolDensetsuEriko'' was launched to promote RealLife J-Pop artist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriko_Tamura Eriko Tamura]]. The RealLife Eriko Tamura even provides the main character's singing voice. In the Middle East, where Tamura isn't as well-known, Eriko's singing voice is provided by [[https://dubdb.fandom.com/wiki/Rasha_Rizk Rasha Rizk]], a well-known Syrian singer who performed the {{Alternative Foreign Theme Song}}s of many Arabic dubbed anime and cartoons (''Anime/HunterxHunter, WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls, Manga/DetectiveConan, Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' and ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa''). Many Arab children grew up with her voice.

** In the Japanese version, Hikari's EmbarrassingNickname is Pikari, a portmanteau of her name and ''pika'', the word for electric sparkling. She got it in kindergarten when she hugged a Plusle and Minun too hard and they shocked her, making her hair spiky and sparkly. In English, the corresponding nickname is changed to Dee Dee, and they explain that it's short for "Diamond Dandruff."

* The English adaption of the Korean manhwa ''Manhwa/Ragnarok1997'' gives several places and character names pulled from Norse mythology, whereas in the original the names kind of brought together about a million different world mythologies; for example, a summoned dragon originally named after the Babylonian ocean god Tiamat was changed to Nidhogg. Of course, this created a different problem because the comic is supposed to tie into ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'', which used the original names.