Macekre Laconic: Dumbing down anime for Western audiences; a little stronger than Bowdlerization and a lot more infuriating (for the purist fans, at least).
I believe this YMMV trope needs a new name and probably a description revision. The problem with the current name is that it's a negative reaction that is named after a Real Life person (Carl Macek) that was possibly Misblamed for the doing the thing the trope is about. The description talks about how it was named because his choices for how anime were translated were (apparently) very anti-Japanese, and it just feels very negative.
To quote the trope description:
He is particularly reviled for the seemingly xenophobic ruthlessness with which he purged any hint of Japanese culture — what he euphemistically called "ethnic gestures" — from the series which he adapted.(note starts here) Macek later claimed that many of these changes, including his having to splice together three different series to create Robotech, were a case of Executive Meddling; he was required to force the show to fit syndication-length guidelines, without having complete scripts for any of them, while still making it compelling enough to sell the accompanying toy lines. Trying to tie the three shows together by giving them a unified script was his attempt at meeting these conditions; obviously, this didn't work as well as he hoped. As to the charges of removing "ethnic gestures" from scripts: to be fair to the late Mr. Macek, there is some evidence that his original plan was to have Hikaru Ichijyo/Rick Hunter remain ethnically Japanese, naming him "Rick Yamada".
I feel like the name should changed to something else like Butchered Translation or Massacred Translation and the description rewritten to not be so negative towards him, if not purge mentions of him entirely.
edited 1st Jul '15 7:41:52 PM by Karxrida
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
Macekre Laconic: Dumbing down anime for Western audiences; a little stronger than Bowdlerization and a lot more infuriating (for the purist fans, at least).
I believe this YMMV trope needs a new name and probably a description revision. The problem with the current name is that it's a negative reaction that is named after a Real Life person (Carl Macek) that was possibly Misblamed for the doing the thing the trope is about. The description talks about how it was named because his choices for how anime were translated were (apparently) very anti-Japanese, and it just feels very negative.
To quote the trope description:
I feel like the name should changed to something else like Butchered Translation or Massacred Translation and the description rewritten to not be so negative towards him, if not purge mentions of him entirely.
edited 1st Jul '15 7:41:52 PM by Karxrida
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?