TIL Bowser Jr's Spanish name is Bowsy and I can't stop smiling.
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smashbros.comPosted Aug 18, 2018, 5:40 PM UTC
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smashbros.comYes it is! I gotta say that the very first time I heard "Bowser Jr" I was like: wait what? Is he a Mario Tennis character or something? Then I saw who he was and understood hahahaha.
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LOL that wasn't in smash 4. Also young Link is "Link Niño" lol
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Yes it was? Bowser Jr is almost always translated into Spanish as Bowsy.
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No, I played it in spanish for a while and its name was Bowser Jr. Or maybe there are different spanish versions? Because I swear, I would remember if his name was Bowsy, lol.
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I checked on the wiki, it was Bowsy in Spain and Bowser Jr. in Latin America. No idea why they're not translated the same tbh.
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Spain and Latin America have enough regional language differences that unique translations are useful.
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the translation are so distinctly different between LA and Spain that I actually cringe when I hear or read a dub from Spain
That said, it's not because one is better than the other, it's that LA translations have to cater to the whims and sensibilities of many many different dialects throughout the continent and it ends up in this weird and artificial but still enjoyable "neutral spanish" that is used as a standard for media related translations in the region
as to why in this case? most proper names aren't translated in latin america
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lol true, Spain is recognized to be the worst in dubbing. They always screw dubbing in most of movies, games, cartoons, etc. A few examples:
-Kame hame ha = Onda Vital
-Bomber man = Don Pepe y los Globos
-Wolverine = Lobezno
-Fast & Furious = A todo gas
It made sense when you mentioned Spain.
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Wrong, I'm from Spain and yes, it's called Bowsy in smash 4
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Yep, in Spain, read rest of replies below.
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Well, young can be translated to “joven” or “niño”
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Joven is accurate, niño is not. Niño is obviously Spain translation, they always choose the worst options.
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Joven is a waaaay wider word, in terms of age. The Adult link is "Joven" too.
I agree that it's not a direct translation, and I prefer the sound of Joven to Niño, but it kinda makes sense...
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I know that the direct and most acurrate translation is Joven, but niño can be an option, obviously is not as acurrate.
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HELLO MY NAMES NIIIIINOOOO
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NIINOOO skin confirmed
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That’s great LOL
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I like how dark pit is shadow pit but dark samus is still dark samus
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He’s Pit’s shadow in a sense, while DS isn’t connected to Samus except in appearance
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Dark Pit translates to Pit Oscuro. And that sounds like "Pito Oscuro", which means Dark Cock.
They are smart.
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Thinking about it further, they probably did it so that it wouldn’t be dark cock. Shadow cock is better
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I know dark pit translates to pit oscuro but on the website he’s Pit Sombrio which is like shady or shadow pit
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Interesting how Dark Pit and Dark Samus got translated differently.
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King Dedede got changed to Rey Dedede, but K Rool didn’t. We also didn’t get Mr Juega y Observa. Also subtle but Captain Falcon didn’t get translated to Capitan Falcon.
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Wouldn't be Sr. Juego y Reloj?
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Til, I thought Game & Watch was like “you can game and see the results!”
Watch can indeed be translated as looking (obserba) or timepiece (reloj)
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It was definitely meant as Watch in the clock sense. The systems featured alarms in addition to alarms; every game had unique bell/alarm cels that would go off.
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If they got it from Google Translate probably.
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They (and we in Latin America) didn't get Mr. Juega y Observa for the same reason they didn't get the "Nintendo Interruptor."
PD: It'd actually be Sr. Juego y Reloj but nvm.
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I thought the watch part of G&W was like “see what you are playing”, I didn’t know it was related to time keeping. Til :)
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he is Capitán Falcon in Latin America, and Captain Falcon (same spelling as english but incorrect pronunciation) in Spain
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Incorrect pronunciation? Lots of people seem to be commenting that the spanish translation is mispronounced, but I've never felt like there was anything mispronounced. Changed names, like Rosalina being Estela (I learned she wasn't called Estela everywhere when she appeared on her reveal video for smash4, quite surprising), Bowsy (wich I prefer to Bowser Jr), or Robin being Daraen (I have no clue why the change), but all the names are perfectly pronounced, AFAIK.
Please point some that you think are bad, so I can listen to them again. Maybe I'll catch it if I'm expecting to listen a mistake :/
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in the PAL version of Smash 4, Captain Falcon's name is unchanged for spanish, but the Spanish announcer pronounces it like it was a spanish word (in english, his pronunciation sounds like Cap-TYNE Fal-con), so it's incorrect.
meanwhile, in the NTSC version, Captain Falcon's name is actually changed to Capitán Falcon, and the Spanish announcer (which is the same for PAL and NTSC) pronounces it correctly, though there's no room for error in said translation.
why is it different in PAL and NTSC? who knows, NOTHING IN F-ZERO HISTORY HAS EVER BEEN TRANSLATED OR DUBBED TO SPANISH so it's dumb in my opinion. Aside from that, literally every other character name translation in both Spanish sides is just fine
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In German, too. They're known as "Finsterer Pit" and "Dunkle Samus".
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Dunkle Samus... Thats amazing
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I'm mostly confused why King Dedede is "Rey Dedede" but King K. Rool is still "King K. Rool"...
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Spanish gets the best of both worlds, there: Rey Dedede with the repeating vowel sound and King K. Rool with the alliteration.
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I bet you the announcer will pronounce it like "ka roll" anyway.
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Ka rul, mostly. "K" it's only a letter, most assuredly the announcer will just spell it like in the Spanish abecedary.
Fun note: I'm Spanish, although I am very fluent in english (C level, wich equals native level), when reading to myself i "think" of single letters and numbers like if I were reading in Spanish... So King K Rool in my head was "King Ka Rul", and 13 I read it as "trece" altough I know full well that it's thirteen. So, reading this thread, TIL that if you say it correctly King KEY Rool sounds like Cruel.... Silly me.
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Isn't Dedede more like Dehdehdeh?
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It is, that's the same sound as Rey, hence the repetition spoken of. So, it's like Reh Dehdehdeh in Spain and Keeng Deedeedee in NA.
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I'm south american and I didn't notice 'till now lol
I just got so accustomed to reading "King K. Rool" in forums that I didn't think it was weird.
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que bakan ver personas de por aca en este sub
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Plena. Yo estoy tirado a gringo y juego con el lenguaje en ingles asi q no se nada sobre como se supone que llamamos a los personajes en español.
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Con solo leer "bakan" ya sabía que eras chileno :P Me alegra saber que hay más hispanoparlantes acá xD
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It's because Dark Pit would be translated Pit Oscuro. It sounds like "Pito Oscuro", which means "Dark Cock" lol.
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Dark Pit was Black Pit originally though. Then again Spanish KI:U was translated from English...
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I didn't know either of those things so I'm relieved they cancel out and leave me being right.
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I'd assume it is simply based on how they are translated in their own games
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In French it's "Samus sombre" so a pretty literal translation of Dark Samus and "Pit Malefique" wich is, well "Malefic Pit"
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We spanish people are way too wholesome and way too cringey
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Yep. That's why we named King K. Rool "Gordito"
/s
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Bowsy y Estela a todo gas
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DON PEPE Y LOS GLOBOS as an assist trophy
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wjsiajbwsiakqjs alfin esta en smash
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Viva ESPAÑA OSTIAS
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ARRIBA ESPAÑA CARAHO
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CaraJo in any way. In Spanish an H never has ANY sound associated with it.
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Link Niño.
I got my luchadore name.
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Hopefully the announcer will be different this time around between Latin America and Spain like BOTW dub , i remember the first time i played smash 4 and IQUE (Ike) was the reason why i changed it to English immediately. Still Bowsy is the cutest translation posible.
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This so much, I really hate that old-ass Spanish announcer and his mispronunciations on everything.
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You are free to like or hate whatever you want of course, and I am not particularly fond of the spanish announcer (nor do I dislike him), but what does he mispronunciate??? As far as I'm concerned, he's on point with every single character name.
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On the top of my head I can't remember right now, but the most glaring was prounouncing Ike's name as "EE-KAY" or in spanish "IQUE", he uses spanish pronounciation on a lot of the english character names.
He pronounces Bowser as "Boser" or "Bouser" in spanish and Little Mac as "Litel Mak" too.
He's clearly old too, we need a spanish announcer with a deeper more energetic voice.
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I'll give you Bowser, he clearly doesn't say Bauser, wich would be an english pronunciation. I dunno, I grew saying "Copa" (from Koopa) and then Bouser (from Bowser), so I never picked up it should be Bauser.
Ike is correctly pronounced IQUE. The other pronunciation, AIC, is anglicised. Remember the name is Japanese and japanese reads mostly literally. Look at the word ike (go! In japanese), just with the tonic on the e instead of the i. It's the same.
As for little mac, yeah, he maybe has a little bit of an accent.... But not so grave as a misspronunciation I'd think... He doesn't say "litle", wich is what my father would say reading Little... :/
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shUHlk ugh I still have it in Spanish because I share my 3DS with my sister, but I grew accustomed to it. I hope Ultimate has a better announcer this time (I don't think anyone will ever top Xander Mobius tho, but I hope I'm wrong).
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How else would you pronounce Shulk? ShAlk? Sounds weird to me. Again, japanese game, if there is a U written there, most probably it's pronounced with the U sound ("OO" sound for English speakers)
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I don't understand the Ike complaint. Spanish and Japanese are pronounced mostly the same. Ike, in japan, would sound "IQUE" as you said, like the word "ikE" ("go!" in japanese), just with the tonic syllab changed... Actually, (I think) "IQUE" is the correct pronunciation, and "AIC", is an anglicised one. And if it's not like this, I think it should because it makes sense in my head... And I'm Spanish, by the way.
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the english smash announcer doesn't change the pronunciation on the Japanese version like he does with Lucina-Lukina, so we can assume it's correct as Ike, let's not forget that "Ike" is written in Kanji meaning it's a foreign word.
Hover over the japanese text version of his name here, the correct pronounciation is "Aiku" the "u" at the end is only there because japanese words always end with bowels, so it's an english name.
So the announcer still pronounces it wrong either way.
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Isn't it Katakana that is used for foreign words.
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no
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I like to imagine that Bowser, not seeing himself as a child before, thought that he looked like a dog, and he named him as such. ("Who's a good boy? Bowsy is, yes he is!") It's stuck ever since.
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Alexa play Despacito
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Not gonna lie that's a better name than his actual name.
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I actually took a second to look at the Chinese translated names as well. Most were just transliteration (translating the sound, which is a common thing to do for foreign names) like mario (玛力欧-->Maliou). However, some were actually interesing and funny, like Pac-man (吃豆人 -->bean eater) and ROB (机器人 --> robot).
The most interesting one by far is Ryu who has a single character name (very rare to have a single character name in general). His name is 隆 in simplified Chinese. According to my dictionary (pleco, studied Chinese for over 5 years and have used it since day one) it means 'Magnificent' （盛大） or 'prosperious.' （兴隆).
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Interestingly, ROB is originally called ロボット in Japanese which literally just means "Robot".
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Why is dark samus "samus oscuro" but dark pit is "pit sombrio"??
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because "pit oscuro" sounds a lot like "pito oscuro" which means dark penis
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I JUST NOTICED THIS AND CAN'T STOP LAUGHING.
I'm thankfull the localization team noticed this.
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I'm not, they should have left that in that way in SSB4 and changed it in this game for extra hilarity.
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Because Metroid Prime II and Kid Icarus Uprising had two different translation teams and were like 8 years apart?
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This is nice and all, but Duo Duck Hunt??? Don't they know it's a trio, the dog, the duck, and the person on the N-Zap?
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It's Duck Hunt Duo in british too actually, I think they even mock this on the Palutena's Guidance.
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Dark Samus' adjective is female btw
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Bowsito
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In fact, Dry Bowser is called "Bowsitos" in Spanish. It's a play on the words Bowser and "Huesitos", which is the Spanish name for Dry Bones and it means "Little Bones".
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Bowser Jr. is named Bowsy in some Spanish versions of games.
I learned it through Mario & Sonic in the Olympic Games
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Estela y Destello has a very nice rhythm to it.
I wonder why at some point they chose to change Rosalina into a different name but not Peach, even though "peach" is literally an english word.
Probably just because in translations of previous games Peach's name hadn't been changed and it was already iconic. When Rosalina showed up in Galaxy it was the first time she appeared so they could change the name with no issues.
In French, Rosalina is named Harmonie (which is the French for Harmony)
In Italy, we have Rosalinda and Sfavillotto. Peach is still Peach.
Here we call her “Rosalina y Destello”