#Swedish Dub

[stressedbeetle]

very sad that the swedish dub for the owl house uses he/him pronouns for Raine even though swedish does have gender neutral pronouns:(

[swedebeast]

I just found out what Hokuto No Ken - Fist of the North Star - had the title translated as into Swedish.

Rättvisans Kämpe.

The Champion of Justice.

[blogoftakuya]

Swedish Dub 💖

[luckthebard]

Every day we inch closer to finding out what the hell the German dub of the Mighty Nein cartoon is going to do about Caleb.

[ultra-art-blog]

☀️🕹️🔥💧🌸🎧

[sandflakedraws]

i hope all hickdory fans out there know that german dub JD is absolutely excellent, one of my favs

here. have a dub highlight reel i made just for y'all

[sandrathachao]

I'm surprised I haven't drawn Spinel more, everything about her character just clicks so well with what i like (toony, weird arms, PINK, an angsty goof). Drift away is one of my favorite SU songs as well, gosh she breaks my heart. ; ;

[zeltiar]

You ever heard swedish ford and bill cipher?

Well, now you have.

Edit: This dub is actually real, but I don't know if it's official.

[trashmammal-7]

Watching Young Royals as a swede knowing that it has so many international fans is so weird to me. Like y'all don't understand the cultural references and what Swedish graduation looks like or the visceral reaction that goes through me whenever I have to listen to a character talk about how much they love the monarchy, or the way I fucking tensed up every time I hear anyone say the word "sosse". And wdym you don't know Swedish doesn't everyone know Swedish? Y'all haven't even had a crush on Omar Rudberg since you were nine years old like what??

[gay-edwardian]

[lampmanliveblogs]

So if jaspis is the Swedish word for jasper, then what do you guys use as Lapis Lazuli and Jasper's ship name?

Good question! Sadly, there are two fundamental misconceptions at the basis of this question, two assumptions you made that are not true.

It implies there is a swedish fandom. There isn’t. There are swedish fans. I’ve found forum posts discussing how bad the dub is, there was enough of an audience to make a fuzz about an iffy translation choice, and I’ve even found some fan translations and covers of songs. HERE is a whole playlist.

The truth is that most swedish fans who were old enough to want to engage in a fandom, look at fanart, read fanfic, etc, they probably did what I did: watch the show in english and then join the english-speaking fandom. I only started watching the dub out of morbid curiosity, and then I watched the entire thing with my little brother who doesn’t know much english yet.

You give the dub too much credit. You are correct in assuming they would translate the gems’ names, because they did do that. So Garnet is called Granat, Amethyst is called Ametist, and Pearl is called Pärlan (a translation I’m not fond of for reasons I won’t go into now).

Your mistake is in thinking that they would be consistent with this. Like, at all. The dub is consistently inconsistent with its naming scheme. I have a conspiracy theory, that the show was translated by three different people who took turns doing different episodes, but they did not talk to each other and they maybe also hated each other.

The worst offender is what they did to my poor cotton candy-haired goddess Rose Quartz. Rose Quartz is ”Rosenkvarts” in swedish. You could call her Ros for short. Maybe Rosa, if you wanna be cute. They did not do that, oh no. They called her, drum roll… Rose Kvarts. Which is some swenglish nonsense and every time they say that, it inflicts psychic damage on me.

So what does this mean for everyone’s favorite Big Buff Ostbåge? Well, they did not bother translating Jasper’s name, they just call her… Jasper. They also do this with Ruby, Sapphire, and a few others. However, remember, consistently inconsistent. There are, according to the notes I took while watching the show with my brother, two episodes where they DO call Jasper ”Jaspis.” Super Watermenlon Island and Crack the Whip. And again, Ruby and Sapphire suffered this as well, occasionally being called ”Rubin” and ”Safir.”

Conclusion Let’s construct three scenarios wherein there is a swedish fandom of Steven Universe.

In the first scenario, the swedish-speaking fandom uses the names as they are given within the dub, prioritizing the first or most common name used. In this scenario, the Jasper/Lapis Lazuli ship would probably still be called Jaspis. I can imagine it being bit of a meme with people being like ”You ship Jaspis? D-do you ship her with herself?” and everyone has a sensible chuckle about it.

In the second scenario, the swedish-speaking fandom uses the original english names for the characters, as well as the ship names. In this scenario, the Jasper/Lapis Lazuli ship is still called Jaspis.

In the third scenario, the dub was not a nigh-incomprehensible mess, but translated all the gem names properly, as it should have done. In this scenario, what would the swedish-speaking fandom call the Jasper/Lapis Lazuli ship, or rather, the Jaspis/Lapis Lazuli ship? I don’t know, but I’m partial to Jazuli. Maybe Laspis?

Final Thoughts This ask reignited a dormant hatred within me, hatred I thought I had outgrown and left behind. I was certain I didn’t need it. But it is a part of me, the part I always have to repress. I don’t know that I can do it much longer.

[gae-ta]

Actually i think i'd like all of you to have a shot at watching Karl-Bertil Jonsson--- here it is with english subs... a true swedish x-mas classic:

The story of 14 year old boy whose greatest idol is Robin Hood-- and boy does it show!

Err... quick warning before hitting play though, this short movie has two scenes i feel deserve a trigger warning, please read those below before pressing play to avoid any unpleasant surprises-- and if this makes makes you too uncomfortable, then please do not press play at all

tw: at the 20:22 mark there's a second of lots of different flags depicted.. one of them the nazi germany flag--- this is not to glorify something awful.. but rather to depict the 1930/40 as it actually were... warts and all one can also read it as a jab at the 'neutrality' of my country at the time... but that's another can of worms

tw: at the 17:31 mark there's a split second of a lady with her tits out... and believe it or not that's still shown on tv for millions of viewers every xmas in sweden. culture shocks am i right?? got censored in britain apparently

🎄God Jul🎄

[twelve-nights]

our uzi being russian while our doll/solver being swedish will never not amuse me

[weirdthoughtsandideas]

Hey youtube don't lie to me I can see that it's the spanish dub

Kinda wanna watch it tho because I wanna know how the songs sound in other languages.

[suchamiracle-does-exist]

[stickers95]

In the Swedish dub of Cars 2, Rod’s “Is that all you want? I got a whole act” is “Is that all you want? I can sing too”

It was probably just sarcasm but idc if the man says he can sing I believe it