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rebornthestage · 5 years ago

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I'm reading the JP scans of Secret Bullet, and on page 196, Levi goes, "[...] the Levi Lightning Strike Squad (レヴィ雷撃隊 Levi Raigeki Tai), which I built [...]" which really amused me because I didn't know Levi's name was part of his squad's name lol.

So I check the KHR Wikia, right, to see if I’m misremembering the name of his squad, and...

...Hm? ヴァリアーの落雷の分隊, Variā no Rakurai no Buntai. That sounds like a direct translation... I have a nagging feeling about this...

Looking it up on Google shows the Wikia as the only search result. And...

Looking it up on Google Translate leads me to the exact words used in the Wikia lol. Good Lord, did whoever edit the Wikia seriously use Google Translate to figure out what the original name was? 😱

PSA, I guess: Google Translate (or any other machine translator) is not very reliable. If you don’t know what the Japanese equivalent for it is, you’re better off leaving it blank than potentially misinforming everyone.

#katekyo hitman reborn #khr #levi lightning strike squad #varia lightning strike squad #at this point im doubting if its even actually called varia lightning strike squad #is that in the official english translation #why is it that every time i read secret bullet #and check up on a certain fact to refresh my memory #i find wrong information on the wikia instead #leading to more headaches #listen #i read x fiamma while im waiting for my gifs to sharpen #but i keep getting derailed by the wikia #for such a popular series back in the day #the wikia is not as good as i expected it to be #is it because it peaked before wikia was popular or something #idk #im sorry to whoever edited it #but google translate is not as good as you think it is #without context #i should make a new tag called #wtf wikia #not that im trying to find faults in the wikia or anything #but every time i check on khrs wikia i find something wrong there instead #why

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