About D.Gray-Man Chapter 244′s translation
The latest chapter (The 244th Night: Saying Goodbye to A.W - Red Arm and Mana 8) was released yesterday and, soon enough, it came to my knowledge that a rather dubious translation has already been going around in the D.Gray-Man Reddit and its Discord server.
I’m no longer in that server, it’s been a while I left due to personal reasons but even so, I can’t simply sit still every time this happens when a new chapter comes out. It’s this post all over again.
I don’t mean to cause a ruckus, I don’t want to start a fight; all I wish is to spread awareness. It’s extremely tricky every time a badly translated work viralizes because this leads to misinformation and misinterpretation, which in D.Gray-Man’s case is horrendous due to its complex story and timeline.
So please, take these translations with a grain of salt.
The one I saw was troublesome because not only it completely rewords certain things, it also badly translates others, giving it the complete opposite meaning.
I didn’t want to resort to doing this, because I know very well Kougeki is already on the case and I trust their translator’s skills a lot more than my own, but here’s my translation for this chapter, that I put together a hour after I got raws and was shared in my private DGM server only.
I didn’t edit the images because 1, this is a hour long work and 2, Kougeki Scans got amazing redrawers and their scanlation is one of the best out there, so I’m sure they’ll deliver a much better quality than I could. Any concerns and possible corrections, feel free to shoot my way.
I never planned to share these outside of my server so this might be a one time thing, this chapter being the only exception. But since whenever I criticize someone else’s work, I kind of feel obligated to show my own lest my critiques become empty ones.
That being said, I really appreciate the efforts put into the translation that was shared in the D.Gray-Man Reddit. But I’d rather misinformation doesn’t get shared like this, especially in this fandom, where people are known to misunderstand things quite easily for the aforementioned reasons.
