Thread:Luxartisan/@comment-27869316-20190412152224/@comment-27869316-20190420100530

I agree that the info source should be consistent across the board: currently I’ve proposed so far that we defer to the romanizations supplied by KyoAni wherever possible since they’re the original and most official source. In cases where KyoAni does not provide romanization’s we use the Funi/CR version (such as with the side characters). If a character is too new/minor to have a romanization from either source we use the macron spelling (if applicable). As for the macron usage with seiyū, I’ve realised that a lot of voice actors nowadays either have personal websites or sections on their agency websites which more often than not will show how they prefer to have their name written. I’m happy to track down all of their preferred spellings, if that would be preferable to having a contrast between no macrons on characters and macrons on the actors?

As for the song titles Angelle, we already discussed this issue several days ago and came to a consensus (including yourself); hence I went ahead and reverted them back to the romaji spellings (I wouldn’t have done that if we hadn’t reached an agreement already). The songs that are still in English are that way because that’s how they are on the CDs, they were given in English from the start and have no kanji/romaji titles. We concluded that romaji titles for the other songs are best because there’s no definitive English title given (and unlikely ever will be).

Deferring to KyoAni (and romaji titles) is also preferable not only because they’re the original source but also because of the sheer amount of media that is never going to receive a full English release (drama CDs, music albums, books, magazines, etc.). Given the ambiguity of a lot the kanji titles it would therefore be impractical to use translated English titles on anything other than episodes (and the movie titles), which have been translated by Funi and CR and are more widely recognised by the Free! fandom. (Speaking of, I’m going to change the names for the timeless medley movies as per a previous discussion between Angelle and I to “Free! -Timeless Medley- the Bond” & “Free! -Timeless Medley- the Promise“. These are their English names given by both Funi and the spelling/presentation given on the Japanese DVD release. Is that ok with everyone?)

Thank you again for sharing your home media release screncaps with us P.H. CP, but having translated title cards (I’m assuming you mean the episode title cards here?) when DttF is released sounds like a good idea if it’s not too much trouble of course ^^

-Fox