Netflix is notoriously bad at this. CR gets a bad rep, but compared to Netflix they're a godsend.

In all seriousness, there might be style guidelines that explicitly say to not translate proper nouns like character names that have literal translations.

And in most cases this probably makes sense. Frieren is reportedly a bit cringy for people who know German because the series uses on-the-nose German words for basically every character and place. Frieren = freezing, Himmel = heaven, Stark = strong, Fern = far/distant, Heiter = cheerful. There are probably similar examples for Japanese characters in other series, though I can’t think of any at the moment.

Chainsmoker Cat is an ideal show to bend that rule though. “Thanks for the help, Chainsmoker Cat!” is legit a better line than “Thanks for the help, Yani Neko!”

It’s like that scene in Coffee and Cigarettes where GZA and RZA from the Wu-tang Clan meet Bill Murray in a cafe and they constantly refer to him by his full name. Never “Bill” or “Mr Murray”, always “Bill Murray”. It’s not always funnier to do that, but sometimes it just is.

Most official subs are AI these days. Companies are feeding the show's transcript into the machine and it's spitting out translations for all the different markets. If it's not dialogue, it's not getting translated.

Chainsmoker cat is not a great phrase, it's clumsy and hard to say. Yani Neko is actually her name, why is this a big deal?

Lack of love?

Here to step on a landmine and say the dub is good.

Ain't no way they named the cat Yoni Neko

low effort so that the blurays sell for more later probably

they do get subbed properly, on dubs.

when you watch it dubbed, flip the sub's from English-cc to just English. most the time the text is translated.

it's dumb, like really dumb, that they can't just include them on one sub.

Always thought fansubs were the best subs... Are there any teams who translated Chainsmoker cat yet? are there any who at least plan to? it would be useful if there was a DB website purely for anime fansub groups

Translation:
Pen name: Ochinpo Tatsurou
Explanation:

• Ochinpo, pronounced Ochimpo, contains the honorific "o" prefix followed by an informal word for penis.
• Tatsurou: male given name, uses the characters 達 (tatsu, accomplish) and 郎 (rou, used at the end of male given names).

Real name: Tatsuno Saori
Explanation:

• Tatsuno: name of a town, uses characters 辰 (tatsu, dragon from the Chinese zodiac) and 野 (no, field).
• Saori: female given name, uses characters 沙 (sa, sand) and 織 (ori, weave). Both 砂 and 沙 mean sand and can be pronounced sa (or suna or in a few other ways), but 沙 is typically used in women's names and 砂 is normally used in words.

Nothing changed since "komi-san ..." I see

I actually hate it when names get translated