[Question] Viz translations?

[chopstickchakra]

I know everybody swears by Viz translations but I think they made a mistake.

Law's attack "Shambles":
In the VIZ and FUNimation translations, it is called Chambres, which is French for "rooms".

I know what you're thinking(maybe) Room makes sense since his other attack is Room.

But the definition of shambles;
a state of total disorder

or
A scene or condition of complete disorder or ruin
Great clutter or jumble; a total mess

makes much more sense to what the technique actually does. The attack doesn't put people in rooms within the Room, no, it causes a great deal of chaos as Law uses it to detach and reattach people's limbs as he wants, it let's him switch personalities leading to chaos and confusion. Plus when someone says something is in shambles it's usually used when something is broken into a bunch of tiny pieces, much like the first showing of the skill in the manga.

Opinions, did Viz pick a bad name?

 

[ANiMUS]

They
publish the manga so they pick which translation best conveys portrays the authors original words.

Viz is the closest thing u r going to get to the mangaka translating it for u so y argue?

 

[chopstickchakra]

They
publish the manga so they pick which translation best conveys portrays the authors original words.

Viz is the closest thing u r going to get to the mangaka translating it for u so y argue?

For the exact reasons I stated above, the name rooms doesn't apply to the ability the way the word shambles does. Why call an attack within the attack "Room", "Rooms", especially when it doesn't have anything to do with rooms? In other words the name makes no sense in correlation to the attack. If you or anyone else can provide a case for why it does make sense to call it rooms/chambres I'm eager to hear them, that is why I made the thread after all.

 

[ANiMUS]

For the exact reasons I stated above, the name rooms doesn't apply to the ability the way the word shambles does. Why call an attack within the attack "Room", "Rooms", especially when it doesn't have anything to do with rooms? In other words the name makes no sense in correlation to the attack. If you or anyone else can provide a case for why it does make sense to call it rooms/chambres I'm eager to hear them, that is why I made the thread after all.

It could be a play on words or the fact that all DF attacks usually have a language that that character abides by.Kishimoto love using foreign languages in attacks. Sterben, fact, mez, oda could have just did chambles that way to keep the theme going

 

[ArabianLuffy]

No one can say that VIZ is flawless in translation. I for the least bothered with GUM GUM, Zolo.

 

[chopstickchakra]

It could be a play on words or the fact that all DF attacks usually have a language that that character abides by.Kishimoto love using foreign languages in attacks. Sterben, fact, mez, oda could have just did chambles that way to keep the theme going

I agree with the language theory but in this case chambers is French while Sterben is German.

 

[Simpleatitsbest]

No one can say that VIZ is flawless in translation. I for the least bothered with GUM GUM, Zolo.

What's that?

OT: Very very good point... The points you've made are actually spot on and now It's probably going to be on my mind every time, so thanks for that xD

 

[ArabianLuffy]

What's that?

When Luffy shouts GOMU GOMU no, they type it GUM GUM. Zoro in the VIZ translation typed as Zolo.

 

[Simpleatitsbest]

Ahh, sorry, I read that as if it was a technique haha, was trying to think if Luffy ever threw Zoro saying "gum gumm nooo ZOLOOOO" xD